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In 330 BCE, during his military campaigns in Bactria and Central Asia, Alexander of Macedon founded a city fifty miles north of the modern city of Kabul in Afghanistan, at the confluence of the...
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Intelligence reports indicated Taliban militants had the ability to set off suicide attacks in the Bagram area even before a bombing that killed 23 people during a visit by Vice President Dick Chen...
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A top Taliban commander said al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was behind the February attack outside a U.S. military base in Afghanistan during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, according to an...
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Fourteen months ago, U.S.-led coalition forces detained Noor Ahmad Agha's father during a nighttime raid in southern Afghanistan and took him to a secretive prison on the main American base hundred...
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Six years after the first U.S. bombs began falling on Afghanistan's Taliban government and its al-Qaida guests, America is planning for a long stay.Originally envisioned as a temporary home for inv...
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A car bomb exploded near a three-vehicle U.S. Embassy convoy on a busy road in Kabul on Monday, wounding several people, one seriously, officials said.The blast, witnessed by an Associated Press re...
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Kabul (dpa) - The Taliban on Wednesday released the first three of
19 South Korean aid workers held hostage in Afghanistan for nearly
six weeks, a tribal leader said.
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Kabul (dpa) - A video chat allowed dozens of Afghan families to
talk to loved ones detained on suspicion of having links with
the Taliban and the al-Qaeda terrorist network ...
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