US Afghan poppy drive a 'failure'
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A former US ambassador to the UN says President Bush's moves to clear Afghanistan's poppy fields have failed.
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KABUL, Afghanistan The US military says the success of this month&#39;s elections in Afghanistan has left rebel fugitives griping about what went wrong.
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A test of the planned US anti-missile defence shield fails in the first mission in almost two years.
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The UK hits back at claims by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that UK troops are making the country's situation worse.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- US soldiers sprayed a pickup with bullets after it failed to stop at a roadblock in central Afghanistan, killing two women and a man and critically wounding two other people, the latest in a string of civilian deaths at the hands of American forces.
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Destroying the nation's mainstay crop could complicate US troops' efforts to win hearts and minds.
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Afghanistan risks turning into a failed state and becoming a forgotten war, a US study says.
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The US warns Afghanistan could become a failed state unless Nato countries remain actively involved.
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A failed rocket attack on a US helicopter carrying President Hamid Karzai was carried out by a self-confessed Taliban commando, Afghanistan&#39;s top law-enforcer said Saturday.
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Communications breakdown between US troops and Afghan security forces leads to checkpoint deaths.
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Yes, we have failed America. I do not mean Iraq or Afghanistan. I mean we failed to help America in its latest political exercise last Tuesday, November 2, 2004, when Americans most needed our help.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied here Thursday the allied strategy to stabilise Afghanistan was failing, saying it was incomplete and needed innovation to crush "determined enemies."
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Text of report by Afghan state radio on 11 December  Afghan deputy minister for counternarcotics yesterday announced his disagreement with the idea of spraying the poppy plant fields with herbicide.
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Afghanistan&#39;s efforts to stem opium production have left 18 police dead and another 33 wounded this year, most of them in clashes during poppy eradication, a deputy minister said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led forces used artillery and air strikes to kill more than 165 insurgents and repel massed assaults on coalition troops in two strongholds of Taliban militants and Afghanistan's rampant drug trade, officials said yesterday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led coalition forces fought with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan's poppy-growing belt yesterday, engaging in a daylong battle that left more than 60 Taliban fighters and one coalition soldier dead, military officials said.
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The NATO mission in Afghanistan is being undermined by members' failure to provide adequate troops and by serious strategic mistakes, a panel of British lawmakers said Wednesday in a report.