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5 memoirs to add to your 2013 reading list
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15 promising nonfiction books for spring 2013
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12 promising novels for spring 2013
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CSMonitor editors share their favorite people to follow on Twitter
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When dictators fall, so do their banknotes
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Karzai blames NATO and Afghan officials for allowing Kabul attacks
Afghan President Hamid Karzai criticized 'intelligence failures' by his own government but especially faulted NATO for a series of tightly coordinated insurgent attacks that rocked Kabul.
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Assault on Kabul: Taliban claim attacks as show of strength
Teams of insurgents struck within Kabul and three other cities in coordinated attacks on Sunday. A Taliban spokesman called it the opening of their spring offensive.
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Afghanistan night-raid deal: Does it handcuff US forces?
While the deal gives Afghanistan legal and military 'ownership' over the night raids, on a practical level US forces still have leverage and flexibility, especially to react quickly to intelligence.
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Who are the Taliban and what do they want? 5 key points
While Pakistani and Afghan insurgents often get labeled as the 'Taliban,' in reality there are several groups that often act independently and have distinct command structures, ideologies, and strategies.
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Defending Afghanistan: are Afghan forces ready?
An extended occupation and ever-shifting objectives could leave Afghanistan shakier in 2014 than when US-led forces arrived.
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Rural tinkerer builds the first airplane made in Afghanistan
Sabir Shah, Afghanistan's 'Wright brother,' constructed an airplane by himself.
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Afghan policeman attacks colleagues, undermining cornerstone of US strategy
The officer was part of the Afghan Local Police, a key component of the US and NATO goal of readying Afghan forces to take over security.
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Global News Blog Help for land-mine victims in Kabul
After three decades of war, Afghanistan is littered with land mines. A nonprofit employs disabled land-mine victims to make demining equipment, and funds rehabilitation clinics.
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Hundreds of Afghan women imprisoned for 'moral crimes,' says new report
But the response of local journalists at Human Rights Watch press conference shows how tough it may be to persuade Afghans to end criminalization of 'crimes' that include fleeing abuse.
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Terrorism & Security Reports: Afghan soldiers complicit in a suicide plot against their own government
The alleged discovery of nearly a dozen suicide vests at the Afghan Ministry of Defense deepens concerns about the loyalty of Afghan security forces, which have already killed 16 coalition troops this year.
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First Taliban, now turncoats: Another Afghan soldier opens fire
The killing of two British soldiers at a NATO base in Helmand by an Afghan soldier comes just two weeks after US Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly killed 16 Afghan civilians.
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Interview: Amb. Ryan Crocker warns against war fatigue in Afghanistan
Ryan Crocker, US ambassador to Afghanistan, sees progress amid an extended 'rough' patch in relations. He also cautions against quitting Afghanistan too soon, citing Al Qaeda. 'If we decide we're tired, ... they'll be back.'
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US says Sgt. Bales split Afghan killing spree
Investigators believe the soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians split the slaughter into two episodes, returning to his base after the first attack and later slipping away to kill again.
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Reader recommendation: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
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Backchannels NATO fatalities in Afghanistan: 22 percent this year at hands of Afghan Army, police
Gen. John Allen urged Congress yesterday to 'stay the course' but offered little encouraging data.
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Difference Maker Dina Fesler opens a unique school in Afghanistan
Dina Fesler went to Afghanistan to learn how to teach U.S. students about the country. Now she's opened a school there.
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Obama and Karzai: 'On the same page' or at 'the end of the rope'?
President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai had starkly different public appraisals of a conversation Friday, raising doubts about where Afghan leader really stands.
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Turkish helicopter crash in Afghanistan comes at tough time for NATO forces
A NATO helicopter crashed into a house on the outskirts of Kabul on Friday, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and at least two Afghan civilians on the ground.
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Why Taliban really decided to suspend talks with US
The White House responded to the Taliban announcement by reaffirming the US commitment to peace talks and insisting that the Afghanistan war will have to end with a political settlement.
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Taliban suspend talks with the US amid Afghan turmoil
Taliban leaders announced today they are halting negotiations with the US, dealing another setback to the US strategy in Afghanistan.
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Keep Calm Afghan President Karzai's angry ultimatums have parallels in post-colonial Africa
After the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by a US Army sergeant, Afghan President Karzai told the US to speed up withdrawal. Post-colonial experience from Africa suggests that US departure may not be pretty.
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US-Russia 'reset' gets a boost with Russian offer of airbase
Russia has made an unprecedented offer that indicates a desire to improve ties ahead of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Keep Calm When US troops leave Afghanistan, an American university will remain
US military withdrawal from Afghanistan won't necessarily spell the end of US commitments to Afghanistan, says president of American University of Afghanistan.
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Afghan shooting: Panetta visits wary Afghanistan
Afghan shooting spree by a US soldier Sunday sends US-Afghanistan relations into further disarray following earlier incidents of Quran burnings and the urination on Taliban corpses.
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Taliban fire on Afghan president's brothers at shooting memorial service
Qayum and Shah Walid Karzai and other top Afghan officials in their delegation escaped in their cars unharmed from the Tuesday ambush in the country's south.
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