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U.S. hands over control of Bagram prison to Afghan government
BAGRAM, Afghanistan—The U.S. handed over control of the prison at Bagram air base to the Afghan government Monday, resolving a major sticking point that had been complicating relations between Washington and Kabul as both countries brace for the...
Tags: National Government, Government, Prisons, Wars and Interventions, Pakistan
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Kerry in show of unity with Afghanistan's Karzai
KABUL – Secretary of State John Kerry joined Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday for a public show of unity, declaring that the two allies “are on the same page” despite weeks of unprecedented friction. Kerry, who has played a...
Tags: National Government, Government, Prisons, Central African Republic, Politics
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Musharraf tells supporters he has returned to save Pakistan
Los Angeles TimesKARACHI, Pakistan — As former military ruler Pervez Musharraf stepped off the plane at Karachi’s international airport Sunday, he returned to a very different nation from the one he was forced to leave in 2008 — one that has no...Tags: Assassinations, Government, Parliament, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Nawaz Sharif
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Pakistan car bombing at food center kills 17
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A car bomb exploded amid scores of people lining up at a food distribution center in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 17 people and injuring 28 others in what appeared to be a rare attack on Pakistanis...
Tags: Explosions, United Nations, Emergency Incidents, Bombings, Taliban
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U.S., Afghan leaders agree on gradual security transfer in key province
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. military leaders reached a deal with Afghan officials that calls for a gradual transition of security responsibilities in a volatile eastern province from American special forces to Afghan troops, officials from both...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Crime, Law and Justice, Pakistan, Politics, Afghanistan
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Security risks, frayed relations dog U.S., Afghans
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A series of security problems and fractured relations with Afghan leaders plagued Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's first trip here as Pentagon chief, including the Afghan president's accusations that the U.S. and the Taliban...
Tags: Prisons, Wars and Interventions, Afghanistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Chuck Hagel
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Amid Hagel visit, Karzai accuses U.S. of conspiring with Taliban
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan — The often-volatile U.S. relationship with Afghan President Hamid Karzai grew increasingly strained Sunday as Karzai accused the U.S. and Taliban insurgents of having a secret understanding to foment violence as a pretext to keep...Tags: National Government, U.S. Embassy, White House, Government, Prisons
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Suicide bomber strikes as Hagel visits Kabul; 9 civilians dead
KABUL, Afghanistan --A loud explosion struck outside Afghanistan's Defense Ministry in Kabul on Saturday, reportedly killing at least nine civilians in an attack less than a mile from where U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was staying in the capital....
Tags: Explosions, Suicide, Venezuela, U.S. Military, Emergency Incidents
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Hagel arrives in Afghanistan for first visit as defense chief
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Afghanistan on Friday for talks on the size of the U.S. force expected to remain in the country after next year. The visit, which was not announced in advance, was Hagel's first to the war...
Tags: Chuck Hagel, International Military Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Hamid Karzai, White House
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Panetta, NATO partner, differ on troop numbers
BRUSSELS (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his German counterpart offered conflicting accounts Friday of a discussion about how many U.S. and European forces would remain in Afghanistan after the anticipated end of combat after 2014....
Tags: Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Government Debt, NATO, Barack Obama, Wars and Interventions
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NDSU professor mentors Afghanistan woman
Mentoring and advising agribusiness students is not unusual for Cheryl Wachenheim, a professor in North Dakota State University's Agribusiness and Applied Economics Department. However, it is new territory for her to mentor someone who lives thousands...Tags: Afghanistan
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Critics say Afghan court was lenient in bank corruption case
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan tribunal handed down the first jail sentences Tuesday in the colossal Kabul Bank corruption case, sentencing the two former top executives to five-year sentences and ordering them to repay hundreds of millions of...
Tags: National Government, Punishment, Government, Theft, Prisons
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