Afghans See Decline Since '05
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Conditions in Afghanistan have deteriorated markedly since 2005, with rising violence, government corruption and misguided U.S. efforts contributing to growing unease  among the population, according to a report released yesterday based in part on 1,000 interviews with ordinary Afghans.
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From the thriving centre of Kabul to remote mountain villages, Afghans go to the polls on Saturday still under the shadow of the old regimes.
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Nearly five years after the fall of  the Taliban in Afghanistan, Africa has emerged as a leading  front in a U.S. military campaign to deny al Qaeda a new safe  haven in the continent's vast, hard-to-govern regions.
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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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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three years after the hardline Taliban militia were swept from power in Afghanistan, their
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As counting in Afghanistan's presidential  election neared its end, a dip in incumbent Hamid Karzai's lead  on Saturday increased the burden on an independent panel to  decide if voting irregularities could have upset the result.
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Afghans are voting in a historic poll that aimed to give the mountainous and impoverished Islamic nation its first elected president and perhaps end over a quarter-century of war.
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ÂReturn of the Taliban,Â on Frontline Tuesday, examines why the United States appears to be losing ground against Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan.
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Three years after the US-led invasion, Afghanistan is flooding the world with heroin, warlords reign in the provinces, women are scared and the new security forces are underarmed and undersized, analysts say.
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PANJWAI, Afghanistan -- The road to this southern Afghan farming town is wide, smooth and utterly empty, except for an occasional old man on a bicycle or a meandering herd of baby camels.
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Five years into a national economic recovery, the share of Americans living in poverty finally dropped.
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President Bush&#039;s stalwart foreign friends are fading fast.
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GORIMAR, Afghanistan  - On a windy day, which is   every day, the grand Industrial Village for Carpet Weaver   Returnees disappears into a storm of stinging dust whipping   across this barren plain in northern Afghanistan.
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - They survived three decades of war but risk being toppled by road traffic -- the last five mediaeval minarets of Herat are being slowly shaken to dust.
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Asia News, KABUL - Hamid Karzai was cruising to victory in Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential elections, but by Wednesday the returns so far have underscored the ethnic fault lines that have often divided the country.
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KABUL : An Afghan court sentenced a man to death for killing three foreign journalists and their Afghan colleague shortly after the fall of the hardline Taliban regime in 2001.
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JALALABAD, November 19 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Three years after the massive US-led invasion, Afghanistan is still facing the threat of being a corrupt ânarco-stateâ after the opium production rose by two thirds this year.