Fear Saps Vibrancy In Afghan Capital
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KABUL -- With its fortress-like outer walls and posh interior, its sumptuous brunches and post-sauna massages, the Kabul Serena Hotel was a symbol of both progress and privilege -- a haven for foreign visitors in a harsh, unfamiliar environment and an inaccessible tower for most poor Afghans.
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The bloodiest fighting since the Taliban's fall, abject failure to control the drug trade and gaping disparities between rich and poor are shaking the credibility of Afghanistan's U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai.
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Mourning in Beslan, a high-five in Afghanistan and a gift-wrapped helicopter
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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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Security has been boosted in the Afghan capital for commemorations of the fifth anniversary of the killing of anti-Taliban resistance hero Ahmed Shah Massoud, after a deadly suicide blast.
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- The kidnapping of three foreign election workers has raised fears that an Iraq-style hostage crisis may be about to engulf the country.
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As the war-weary Afghans are getting closer to the first-ever presidential polls, the spiraling violence is going to hamper the ongoing stabilization process in the post-war nation, observers here believe.
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AFGHANISTANâS capital Kabul was placed under tight security today for the historic inauguration of Hamid Karzai as the countryâs first popularly elected president.
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SHEBERGHAN, Afghanistan -- For the first time in its history, this desert town is showing off the trappings of democracy. Campaign posters decorate storefronts, and the local leader, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, has traded his military uniform for a dark suit and has hit the campaign trail.
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In the first installment of his Afghanistan diary, NEWSWEEK'S Dan Ephron discovers that the country's post-Taliban problems are shaped by whether they are inside or outside the capital
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When the call to prayer rings out, Muslim faithful converge on the blue-tiled Qaraman-e-Karbala Mosque in the Afghan capital. At the gates, they are politely stopped and those with bags are searched.
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AHMAD KHAN VILLAGE, Afghanistan  - Standing on a parched plain flanked by rugged mountains near Kabul, you don't have to look far to see the dangers.
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Congress's battles over the surge vote and the confirmation of Gen. George Casey are just two symptoms of the nation's capital's collective nervous breakdown about Iraq
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Rising violence is eroding Afghan optimism, but a majority are hopeful for the future, an ABC/BBC poll finds.
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Afghan and international forces laid a security ring around Kabul on Monday in preparation for the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected
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Many Andar residents are anxious about security and resentful of the government and the police, whom they accused of preying on the people.
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Those seen cooperating with American forces trying to rebuild the city are threatened - and sometimes killed.