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Afghan negotiator welcomes prisoner release

Afghan negotiator welcomes prisoner release

Amir Shah, Denis Gray · January 1, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 24, 2014 file photo, Afghan police officers stand guard outside of Kabul police headquarters, where a an American contractor was killed, in Kabul, Afghanistan. On Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, the Interior Ministry said a policewoman, identified as Sgt. Nargas, who shot and killed 49-year-old Joseph Griffin in Kabul on Monday, was a native Iranian who came to Afghanistan and displayed "unstable behavior" but had no known links to militants. It was the first such shooting by a woman in the spate of insider attacks. On Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, a suicide bombing at the gate of a major U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan killed the attacker and three Afghans, Afghan police said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. NATO forces and foreign civilians have also been increasingly attacked by rogue Afghan military and police, eroding trust between the allies. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Afghan bomber attacks near major US base

Amir Shah · December 26, 2012 8:21 am

Afghan traffic policemen stand near the scene where Afghanistan's Intelligence Chief Asadullah Khalid was wounded in an assassination attempt on him in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Afghanistan's intelligence chief was wounded Thursday in an assassination attempt in the capital, Kabul, Afghan officials said. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Bombing wounds Afghan intelligence chief

Amir Shah · December 6, 2012 4:31 pm

Afghans: Taliban kill 5 civilians grabbed off bus

Afghans: Taliban kill 5 civilians grabbed off bus

Amir Shah · October 27, 2012 8:13 am

Afghans deny killer of 2 US troops was intel agent

Afghans deny killer of 2 US troops was intel agent

Amir Shah · October 17, 2012 4:14 am

In this Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 photo, Wahidullah, 32, whose spine was pierced by a bullet during the civil war that left him crippled, poses for a photograph in front of Darul Aman Palace which was damaged during the civil war in Kabul, Afghanistan. Wahidullah was a teenager when he fought in west Kabul during the civil war. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Afghan war enters 12th year

Deb Riechmann, Amir Shah · October 7, 2012 4:00 am

Afghan police secure the site of a suicide bombing in Khost, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. The suicide bomber was driving a motorcycle packed with explosives and rammed it into a patrol of Afghan and international forces, killing over a dozen people, including three NATO service members and their translator, official said. (AP Photo/Nashanuddin Khan)

Afghanistan bomber kills 14, including 3 Americans

Heidi Vogt, Amir Shah · October 1, 2012 4:00 am

Afghanistan bans Pakistani newspapers

Afghanistan bans Pakistani newspapers

Amir Shah · September 21, 2012 4:34 pm

Afghan president appoints 10 new governors

Afghan president appoints 10 new governors

Amir Shah · September 20, 2012 2:29 pm

Afghan university students burn a U.S. flag in Surkhrod district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept 19, 2012. Hundreds of Afghans, some shouting "Death to America", held a protest against an anti-Islam film in the eastern city of Jalalabad. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan president urges peace, despite attacks

Heidi Vogt, Amir Shah · September 19, 2012 4:00 am

U.S. soldiers, part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) salute during a hand over ceremony of U.S.- run prison to Afghan government in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. U.S. officials handed over formal control of Afghanistan's only large-scale U.S.-run prison to Kabul on Monday, even as disagreements between the two countries over the thousands of Taliban and terror suspects held there marred the transfer. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

US, Afghans locked in dispute over detainees

Deb Riechmann, Amir Shah · September 10, 2012 4:00 am

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009 file photo, U.S. Army Sgt. William Womack, 23, from Batesville, Ga., of the 118th Military Police Co., based at Fort Bragg, N.C., is prone during a training session for the Afghan National Police at a combat outpost in the Jalrez Valley in Afghanistan's Wardak Province. Hundreds of soldiers have been detained or removed from the Afghan National Army in 2012 after a surge in insider attacks against foreign forces who are their supposed partners in the fight against Taliban insurgents and other militants. The Afghan officials say they are re-vetting soldiers to stem the attacks that threaten to unravel the international community's alliance with the fragile government trying to stand on its own as foreign troops withdraw.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Afghan soldiers fired during insider attacks probe

Deb Riechmann, Amir Shah · September 5, 2012 4:00 am