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Kabul meeting to lay ground for 2014 deadline (AP)

July 19th, 2010

An Afghan National Army soldier prepares a machine gun before going on a patrol outside Combat Outpost Terra Nova, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - The strategy sits for now on a table in a locked-down Afghan capital: Hand over security in all 34 provinces to the government by the end of 2014…

Top US prosecutor in Kabul to discuss corruption (AP)

June 30th, 2010

AP - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was in the Afghan capital to talk with officials about improving the justice system and fighting corruption Wednesday, a day after Afghanistan’s top…

At least 3 dead in suicide car bomb in Kabul (AP)

May 18th, 2010

Security personnel look at the destruction caused after a suicide bomber detonated his cache of explosives late Sunday near the gate of an Afghan Border Police residence in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, May 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - A suicide car bomber attacked the heavily fortified Afghan capital early Tuesday, killing at least three people and wounding 21, officials said.


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Afghan police: 5 suicide bombers arrested in Kabul (AP)

April 8th, 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a shura in Kandahar city on April 4. The United States on Tuesday delivered a veiled warning that Karzai's visit to the White House could be canceled, if he repeats his anti-foreigner outbursts.(AFP/POOL/File/Golnar Motevalli)AP - Afghan police arrested five would-be suicide bombers in Kabul on Thursday, the largest suicide team ever apprehended in the capital, officials said.


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Militant group in Kabul with draft peace deal (AP)

March 21st, 2010

Afghans carry a man injured in an explosion in Khost, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, March 21, 2010. Two other civilians died and four were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a crowd of people celebrating the Afghan New Year at a mountaintop shrine in eastern Afghanistan, a police commander said. (AP Photo/Nishanuddin Khan)AP - Thirteen Afghan civilians died in violence Sunday as the nation’s hard-line vice president expressed hopes for reconciliation and representatives of a militant group with ties to the Taliban…