Afghan role changing, quarry still elusive
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Third of three parts. SARKANI, Afghanistan -- A full moon rose over a jagged mountain range here on the border with Pakistan as US Army Staff Sergeant Michael Nye peered warily into the gathering darkness.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 15 -- Despite scattered gains by international troops fighting Taliban insurgents in the country's south, Afghan and foreign analysts here have voiced concern that a recent peace initiative is backfiring and that lapsed Afghan militias could be drawn into the conflict...
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Convincing Afghans to oppose the Taliban depends on fulfilling promises of aid and reconstruction.
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SHEBERGHAN, Afghanistan -- For the first time in its history, this desert town is showing off the trappings of democracy. Campaign posters decorate storefronts, and the local leader, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, has traded his military uniform for a dark suit and has hit the campaign trail.
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Afghans see a possible livelihood in the city, despite its crumbling infrastructure.
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With his inauguration to a five-year term a month away, the US-backed Karzai already is under pressure to ditch his coalition with powerful warlords and tackle a booming narcotics industry that has become a major economic force in one of the world&#39;s
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Nato can prevail in Afghanistan - but only if members boost their commitment, the alliance's head warns.
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Signs of a new spring offensive by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan have begun to emerge, but NATO commanders are still short more than 1,000 combat troops, despite repeated requests to allied nations, the top commander said Friday.
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SHAHBET, Afghanistan  - Plans for Afghanistan's  first democratic election in October mean little to Ismail Khan  as he strides across a hill top, satellite phone in hand,  flanked by commanders and a battle tank at his back.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - Before Shugofa  Beheshti decides who to vote for in Afghanistan's Oct. 9  presidential election, she wants to hear what the candidates  have to say.
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Afghan security forces may not be able to hold ground captured by NATO forces in Afghanistan if Taliban insurgents regroup and launch a new offensive over the winter, the top US commander warned Friday.
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Critics say President Karzai and the West must redouble efforts to boost security and reconstruction.
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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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As Washington tries to figure out how to deal with Pakistan going forward, it also faces charges that it didn't do enough to support and protect the slain leader
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Struggling to muster more troops for Afghanistan and take on an expanded training mission in Iraq, NATO defense ministers will aim this week to advance reforms that would let the alliance mobilize faster for ...
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- They arrived in December 2002 to do what had never been done : bring remote, unruly Paktia province under the control of a central Afghan government.
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The NATO mission in Afghanistan threatens a rift between nations willing to participate in combat operations and those that are not.