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Iranian news agency reporter held on spying charges

5/13/2012

KABUL - An Afghan journalist with the state-run Iranian news agency was detained has been detained by intelligence operatives on the charge of spying for the neighbouring country, an official said on Sunday.

U.S. Ambassador: Early Afghanistan Withdrawal Would 'Set the Stage for Another 9/11'

5/13/2012

U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker said that Sunday's attacks on Western embassies in Afghanistan are evidence that the U.S. should continue its mission there and not withdraw early, despite growing public aversion to the war.

Afghan-German Strategic Pact To Be Signed Before Chicago Conference

5/13/2012

Kabul (BNA) President Hamid Karzai in a meeting with German Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Michael Kakh discussed continued mutual relations and signing of the long-term strategic cooperation treaty between the two nations.

Video shows Taliban welcome for man who escaped jail

5/13/2012

Islamabad, April 20 (IANS) A high-profile prisoner, who escaped the Bannu jail following an audacious Taliban attack, has been welcomed back into the Taliban fold, shows a dramatic video telecast on DawnNews.

Top Afghan Officials Welcome Pact with US

5/13/2012

The partnership agreement signed by President Barack Obama and Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday is getting a generally positive reception from officials in Kabul. Some top Afghans are welcoming the long-term U.S. commitment to their country’s security.

Priorities Chart Way Forward for Eucom

5/13/2012

STUTTGART, Germany, May 4, 2012 – Using the new defense strategic guidance as its roadmap, officials at U.S. European Command say they’ve fixed their compasses on four basic priorities: maintaining ready forces, completing a successful transition in Afghanistan, sustaining strategic partnerships and countering transnational threats.

Ex-Taliban Ambassador Flees to UAE Fearing For His Life

5/5/2012

Former Taliban Ambassador Abdul Sallam Zaeef has fled Afghanistan to the United Arab Emirates, fearing for his life after US forces attempted to search his home, Al Jazeera reported.

Hafiz Saeed calls for jihad against America

5/5/2012

MUZAFFARABAD / LAHORE: In a fiery Friday sermon, Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed called on the people to wage jihad against America in order to save Pakistan and Islam. “Come to us. We will teach you the meaning of jihad… The time to fight has come.”

'No attacks' launched from Afghanistan after 2014

4/6/2012

DOHA — Afghan soil will not be used to launch attacks against any country after foreign troops withdraw, the war-torn nation's foreign minister told Al-Jazeera in an interview, excerpts of which were received by AFP on Friday.

Suicide bomber kills Afghanistan peace councillor

4/6/2012

A suicide bomber has killed the influential head of a regional peace council in eastern Afghanistan, security officials say.

Ex-Taliban commander 'shot dead by colleague'

4/5/2012

KABUL — A former Taliban commander and two of his fighters were shot dead by his own bodyguard in northern Afghanistan, local officials said Wednesday.

Afghan, Pakistan Talks Reflect U.S. Postwar Security Concerns

4/5/2012

More than two years after it embraced a revised strategy to end the war in Afghanistan, the Obama administration is still wrangling with its Afghan and Pakistani allies over two of the most important elements of the war plan.

U.S. and Karzai near agreement on Afghan night raids

4/5/2012

KABUL — U.S. and Afghan officials were close Wednesday to a long-awaited agreement on controversial night operations, resolving one of President Hamid Karzai’s long standing grievances against the United States and attempting to dampen public resentment over the raids that Western commanders say are strategically imperative.

6 Afghans and 3 G.I.’s Are Killed by Bomber

4/5/2012

KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber steered his motorcycle into a group of American soldiers and Afghan police officers in a northern Afghan city on Wednesday and detonated his explosives, killing at least nine people, including three American soldiers, Afghan officials said.

Iran’s efforts to stir Afghan violence worry U.S.

4/5/2012

WASHINGTON >> Just hours after it was revealed that U.S. soldiers had burned Qurans seized at an Afghan detention center in late February, Iran secretly ordered its agents operating inside Afghanistan to exploit the anticipated public outrage by trying to instigate violent protests in the capital, Kabul, and across the western part of the country, according to U.S. officials.

Pakistan parliament to discuss US ties next week

3/15/2012

Pakistan's parliament will debate new terms of engagement with the United States next week, a process expected to pave the way for the reopening of NATO and U.S. supply routes into Afghanistan, lawmakers and government officials said.

NATO to boost Afghan security after soldiers killed

3/15/2012

(Reuters) - NATO plans to boost anti-infiltration and other security measures after the January killing of four French soldiers by a rogue Afghan soldier, a NATO spokeswoman said on Wednesday with the alliance facing increasing protests in Afghanistan.

Cameron and Obama Show Unity on Afghanistan

3/15/2012

WASHINGTON — Seeking to project a united front on Afghanistan after a spate of bloody setbacks on the battlefield, President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain pledged on Wednesday that their countries would stick to the timetable for winding down the war by the end of 2014.

Afghans protest US soldier's deadly rampage: police

3/15/2012

About 1,000 Afghans took to the streets in a southern town on Thursday to protest against the mass killing of 16 civilians in a rampage by a US soldier, police said.

Afghans angry over removal of accused US soldier

3/15/2012

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan lawmakers expressed anger Thursday over the U.S. move to fly an American soldier accused of killing 16 civilians out of the country to Kuwait, saying Kabul shouldn't sign a strategic partnership agreement with Washington unless the suspect faces justice in Afghanistan.

Killings cast pall over local Afghan operations

3/15/2012

The village where a U.S. staff sergeant is accused of a massacre probably had a very close, daily relationship with the Green Berets who protected the village and taught people there how to defend themselves from the Taliban, military experts say.

With Pakistan supply route still shut, Russia offers NATO life line

3/15/2012

MOSCOW: Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to allow NATO use of a southern Russian air base as a hub for transport of supplies to Afghanistan and suggested it was premature to withdraw troops from the war-torn country.

Obama aims to dispel Afghan anger over massacre

3/14/2012

WASHINGTON/KABUL, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama sought yesterday to dispel Afghan anger over a U.S. soldier’s massacre of 16 villagers even as protests erupted in Afghanistan over the incident and Taliban insurgents threatened to retaliate by beheading American troops.

Afghans seek to try U.S. soldier in killings

3/14/2012

Some Afghans are demanding its government forge a new pact that allows U.S. soldiers accused of crimes to be tried by Afghan courts as the U.S. military on Tuesday said it found probable cause against a soldier accused of murdering 16 civilians.

Militants Attack at Memorial for Massacre Victims

3/14/2012

PANJWAI, Afghanistan — Militants riding motorcycles attacked a high-level Afghan government delegation during a memorial service on Tuesday in the village where an American soldier is said to have killed 16 people, mostly children and women, in a door-to-door rampage two days earlier.

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Iranian news agency reporter held on spying charges

U.S. Ambassador: Early Afghanistan Withdrawal Would 'Set the Stage for Another 9/11'

Afghan-German Strategic Pact To Be Signed Before Chicago Conference

Video shows Taliban welcome for man who escaped jail

Top Afghan Officials Welcome Pact with US

Priorities Chart Way Forward for Eucom

Ex-Taliban Ambassador Flees to UAE Fearing For His Life

Hafiz Saeed calls for jihad against America

'No attacks' launched from Afghanistan after 2014

Suicide bomber kills Afghanistan peace councillor

Ex-Taliban commander 'shot dead by colleague'

Afghan, Pakistan Talks Reflect U.S. Postwar Security Concerns

U.S. and Karzai near agreement on Afghan night raids

6 Afghans and 3 G.I.’s Are Killed by Bomber

Iran’s efforts to stir Afghan violence worry U.S.

Pakistan parliament to discuss US ties next week

NATO to boost Afghan security after soldiers killed

Cameron and Obama Show Unity on Afghanistan

Afghans protest US soldier's deadly rampage: police

Afghans angry over removal of accused US soldier

Killings cast pall over local Afghan operations

With Pakistan supply route still shut, Russia offers NATO life line

Obama aims to dispel Afghan anger over massacre

Afghans seek to try U.S. soldier in killings

Militants Attack at Memorial for Massacre Victims

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