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28.10.2010, 17:52
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said in an interview that it is "impossible" for US-led coalition forces to secure victory in Afghanistan.
29.10.2009, 01:16
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Ahmed Wali Karzai, the governor of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province and the brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai, has been paid by the CIA for the past eight years, The New York Times reported this week.
28.03.2010, 08:15
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NATO and Russia have failed to reach a consensus in a tug of war over tackling the Afghan drug problem. The alliance has rejected Moscow’s appeal to eradicate opium poppy fields in the Islamic Republic.
16.09.2009, 02:55
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Former KGB Special Forces Colonel Oleg Balashov, who took part in the Soviet military campaign in Afghanistan, told RT he doubts more U.S. soldiers will increase the chances of victory.
27.03.2009, 19:40
Obama’s newly unveiled strategy is containment of the spread of narco-terrorism from Afghanistan and Pakistan, but it’s also engagement of other stakeholders, said RT’s military analyst Eugene Khrushchev.
16.03.2009, 13:18
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Afghanistan for one-day consultations setting the stage for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) special conference on Afghanistan, scheduled to be held on March 27 in Moscow.
09.03.2009, 14:44
The initial idea was that the US would start talking with the Taliban behind closed doors once they’d gained an advantage over them.
16.10.2009, 16:26
The Pakistani government has welcomed the $7.5 billion aid package from the White House, but violent protests have broken out on the streets following the news.
14.12.2009, 10:23
Eight years is long enough to figure out that you have made mistakes and get out of there before more people die, commented US Congressman Ron Paul on the surge of troops in Afghanistan.
07.10.2010, 17:43
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When the US opened “Operation Enduring Freedom” in Afghanistan following 9/11, few people questioned the decision. But today, after nine years of sacrifice, that attitude is changing.
Published: 27 March, 2009, 20:38
“It’s going to be an uphill fight to eradicate the Taliban from Afghanistan and Pakistan,” said Ivan Eeland of the Independent Institute in the US, commenting on Obama’s speech on the mission’s new strategy.
