Taleban 'not a long-term threat'
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The Taleban are not a threat to Afghanistan's future, despite ongoing violence, President Karzai says.
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - The man who runs the western Afghan province of Herat has many problems, but he says his biggest headache has nothing to do with the Taliban.
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Arab TV networks stop screening a soap opera set in Taleban-era Afghanistan amid legal wrangling and militants threats.
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Why the approach that seems to have worked in Anbar province may not pay off elsewhere
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NATO countries are not giving the international force securing Afghanistan enough support and there are worrying signs that the Taliban are growing stronger, a detailed study by Britain's parliament has found.
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Taleban militants and security forces in Pakistan's South Waziristan region continue to clash, officials say.
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Nato says that one of its helicopters that crashed in Afghanistan may have been shot down by the Taleban.
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Attempts by the government to engage with the Muslim community since last year's bomb attacks in London have backfired and are not hampering the spread of extremism, a report has said.
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The Afghan Government has said it believes that three kidnapped UN workers are in the hands of criminals and not the Taliban-linked militants who have threatened to kill them.
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Plans to increase the time for which terrorist suspects can be held without charge are criticised.
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President Hamid Karzai is concerned about a death sentence handed down to a journalist in Afghanistan, but he will not intervene until the courts have their final say, his spokesman said Tuesday.
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Nato claims to have killed up to 80 Taleban in a battle in Afghanistan were inaccurate, officials say.
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No bars, no release date, no point staying In the wake of three more escapes from control order regimes, Home Secretary John Reid has been coming under fire for failure to keep closer tabs on supposedly dangerous terror suspects. And returning fire with threats to abandon more freedoms in order to keep us free. But a reality check of control orders is long overdue here - these dangerous terror suspects are, the government assures us, not particularly dangerous terror suspects, hence the relatively relaxed supervision regime, and hence there's no need to go into a frenzy about dangerous maniacs being on the loose.â¦
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There are signs of improvement in Afghanistan, but NATO will not pull its troops out of the country anytime soon
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Territory in Afghanistan taken in battles by UK troops may be re-taken by the Taleban, the Nato commander warns.
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The Treasury secretary said that turmoil in the worldâs financial markets could continue for some time, but he cautioned against hasty introduction of new regulations.
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Nato in Afghanistan: role model? The Nato summit in the Latvian capital Riga this week will be dominated by the war Nato is waging against the Taleban in Afghanistan and by the concept that Nato should ...Comment