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1 hr ago | The Washington Post

Soldier's death in Afghanistan sparks debate over installing guns on US Army medevac choppers

It took a medevac unit 59 minutes to get U.S. Army Spec. Chazray Clark to a hospital in southern Afghanistan after receiving a call that a roadside bombing severed three of his limbs.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Army, World News, Afghanistan, Romulus, MI, Science / Technology

3 hrs ago | Pretoria News

Taliban talks spur Pakistan detente

Pakistan appears to be encouraging a detente with Kabul and Washington, launching a diplomatic offensive to ensure that it remains central to efforts to initiate peace talks with the Taliban.

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Related Topix: World News, Pakistan, Asia, Afghanistan, Prison,

7 hrs ago | Iol.co.za

NATO admits killing Afghan children

Kabul - NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said on Monday they had mistakenly killed a group of children in an air strike that has enraged the government, and said their deaths may have been linked to an anti-insurgent operation in the area.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai,

11 hrs ago | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Long Neglected, Camps in Kabul Get a Deluge of Aid

The 6,000 refugees living in the Charahi Qambar camp did not object when American soldiers came by Saturday to deliver 1,100 blankets for the families there.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Weather, Hamid Karzai

Sun Feb 12, 2012

International Business Times

More Than half of Afghan Brick Kiln Workers 'are Bonded Child Laborers'

A total of 56 percent of brick makers in Afghan kilns are children under the age of 18 and 47 percent are 14 or younger, a new study has shown.

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Related Topix: Asia, Afghanistan, World News,

New Age

America after Iraq-Afghanistan

In this file picture taken on December 8, 2011, an Afghan female police officer practices aiming with a Kalashnikov assault rifle at the Police Training Centre in the outskirts of western Herat province.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Senate, Republican, Rick Santorum, Opinion

What About Clients?

New York Times this Sunday morning: Outsourcing Risk and Death in the Afghan War.

On Doing Business Globally. F/K/A "What About Clients?" Law. Business. Politics.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Outsourcing,

Xinhuanet

Would-be child suicide bomber released in Kabul, re-captured

Three detained terrorists and two young would-be suicide bombers stand with their explosive material after they were captured in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Feb.

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Related Topix: World News, Afghanistan, Asia, Hamid Karzai,

CBS News

Gunmen kill provincial judge, child in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan &#8212 Gunmen burst into a family home of a provincial judge in eastern Afghanistan, killing him and his niece in the latest assassination of an Afghan government official, authorities said Sunday.

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WNED

Afghans fret flight of hard cash a sign of things to come

In the crush of people in Kabul's Shahzada money market, conspiracy theories are a currency as hard as the bundles of cash in the hands of bearded traders trying to divine their future.

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Related Topix: Travel, Afghanistan Travel, Kabul, Afghanistan Travel, Life, Hobbies, Conspiracy Theory, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan Travel, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan Travel, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization),

Sat Feb 11, 2012

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Afghan war's risks shift to contractors

Mohammed Mansoori clears the grave in Kabul of his brother, Qais, who died at age 20 while working as an interpreter for an American contractor.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, George Washington University

Ledger-Enquirer.com

648 Maneuver Enhancement Brigade challenged by drawdown in afghanistan

A month after arriving in Kabul, Afghanistan, a Columbus-based Georgia National Guard unit faces challenges drawing down troops and closing installations, the commander said this week.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan Travel, Travel, Columbus, GA, Afghanistan Travel, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan Travel, US Military, Fort Benning, US Army

Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Lack of Internet Cuts Off Afghan Province

Although internet access has increased in Afghanistan in recent years, people in the central Uruzgan province say they remain almost completely unconnected, leaving them isolated from the outside world.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan Travel, Travel, Afghanistan Travel, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan Travel,

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Kabul's tiniest war refugees are dying in the cold

A relative holds the body of 3-month old Khan Mohammad as he is prepared for burial at the Nasaji Bagrami refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday.

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US Air Force

Father, son example of one team, one fight

Father, 1st. Sgt. Walter Josephs Jr., a field artillery instructor with the Army, and son, Airman 1st Class, Walter Josephs Jr., a 451st Air Expeditionary Wing services journeyman visit together at Kandahar Airfield, Feb.

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Related Topix: US Military, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, US Air Force, Uzbekistan Travel, Travel, Afghanistan Travel, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan Travel, Fort Hood, TX, World News, Afghanistan,

Vail Daily News

Vail musician to take part in Boulder fundraiser

A fundraiser on Feb. 20 in Boulder will include music by EAgle County musician Elli Gauthier.

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Fri Feb 10, 2012

KPLR-11

Soldier Returns Home From Afghanistan, Surprises Daughter At Game

A tearful surprise reunion was the highlight of the Washington University women's basketball game Friday night, as a freshman player, who thought her father was still in Afghanistan , suddenly saw dad at center court.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, Afghanistan, World News,

Patch.com

PHOTOS: Wakefield Families Welcome Home Troops

More than 150 members of the National Guard rejoined their families last night in Reading after a year-long deployment to Kabul City in Afghanistan.

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Houston Home-Journal

Karzai condemns death of 7 children in NATO air strikes

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has strongly criticized NATO for the air strikes resulting in the death of at least seven children, further aggravating the strained relations between Kabul and the international coalition forces over civilian deaths during course of anti-terrorists operations.

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Related Topix: World News, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Asia, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai,

Deseret News

Officials: 2 held in death of Afghan peace broker

Pakistan has arrested two people in connection with last year's assassination of a former Afghan president who was trying to broker peace with the Taliban, two Afghan government officials said Friday.

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