Rumsfeld arrives in Afghanistan
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Power vacuums in areas of southern   Afghanistan where the government has little presence have   contributed to rising Taliban violence more than three years   into the U.S.-led war, a senior U.S. commander said on Tuesday.
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Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf arrived in Kabul on Wednesday for talks with his Afghan counterpart on combatting terrorism and improving security cooperation between the two nations, both key players in the U.S.-led war on terror.
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AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld greeted U.S...
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BAGHDAD - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is on his first visit to Iraq since its interim government was installed in June. Speaking to 1,500 Marines at an air base he said the insurgent violence is likely
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia -- NATO said yesterday that it would take control of military operations across all of Afghanistan in what US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld hailed as a ``bold step forward."
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Foreign Secretary David Miliband went to Kandahar Thursday during a surprise visit to Afghanistan, an AFP correspondent said.
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BAGRAM AIRBASE, Afghanistan  - Vice President Dick Cheney, in Afghanistan for talks with President Karzai who faces a Taliban spring offensive, breakfasted with troops at the main U.S. base north of Kabul on Tuesday.
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NEW DELHI  - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has arrived for talks with Indian leaders but sidestepped controversy after New Delhi urged Washington not to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan.
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US Army Spc Thomas Wilson, left, speaks to US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, not pictured, during Rumsfeld&#39;s visit to Camp Buehring, 120 km (74 miles) north of Kuwait City, on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004.
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Threatened by the Taliban, surrounded by security forces and watched by the second tier of the Bush administration, Hamid Karzai is due to be inaugurated as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president this morning.
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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived here Thursday for talks with allies on a three- to five-year master plan for a NATO-led force in Afghanistan, a senior US defense official said.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said Saturday.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi  arrived in Kabul on Sunday to meet Afghan President Hamid  Karzai and Italian troops, Afghan officials said.
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The US secretary of state and UK foreign secretary arrive in Afghanistan on an unexpected visit.
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made a surprise visit Friday to Afghanistan, where he met with President Hamid Karzai and the commander of NATO troops.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in on Tuesday as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president at a ceremony attended by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld.
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The Taleban's former media head arrives in the Afghan capital and is likely to join the Western-backed government.