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United State, Afghanistan strike new

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Afghan and US officials have finalised the initial draft of a strategic partnership agreement that will govern relations between Kabul and Washington after 2014, a presidential statement said on Sunday. “The draft agreement on Afghanistan and US long-term partnership was finalised and initialed on Sunday in Kabul by the heads of the two negotiating delegations [...]

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Coordinated suicide attacks rock Afghanistan

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Explosions and gunfire rocked the Afghan capital Kabul Sunday as suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan in coordinated attacks claimed by Taliban insurgents as the start of a spring offensive. The US, British, German and Japanese embassy compounds came under fire as militants attacked the city’s diplomatic enclave and tried to storm parliament — sparking a [...]

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Afghanistan erupts over alleged ‘burning’

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Protesters hurling petrol bombs and firing slingshots besieged the largest US-run military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday, furious over reports that NATO troops burned copies of the Koran. The enraged crowd shouted “Death to Americans” and “Death to infidels” as guards at Bagram airbase, north of Kabul, responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, [...]

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Iran, Afghanistan ink deal

No Comments 28 December 2011

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Iran has signed a deal with Afghanistan to supply its neighbour with a million tonnes of fuel oil, petrol and aviation fuel a year, Iranian media reported on Tuesday without putting a value on the agreement. The accord was signed on Monday by the Afghan trade and industry minister, Anwar Ul-Haq Ahady, and Iran’s deputy [...]

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Five Polish soldiers killed in Afghanistan

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Taliban bombers killed five Polish soldiers in an attack on their convoy in Afghanistan on Wednesday, one of the heaviest single losses for Warsaw’s NATO contingent in the 10-year war. Poland’s news agency PAP cited unnamed government officials as saying the troops died when a roadside bomb exploded next to a NATO convoy. When contacted [...]

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First 200 French soldiers leave Afghanistan

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The first 200 French soldiers left Afghanistan on Wednesday, kickstarting troop withdrawals announced three months ago by Paris as part of NATO plans to wind down its combat mission by 2014. In total, a quarter of France’s current troop deployment is scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan before the end of 2012, ahead of a full [...]

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Taliban planning ‘spectacular’ attack in Afghanistan

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The Taliban are planning a “spectacular” terror attack in Afghanistan, the British army commander in the country has warned. Brigadier Ed Davis, who leads the Task Force Helmand and the 3 Commando Brigade, said that around 2.5 tonnes of home-made explosives have been seized in the past four months. The material could have been used [...]

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United States drawdown begins in Afghanistan

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The first American soldiers of about 10,000 due to leave Afghanistan this year have flown home, military officials said Friday, kicking off a gradual drawdown due to be completed in 2014. US President Barack Obama in June announced that 33,000 American troops would leave Afghanistan by the end of next summer, leaving behind 65,000 and [...]

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France: 1,000 troops to leave Afghanistan

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President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday that France would withdraw a quarter of its 4,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year, becoming the latest NATO power to downsize its combat mission in the war-torn country. The French leader announced the withdrawal after jetting in on a surprise visit to meet troops stationed [...]

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