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                    [Title] => Pakistan launches Afghan airstrikes after attack
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Taliban fighters attacked several Pakistani military posts along the Afghan border yesterday, sparking an hourslong gun battle that included Pakistan launching airstrikes into Afghanistan, authorities said. Pakistan said soldiers killed 16 militants, while Afghan officials said the airstrikes killed five civilians.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-01 03:48:54 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1531590 [AuthorName] => Munir Ahmed and Rahim Faiez [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1328243 [Title] => Withdrawal: Obama charts end to Afghan war by 2016 [Summary] =>

President Barack Obama announced plans Tuesday for keeping nearly 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after this year but then withdrawing virtually all by the close of 2016 and the conclusion of his presidency, charting an end to America's longest war.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-28 08:20:16 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1432801 [AuthorName] => Julie Pace [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1307547 [Title] => US seeking buyers for old military equipment [Summary] =>

The United States is trying to sell or dispose of billions of dollars in military hardware, including sophisticated and highly specialized mine resistant vehicles as it packs up to leave Afghanistan after 13 years of war, officials said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-01 06:20:08 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1439025 [AuthorName] => Kathy Gannon [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1303079 [Title] => NATO chief: Russian aggression is 'wake-up call' [Summary] =>

Russia's advances in Ukraine are the greatest threat to European security since the Cold War, NATO's chief was expected to argue, in a speech yesterday making clear the international military alliance must refocus on risks closer to home after years of fighting in far-away war zones.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-20 07:08:08 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1447904 [AuthorName] => Lara Jakes [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1294360 [Title] => Slain Afghan soldiers memorialized in Kabul [Summary] =>

Afghan officials on yesterday mourned the loss of 21 soldiers killed by the Taliban in the single deadliest incident for the Afghan army in at least a year, as new details emerged about the attack which threatened to further strain relations with neighboring Pakistan.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-25 05:35:17 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1661878 [AuthorName] => Rahim Faiez and Cassandra Vinograd [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1292893 [Title] => Taliban say they discussed prison swap with US [Summary] =>

Washington has held indirect talks with the Taliban over the possible transfer of five senior Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for a U.S. soldier captured nearly five years ago, a senior Taliban official told The Associated Press.

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President Barack Obama says a small U.S. military force may remain in Afghanistan next year, but he's promising to declare an end to the 12-year war there at the end of 2014.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-29 10:59:08 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1276444 [Title] => War policies tested from Mideast, Afghanistan [Summary] =>

President Barack Obama is confronted with a recent burst of strength by Al-Qaeda that is chipping away at the remains of Mideast stability, testing his hands-off approach to conflicts in Iraq and Syria at the same time he pushes to keep thousands of US forces in Afghanistan.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-08 07:15:28 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1432812 [AuthorName] => Julie Pace and Lara Jakes [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1275409 [Title] => Obama eyes modest momentum on Capitol Hill in 2014 [Summary] =>

President Barack Obama returns to Washington this weekend eager to test whether a modest budget deal passed in the waning days of 2013 can spark bipartisan momentum on Capitol Hill.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-05 05:03:48 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1432801 [AuthorName] => Julie Pace [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1267224 [Title] => Top US general: negotiations done on Afghan deal [Summary] =>

America's top military officer said the US has no intention to renegotiate a security deal with Afghanistan and that a full withdrawal of US forces from the country at the end of 2014 could reverse gains made by the fledgling Afghan forces in their war against the Taliban.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-12 03:05:13 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1645084 [AuthorName] => Patrick Quinn [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) ) )
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