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21 May 2016

U.S. Drone Strike Targets Taliban Leader

An American drone strike targeted the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, United States officials said on Saturday, in the most significant American incursion inside Pakistan since Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, the Qaeda leader, in 2011.
An American drone strike targeted the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, in Pakistan near the border...
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19 Feb 2015

US denies any planned talks with Afghan Taliban in Doha

The White House has denied media reports that US officials planned to meet with the Afghan Taliban in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Thursday, a spokeswoman has said. "The United States currently has no meetings with the Taliban scheduled in Doha," Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the White House's National Security Council, said on Thursday.
The White House has denied media reports that US officials planned to meet with the Afghan Taliban in the Qatari...
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26 Jan 2014

Karzai says US should re-engage Taliban peace talks or leave country

Afghan President Hamid Karzai appeared to stiffen his resolve Saturday not to sign a security pact with Washington, saying the United States should leave Afghanistan unless it could restart peace talks with the Taliban. "In exchange for this agreement, we want peace for the people of Afghanistan. Otherwise, it's better for them to leave and our country will find its own way," Karzai told a news conference.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai appeared to stiffen his resolve Saturday not to sign a security pact with Washington,...

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25 Jan 2014

False Claims in Afghan Accusations on U.S. Raid Add to Doubts on Karzai

It was the kind of dossier that the Taliban often publish, purporting to show the carnage inflicted during a raid by American forces: photographs of shattered houses and bloodied, broken bodies, and video images of anguish at a village funeral, all with gut-churning impact and no proof of authenticity.
It was the kind of dossier that the Taliban often publish, purporting to show the carnage inflicted during a raid by...

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13 Sep 2013

Explosion near US Consulate in Afghanistan

The Taliban claimed responsibility for a car bomb that exploded outside a U.S. Consulate in the western Afghanistan province of Herat on Friday, followed by a gunfight between security forces and fighters. At least seven people -- three security-force members and four attackers -- were reportedly killed.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for a car bomb that exploded outside a U.S. Consulate in the western Afghanistan...

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19 Jun 2013

Afghanistan Rejects Talks With Taliban and the U.S.

Lashing out in anger at the rise of a virtual Taliban embassy in Qatar just a day before, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on Wednesday broke off critical security talks with the United States and then scuttled a government peace delegation to the insurgents.
Lashing out in anger at the rise of a virtual Taliban embassy in Qatar just a day before, President Hamid Karzai of...

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