Afghanistan risks 'failed state'
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Afghanistan risks turning into a failed state and becoming a forgotten war, a US study says.
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President Hamid Karzai accused NATO and U.S.-led troops Saturday of carelessly killing scores of Afghan civilians and warned that the fight against resurgent Taliban militants could fail unless foreign forces show more restraint.
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The international effort against   Taliban militants in Afghanistan faces major long-term problems   and cannot succeed by military means alone, an unusually   downbeat Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on   Thursday.
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The threat posed by the Taleban in Afghanistan was underestimated, the British defence secretary is set to admit.
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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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Criticism by Afghanistan could undermine domestic support for Britain's military and development efforts in the violence-scarred country, an influential body of MPs said.
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The United States expressed concern Thursday that the international community could abandon Afghanistan, cautioning that success in the insurgency-wracked nation was "not assured."
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and the top U.S. commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan yesterday issued a blunt assessment of the alliance's shortcomings in that country, arguing that the unwillingness of some member states to risk combat casualties is threatening NATO's future and undermining...
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Afghanistan&#39;s interim President Hamid Karzai told the BBC on Sunday that his country&#39;s first post-war presidential election could be viewed as a &quot;defeat of terrorism&quot; and a &quot;success&quot; for the Afghan people.
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Afghanistan could degenerate into a  "failed state" if NATO were to pull out troops and abandon  efforts to stabilize the country, British Foreign Secretary  David Miliband said on Monday.
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Afghanistan's presumed president-elect is under pressure to develop a two-party system.
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Australia's new government has warned NATO and its allies they will lose the war against hardline Taliban forces in Afghanistan unless they urgently change tactics, a report said Monday.
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President Hamid Karzai says Western troops' failure to co-ordinate with Afghans is causing civilian casualties.
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Iraq now ranks as the world's second most unstable country, ahead of war-ravaged or poverty-stricken  nations such as Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Congo, Afghanistan, Haiti and North Korea, according to the 2007 Failed  States Index, issued yesterday by the Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy...
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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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The British-led NATO force in southern Afghanistan does not have enough troops to carry out its mission and the Taliban show worrying signs of growing stronger, a report by Britain's parliament has found.
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The United Nationsâ top peacekeeping official told the Security Council Wednesday that the freshly deployed force in Darfur was in danger of failure.