Afghan camps 'to close by August'
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Pakistan announces it will close four Afghan refugee camps in its border provinces by the end of August.
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A curfew is put on the Afghan city of Herat after protests at the sacking of its former governor, TV reports say.
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The Canadian government stopped transferring prisoners in Afghanistan to local Afghan authorities after witnessing evidence of torture, according to a newly released government letter.
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An Afghan warlord on a U.S. wanted list has said the United States does not have the capacity to stay for long in Afghanistan and he predicts it will pull out at the same time as it withdraws from Iraq.
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JERUSALEM - Jewish settlers slated for evacuation from Gaza will have until next July to go and anyone resisting will be forced out by September, the chief architect of Prime Minister Ariel Sharonâs withdrawal plan said.
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South Korean missionary groups said on Wednesday they would pull out of Afghanistan to comply with a deal Seoul struck with Taliban insurgents for the release of 19 Christian volunteers held for almost six weeks.
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Territory in Afghanistan taken in battles by British troops may have to be retaken, the Nato commander warns.
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PIR ALIZAI CAMP, Pakistan  - Pakistan says its Afghan refugee camps are a hotbed of support for a resurgent Taliban and they should be closed, but it seems no one in the Pir Alizai camp wants to go home.
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Pakistan&#39;s military says it will remove remaining Al-Qaeda fighters and other Islamic militants from the mountainous region along the country&#39;s border with Afghanistan within the next six weeks.
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TALKS seeking peace in war-ravaged western Sudan have been suspended until next month, as one of the biggest British aid agencies working in the country closed its Darfur operation after four staff deaths in violence between rebels and government forces.
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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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KABUL, NOVEMBER 7: Afghan militants who threatened to kill three kidnapped UN workers have demanded the release of 26 Taliban prisoners and agreed to give the government until Tuesday to do so, a spokesman for the militants said on Sunday.
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PESHAWAR: The Jaishul Muslimeen on Wednesday said it had agreed to an Afghan government request to give it more time to locate the 26 prisoners whose release has been demanded in return for the freedom of the three UN hostages.
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Afghan militants holding three foreigners hostage have said they will kill them unless Taleban and al-Qaeda prisoners are released by Wednesday.
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Military officials say the increased American force level will begin declining in August unless additional units are sent or more units are held over.
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Israel's evacuation of the Gaza Strip will begin next summer and will take about 12 weeks, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday, reversing an earlier decision to speed up the pullout.
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon late Thursday ordered a troop pullout from a refugee camp, defense officials said, signaling that a two-week offensive in northern Gaza that has left more than 100 Palestinians dead could be easing.    The move came hours after Sharon announced that all 8,200 Jewish settlers will be pulled out of the Gaza Strip starting next summer and the operation will last 12 weeks...