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    May 18, 2013 |Story| AP Broadcast

  1. Conservative Afghan lawmakers block legislation protecting women's rights

    Associated Press
    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience. The...

    Tags: Afghanistan, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, Taliban, Justice System

    2. May 17, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  2. Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 pct

    Reuters
    By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that country....

    Tags: Afghanistan, U.S. Congress, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, John Kerry

    3. May 17, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  3. Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent

    Reuters
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that country. The president asked for $79.4...

    Tags: Afghanistan, U.S. Congress, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, White House

    4. May 17, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  4. Fearing Afghan instability, Russia mulls border troops

    Reuters
    KABUL (Reuters) - Russia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year, is considering deploying border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border, Moscow's envoy to Kabul told Reuters in an interview. Moscow,...

    Tags: Afghanistan, HIV, Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Tajikistan

    5. May 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested.
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....

    Tags: Armed Forces, Afghanistan, Terrorism, India, Taliban

    6. May 7, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  6. Syrian intervention: Some questions

    WASHINGTON -- For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions:
    WASHINGTON -- For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions: Is human suffering the reason for the United States to act? That is the noblest and most altruistic of motives, and the estimated 70,...

    Tags: International Military Interventions, Afghanistan, United Nations, U.S. Military, Barack Obama

    7. May 3, 2013 |Story| Allentown Morning Call

  7. Fouad Ajami: Afghanistan shows Americans how not to fight wars

    In the unforgiving Afghan landscape, we have learned that you can't buy a warlord. You can only rent one. We owe this education to our man in Kabul, President Hamid Karzai. For more than a decade, it has been recently confirmed, U.S. dollars packed into...

    Tags: Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Kabul (Afghanistan), Richard Holbrooke, Barack Obama

    8. May 1, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Getting less for our money in Afghanistan

    Among all the bizarre actions which have constituted U.S. foreign policy, one stands out today as particularly bizarre and counterproductive. Over the past 10 years, the CIA has given Afghan President Hamid Karzai bags full of money totaling millions of...

    Tags: Afghanistan, The New York Times, Central Intelligence Agency, Hamid Karzai, Unrest, Conflicts and War

    9. Apr 27, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Global Voices: Author reflects on thwarted Afghanistan invasions

    “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”
    “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” Nowhere has that admonishment by 18th century statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke been ignored with such disastrous consequences as in Afghanistan. The imperial British...

    Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, George W. Bush, Pakistan, Hamid Karzai

    10. Apr 26, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  10. New Bush Library, same old Bush record

    It was inspiring to see them side by side at Southern Methodist University in Dallas: Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. For their service to this country, we are indebted to each one of them.
    It was inspiring to see them side by side at Southern Methodist University in Dallas: Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. For their service to this country, we are indebted to each one of them. It'...

    Tags: George H.W. Bush, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Parties and Movements, Armed Conflicts, George Washington

    11. Apr 6, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghan provinces is unfinished work

    CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — At the doorstep of the U.S.-funded schoolhouse in this mountain-fringed northern town, Ghulam Nabi crouched in the mud and scooped up two rocks. He needed them, the school engineer explained, to scare off the building's only regular occupant: a stray dog.
    CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — At the doorstep of the U.S.-funded schoolhouse in this mountain-fringed northern town, Ghulam Nabi crouched in the mud and scooped up two rocks. He needed them, the school engineer explained, to scare off the building's...

    Tags: Afghanistan, Science and Technology, Pakistan, U.S. Department of State, Hamid Karzai

    12. Apr 8, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  12. Can Hagel reshape the Pentagon?

    Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska who survived a stormy confirmation hearing to become the new secretary of defense, had a coming-out party of sorts last week before the National Defense University, the government's graduate...

    Tags: Afghanistan, U.S. Congress, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Joe Biden

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