Afghanistan's Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid tensions with Pakistan
By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New ...
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Legislation to toughen women’s rights laws in Afghanistan is withdrawn
KABUL — Afghan women, and sometimes even little girls, are sold or traded to pay family debts. So-called honor killings are a constant threat to ...
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Attacks kill 10 police in Afghanistan
ATTACKS by Taliban fighters have left at least ten Afghan police officers dead, officials say.
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Faking Afghanistan: A Battlefield in the Mojave Desert
Fort Irwin is a U.S. army base nearly the size of Rhode Island, located in the Mojave Desert about an hour's drive northeast of Barstow, California.
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Afghanistan Hit by Wave of Violence
Nearly two dozen Afghan police officers and civilians have been killed in the last few days, including a district police official assassinated over a ...
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WORLD AWAY: Local nurse training others documents plight of women, children in Afghanistan
I have never seen a more beautiful sight in God’s creation than the rows and rows of snow-covered mountains that the small plane flew over to get to ...
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Danger and separation from families changing job of U.S. diplomats
By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda placed a bounty on her husband's head, Mary Feierstein learned of it ...
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Siblings' Separation Haunts In 'Kite Runner' Author's Latest
Khaled Hosseini's new novel, like his two earlier works, is set partly in Afghanistan — but this time, political turmoil isn't a major element of the ...
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She Works: Standing Up And Speaking Out
For our series on the Changing Lives of Women, we're asking NPR women about their careers — and inviting you to join the conversation.
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