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Iraq fighting grows; Sunni allies clash
BAGHDAD — The violent struggle over Iraq on Saturday consumed cities and towns widely spread over the north and west of the country, with Sunni militants and the Iraqi army claiming gains. An Iraqi...
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Russian fighter jets, experts to help Iraqi government
BAGHDAD — Iraqi government officials said Sunday that Russian experts had arrived to help the army get 12 new Russian warplanes into the fight against Sunni extremists, while the extremists declared...
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Afghanistan rivals agree to power-sharing deal
KABUL, Afghanistan — The two candidates for president of Afghanistan have agreed on a power-sharing deal that will give the losing candidate substantial influence in the next government, initialing the...
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Karzai lashes out: ‘America did not want peace for Afghanistan’
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s departing president, Hamid Karzai, used his final speech to his Cabinet and senior staff members Tuesday to make a bitter swipe at the United States and some of its...
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Afghan mullah who raped girl in mosque sentenced to 20 years
KABUL, Afghanistan — A mullah who raped a 10-year-old girl in his mosque was sentenced to 20 years in prison after a dramatic trial Saturday during which his accuser, weeping and shaking, summoned the...
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Young Afghan woman defies pledged marriage
KABUL, Afghanistan — Nine years before an Afghan girl named Soheila was born, her half-brother Aminullah eloped with a woman who had been betrothed to his cousin, an event that led to years of violent...
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Opium growing soars in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan opium cultivation again rose to historic levels in 2014, U.N. officials reported Wednesday. And in a sign of how deeply entwined drug trafficking and the Afghan political...
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Afghan forces withstand 3 terror attacks at once
While demonstrating the capabilities of Taliban terrorists, three almost simultaneous attacks Friday in Kabul were handled by Afghan security forces, which officials took as a sign that training by the...
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Hospital-bombing toll may soar, Doctors Without Borders warns
A Doctors Without Borders official said there might be more bodies in the heavily damaged main building of the Kunduz hospital, but the group had not been able to return to it because of security...
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Afghan court cancels death sentences in mob killing of woman
Afghanistan’s Supreme Court has vacated the death sentences against the four men who killed a young woman falsely accused of burning a Quran. Nine other defendants had their sentences reduced.
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Iraq fighting grows; Sunni allies clash
BAGHDAD — The violent struggle over Iraq on Saturday consumed cities and towns widely spread over the north and west of the country, with Sunni militants and the Iraqi army claiming gains. An Iraqi...
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Russian fighter jets, experts to help Iraqi government
BAGHDAD — Iraqi government officials said Sunday that Russian experts had arrived to help the army get 12 new Russian warplanes into the fight against Sunni extremists, while the extremists declared...
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Afghanistan rivals agree to power-sharing deal
KABUL, Afghanistan — The two candidates for president of Afghanistan have agreed on a power-sharing deal that will give the losing candidate substantial influence in the next government, initialing the...
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Karzai lashes out: ‘America did not want peace for Afghanistan’
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s departing president, Hamid Karzai, used his final speech to his Cabinet and senior staff members Tuesday to make a bitter swipe at the United States and some of its...
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Afghan mullah who raped girl in mosque sentenced to 20 years
KABUL, Afghanistan — A mullah who raped a 10-year-old girl in his mosque was sentenced to 20 years in prison after a dramatic trial Saturday during which his accuser, weeping and shaking, summoned the...
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Young Afghan woman defies pledged marriage
KABUL, Afghanistan — Nine years before an Afghan girl named Soheila was born, her half-brother Aminullah eloped with a woman who had been betrothed to his cousin, an event that led to years of violent...
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Opium growing soars in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan opium cultivation again rose to historic levels in 2014, U.N. officials reported Wednesday. And in a sign of how deeply entwined drug trafficking and the Afghan political...
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Qatar’s emir to abdicate, cede power to his son
DOHA, Qatar — Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the absolute ruler and emir of Qatar, who used his tiny nation’s oil and gas wealth to alter the course of events across the Middle East — siding with...
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U.S., Afghan deal keeps troops there until 2024
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that the United States and Afghanistan had finalized the wording of a security agreement that would allow for a lasting U.S. troop presence...
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Karzai rebuffs Afghan council, won’t sign U.S. security deal
KABUL, Afghanistan — An angry President Hamid Karzai on Sunday rejected the final recommendation of a four-day Afghan grand assembly that he should promptly sign a security agreement with the United...
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