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Activists behind a website dedicated to revealing secret documents are complaining of harassment by police and intelligence services as they prepare to release a video showing an American attack in which up to 147 civilians were killed in Afghanistan.Activists behind a website dedicated to revealing secret documents are complaining of... more
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U.S. officials believe that even as Pakistan's security forces worked with their American counterparts to detain Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and other insurgents, the country's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, or ISI, quietly freed at least two senior Afghan Taliban figures it had captured on its own.
U.S. military and intelligence officials say the releases, detected by American spy agencies but not publicly disclosed, are evidence that parts of Pakistan's security establishment continue to support the Afghan Taliban.U.S. officials believe that even as Pakistan's security forces worked with their... more
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The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has cast doubt over NATO’s planned summer offensive against the Taliban in the southern province of Kandahar, as more than 10,000 American troops pour in for the fight.
Karzai threatened to delay or even cancel the operation — one of the biggest of the nine-year war — after being confronted in Kandahar by elders who said it would bring strife, not security, to his home province.The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has cast doubt over NATO’s planned... more
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Afghanistan’s government says NATO troops killed four civilians including one child and wounded 18 others when they fired on a bus in Afghanistan this past week.Afghanistan’s government says NATO troops killed four civilians including one... more
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