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May 25, 2013
8:52 am
ZHARI DISTRICT, Afghanistan — Almost every summer for the past decade, Zhari's thick-walled earth huts, used to dry the famous local sweet grapes into raisins, have become fortresses for Taliban fighters.
May 24, 2013
9:05 am
Kabul suicide bombing taliban may 24 2013
The blast is the second to hit the city in just over a week.
May 22, 2013
5:47 pm
Clone of Anwar al awlaki brother
The US has finally admitted to deliberately killing Anwar al-Awlaki.
May 22, 2013
12:58 pm
afghanstrike
The UK and Denmark will give hundreds of Afghan interpreters who worked for British and Danish troops in Afghanistan visas.
May 20, 2013
8:26 am
Chatter
Bluster on the Korean Peninsula, Myanmar's head of state makes the trek to Washington, and a Filipino kid has 41 names. They're all his.
May 18, 2013
12:53 pm
Afghanistan womens rights law
The women's rights law was approved by Karzai in 2009, but has been blocked by conservative MPs.
May 17, 2013
2:53 pm
Kandahar bombing may 2013
A car bomb was detonated in a gated community designed by President Karzai's younger brother Mahmood.
May 16, 2013
7:02 am
Chatter
Foreign convoy targeted in first major attack on the Afghan capital in two months, study finds that malarial mosquitoes love smelly people, and the fascination with scrumptious sushi cats.
Afghanistan, Chatter
May 16, 2013
5:40 am
Kabul villagers
The Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin militant group claimed responsibility for the attack.
May 15, 2013
2:08 pm
20130515 poppy afghanistan
As an unexpected result of the government's eradication program, it's a bad year for poppy farmers.