Hamid Karzai
French President Francois Hollande (L) gives a speech next to Afghan President Hamid Karzai (R) during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul on May 25, 2012. President Francois Hollande today defended France's imminent exit from Afghanistan, saying 2,000 combat troops will leave in a coordinated withdrawal this year but vowing not to abandon the country.
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The killing of civilians by foreign forces has been a major irritant in Afghan President Hamid Karzai's relationship with his international partners.
President Karzai has assured me that he is committed to taking more active measures with regard to the drugs and organized crime
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Obama: NATO stabilizing Afghanistan
CHICAGO -- The NATO alliance that has fought for a decade in Afghanistan is helping that nation shift toward stability and peace, but there will be "hard days ahead," President Barack Obama said yesterday as alliance leaders insisted the fighting coaliti Read more »
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Gunman kills Afghan peace council member in Kabul
(AP) -- A gunman shot dead a top member of the Afghan peace council Sunday at a traffic intersection in the nation's capital, police said. The assassination strikes another blow to efforts to negotiate a political resolution to the decade-long war.Arsala Read more »
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Afghan leader: airstrikes could undermine US pact
(AP) -- Afghanistan 's president has warned that civilian casualties caused by NATO airstrikes could undermine the cooperation agreement he just signed with the U.S. He talked to families of the latest victims Tuesday.Also Tuesday, Taliban attacks in thr Read more »
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Congressional leaders say Taliban is stronger
The heads of the House and Senate intelligence committees on Sunday declared that the Taliban had grown stronger since President Barack Obama 's deployment of 33,000 more troops to Afghanistan in 2010.The pessimistic report by Sen. Dianne Feinstein , a D Read more »
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Obama: Time to shift attention from wars to home
(AP) -- Placing a final punctuation mark on a week devoted to foreign policy, President Barack Obama on Saturday declared that his goal of defeating al-Qaida was within reach and said it was now time to turn the country's attention to more domestic conce Read more »
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At War Blog: A Long-Lost Window Into Afghan History
in the 1880s, and to live in the king’s court. As far as I know, this may be the same presidential palace occupied by Hamid Karzai today. Nuristan is a remote region, high in the northeast mountains of Afghanistan; little is known of it, but it was the first 5/31/12 from The New York Times Read more »
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The Loneliness of the Afghan President: Karzai on His Own
Hamid Karsai attends a news conference after signing a cooperation agreement in Berlin, May 16, 2012. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has one of the toughest jobs in the world and he's held it for a decade. With NATO forces set to depart Afghanistan over the from Time Magazine Read more »
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U.N.: Afghan civilian casualties fall
by the Taliban on the capital city that paralyzed Kabul's government district and left 36 insurgents dead. Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed NATO and the Afghan military for the lack of intelligence to allow the attack to happen. UPI License photo KABUL, from United Press International Read more »
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UN urges Kabul to tackle opium problem
a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Tuesday, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Yuri Fedotov said that Afghanistan saw only “modest” success in eradicating the drug in 2011. "I'm trying to send messages from Press TV Read more »
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Afghan Militia Wins Uneasy Peace
seldom have the Afghans accepted the central power to provide this."This is what worries the government of President Hamid Karzai. Wary of how warlord militias plunged Afghanistan into a civil war after the Soviet-backed regime collapsed in 1992, Mr. Karzai from Wall Street Journal Read more »
