Key Afghan-Iranian highway opens
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Afghanistan and Iran open a major road link as part of reconstruction efforts aimed at boosting trade.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai presided over the official opening of a new Coca-Cola plant in Kabul yesterday, more than 10 years after the previous Coke facility in the capital was destroyed during a civil war.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 16 -- Three Afghan aid workers were killed Saturday when their vehicle hit a bomb on a highway just south of the capital, while 7,000 Afghan and U.S. troops launched an operation against Taliban insurgents in five eastern and central provinces.
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With security at its highest level since elections in October, Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president in Kabul.
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Iran gives political and material support to President Hamid Karzai's Western-backed government, but it also may be aiding the Taliban as a way of hedging its bets in neighboring Afghanistan, NATO's top general here said Monday.
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WASHINGTON -- The sudden flurry of digging seen in recent satellite photos of a mountainside in central Iran might have passed for ordinary road tunneling. But the site is the backyard of Iran's most ambitious nuclear facility, leading US officials and analysts to reach another conclusion: It appears to be the start of a major tunnel complex inside the mountain.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - Pakistani Prime Minister   Shaukat Aziz arrived in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday to   open a Pakistani-funded road project hours after two rockets   were fired into the area.
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Tight security has been imposed on the Afghan capital Kabul for the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as the country&#39;s first elected president.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - In advance of Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election, Muslim clerics urged Friday worshippers to embrace democracy, election workers scurried to ready voting booths and 100,000 troops went on high alert across the country.    After the discovery of a truck laden with 10,000 gallons of gasoline and rigged with anti-tank mines, a nation that has known nothing but war held its breath in hopes that a threat by the Taliban to sabotage Saturday's vote would not materialize...
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan The military and the police closed Afghanistan&#39;s main roads and cities Friday in a security operation anticipating bomb attacks or other violence during the country&#39;s first presidential election Saturday.
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Voting has begun in Afghanistan for the first direct presidential election in the country's history.
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An Iranian arms shipment destined for the Taliban was intercepted on Sept. 6 by the international force in Afghanistan in what appears to be an escalating flow of weaponry between the two former enemies, according to officials from countries in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.
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A ring of steel was placed around the Afghan capital on Tuesday as Hamid Karzai prepared to be sworn in as the country&#39;s first popularly elected President at a ceremony
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The official month-long campaign for Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election opened on Tuesday in what will be a major test of U.S.-led nation-building efforts since the 2001 ouster of the Taliban.
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KABUL, Afghanistan _ Afghanistan&#39;s newly inaugurated President Hamid Karzai is pushing the fight to control the nation&#39;s booming drug trade to the top of his to-do list.
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Afghanistan is set to reestablish its role as a &quot;land bridge&quot; linking much of Asia and drive growth in the four trillion dollar broader regional market, a top US official said.
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Monday, many businesses and schools reopen as international officials start to assess roads, services.