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AP - A cargo plane crashed into mountains east of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday, with initial reports saying all eight people aboard were killed, an Afghan airport official said.

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AP - A cargo plane crashed into mountains east of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday, an Afghan airport official said.

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AP - Police say a rocket struck Kabul about three hours before citizens planned to head to the polls to vote in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections.

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Time.com - The government insists there is no reason for anxiety but the depositors outside Afghanistan’s largest bank are implacable. They want their money back

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AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai reassured nervous customers at the troubled Kabul Bank on Thursday, saying every penny of their deposits would be guaranteed by the government.

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AP - Managers of Afghanistan’s largest bank braced for a run on deposits Thursday, a day after nervous customers showed up in droves to take out their money following the…

AP - Two suicide attackers struck a building rented by a private security company in Afghanistan’s capital Tuesday, detonating their explosive vests to kill two company drivers, police said.

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AP - An explosion hit a residential area of Afghanistan’s capital Tuesday, the government said.

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AP - The Taliban denounced this week’s international conference on Afghanistan’s future, saying the “vague and terrible agenda” shows that the U.S. and its allies intend to abandon the country and…

Time.com - Talk of transferring responsibility for defending Afghanistan to local forces by 2014 still looks a tad optimistic, while stakeholders struggle to agree on an endgame

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