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A Group Taking Politics and Military Strategy to the Same Extremes
www.nytimes.com-May 22, 2013
When a militant attack devastated a busy street in Kabul last week, it was like a headline from the early days of the war: the insurgent movement Hezb-i-Islami had killed six American military advisers in a suicide bombing so powerful that it knocked a heavily armored Chevrolet Suburban yards down a crowded street.
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Applying Early Lessons to Build Afghan Security
www.nytimes.com-May 21, 2013
As a young Army Green Beret major in December 2001, Don Bolduc fought shoulder to shoulder in an offensive against Kandahar, the Taliban’s spiritual capital, with a little-known Pashtun resistance commander named Hamid Karzai.
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Afghan peace lost in transition worries
www.washingtonpost.com-May 21, 2013
Amid the scattered but steadily mounting carnage of the Taliban’s annual spring offensive, including a suicide bombing Monday that killed a provincial council head, hopes of stirring life into peace talks with the Islamist insurgents seem to be dying here with each new suicide attack, kidnapping and roadside bombing.
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Without U.S. helicopters, Afghans struggle to save wounded
www.washingtonpost.com-May 20, 2013
As soon as the Taliban bullet struck 24-year-old Afghan Sgt. Nazir Moradi’s leg, the men in his unit began brainstorming a way to get him off the battlefield.
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Obama to announce Afghanistan troop plans shortly: Kerry
www.reuters.com-May 15, 2013
President Barack Obama will announce in the next few weeks how many combat troops the United States will leave in Afghanistan in 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.
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Russia detains U.S. diplomat, accuses him of trying to recruit Russian agent
www.washingtonpost.com-May 14, 2013
An American diplomat was briefly detained by the Russian State Security Service and is being accused of trying to recruit a Russian officer to work as a U.S. agent, Russian officials told news services on Tuesday.
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Commander Denies U.S. to Blame in Afghan Deaths
www.nytimes.com-May 14, 2013
The highest-ranking international military commander in Afghanistan has categorically denied any American or NATO responsibility for the deaths of at least 17 women and children after nearly seven hours of intensive airstrikes near their compound in eastern Afghanistan, in the latest development in a case that has greatly raised tensions with the Afghan government.
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Kerry warns Russia against selling high-performance missiles to Syria
www.washingtonpost.com-May 10, 2013
Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Thursday cautioned Russia against selling advanced surface-to-air missiles to Syrian government forces, as U.S. officials warned that the delivery of the arms would threaten Israel and undercut efforts to reach a political agreement.
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Karzai Says U.S. Bases Can Stay, Raising Some Eyebrows in West
www.nytimes.com-May 10, 2013
Afghanistan is ready to let the United States and its allies keep military bases here after the end of the NATO combat mission next year, President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday, offering a concrete public signal that foreign troops would remain welcome in the coming years.
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U.S. Is Warned Russia Plans Syria Arms Sale
www.online.wsj.com-May 09, 2013
Israel has warned the U.S. that a Russian deal is imminent to sell advanced ground-to-air missile systems to Syria, weapons that would significantly boost the regime's ability to stave off intervention in its civil war.
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U.S. and Russia Plan Conference Aimed at Ending Syrian War
www.nytimes.com-May 08, 2013
Russia and the United States announced on Tuesday that they would seek to convene an international conference within weeks aimed at ending the civil war in Syria, jointly intensifying their diplomatic pressure on the combatants to peacefully settle a conflict that has taken more than 70,000 lives and left millions displaced and desperate.
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Afghan Leader Confirms Cash Deliveries by C.I.A.
www.nytimes.com-April 30, 2013
President Hamid Karzai acknowledged Monday that the Central Intelligence Agency has been dropping off bags of cash at his office for a decade, saying the money was used for “various purposes” and expressing gratitude to the United States for making the payments.
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Game changer: Maj. Gen. Abrams on the “homegrown” rejection of Taliban in Afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com-April 30, 2013
Maj. Gen. Robert B. Abrams, the top U.S. and NATO commander in southern Afghanistan, is confident the country won’t fall back into the grips of the Taliban and other extremists when international forces pull out in two years—pointing to what he calls a “homegrown” rejection of the Taliban and the readiness of the Afghan security forces.
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With Bags of Cash, C.I.A. Seeks Influence in Afghanistan
www.nytimes.com-April 29, 2013
For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Click here to find out more! Afghanistan faults U.S., Taliban for deadly airstrike
www.la.times.com-April 15, 2013
The Taliban and U.S. military were both at fault in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan this month that killed 17 civilians, including 12 children, according to an Afghan government investigation. The inquiry raised the number of civilian deaths from an earlier total of 11.
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