Awaiting Takeoff in Afghanistan
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With the country unraveling Kabul's newly renovated airport may simply serve as a gateway for the Western exodus
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KABUL, Afghanistan - A U.N. helicopter hauling ballots from remote villages in northeastern Afghanistan crash-landed in a snowy field Tuesday...
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BERLIN, Jul 12 (IPS) - Doubts are being raised about German military  engagement in the so-called Operation Enduring Freedom in  Afghanistan ahead of a crucial vote in parliament due October.
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CHENARI, Afghanistan -- Security forces yesterday turned back relatives trying to get to a freezing mountain where NATO soldiers found human remains but no survivors in the wreckage of an Afghan airliner four days after it struck a snowbound peak with 104 people on board.
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On this third anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on American soil, a bold action by the leader of the transitional government of Afghanistan indicates the hard decisions that are still to be taken before victory can be announced in the war against
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NICE, France  - NATO announced it was ready to  launch a long-delayed westward expansion of peacekeeping duties  in Afghanistan on Thursday but said it was still short of staff  for an officer training mission in Iraq.
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An election worker sorts out a ballot at the vote counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004. Afghanistan was expected to start counting votes on Wednesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan A UN official says two workers held hostage in Afghanistan are looking forward to some peace and quiet. The women, one from Northern Ireland and the other from Kosovo, took off from Kabul today aboard a UN plane.
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For a time, the US military in Afghanistan was talking as if it would smoke Osama bin Laden out of a cave on the rocky Pakistan border within months, perhaps even ahead of President Bush&#39;s re-election.
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The mere fact of tomorrow&#39;s presidential elections in Afghanistan is cause for (subdued) celebration. Afghans are headed to the polls in the country&#39;s first-ever &quot;democratic&quot; election, and early indications
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Some say Afghani society may not be ready yet to interpret correctly what they see in movies from India and the West.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked NATO allies and colleagues for more effort in Afghanistan, but it is too early to tell whether his lobbying will pay off.
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ABOVE SHAPIRI GHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan  authorities said they would begin moving on Monday remains of  104 victims from a crashed airliner off the snow-topped  mountain near Kabul where they have lain for 11 days.
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Problems abound for air travel. But there is hope.
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SANGIN, Afghanistan  - The message couldn't have been clearer.
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CHENARI, Afghanistan  - NATO-led troops struggled  on Sunday to reach the icy mountain peak where an Afghan  passenger plane crashed three days ago with 104 people on  board, an official said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The main US base in Afghanistan fell silent yesterday at the moment the first hijacked jetliner struck the World Trade Center. Soldiers bowed their heads in prayer.