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DTN News: Afghanistan Top Stories / Headlines News Dated January 13, 2013

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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 13, 2013: Comprehensive daily news related to Afghanistanfor the world of TODAY.

*Comprehensive daily news related to Afghanistan Top Stories / Headlines News for the world of TODAY.

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Afghanistan's Karzai to step down in 2014

Afghan President Hamid Karzai at Georgetown University, Washington DC

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his country will have a new leader in 2014 and thanks the US for helping to overthrow the Taliban.

12 Jan 2013

General’s wife on her own Afghan mission

General’s wife on her own Afghan mission

Lady Richards has gone beyond her role helping servicemen’s wives by starting a charity to help the women of Afghanistan

11 Jan 2013

Obama to 'accelerate' Afghan withdrawal

US marines patrolling a remote part of Helmand province in 2010.

US and British troops are to "accelerate" the withdrawal from frontline fighting in Afghanistan by adopting an advisory and training role starting this spring, Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai announced Friday.

11 Jan 2013

Afghan support role for US forces

Barack Obama and Afghanistan president hold joint press conference following meeting at White House.

11 Jan 2013

Hamid Karzai to urge US to commit to Afghanistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) holds a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department in Washington, DC, on January 10, 2013

Hamid Karzai will today urge Barack Obama's administration to commit to securing Afghanistan beyond 2014, after the White House threatened to leave behind no US troops whatsoever after a 12-year war.

11 Jan 2013

Repairing Ministry of Defence 'like turning around a super-tanker', says minister

The Ministry of Defence has been so badly managed that repairing its financial blackhole will be like 'turning around a super-tanker' over many years, Philip Hammond has said.

10 Jan 2013

Tributes to British soldier killed by 'imam' attack

Sapper Richard Reginald Walker, of 28 Engineer Regiment, killed in Helmand.

10 Jan 2013

Armed Forces face 'critical shortfalls' in airpower

Armed Forces will suffer “critical shortfalls” in airpower because of delays in delivering new aircraft, a Whitehall audit has found

10 Jan 2013

US considering 'zero' option for Afghanistan

The Obama administration has signalled that it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014

08 Jan 2013

British soldier shot in Afghan insider attack

Member of Afghan army has shot dead British soldier in year's first insider attack, according to officials in region.

08 Jan 2013

ISAF confirms British soldier death

ISAF spokesperson Brigadier General Gunter Katz confirms that a British soldier was shot dead by an individual wearing an Afghan army uniform.

08 Jan 2013

Afghanistan: ISAF soldier killed in 'insider attack'

A soldier serving with the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan has been shot dead by a man in Afghan army uniform, the latest in a series of "insider" attacks.

08 Jan 2013

Obama to host Karzai for talks at White House

US President Barack Obama will host Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the White House on Friday for talks centered on the long-term security compact between the two countries.

08 Jan 2013

General Stanley McChrystal takes responsibility for Rolling Stone article

General Stanley McChrystal has said he takes full responsibility for the unflattering comments about the Obama administration attributed to his staff, in his first account of his resignation as commander of forces in Afghanistan.

06 Jan 2013

Mullah Nazir 'very much an American target'

Rob Crilly says the death of Taliban leader Mullah Nazir in a drone strike leaves US-Pakistan relations in a potentially precarious position.

03 Jan 2013

MoD dismisses allegation Prince Harry hunts Afghans while drunk

The Ministry of Defence has dismissed claims by an Afghan warlord that Prince Harry kills insurgents while "drunk" as simply absurd.

02 Jan 2013

Peter Oborne: Hekmatyar is trying to engage

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar may promise a bloody denouement for coalition forces in Afghanistan, but by explaining his position to The Telegraph he indicates that his party is open to dialogue, says Peter Oborne.

02 Jan 2013

Afghan woman killed on conjugal visit to prison

An Afghan prisoner murdered his wife during a conjugal visit, allegedly because she had been unfaithful after he was jailed for killing her relatives, police said Wednesday.

02 Jan 2013

Britain is failing in Afghanistan, says warlord

Exclusive: Feared warlord warns Afghanistan could collapse into a murderous civil war after the withdrawal of Nato.

01 Jan 2013

Afghan warlord speaks exclusively to The Telegraph

Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar castigates Britain for its involvement in Afghanistan and attacks the deployment of Prince Harry to the country, but promises to participate in "free and fair" elections once Nato troops leave.

01 Jan 2013

Prince Harry is a 'jackal' killing innocents, says feared Afghanistan warlord

Exclusive: One of Afghanistan's most feared warlords has launched a withering attack on Prince Harry.

01 Jan 2013

MoD pays £500,000 compensation to Afghan victims

More than £500,000 was paid out to Afghan civilians by the Ministry of Defence during 2012, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act.

01 Jan 2013

Afghan soldiers killed fighting Taliban rises for fifth year

The number of Afghan soldiers killed fighting the Taliban has risen a fifth this year as Nato forces withdraw and local troops face the brunt of the continuing war.

31 Dec 2012

Family of missing pregnant woman in Afghanistan speaks out

The family of a heavily pregnant American woman believed kidnapped in Afghanistan has spoken for the first time of her disappearance and appealed for her safe return.

31 Dec 2012

How bullying creates suicide bombers

Three years ago when a Jordanian suicide bomber killed 7 U.S. intelligence officers, jihadists praised his bravery and the CIA blamed his ideology, but bullying explains his treachery. Adam Lankford on how we misunderstand the psychology of suicide bombers.

30 Dec 2012

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