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Afghan president to host April peace conference (AP)

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, left,  walks with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai  during a press conference at The Presidential Palace in Kabul on  Monday March 8, 2010. (AP  Photo/Jim Watson/Pool)AP – Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that an action plan to reintegrate low- to mid-level insurgent fighters into society and negotiate with the Taliban’s top echelon will be crafted next month at a peace conference aimed at ending the war.


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Afghan: Marjah chief’s crime record will be probed (AP)

In this Feb. 22, 2010 photo released by the United States Agency for International Development, Abdul Zahir speaks to locals during a shura, or meeting, in Marjah, Afghanistan. Abdul Zahir, appointed as the new civilian chief in Marjah just seized from the Taliban, has a violent criminal record in Germany, but Western officials said Saturday, March 6, 2010, they are not pushing to oust him. (AP Photo/United States Agency for International Development, Rory Donohoe)AP – Afghan government officials are not rushing to oust the man they chose to bring fresh and credible governance to a town just seized from the Taliban, but his newly disclosed violent criminal record in Germany will be investigated further, officials said Saturday.


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British PM pledges vehicles to battle Afghan bombs (AP)

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (right) talks with Afghan village elders at the Shawqat Forward Operating Base, Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.  Saturday March 6, 2010. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is visiting his nation's troops in Afghanistan and promising them 200 new patrol vehicles that can resist roadside bombs more effectively. Brown made an unannounced trip Saturday to Camp Bastion in Helmand province to thank the troops involved in a 3-week-old offensive to wrest control of the town of Marjah from the Taliban. The Press Association news agency says he focused on the battle against homemade bombs and the need to bolster training of the Afghan police force.  (AP Photo / Carl De Souza, pa)AP – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised British troops 200 new patrol vehicles that can resist roadside bombs more effectively during an unannounced visit Saturday to southern Afghanistan.


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New Afghan chief in Marjah has criminal record (AP)

In this Feb. 22, 2010 photo released by the United States Agency for International Development, Abdul Zahir speaks to locals during a shura, or meeting, in Marjah, Afghanistan. Abdul Zahir, appointed as the new civilian chief in Marjah just seized from the Taliban, has a violent criminal record in Germany, but Western officials said Saturday, March 6, 2010, they are not pushing to oust him. (AP Photo/United States Agency for International Development, Rory Donohoe)AP – The man chosen to be the fresh face of good Afghan governance in a town just seized from the Taliban has a violent criminal record in Germany, but Western officials said Saturday they are not pushing to oust him.


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NATO details its Afghan night raids policy (AP)

FILE -  In this Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010 file photo, during a medevac mission by the U.S. Army's Task Force Pegasus, Marines carry a wounded comrade to a waiting helicopter, following an attack on their armored vehicle by a planted improvised explosive device, in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan. The outcome of last month's military campaign was never really in doubt. It was a question of how long NATO troops would take to subdue insurgents in the southern Afghan city, which belonged to the Taliban for years. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)AP – A new directive from NATO’s top commander in Afghanistan orders coalition forces to avoid night raids when possible, but to bring Afghan troops with them if they must enter homes after dark.


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Afghan govt says it’s not banning attacks coverage (AP)

AP – The Afghan government denied Tuesday that it had banned live media coverage of insurgent attacks, saying it was developing guidelines, not restrictions, to prevent live footage from aiding fighters at the scene.

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Bomb kills NATO service member, 4 Afghan civilians (AP)

Afghan and international security forces at the site of a suicide attack in southern city of Kandahar on February 13. A suicide car bomb attack targeting a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan killed at least four Afghan civilians on Monday, the Afghan interior ministry said.(AFP/File/Hamed Zalmy)AP – A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy crossing a bridge outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday, tossing a military vehicle into a ravine and killing one NATO service member and four Afghan civilians, officials said.


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