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Obama presses Karzai to fight Afghan corruption (AP)

March 28th, 2010

US Task Force Leatherneck Marines walk at Camp Bastion in Helmand province. The House of Representatives on Wednesday roundly defeated a resolution demanding President Barack Obama withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan, in a key election-year test for his war strategy.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)AP - President Barack Obama told Afghan leaders on Sunday to do more to rein in rampant corruption and improve their government as he made an unannounced visit to the…

Karzai studying peace offer from militant group (AP)

March 23rd, 2010

Sgt. Kevin Garcia of Colorado Springs, Colorado,. tries to teach the peace sign to Afghans while patrolling with the 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion Monday, March 22, 2010, in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai held an unprecedented meeting Monday with representatives of a major Taliban-linked militant group, boosting his outreach to insurgency leaders to end the eight-year war.


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Aide: Karzai ‘very angry’ at Taliban boss’ arrest (AP)

March 15th, 2010

FILE - In this March 11, 2010 file photo, Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, right, welcomes Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai for bilateral talks at the prime minister's official residence and office, in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)AP - The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban’s No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, according to one…

Karzai gets an earful in town seized from Taliban (AP)

March 7th, 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai talks to locals in Marjah, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 7, 2010. Afghan President Hamid Karzai heard a litany of complaints Sunday from residents of Marjah, the town in the south that thousands of U.S., NATO and Afghan troops just seized from the Taliban. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, Pool)AP - Elders in a former Taliban stronghold berated and challenged Afghanistan’s president Sunday, delivering a litany of complaints about government corruption and NATO’s military operations on the Afghan leader’s…