Afghanistan risks 'failed state'
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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-led NATO campaign in Afghanistan is struggling to cope with insufficient troops and a resurgent Taliban insurgency, claims a parliamentary report published Wednesday.
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Iraq now ranks as the world's second most unstable country, ahead of war-ravaged or poverty-stricken  nations such as Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Congo, Afghanistan, Haiti and North Korea, according to the 2007 Failed  States Index, issued yesterday by the Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy...
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has warned that the failure of the international force in Afghanistan would increase the security threat to Europe.
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In a GQ magazine interview, Donald Rumsfeld calls Afghanistan a "success," but says U.S. efforts in Iraq are hampered by a failure to establish a foundation for democracy
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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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Worsening security is pushing Afghanistan towards a crisis, the country's main opposition group said on Thursday, days after a deadly Taliban raid near the presidential palace.
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Britain&#39;s battle against the drugs trade in southern Afghanistan has been a total failure, the troubled country&#39;s vice-president said Sunday.
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The United Nationsâ top peacekeeping official told the Security Council Wednesday that the freshly deployed force in Darfur was in danger of failure.
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Opposition candidates in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential elections have called for a repeat because of irregularities. It&#39;s a demand that could seriously harm the country&#39;s budding democracy, according to DW&#39;s Karen Fischer.
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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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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warned Sunday that the failure of the international force in Afghanistan would increase the security threat to Europe.
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Failure in Afghanistan would directly threaten European security, US Defense Secretary Roberts Gates warned Friday as he sought to mobilize NATO allies and more especially public opinion in Europe.
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Public support in Canada for its  participation in NATO peacekeeping in Afghanistan could  dissolve if other allies do not help its troops in the violent  south, Foreign Minister Peter MacKay said on Tuesday.
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In an interview billed as his first since leaving the Pentagon, former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld calls Afghanistan "a big success" but says that U.S. efforts in Iraq are hampered by the failure of Iraq's government to establish a foundation for democracy.
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WASHINGTON -- Fledgling US-backed democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq are failing to protect human rights, despite huge flows of American aid to improve conditions after the ousters of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, the State Department said yesterday,
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Afghanistan&#39;s interim President Hamid Karzai told the BBC on Sunday that his country&#39;s first post-war presidential election could be viewed as a &quot;defeat of terrorism&quot; and a &quot;success&quot; for the Afghan people.