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INTERVIEW: Exiting U.S. general says Afghan women's ...
Afghan girls read the Quran during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in the city of Jalalabad, the provincial capital of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 22, 2011. (AP Photo)
February 10, 2013
KABUL--Advancing women's rights in Afghanistan is key to preventing the Taliban from reimposing a radical form of Islam once most foreign troops leave by the end of 2014, the...
NATO calls on North Korea to cancel rocket launch
A former North Korean defector, second from left, playing the role of a North Korean soldier, is tied as other former North Korean defectors and anti-North Korean protesters shout slogans during a rally against North Korea's rocket launch in Seoul on Dec. 5. (AP Photo)
December 06, 2012
BRUSSELS--NATO on Dec. 5 called on North Korea to cancel plans for its second rocket launch of 2012, saying it would violate U.N. resolutions and could further destabilize the...
Karzai: NATO can speed up handover of security
NATO's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, right, shakes hand with Afghan President Hamid Karzai after his arrival at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Oct. 18. (AP Photo/Pool)
October 18, 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan--President Hamid Karzai said Oct. 18 the nation's military and police are ready and willing to take full responsibility for security in the country if the...
Afghan president says 2014 election will be on time
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on July 9, 2012. (The Asahi Shimbun)
October 04, 2012
KABUL--Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Oct. 4 that presidential elections would be held on time in 2014 and he would step aside as mandated, denying speculation that the...
Suicide bomber kills six near NATO HQ in Kabul
Suicide bomber kills six near NATO HQ in Kabul. (The Asahi Shimbun file photo)
September 08, 2012
KABUL -- A suicide bomber detonated explosives near the heavily barricaded NATO headquarters in Kabul on Sept. 8, killing six civilians, NATO and local officials said.
Afghan official: Hundreds fired in insider probe
Afghan National Army soldiers gather to set out on a search and capture mission in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan in May, 2012. (AP file photo)
September 05, 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan--Afghanistan's Defense Ministry on Sept. 5 said it has detained or removed hundreds of soldiers from its military's ranks as part of an investigation into...
Drone strike may have killed Haqqani network leader
August 25, 2012
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A CIA drone strike in Pakistan may have killed the operational commander of the Haqqani network, the insurgent group behind some of the most high-profile ...
Three more U.S. soldiers killed by Afghan in grim...
Three U.S. Marines have been shot dead by an Afghan worker on a military base in southern Afghanistan(Asahi Shimbun file photo)
August 11, 2012
KABUL -- Three U.S. Marines have been shot dead by an Afghan worker on a military base in southern Afghanistan, in a deadly 24 hours for NATO-led forces during which six...
Panetta: U.S. losing patience with Pakistan
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, center right, speaks with U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker, second right, and the head of NATO coalition forces in Afghanistan Gen. John Allen, center left, upon his arrival at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 7. (AP Photo/ Pool)
June 07, 2012
KABUL-- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on June 7 the United States was reaching the limits of its patience with Pakistan because of the safe havens the country...
NATO sets ‘irreversible’ but risky course to...
U.S. President Barack Obama at a news conferene at the NATO summit in Chicago on May 21 (AP)
May 22, 2012
CHICAGO--NATO set an “irreversible” course out of Afghanistan on May 21 but President Barack Obama admitted the Western alliance’s plan to end the deeply unpopular war in ...
NATO head says Russia's talk of pre-emptive strike...
May 05, 2012
BERLIN -- A Kremlin threat to launch pre-emptive strikes on a planned NATO missile defense system in Europe is unjustified as the system poses no threat to Russia's security,...
Japan likely to get bill for Afghanistan military...
Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba, left, meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Jan. 11. (Pool)
February 04, 2012
With NATO nations looking to accelerate their withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, U.S. allies, including Japan and South Korea, are expected to face pressure to subsidize...
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