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President Hamid Karzai Thinks The US Could Be Behind The Latest Taliban Bombings

"In fact those bombs, set off yesterday in the name of the Taliban, were in the service of American…

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The CIA Has Paid Tens Of Millions Of Dollars To The Afghan President's Office Over The Last Decade

And instead of translating into influence for the Agency, American officials told the Times, the te…

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Afghanistan Is Cozying Up To Iran As US Deal Stalls

Karzai struck the deal with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran in a move that will be greet…

Hamid Shalizi, Reuters   


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Afghanistan's Karzai In Secret Talks With Taliban

Washington has signaled it could pull all troops out after 2014, unless a deal is signed soon. This…

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Afghan President Directly Contradicts Hagel Over Treaty Deadline

Karzai's comments come after a year filled with increasingly hot rhetoric toward the U.S., and coun…

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Hamid Karzai's Vilification Of America Is Risking The Future Of Afghanistan

Mr Karzai has also gone out of his way to raise the temperature over two other issues. The first is…

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The US Is Inching Closer To Total Withdrawal From Afghanistan

Obama left the door open, however, for Karzai's successor - to be chosen in April elections - to si…

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Former Afghan President Karzai was almost killed by an errant US missile weeks before he took office

Karzai was selected by prominent Afghan political figures in 2001 to serve a six-month term as chai…

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KARZAI: Afghanistan Doesn't Need US Troops

He repeated on March 12 that he will not sign the Bilateral Security Agreement with the United Stat…

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US-Afghan Relations Hit New Low As Little Boy Accidentally Killed By US Forces Amid Security Deal Row

In a classified cable that the Post said was transmitted in recent days, U.S. Ambassador James Cunn…

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88 Afghan Prisoners Deemed Dangerous By US To Be Released

President Hamid Karzai instructed Afghan intelligence officials to provide the review board with mo…

Hamid Shalizi, Reuters   


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Afghan President Turns Down Invitation To Meet With Obama

Obama and Karzai have recently disagreed over a bilateral security agreement that would allow some …

Hunter Walker   


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Karzai Holds Afghan Security Agreement Hostage For Release Of Gitmo Detainees

"There is no excuse for Afghan detainees to continue to be held at Guantanamo, when the United Stat…

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There's Only One Reason For The 'Zero Option' In Afghanistan

Flashback to the Status Of Forces Agreement (SOFA) debacle in Iraq, October 2011: Barack Obama fail…

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The Best Way To Cope With Hamid Karzai's Latest Stunt Is To Deal With His Successors

A loya jirga, an assembly of some 2,500 Afghan elders, specially convened by Mr Karzai, has voted u…

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A photo shows forgotten slippers and flip-flops lining the Kabul airport tarmac as thousands of people tried to flee the Taliban in Afghanistan

A Twitter photo showing slippers strewn across the Kabul airport tarmac displayed the havoc on Mond…

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OBAMA: 'Starting This Spring, Our Troops Will Have A Different Mission' In Afghanistan

Currently, roughly 68,000 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan. In meetings on Friday, the two leaders…

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Afghanistan reportedly traded $1 million from the CIA to al Qaeda for a hostage in 2010

The Times said the cash the CIA delivered to the Afghan presidential palace under President Hamid K…

Michael B Kelley,Reuters   


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The Pentagon Remains Deadly Silent About Karzai Booting US Special Forces From Afghanistan

"[A]rmed individuals named as US special force stationed in Wardak province engage in harassing, an…

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Brookings Fellow Sums Up Afghanistan Debacle In Two Short Paragraphs

The second - interrelated - mistake was to rely on problematic powerbrokers and never develop a rob…