Afghan optimism hit by violence
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A poll in Afghanistan suggests optimism over the country's future has fallen sharply over the last year.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban suicide bombers launched a second day of attacks in Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least four people in the capital and a northern city, raising tensions in areas that had been considered relatively secure.
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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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KABUL, June 6 -- Afghanistan's recent spate of violence claimed the lives of two more NATO soldiers Wednesday, while the death toll in June among insurgents rose to 200.
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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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A curfew restores some calm in the Afghan city of Herat, after violent   protests at the sacking of its governor.
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An attempt to shoot down President Hamid Karzai's helicopter just three weeks before Afghanistan's elections is indicative of the fraught security situation which is threatening the success of the polls, analysts said.
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President Hamid Karzai says Afghans are running out patience over cross-border violence from Pakistan.
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The death of the children may well add to the crescendoing anger many Afghans feel about civilian casualties from American and NATO military operations.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's recent spate of violence claimed the lives of two more NATO soldiers yesterday , while the death toll in June among militants rose to 200.
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Hamid Karzai is about to win in Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election, but the returns show that dangerous ethnic divides could become a major problem if he wins.
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The killing in Afghanistan spirals onward, undermining US claims of success in pacifying the country with less than a week to go before an historic experiment with democracy - direct presidential elections.
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With elections just days away, an increase of violence is casting doubt on the whether voters will show up at all.
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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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Afghanistan's presidential vote count neared its end with Hamid Karzai edging closer to victory, but a weekend suicide blast in Kabul offered a deadly reminder of the dangers facing the war-weary nation.
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The Kabul bombing came amid a sharp escalation of violence in Afghanistan.
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Hamid Karzai was cruising to victory in  Afghanistan's first direct presidential elections, but by  Wednesday the returns so far have underscored the ethnic fault  lines that have often divided the country.