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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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SF Gate
| 1 year ago
President Obama sought to use a surprise visit to Afghanistan to start lowering the curtain on the longest war in U.S. history. But as Taliban-led insurgents showed only hours after Obama flew home Wednesday, the bloodletting appears far from over.
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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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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-05-03 02:36 PM Less than two hours after President Obama left Afghan istan, aliban insurgents issued a jarring reminder of the challenges America still faces in...
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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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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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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
Board to a former adviser to presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. . Newt Gingrich's turbulent bid for the Republican presidential nomination ended Wednesday, closing a raucous chapter in the GOP race that saw the outspoken, often outrageous former...
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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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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Not a creature was stirring as the Commander in Chief spoke to the assembled troops Wednesday morning at Bagram Airforce base in Kabul. The president, fresh from a pitch perfect performance at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, flew to...
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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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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
AFP/Getty Images) President Obama's trip to Afghanistan Tuesday to sign a partnership agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai got us to wondering how much progress has been made in the effort to train the Afghanistan security forces. So we...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
With the signing of the strategic partnership agreement Tuesday during a surprise visit by President Obama , the United States entered into perhaps the most complicated phase of its decade-long war in Afghanistan a chapter that will include both the...
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Des Moines Register
| 1 year ago
Rep. Bruce Braley, a Waterloo Democrat, said today he he has serious concerns that President Barack Obama's agreement with Afghanistan announced Tuesday night will lead to permanent involvement there...Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa The agreement pledges...
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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
Bush's secret trip to Iraq over Thanksgiving in 2003, calling it an "embarrassing" "presidential shell game," had no such harsh language for Barack Obama's clandestine visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday. Jake Tapper on Wednesday deemed the visit simply...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor and a former 2012 presidential contender, said "the only real difference" Romney had with the president's approach was announcing a public timetable for troop withdrawal from the country. "Gov. Romney's...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama waves to troops at Bagram Air Base in Kabul, May 2, 2012. Earlier, Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed the Strategic Partnership Agreement at the Presidential Palace. Kevin Lamarque The political reality of Obama's...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
Some, including those inside the administration, were actively concerned about the safety of the commander in chief as he arrived in a war zone, while others felt any word of the president's visit was public information and fair game in today's...
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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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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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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year ago
New day" on horizon for Afghanistan (+video) The President made a secret trip to the Central Asian country on the anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. By Ben Feller, The Associated Press / May 1, 2012 On a swift, secretive trip to...
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Indian Express
| 1 year ago
Obama, who arrived in Kabul in the middle of the night yesterday called the agreement "a historic moment for our two nations." "I'm here to affirm the bond between our two countries and to thank Americans and Afghans who have sacrificed so much over...
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The Sun UK
| 1 year ago
The US President secretly flew into the country on the anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Outlining his plans for the future, he admitted: My administration has been in direct discussions with the Taliban. We've made it clear that they...
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Xtra News
| 1 year ago
The wall of secrecy around US President Barack Obama's visit to Afghanistan Tuesday cracked slightly under continual chatter on Twitter in a country obsessed by the instant communication site...The world's major news groups, including AFP which had a...
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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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Xtra News
| 1 year ago
President Obama confirms agreement with Afghanistan Newstalk ZB May 2, 2012, 1:44 pm The United States has confirmed an on-going commitment to Afghanistan once its troops are withdrawn. President Barrack Obama has made a seven hour trip to the war...
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Inquirer.net
| 1 year ago
Time of war' is done, now time for renewal 9:54 am Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 US President Barack Obama (L) speaks before signing a strategic partnership agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on May 1, 2012 at the Presidential Palace in Kabul.
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
It was the secret that bent but never quite fully broke.
The White House released a fabricated Tuesday schedule for President Barack Obama to conceal the fact that he was secretly flying to Afghanistan. It asserted that the president...
