With Color and Panache, Afghans Fight a Different Kind of War
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A much wider audience will be introduced to Afghan kite culture with the American release of the film âThe Kite Runnerâ on Friday.
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Taliban and NATO troops fought battles in southern Afghanistan on Thursday as the alliance pressed ahead with its biggest offensive to quash the insurgents.
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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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PARIS, Dec. 6 -- Mountainous and isolated, caught for centuries between competing empires along one of the world's great trading routes, Afghanistan has always been a place of legends. Twenty-eight years ago, another one was born.
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KALAKAN, Afghanistan There were toothless old men, turbaned and gray-bearded, and young men not yet old enough to shave. There were mullahs and mujahedeen, and the presidential candidate&#39;s 3-year-old son.
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The Soviet invasion of the late 1970s that drove Afghans into a long and bloody resistance has been recorded in this nation's favourite and most famous art form -- carpets.
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Recruiters seek soldiers on a hot sport's battlefields.
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Heroic fighters to some, dangerous militia to others. The bloody fight that Hezbollah picked with Israel has deepened a longtime divide in Lebanon.
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History is being made in Afghanistan, as the country takes part in its first-ever presidential election. But while most Afghans are enthusiastic, the candidates challenging interim President Hamid Karzai claim
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Since the invasion of Iraq, the people of the region find themselves in the face of scenes that exceed the threshold of tolerance of most of them.
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Comment is free: Max Hastings: Unlike Iraq, the battle against the Taliban carries a flicker of a hope of success, even if it is a misguided one.
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In a grimly familiar scenario, the civilians were caught in a battle between Taliban and NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, the police said today.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - For most Palestinians, black-hooded gunmen have long been respected symbols of resistance against Israeli occupation.
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Abdul Razaq stands among the menfolk of this dusty village of Afghan nomads and rejoices that democracy has at last come to his country after more than two decades of warfare.
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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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How insurgents turned a neighborhood into a battle zone in which U.S. troops have to fight for their lives
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After NATO forces flushed out Taliban insurgents in Pashmul, Afghanistan, a battle for the support of the local people began.