The project is operated by the China National Petroleum Corporation and is expected to eventually supply Afghanistan with its domestic energy needs so it can stop importing oil.
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The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) does almost nothing to eradicate drug production in Afghanistan, and this drug-trafficking problem will likely worsen in the near future, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated.
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The watchdog who tracks the billions of taxpayer dollars spent to rebuild Afghanistan says government officials have tried to silence him because they think he’s embarrassing the White House and Afghan President Hamid Karzai by pointing out the waste and fraud.
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Some 131 civilian and police poppy-eradication campaigners have been killed across Afghanistan since March, a government official said Tuesday.
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The dismantling teams were about to destroy the only airstrip in Eastern Afghanistan after the US base there was being aborted.
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For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistanâs president â courtesy of the CIA.
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A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, with strong tremors felt in the capital Kabul and in Islamabad in neighbouring Pakistan.
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President Hamid Karzai is determined to curb CIA operations in Afghanistan after the death of a US agent and 10 Afghan children in a battle he believes was fought by an illegal militia working for the US spy agency.
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Moscow knows these will be used against the southern Russian Republics sooner or later. So they might as well blow the whistle now on this CIA operation.
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Anne Smedinghoff was killed walking to a media event, not in an armoured vehicle, but US denies misleading reporters
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