Afghanistan Urged to Confront Bloody Past
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Afghanistan's top human rights official urged the country to confront the horrors of its past, saying Saturday that war crimes dating back more than 20 years should be prosecuted and rights abusers should be purged from public office.
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Aid agency Oxfam warned Thursday of the risk of a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan unless Western countries make a "major change of direction" in their strategy in the violence-scarred country.
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Territory in Afghanistan taken in battles by British troops may have to be retaken, the Nato commander warns.
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Britain has launched a reconciliation drive in Afghanistan in an effort to undermine the radical Islamist Taliban militia, The Guardian reported in an early edition of its Tuesday newspaper.
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Weekend violence in the western city of Herat is a reminder of how volatile the situation in Afghanistan remains, three years after the US overthrew the Taliban and less than four weeks before presidential elections there.
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Afghanistanâs President Hamid Karzai has declared a âholy warâ on Afghanistanâs runaway narcotics industry, calling for international aid to counter a threat he said was more dangerous than any his country has faced in more than 20 years of war.
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About 200 people gathered to remember one of the worst massacres of Afghanistan's 1992-1996 civil war, calling for justice days after parliament voted for an amnesty for war crimes.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Saturday urged Asian nations to do more to defeat a global terrorist threat and to ensure that Afghanistan not be allowed to slip back into chaos.
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Afghanistan's defense minister asked on Thursday for more money and equipment to fight soaring Taliban violence as America's Pentagon chief criticized NATO allies for failing to deliver promised aid.
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An international think-tank urged Britain&#39;s incoming prime minister Gordon Brown to take a new approach over Afghanistan to prevent a resurgence of the hardline Taliban.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called a two-day meeting of tribal elders and provincial officials to discuss strategies to combat the country&#39;s burgeoning drug trade.
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The Red Cross calls on warring parties in Afghanistan to do more to protect civilians as the conflict spreads.
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Britain called Thursday for more "burden-sharing" in Afghanistan where an international force is struggling against Taliban insurgents.
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The NATO force in Afghanistan said Sunday President Hamid Karzai was right to be angry about civilian casualties in its military operations, and it needed to improve the way it worked.
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Six years after the fall of the Taliban, the fighting in Afghanistan is growing more intense &#151; but so is talk of peace.
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New reports on Afghanistan warn that Nato is not winning against insurgents and the country faces a humanitarian catastrophe.
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NATO is in disarray and the West faces defeat in Afghanistan unless it overhauls its counter-insurgency and reconstruction strategy, Britain's Paddy Ashdown wrote in an article published on Wednesday.