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An Afghan driver looks out from a broken windshield of his car following the Friday's suicide attack and shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014.
(photo: AP / Rahmat Gul)
13 foreigners among 21 killed in Kabul restaurant attack
The Times Of India
KABUL: A total of 21 people, including 13 foreigners, died in a Taliban suicide assault on a popular restaurant in Kabul, police said on Saturday, with two British citizens and two Canadians among those confirmed dead. | Desperate customers tried to hide under tables as one attacker detonated his su...
United Nations Secretary Gen. Ban Ki-moon responds to questions during a news interview
(photo: AP / Frank Franklin II)
IMF and UN officials killed in Kabul restaurant attack
BBC News
A senior IMF official and three UN employees were among 14 people killed in a suicide bomb and gun attack on a restaurant in Kabul, officials say. | Wabel Abdallah, the head of the IMF's Afghanistan office, and the UN civilian staff died in the capital's popular Taverna du Liban, in what U...
Making Sense of the Recent Suicide Attack in Kabul
Khaama Press
By Fahim Masoud | To say that Afghanistan is chaotic and is falling into a complete state of confusion and insecurity is something already too familiar to most of Afghanistan’s peoples. Three decades of war and destruction has destroyed every f...
What did our wars win?
WorldNetDaily
Ending America’s longest wars may prove to be Barack Obama’s legacy. | For, while ending wars without victory may not garner from the historians’ the accolade of “great” or “near great,” it is sometimes the d...
LOST GROUND The Taliban in Afghanistan have just bettered their record. After having repeatedly demonstrated ...
The Telegraph India
The Taliban in Afghanistan have just bettered their record. After having repeatedly demonstrated the ease with which they could breach high-security zones in Kabul, they have carefully selected their prey this time. In an uncanny resemblance to the 2...
Karzai again seeks end to air strikes
The Japan News
The Associated Press KABUL (AP)—Afghanistan’s president says the United States can no longer carry out military operations or air strikes and must jump-start peace talks with the Taliban before his country signs a security deal to keep American t...
President Barack Obama speaks to supporters at a campaign rally in Miami Monday, June 13, 2011 where he launched his bid for reelection in Florida. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
AP / J Pat Carter
Iran Nuke Deal Starts Jan. 20, Obama to Unveil NSA Changes This Week, FY14 Defense Bill Complete
National Journal
By Sara Sorcher (@SaraSorcherNJ) and Jordain Carney (@jordainc) | Welcome to NJ's Early Bird, a morning assembly of the best national security, defense and foreign-policy coverage ...
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Joseph Brockbank (middle), platoon leader for 1st platoon, Troop P (Palehorse), 4th Squadron, Combined Task Force Dragoon, walks back to his vehicle with a member of the Afghan Uniformed Police after engaging with local village elders Dec. 16, 2013, at Kandahar province, Afghanistan.
US Army / Sgt. Joshua Edwards
Afghanistan stability: a pipe dream?
Al Jazeera
In recent days, US officials have admitted that negotiations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on a bilateral security agreement (BSA) continue to make little progress. | Washingt...
Deadly suicide attack on Afghanistan base
Al Jazeera
A multiple suicide attack has hit a coalition base in southern Afghanistan, killing at least one soldier and injuring others, in the latest Taliban-led assault targeting Afghan and international forces. | Jawed Faisal, a spokesman for the govern...
Jaipur Literature Festival: Afghan a dispensable nation where interests of Taliban and US collide
DNA India
In 2014, Afghanistan faces a general election. Will Hamid Karzai step down and the international coalition leave. What does the future hold, and how will it impact India and Pakistan? Leading Afghan experts Barnett Rubin, Ben Anderson and Mark Mazzet...
Nato
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Joseph Brockbank (middle), platoon leader for 1st platoon, Troop P (Palehorse), 4th Squadron, Combined Task Force Dragoon, walks back to his vehicle with a member of the Afghan Uniformed Police after engaging with local village elders Dec. 16, 2013, at Kandahar province, Afghanistan.
(photo: US Army / Sgt. Joshua Edwards)
Afghanistan stability: a pipe dream?
Al Jazeera
In recent days, US officials have admitted that negotiations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on a bilateral security agreement (BSA) continue to make little progress. | Washington's ambassador to Kabul has reportedly concluded that Karzai is unlikely to sign an accord before the elections this spring - and yet the Obama administration, after all...
Afghanistan
An Afghan driver looks out from a broken windshield of his car following the Friday's suicide attack and shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014.
(photo: AP / Rahmat Gul)
13 foreigners among 21 killed in Kabul restaurant attack
The Times Of India
KABUL: A total of 21 people, including 13 foreigners, died in a Taliban suicide assault on a popular restaurant in Kabul, police said on Saturday, with two British citizens and two Canadians among those confirmed dead. | Desperate customers tried to hide under tables as one attacker detonated his suicide vest at the fortified entrance to the Tavern...



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