'There are no heroines left in Afghanistan'
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Spring Of Hope is a collaboration of the two film industries.
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Afghanistan risks becoming a failed state if NATO troops do not defeat the Taliban, boosting Islamist extremism worldwide, a study said Tuesday, also warning that the West lacked resources.
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The government has denied that the casualty toll among its forces in violence-wracked Afghanistan is being under-reported, as claimed by a senior officer on the ground.
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OTTAWA - President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan pleaded with Canada yesterday not to withdraw its 2,500 troops when their mission ends in early 2009, saying to do so would only help deliver his country back to the Taliban, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported. Karzai made his comments to a special meeting of all Canadian reporters based in Afghanistan.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- Three years after the US invasion, Paktia Province and the rest of southeastern Afghanistan illustrate the mixed results of an intervention that ousted the Taliban regime but has yet to capture Osama bin Laden or forge a stable, centralized state to keep out terrorists for good.
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Women stage a rare demonstration in Afghanistan calling for the release of a kidnapped US aid worker.
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Â· Army paralysed by Taliban threat, says ex-CIA agentÂ· Retired officers accused of helping militants
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AHMAD KHAN VILLAGE, Afghanistan  - Standing on a parched plain flanked by rugged mountains near Kabul, you don't have to look far to see the dangers.
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Â· Survivor plays down talk of heroism Â· Foreign secretary updates casualty figures
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United Nations, 8 October 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Anna Cataldi says the concept of democratic elections -- at least in the way they are perceived in Western societies -- is a mystery to most Afghans, who for the last 25 years have lived in an almost constant
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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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Afghanistan is hosting its first post-Taliban theater festival and it includes a prominent role for women.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - For the first time,  all of the militia fighters in an Afghan region have been  disarmed as fighters loyal to two northern commanders gave up  their guns under a U.N.-run drive to demilitarize the country.
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MASOODA Jalal has been clocking up some high mileage on the campaign trail for Afghanistanâs presidential election. The only woman candidate to stand in the October 9 vote, Jalal
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A hard-line Taliban splinter group threatened to kill a woman from Northern Ireland yesterday unless British troops pull out of Afghanistan, in a move which it is feared could signal the beginning of a new Iraq-style terror campaign.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 23 â Two Italian soldiers disappeared under mysterious circumstances while on a patrol Saturday night in a western region of Afghanistan where the Taliban has been active, Afghan and Italian officials said today.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan elders yesterday said that 108 civilians were killed in a bombing campaign in western Afghanistan, while villagers in the northeast said 25 Afghans died in airstrikes, including some who were killed while burying dead relatives.