| 11/07/2011 05:15 |
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For a decade and more, one country has dominated the news headlines more than most - Afghanistan. Mention this country and what comes to mind? Probably Taliban and terrorism, burkas and beards. But Afghanistan is much more. Beyond the headlines of war, there is another country where ancient traditions endure and a new country is emerging, says Lyse Doucet.
| 24/05/2011 09:19 |
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Afghanistan's cricket team will play the first of three one-day matches against Pakistan on Wednesday.
| 12/05/2011 09:38 |
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in Afghanistan for a two-day visit to discuss the fight against terror and Indian aid to the war-torn country.
| 26/04/2011 09:16 |
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More than 470 inmates at a prison in southern Afghanistan have escaped through a tunnel hundreds of metres long and dug from outside the jail.
| 07/03/2011 03:16 |
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has arrived in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on an unannounced visit.
| 02/02/2011 10:41 |
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The US can win the Afghan war even if Pakistan does not shut down militant safe havens on its side of the border, a top US commander has said.
| 08/12/2010 00:52 |
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The father-in-law of an Afghan teenager whose nose and ears were hacked off after she fled her husband's abusive home is being questioned by police.

| 23/11/2010 20:35 |
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Violence in Afghanistan has reached an all-time high, with clashes up fourfold since 2007, the Pentagon has said.
| 30/10/2010 18:31 |
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has criticised the first joint operation by Russian and US agents to destroy drug laboratories in his country.

| 13/10/2010 10:05 |
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The Afghan girl featured on a controversial Time magazine cover in the US has been given a new prosthetic nose.
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| 08/10/2010 08:13 |
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The governor of the northern Afghan province of Kunduz has been killed along with at least 14 others in a bomb blast at a mosque, officials say.
| 22/09/2010 11:29 |
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US President Barack Obama's senior advisers have been waging internal battles over Afghan policy for 20 months, according to a new book.
| 06/08/2010 16:20 |
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The Afghan girl featured on a controversial Time magazine cover is in the US to have her nose rebuilt.
| 15/06/2010 09:48 |
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Pakistani intelligence gives funding, training and sanctuary to the Afghan Taliban on a scale much larger than previously thought, a report says.
| 14/06/2010 22:14 |
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Afghanistan may have more than a trillion dollars worth of untapped mineral deposits, a spokesman for the ministry of mines has suggested.
| 21/05/2010 10:41 |
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai spent the last evening of his four-day charm offensive in Washington with US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, answering questions from an audience at the US Peace Institute.
| 02/04/2010 16:40 |
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The US says it is seeking clarification over claims by the Afghan president that foreign observers were responsible for fraud in last year's disputed poll.
| 23/02/2010 16:46 |
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Western diplomats have expressed deep concern at a decree from Afghan President Hamid Karzai granting him total control over a key election body.
| 05/02/2010 19:17 |
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British forces in Afghanistan are taking part in a Nato ground and air offensive in Helmand province. It is the first major push since the US sent 30,000 extra troops to the country - but commanders are warning there will be casualties.
| 09/01/2010 05:04 |
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has presented parliament with a 16-strong list of nominees for cabinet posts.
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