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Afghans sceptical of Kandahar massacre trial
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A year has passed since the American soldier Robert Bales allegedly killed 16 Afghan civilians, including women and children. Bales faces the death penalty if he is found guilty at a US military trial expected later...
US military officer angrily reacts to Afghan incident
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Two American soldiers and at least two Afghans have been killed in the latest so-called 'insider attack' in Afghanistan. It happened at a jointly-operated base in the eastern province of Wardak. A man dressed in Afg...
Little justice for Afghan women prisoners
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More than 10 years after the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan's justice system remains heavily stacked against women. According to Human Rights Watch half the women in jail are being punished for fleeing from domest...
Afghans forced out of Iran face struggles at home
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The government of Iran has taken an increasingly tougher stance on the more than two million Afghans living in the country. Last year Tehran threatened to expel the 2.4 million Afghans it hosts if Kabul signed a str...
Afghan refugees return home from Iran
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Six million of the world's refugees are from Afghanistan, and around 1.4 million of them can be found in neighbouring Iran. But now thousands are now being forced back to Afghanistan. Coping with the new arrivals is...
Locals honoured by first Afghan female district governor
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The first female district governor in Afghanistan is about to finish her first month in office. Saira Shakeeb Sadat says she's trying to bring more prosperity to an isolated area in northern Jowzjan province home to...
NATO vows to respect Karzai’s air-raid ban
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NATO says it will work with Afghanistan's defence leadership to implement a ban by President Hamid Karzai on Afghan forces using NATO air attacks in residential areas. The announcement by US General Joseph Dunford, ...
Karzai: Afghan forces banned from calling NATO air strikes
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The Afghan president says he will ban the army from calling in foreign forces to conduct air strikes on residential areas. Hamid Karzai announced his decision after a NATO aerial attack killed 10 civilians in northe...