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Karzai Suspends Talks With U.S. Over Taliban Move
(KABUL, Afghanistan) — The Afghan president on Wednesday suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way his government was...
The Taliban’s Qatar Office: Are Prospects for Peace Already Doomed?
As far as diplomatic prospects go, the omens don’t augur well. On Tuesday, the Afghan Taliban announced the opening of their first political office in the Qatari...
As NATO Hands Over Control, Afghan Forces Get Ready for the Real Test
At 18, Habibi is the youngest and loudest of the new female recruits to the Afghan military’s special forces unit. She wears a black baseball cap instead of a...
Afghan Taliban Claim They Killed 4 US Troops
(KABUL, Afghanistan) The Taliban have claimed responsibility for an attack in Afghanistan that killed four U.S. troops just hours after the insurgent group...
Afghanistan Blast Kills 3 Amid Security Transition
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A large bomb exploded in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, killing at least three people on the day the international military coalition...
Photo Essays
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
Battle in Kandahar
Afghanistan's spring fighting season begins as the Taliban stages a firefight that paralyzes the southern Afghan city of Kandahar
Time.com Specials
Top 10 Evil Lairs
For years, the accepted wisdom was that Osama bin Laden was holed up in a cave along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. It turns out he was living in a rather...
Top 10 Prison Escapes
On April 25, more than 480 inmates (including many Taliban) escaped from a notorious prison in Kandahar. TIME takes a look at other extraordinary prison breaks
Articles from Around the Web
Afghanistan suspends security talks with US
President's office announces suspension, saying the US has been'' inconsistent in statement and action'' over Taliban. ...
Taliban Attack and Afghan Move Cast Pall on Peace Talks
Within hours of opening an office in Qatar for peace talks, Taliban insurgents ambushed an American convoy, and the Afghan government broke off talks on military cooperation...
4 Coalition Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
The Taliban said they were responsible for the killings, which came after they said they were ready for peace talks. ...
U. S. to launch formal peace talks with Taliban
The Obama administration will start formal peace talks with the Taliban on Thursday in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, the first direct political contact between them since early last year and the initial step in what the administration hopes will lead to a negotiated end to the protracted war in Afghanistan ...
