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Car bomb kills 6 soldiers in Afghanistan
Dec 26, 2019 08:26At least six Afghan soldiers have been killed and three others wounded in a car bomb explosion in Afghanistan’s northern province of Balkh, the Afghan Defense Ministry says.
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Taliban abducts 27 peace activists in Afghanistan
Dec 25, 2019 13:24The Taliban has kidnapped 27 Afghan activists of the People's Peace Movement who were on a trip to call for peace and ceasefire between the militant group and the government in Kabul.
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Deadliest year in Afghanistan for US since official end of ops
Dec 25, 2019 10:08Twenty American soldiers have been recorded this year among those killed during the US conflicts in Afghanistan, making 2019 the deadliest year since Washington officially announced an end to operations in 2014.
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The real lesson of Afghanistan is that regime change does not work
Dec 24, 2019 14:17“It shouldn’t take 18 years for US officials to publicly admit that there is no military solution to a murderous and unwinnable war for which the US is politically and legally responsible. But the debacle in Afghanistan is only one case in a fundamentally flawed US policy with worldwide consequences”, says Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK for Peace in an article titled: The Real Lesson of Afghanistan Is That Regime Change Does Not Work.
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Seven soldiers killed in Taliban attack on Afghan army base
Dec 24, 2019 07:53The Taliban militant group has killed at least seven Afghan soldiers in an attack on a military base in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh Province.
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The Afghanistan fiasco and the decline and fall of the American military
Dec 24, 2019 06:58The Afghan War’s true costs have never been precisely calculated, though they certainly exceed $1 trillion and counting.
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Afghan election run-off likely amid thousands of complaints
Dec 23, 2019 12:21Afghanistan’s Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) says there is a “strong possibility” that the presidential election would go to a second round as it starts reviewing thousands of complaints.
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Taliban target US convoy in N Afghanistan, kill American soldier amid fresh peace talks
Dec 23, 2019 07:42The Taliban militant group has carried out a bomb attack against an American convoy in Afghanistan’s Northern Kunduz Province, killing a US soldier, only weeks after the two sides restarted stalled peace negotiations.
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How war targets the young
Dec 22, 2019 13:15“At home or abroad, whether we know it or not, in the post-9/11 years, war has targeted the young. It’s not a pretty sight”, says Andrea Mazzarino, co-founder of Brown University’s Costs of War Project.
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Afghanistan’s incumbent president wins election, disgruntled rival rejects result, again
Dec 22, 2019 06:02Afghanistan’s incumbent President Ashraf Ghani has won the presidential election in the country with a slim majority.