Last year, the price of gasoline in the United States topped the $4 per gallon mark.
This year in Afghanistan, the price has topped $400.
The stunning...
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A fraud probe into Afghan elections has trimmed President Hamid Karzai's vote share to just 47 percent, a report said on Friday, while a senior aide conceded a...
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AFP - The Obama administration is looking at whether it could work with some members of the Taliban as part of a review of the Afghanistan war strategy, Secretary of...
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Ten French soldiers killed by the Taliban in 2008 were part of a unit that made incorrect threat assessments because they were unaware that Italian officials had been...
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France will not send "a single soldier more" to fight the bloody conflict in Afghanistan though troops already deployed as part of the NATO-led coalition...
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In the chaos of an early morning assault on a remote U.S. outpost in eastern Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips' M4 carbine quit firing as militant forces...
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The Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan. The statistic is likely to play into the escalating...
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Joe Biden met with CENTCOM chief Gen. David Petraeus this morning to talk about Afghanistan -- an issue that has pushed the vice president into the spotlight, landing...
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Opium is one third of the Afghan economy. Much of the money it generates is used to support the insurgency. What is being done? Will it work? Video courtesy NATO
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Opium is one third of the Afghan economy. Much of the money it generates is used to support the insurgency. What is being done? Will it work?
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As a former soldier, I feel the best way to support our troops is to not put them in harm's way for an unjustified, contrived reason (the war in Iraq for...
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She offered sharp words for Democrats in Congress who want President Obama to begin making plans to pull out of Afghanistan, a war that is becoming increasingly...
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America's top commander in Afghanistan warns that more troops are needed there within the next year or the nearly 8-year-old war "will likely result in...
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The Liberal Democrats become the first major political party to call for an end to Britain's war in Afghanistan
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General Stanley McChrystal says more troops and new tactics are needed if defeating the insurgency is to remain possible.
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In the villages of Afghanistan, many young men are working for the government during the week, but fighting for the Taliban at weekends. "We don't get...
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By Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy [Recent price trends for Afghan opium The July 2000 edict of Mullah Omar, the ousted supreme head of the Taliban and "Commander of...
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