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Afghans’ Planned Prisoner Releases Anger US
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Al Qaeda documents show obsession with keeping receipts, down to a $0.60 cake
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Afghanistan gains will be lost quickly after drawdown, US intelligence estimate warns
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Police killed 13 Taliban fighters during operations in Nangarhar, Laghman, Logar and Helmand. The Taliban killed an Afghan soldier in an IED attack. The Interior Minister disputed a British report that the Taliban would retake areas of Afghanistan after ISAF forces withdraw.
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From MRAP to scrap: US military chops up $1-million vehicles
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Afghan MPs Say Security Worse, Worried About Elections
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MOI rejects Taliban could retake key territories after NATO pullout
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Afghanistan – Boy Trained by Haqqanis Claims He Was Raped
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The Taliban killed three ISAF soldiers in a suicide attack that targeted a convoy in Kabul and killed two civilians in an IED attack in Uruzgan. Security forces captured five Taliban fighters as they were manufacturing suicide vests in Baghlan.
Taliban suicide bomber kills 3 ISAF soldiers in Kabul
The attack was likely executed by the Kabul Attack Network, the jihadist alliance that pools its resources to attack Coalition and Afghan targets in and around the capital.
Afghan Taliban spokesman dodges question on al Qaeda
Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said the “Arab Mujahideen,” who have been “fighting and sacrificing for the sake of the nation,” have returned to their home countries.
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India Mulls Sending Military Advisors to Afghanistan
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Security forces killed seven Taliban fighters during operations in Laghman, Wardak, Kandahar, and Farah provinces. The Taliban killed a policeman in an IED attack in Kunar.
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Pentagon Probes Firm for Violation of Iran Rules
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Christians feel pressure to keep silent about their faith, Lord Carey warns
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US Softens Deadline for Deal to Keep Troops in Afghanistan
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The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south and kidnapped three construction workers in Farah. Security forces captured three would-be suicide bombers in Laghman and defused 65 bombs in Kandahar.
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Afghan forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in clashes throughout the country and captured six more who were involved in attacking supply convoys in Kandahar. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in an attack in the east.
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America’s giant Afghan yard sale
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Afghanistan – Activists Target Illegal Mining
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Alarm rises for Afghan women prisoners after Western troops leave
Taliban eulogize Qari Hussain, chief of suicide and international operations
Qari Hussain is thought to have been been killed in a US drone strike in January 2012. He served as the Taliban’s “teacher of suicide bombers” and was involved in the Times Square plot and the suicide attack on the CIA in Afghanistan.
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Tribes Should Unite To Support Peace: Afghan Officials
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Local Turf-Sharing Accord With the Taliban Raises Alarm in Afghanistan
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United Kingdom – How many more times can the Foreign Office get it so wrong?
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Why the U.S. Paid Karzai’s Top Aide
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The Afghan Army cut a peace deal with the Taliban in the Sangin district in Helmand, and turned over several checkpoints to the jihadists. Three Taliban suicide bombers were killed in an assault on a NATO supply base at the Torkham crossing in Nangarhar.
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Have Afghan forces intentionally surrendered turf in Sangin to the Taliban?
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In remote Afghan areas, cease-fires catching on
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Six ISAF soldiers were killed in an aircraft crash in Zabul; the Taliban claimed they shot down a helicopter. The Taliban killed two Afghan Border Police officers in an IED attack in Kandahar. Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters, including Pakistanis, in Ghazni.