Afghan MPs block divisive women's rights law
Legislation was approved by President Karzai in 2009, but stalled by conservative MPs who deemed it un-Islamic.
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Fearing Afghan instability, Russia mulls border troops
By Amie Ferris-Rotman KABUL (Reuters) - Russia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year, is ...
Bomber in Afghanistan kills 15, including six Americans
By Miriam Arghandiwal KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 ...
Three U.S. soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan roadside bomb
The Rack: Mohsin Hamid, "Pakistan: Why Drones Don't Help" (NYRB). On the offensive Three U.S. soldiers were killed in the Zhare district of ...
Afghan scrap yards eye unwanted U.S. gear for steel industry
By Amie Ferris-Rotman KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Afghanistan are hoping that a small steel industry can be born from the mammoth task of ...
At least 3 US soldiers killed by Afghanistan bomb
At least three U.S. soldiers died Tuesday in southern Kandahar province when their convoy struck a powerful improvised explosive device, officials ...
Pakistanis vote in record numbers as Sharif heads toward victory
The (Virtual) Shelf: "Bird of Chaman, Flower of Khyber" by Matthieu Aikins, a new ebook from Foreign Policy (FP). Pakistan rocks the vote ...
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Much of $1bn Afghanistan tax bill is bogus, says US
American watchdog claims Afghan government is charging US contractors with illegal taxes The Afghan government has charged a tax bill of nearly $1bn ...
Hezb-i-Islami suicide bomber in Kabul kills 6 Americans, 9 Afghans
This morning in Kabul, a suicide bomber in an explosives-packed vehicle blew up a two-car American military convoy, killing at least 15 people.
Skirmishes erupt again on Afghan-Pakistan border
The Brief Border battles Clashes resumed along the contested Afghan-Pakistan border on Monday after Pakistani troops returned to repair a gate ...
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