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United Press International
| 1 year ago
The Taliban said Thursday that at least 12 Afghan security personnel and 14 international troops were killed during the start of their spring offensive...International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, in its Thursday operational update, made...
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Asian Tribune
| 1 year ago
22 editor The United States has the historic habit of abandoning its friend or allies...It was with Kurds but them left it to the brutality of Iraq's Saddam Hussein. In his unannounced and surprised visit to Afghanistan on May 1 to sign a ten-year...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
Afghan President Hamid Karzai hailed a newly signed strategic pact with the United States but warned Thursday that tough negotiations still lay ahead on the US military presence in his war-torn country after 2014. Karzai and US President Barack Obama...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The security pact signed by US President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, which defines America's future role in Afghanistan , doesn't rule out the possibility of drone strikes against insurgent targets in Pakistan even after the...
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SF Gate
| 1 year ago
More Opinion President Obama made a quick, predawn visit to Afghanistan, timing that underlines the dangerous nature of an unpopular and costly war. But he made the most of the occasion by outlining a plausible though untested exit strategy. The...
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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
President Obama's speech during his surprise visit to Afghanistan might not have been what most Americans wanted to hear but it did shine a little light at the end of a long, dark tunnel...He was there to visit with troops and sign a long-term...
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Pak Tribune
| 1 year ago
Claiming that al Qaeda's leadership has been devastated, US President Barack Obama said "the tide has turned" in Afghanistan over the last three years. "We broke the Taliban's momentum...We devastated al Qaeda's leadership, taking out over 20 of...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
The pact between the United States and Afghanistan could leave the door open for continued drone strikes against militant targets in Pakistan after 2014, US Ambassador Ryan Crocker indicated on Wednesday. There is nothing in this agreement that...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
AP President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai sign a strategic partnership agreement at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 2, 2012. The partnership agreement signed by President Barack Obama and Afghanistan's President...
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War In Context
| 1 year ago
U.S.-Afghan pact won't end war or Special Operations night raids by News Sources on May 2, 2012 Gareth Porter writes : The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration's Enduring Strategic Partnership agreement with Afghanistan and the...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
The Taliban announced the start of its "spring offensive" yesterday just hours after the US President, Barack Obama, promised to "finish the job" and end the war in Afghanistan on a flying visit to the country. Suicide bombers killed at least seven...
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Asia Times
| 1 year ago
Commentators in Afghanistan have questioned a decision to replace the late Burhanuddin Rabbani with his son as head of peace negotiations with the Taliban, saying the appointment looks like a move to consolidate President Hamid Karzai's power. On...
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Kansas City Star
| 1 year ago
U.S. and Afghanistan cannot guarantee they will keep.It pledges Afghanistan to fight corruption and protect human rights, including women's rights. All are areas where the U.S. already finds fault with Afghan performance. The nine-page agreement...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
The Taliban announced they would launch a spring offensive called al-Farooq. Afghanistan, May 2 (UPI) -- It is the Islamic duty of Afghans recruited into a spring offensive to kill "foreign occupiers" as punishment for their illegal actions, the...
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Indian Express
| 1 year ago
US seals Kabul deal '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' President Obama, speaking on Tuesday night from Bagram Air Base, declared that he had travelled here to herald a new era in the relationship between the US and Afghanistan, a...
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The Daily Herald
| 1 year ago
Afghanistan Afghanistans president has branded his U.S. allies as corrupt, wasteful and contemptuous of Afghan lives...Nonetheless, Hamid Karzai signed a deal that could keep thousands of U.S. troops in his country for years. Despite his rhetoric,...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
The U.S.-Afghan strategic partnership agreement signed Tuesday by U.S. President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai is being greeted with mixed feelings in and outside of Afghanistan. While the strategic partnership deal could pose...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
In a Tuesday speech from Bagram Air Force base, a hub of American operations in Afghanistan , President Barack Obama heralded a turning point in a conflict that has spanned the more than a decade since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Share This Story "...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Mark Landle May 3, 2012 Read later Barack Obama speaks to troops during a visit to Bagram Air Field. Barack Obama, speaking to a US television audience from Bagram Air Base, said he had travelled there to herald a new era in the relationship between...
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Times of India
| 1 year ago
Air Force One turned into midnight express as US president Barack Obama swept unannounced into Afghanistan on the first anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden to signal an end to war there ahead of a strenuous election season at home.
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
The Taliban said it was in response to Obama's visit and to the strategic partnership deal he signed with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a pact that sets out a long-term US role after most foreign combat troops leave by the end of 2014. The...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Taliban dismiss US-Afghan pact as illegitimate' AFP 6 mins ago US President Barack Obama (L) smiles while signing a strategic partnership agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on May 1, 2012 at the Presidential Palace in Kabul. The agreement...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Victory was never mentioned, but in an election-year speech from Kabul, President Barack Obama told war-weary Americans that he was winding down the decade-long fight in Afghanistan. My fellow Americans, Mr. Obama said, speaking in front of flag-...
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
House members decides to open a formal probe into whether Gov. Nikki Haley illegally lobbied while a state representative, its investigation will be open to the public. Calling North Carolina "ground zero" in the presidential campaign, Republican...
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Bloomfield Life
| 1 year ago
Afghanistan The Taliban struck back less than two hours after President Barack Obama left Afghanistan on Wednesday, targeting a foreigners' housing compound with a suicide car bomb and militants disguised as women in an assault that killed at least...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Afghan officials say a car bomb has killed at least six people in the capital, Kabul, just hours after U.S. President Barack Obama left the city following an unannounced visit. Kabul police say Wednesday's suicide car bombing was near Jalalabad road,...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama delivers an address to the American people on U.S. policy and the war in Afghanistan during his visit to Bagram Air Base in Kabul, May 2, 2012. Afghanistan, May 2 (UPI) -- The United States has "a clear path" to a postwar...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Smoke billows from a compound after it was attacked by militants in Kabul. Photograph: Musadeq Sadeq/AP Suicide attackers launched a dawn attack on the outskirts of Kabul, killing seven, just hours after US President Barack Obama visited the Afghan...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Afghanistan Putting a symbolic seal on a long and brutal conflict, President Obama made a dramatic overnight visit to the Afghan capital, signing an accord meant to offer assurances that the United States is not abandoning Afghanistan but also...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
A suicide car bomb attack carried out by the Taliban militants in the Afghan capital of Kabul Wednesday, within hours of US President Barack Obama's surprise visit, has left six persons dead and several injured. Share This Story Taliban insurgents,...
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Pak Tribune
| 1 year ago
Pakistan's decision to keep key supply routes into Afghanistan closed since Pakistani soldiers were killed by US aircraft in November 2011 have held up thousands of tonnes of equipment, the Pentagon said, and could "significantly degrade" withdrawal...
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Denver Post
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama told Americans that after a decade of post-Sept. 11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, "we can see the light of a new day" hours after signing an agreement early today that extended the U.S. commitment to Afghanistan. Speaking early...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The United States President Barack Obama 's surprise visit to Afghanistan on Wednesday, which also marks the first death anniversary of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, triggered attacks from the Taliban militants...President Barack Obama puts his...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
Afghan foreign minister in India to boost ties Afghan foreign minister in India to boost ties The withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan and the country's budding strategic relationship with India topped the agenda for talks Tuesday between...
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The Economic Times
| 1 year ago
As President Barack Obama signed a strategic partnership agreement with Afghanistan, a senior official admitted it may be "hard" to work due to Pakistan's discomfort with the Kabul government's close alignment with India. "This is hard," a senior...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
In a televised address from Bagram Air Base , Obama said it was time to transition U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, noting that the Taliban's momentum has been slowed, Afghan security forces have been built up and bin Laden and much of al-Qaeda's top...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday the long-term strategic pact he signed overnight with visiting US President Barack Obama would pose no threat to neighbouring countries. The deal "is not only not threatening any third country, including...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
39 President Barack Obama is making only his third trip to Afghanistan since taking office in 2009 [AFP] US President Barack Obama has declared that the US combat role in Afghanistan is winding down just as it has already ended in Iraq. "We can see...
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Inquirer.net
| 1 year ago
Two bodyguards and two suicide attackers were killed in a firefight inside the governor's compound in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province Saturday, an official said. Afghanistan in 2014 foresees the possibility of American forces staying behind...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
Barack Obama made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan overnight to sign a deal outlining America's long-term partnership with Kabul. Mr Obama, whose trip fell on the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of US forces, met with...
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NY1
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan signed an agreement today cementing a U.S. commitment to that country after combat troops leave, exactly one year after the death of Osama bin Laden. Obama arrived in Afghanistan on an...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
We must replace war with peace' 1 May 2012 Last updated at 17:10 ET US President Barack Obama has signed a strategic agreement with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai on a previously unannounced visit to Afghanistan. The 10-year accord outlines military and...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
US President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday to conclude an agreement charting future relations with the country, making the unannounced trip in darkness on the first anniversary of the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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Daily Chronicle
| 1 year ago
Visit the Government Center for more coverage of local government decisions and activity. Read political press releases President Barack Obama is greeted by Lt...Afghanistan President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan Tuesday night on the...
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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
AP President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai shake hands after making statements before signing a strategic partnership agreement in Kabul...Mr. Obama, who arrived in Kabul in the middle of the night on an unannounced trip is scheduled...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Mr Obama arrived at Bagram airbase one year to the day since Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed when US commandos raided his hideout in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad. Mr Obama was then flown to Kabul by helicopter for a face-to-face...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama made a surprise visit late Tuesday to Kabul to sign a long-term security agreement with the Afghan government, a clandestine trip that also marks the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Obama arrived under...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 1 year ago
Obama, on an unannounced visit to Kabul, acknowledged that there will be difficult days ahead for Afghanistan, but said the Afghan people were taking control of their own future. The wages of war have been great for both our nations, Obama said,...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday , where he will sign an agreement outlining the U.S.'s role in the country as the decade-long war there winds down. Share This Story Obama will meet with Afghan President Hamid...
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Baltimore Sun
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday to sign an agreement charting future relations with the country, making the secret trip on the first anniversary of the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden . Obama plans to deliver a...
