We have started to collect the most important news related to Afghanistan in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
At least 40 Taliban have surrendered and joined pro-government forces in the north of Afghanistan after a military operation, say police.
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Afghanistan's make-or-break year ahead and a to-do list from hell
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Australia signs a deal with the Afghan government allowing for the involuntary repatriation of failed asylum seekers.
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At least nine Afghans on their way to a wedding in the north are killed by a roadside bomb which destroyed their car, officials say.
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The Taliban are prepared to drop their ban on schooling girls in Afghanistan, the country's education minister says.
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UK commanders were keen to redeploy Army troops leaving Iraq to Afghanistan because of fears they would be cut if they were not used, it is claimed.
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The US military's top officer Adm Mike Mullen warns that there will be an increase in bloodshed in Afghanistan this year.
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A gang which smuggled mainly Afghan migrants into Europe is smashed and 26 members are arrested, the European police force Europol says.
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At least eight people are killed in attacks on Afghan intelligence forces in Kabul and the northern province of Kunduz.
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US Vice-President Joe Biden says that his country will not leave Afghanistan in 2014 if the Afghan people do not want them to go.
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The Afghan Mobile Mini Circus, launched to help Afghan children take their minds off the war has become so popular that it is performing in Italy.
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US Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Afghanistan on an unexpected visit which will see him hold talks with President Karzai and meet US troops.
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An explosion in the south of Afghanistan has killed at least 17 people and wounded many others
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Hundreds of protesters in Kabul accuse Iran of blocking fuel tankers from crossing the border into Afghanistan.
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The Netherlands is to send a 545-strong police training force to Afghanistan, months after withdrawing combat troops.
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At least 17 people die and many are injured in a blast at a public bath house in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province.
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The US is to send an additional 1,400 marines to southern Afghanistan in an effort to pre-empt a Taliban offensive, the Pentagon says.
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The Taliban attack an elder trying to negotiate a truce on behalf of his village with the Afghan government.
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A soldier from 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.
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New Home, New Life - The Archers for Afghanistan?
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Fourteen Afghan civilians, including women and children, have died as their minibus hit a roadside bomb in Helmand province, Afghan officials say.
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A soldier killed in an explosion in Afghanistan as he helped to clear an area of bombs is named as Warrant Officer Class 2 Charlie Wood.
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The head of military hospitals in Afghanistan is sacked by the defence ministry, accused of neglecting soldiers wounded in a Kabul suicide bombing.
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Images of two French journalists held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan are projected onto the Arc de Triomphe on the anniversary of their capture.
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A soldier serving with the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Task Force has been killed in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.
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At least three people are killed and at least 20 wounded in a car bomb explosion in the centre of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, police say.
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Gunmen snatch four Turkish road workers and their local driver in Afghanistan's Paktia province, close to the Pakistan border.
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A man suspected of helping to smuggle weapons from Iran across the border into Afghanistan is detained by Nato, but is not believed to be a member of an elite Iranian force as first reported.
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The US Vice President Joe Biden has said the US troop presence in Afghanistan will be '''totally out of there, come hell or high water, by 2014".
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A policeman is killed in a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan, police say.
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The US Congress approves a bill authorising the Pentagon to spend $160bn (£104bn) in Iraq and Afghanistan during this budget year.
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The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force says it is investigating the deaths of five civilians in southern Afghanistan.
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A new Afghan art collective called "Roshd", or "growth", is gaining popularity in the Afghan capital, Kabul
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A year in the lives of four British soldiers serving in Afghanistan
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Suicide attacks on army bases in the Afghan capital Kabul and a northern city leave at least 13 security personnel dead, with one gun battle raging for hours.
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Suicide attacks have targeted Afghan military bases in two cities, leaving 13 members of the security forces dead, along with at least five assailants.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made an unannounced visit to troops serving in an increasingly hostile area of Afghanistan.
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US President Barack Obama hails "significant progress" in the war in Afghanistan but says it remains "a very difficult endeavour".
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President Obama says that American troops are making progress in Afghanistan - but gains are fragile and could easily be undone.
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Al-Qaeda's leadership in Pakistan is at its weakest since it fled Afghanistan in 2001, a US review of Afghan strategy says.
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A roadside bomb kills at least 14 passengers travelling on a minibus in Afghanistan's western province of Herat, officials say.
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A military jury convicts an army doctor of disobeying orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he questioned Barack Obama's eligibility as president.
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Two new assessments paint bleak pictures of the US-led war in Afghanistan, the day before the White House unveils a key review of US strategy.
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Tributes flow in following the death of veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, after emergency surgery.
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President Barack Obama has paid tribute to his special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, who has died.
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Veteran US diplomat Richard Holbrooke has received calls from Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, the State Department says.
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About 100 Afghan MPs urge President Karzai to inaugurate the new parliament without further delay.
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Six US soldiers die in an attack near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, military sources say, in an apparent suicide car bombing of a checkpoint.
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Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been taken critically ill with a torn aorta, the US state department says.
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A deal is struck on building a pipeline to carry Turkmen natural gas across Afghanistan to Pakistan and India.
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At least 15 civilians die in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, as more civilians and security forces are killed in attacks across the country.
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The star trying to heal Afghanistan with music
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Millions of Afghan women continue to suffer from violence and harmful practices despite a new law aimed at curbing such abuse, the UN says.
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An Australian special forces sniffer dog that went missing for almost 14 months after a battle in Afghanistan finally returns home to Australia.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, on a visit to Afghanistan, says he is convinced that US strategy in the country is working.
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Election results threaten Afghanistan's ethnic balance
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The Taliban in Afghanistan releases a fourth video of Specialist Bowe Bergdahl, a US soldier captured in June 2009 in Paktika province.
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The father-in-law of an Afghan teenager whose nose and ears were hacked off after she fled her husband's abusive home is being questioned by police.
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David Cameron and Hamid Karzai play down the impact of Wikileaks cables showing criticism of UK operations, as the UK PM visits Afghanistan.
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Afghans are more likely to support attacks on foreign troops now than at any time since 2005, a poll for the BBC suggests.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has abandoned plans to dissolve private security firms working across the country, the interior ministry says.
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A poll of Afghans finds increased support for attacks against foreign forces.
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A British soldier dies from his wounds after being shot while on patrol in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence announces.
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