India Pledges $450 Million In Aid
05 August 2008
'India Vows To Fight Terror Jointly With Afghanistan, Announces $450-million Aid', The Indian Express, 5 August 2008
EXCERPT: "Announcing $450 million in aid to Afghanistan, India on Monday said the recent attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul was 'an attack on the friendship' between India and Afghanistan and both agreed to fight terrorism 'unitedly' and 'with full determination'. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Hamid Karzai...
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US And Afghan Government Frustrated By Taliban's Resilience
05 August 2008
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EXCERPT: "The Taliban are demonstrating a resilience and ferocity that are sowing alarm here, in Washington and in other NATO capitals, and engendering a fresh round of soul-searching over how a relatively ragtag insurgency has managed to keep the world's most powerful armies at bay. Six years after being driven from power, the...
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Tensions Over Drug Trade Bubble To The Surface
05 August 2008
'Tensions Over Drug Trade Bubble To The Surface', The Globe and Mail, 5 August 2008
EXCERPT: "Long-simmering tensions between the Afghan government and its Western supporters over the opium trade have broken out into angry confrontations behind closed doors recently, including a stormy recent meeting at the Canadian embassy. Accounts vary about exactly what happened when U.S. Ambassador William Wood sat down with his Canadian counterpart...
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US Marines Ordered To Remain In Afghanistan
05 August 2008
'US Marines Ordered To Remain In Afghanistan', Christian Science Monitor, 5 August 2008
EXCERPT: "With Afghanistan now more dangerous for foreign troops than Iraq, the United States military decided this week to bolster the presence of US Marines in the country. The move, the latest in a series, comes just three days after five North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) soldiers were killed in a series of roadside bombings in Afghanistan...
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