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National Constitution Center via Yahoo! News - Tue Feb 14, 9:59 am ET
One of the most common misperceptions about my nation is that democracy was forced on an unwilling population by the West after the defeat of the Taliban in 2001. This is not true.
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Associated Press via Yahoo! News - Tue Feb 14, 8:36 am ET
Pakistani defense minister says NATO temporarily allowed to ship food to Afghanistan.
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Los Angeles Times - 1 hour 23 minutes ago
No criminal charges will be filed against a Marine tank commander in the "friendly fire" death in Afghanistan of a Marine from Camp Pendleton, officials announced Tuesday.
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UPI - Tue Feb 14, 6:39 am ET
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- A former senior Afghan Taliban leader, once considered a possible peace negotiator, died in a Pakistani prison, the Taliban said on their Web site.
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ABC News - Tue Feb 14, 11:49 am ET
Panetta: No release of Guantanamo Taliban if there's any sign they will return to battle
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Denver Post - Tue Feb 14, 9:17 am ET
FORT CARSON, Colo.—Three soldiers based at Fort Carson have become U.S. citizens while serving in Afghanistan.
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Seattle Times - 1 hour 39 minutes ago
A memorial service will be held Wednesday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord for a soldier who was killed in Afghanistan.
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BBC News - Tue Feb 14, 7:26 am ET
As French troops temporarily leave Kapisa, Afghanistan's smallest province, there are concerns Afghan soldiers are not up to the task of policing the region.
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UPI - Tue Feb 14, 9:28 am ET
KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- An Afghan official report has blamed a NATO airstrike for the recent deaths of seven children and a young adult in eastern Afghanistan.
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Fox News - Tue Feb 14, 8:58 am ET
Pakistan's defense minister says the government has temporarily allowed NATO to ship perishable food items to its troops in Afghanistan.
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Los Angeles Times - Mon Feb 13, 11:58 pm ET
Afghan police arrest two 10-year-old would-be bombers. The boys were pardoned in previous attempts, but mullahs in Pakistan told them to try again, officials say. Six months ago, in a moving ceremony during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, President Hamid Karzai went on Afghan television to pardon about two dozen young boys, the youngest only 8 years old, who had been caught trying to carry out ...
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New York Times - 41 minutes ago
Twenty-five years before Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis wrote his bleak assessment of the war in Afghanistan, a Soviet colonel wrote a similar critique for his military leaders.
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Channel 8 San Diego - Tue Feb 14, 11:52 am ET
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he will not approve the release of any Taliban from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison as part of Afghan peace talks unless he is sure they will not return to the battlefield.
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Fort Frances Times - 1 hour 15 minutes ago
CFB GAGETOWN, N.B.—Family members wept and hugged each other as almost 100 soldiers departed Canadian Forces Base Gagetown last night for Afghanistan to train troops from that nation.
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Delaware Coast Press - 1 hour 12 minutes ago
In the wake of controversy over a photo of Marine snipers posing in front of the Nazi-associated SS insignia, the military is facing questions about a base in Afghanistan said to be called, 'Combat Outpost Aryan,' a term linked with Nazis and white supremacists.