Violence 'eroding Afghan hopes'
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Rising violence is eroding Afghan optimism, but a majority are hopeful for the future, an ABC/BBC poll finds.
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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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In the hours after President Hamid Karzai announced his cabinet at least five people were killed in a burst of Taliban-led violence across Afghanistan, officials said, highlighting how authorities have yet to quell an insurgency.
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Hundreds of people rallied across war-scarred Afghanistan Friday to call for an end to violence on the United Nations&#39; Day of Peace, as fighting linked to a Taliban-led insurgency continued.
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Attacks on aid organisations in Afghanistan are inevitable, according to a government minister, who said the widespread perception that aid workers were wasting money that should be spent on Afghans was fuelling the violence.
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Insecurity and intimidation are putting October elections in Afghanistan at risk, a new report says.
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A suicide attack tore through a crowded southern Afghan town, killing 18 people, while a powerful bomb blast in Kabul killed an Italian soldier and a child in a new wave of Taliban violence.
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More than six years since the Taliban were ousted from power in Afghanistan, the militant movement is being "contained," with some 70 percent of violence last year occurring in just 10 percent of the country, NATO said.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai renewed a call for talks with Taliban insurgents on Sunday, shortly after a security scare forced him to cut short a commemoration speech when gunshots were fired outside the venue.
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Death of opposition leader raises fears of expanded violence in the unstable South Asian nation.
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At least nine people have been killed in a series of attacks across Afghanistan, police say.
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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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Two-thirds of Afghan insurgents can be persuaded to abandon violence, says Michael Semple
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While violence was largely over, people worried about how a round of deadly infighting postponed hope for an independent and unified Palestinian state.
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The Kabul bombing came amid a sharp escalation of violence in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan risks sliding into a failed state and becoming the "forgotten war" because of deteriorating international support and a growing violent insurgency, according to an independent study.
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Communications breakdown between US troops and Afghan security forces leads to checkpoint deaths.