Tue May 14, 2013
73 articles tagged "Afghanistan"
DEBKAfile
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August 14, 2007, 7:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
Together, Pervetz Musharraf and Hamid Karzai closed a four-day cross-border tribal council, or Grand Jirga, of 700 elders and politicians from the two countries. The Pakistani president's arrival in Kabul Sunday repaired some of the damage caused by his absence from the opening session.
Direct talks eased strains in relations between ... 
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August 11, 2007, 5:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
President Pervez Musharraf cancelled his attendance of a US-backed cross-border tribal peace conference, jirga, in Afghanistan on a joint counter-terror strategy.
Up to 700 tribal elders, Islamic clerics and national leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan are attending the three-day peace jirga in a large tent in Kabul starting Thursday, Aug. ...
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August 8, 2007, 11:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
The agreement comes under Russia's obligations under the 1997 IMF sponsored Paris Club of Creditors' initiative for poor countries. It was announced as Afghan president Karzai ended two days of talks with President Bush at Camp David. The debt was mainly for military equipment supplied in Soviet times.
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August 1, 2007, 9:08 AM (GMT+02:00)
The foreign ministry in Seoul identified the latest victim as 29-year-old Shim Sung-min, who was shot dead, according to a Taliban spokesman, because Kabul resisted demands to release their prisoners. He was one of the 23 South Korean Christian aid workers, 18 women, seized in Afghanistan on July 19. The ...
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July 29, 2007, 9:36 AM (GMT+02:00)
Most of the group are women members of a Christian aid group who were abducted in Ghazni southwest of Kabul last Thursday. A German journalist was released Wednesday the day after he was snatched. The fate of his Afghan translator is unknown. Taliban is also holding a German hostage for ...
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July 25, 2007, 9:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Americans were killed on combat patrol in the eastern province of Paktika,
a Norwegian and one other soldier in other parts of the country. 
DEBKAfile
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July 23, 2007, 1:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
US Col. Thomas Kelly reported finding four of the explosively-formed projectiles in Herat near the Iranian border and one a month ago in the capital Kabul. He said Taliban insurgents may have access to the device but may not yet know how to use them.
debkafile's military sources ...
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July 6, 2007, 11:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
A roadside bomb hit their vehicle. The location was not officially named but believed to be Kandahar Province. The attack claimed by Taliban was the deadliest since April 8, when a mine explosion killed 6 Canadian troops.
It brings the total number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan to more than ...
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June 19, 2007, 8:37 AM (GMT+02:00)
The bomber hit an Afghan police bus, targeting police instructors. The dozens of injured included foreigners. Taliban claimed the attack, the fifth such bombing in three days.
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June 6, 2007, 12:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
The visiting US defense secretary Robert Gates spoke Monday after meeting President Hamid Karzai in Kabul. They agreed the spring offensive threatened by the Taliban to overwhelm NATO forces had fizzled and the insurgents had sustained losses including a prominent leader. However, an increased flow of weapons was coming in ...
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May 15, 2007, 10:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
Pakistan military denies its soldiers shot anyone. A U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan said he had heard of an incident in a border area, but did not have details.
Mullah Bakht Mohammed takes the place of his brother Mullah Dadulla, who was killed in battle with US troops, as top Taliban ...
In N. Pakistan, a suicide bomber killed 28 people, injured Pakistani interior minister and son <br/>
DEBKAfile
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April 30, 2007, 8:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao was addressing a small gathering in his home town of Charsaddawhen the blast struck. He and his son suffered minor injuries. Three policemen guarding him were among the dead.
DEBKAfile
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April 15, 2007, 10:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
The still images from the video show the two French hostages, one a woman, pleading for their lives. They were kidnapped in Nimroz province nearly two weeks ago and the pictures are the first sign that they are alive. The three Afghan hostages are blindfolded and shackled.
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