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Topic: Afghanistan

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October 10, 2012
1:17 am

Afghanistan's first female rapper Sosan Firooz sings in a studio in Kabul, Afghanistan Oct. 3, 2012. (Photo credit: AP/Ahmad Jamshid)

Rapper breaks the burka tradition

Shunned by some, encouraged by others, Sosan Firooz becomes Afghanistan’s first woman rapper after years as a refugee

By Rahim Faiez

September 22, 2012
1:21 pm

Indian Muslim women shout slogans against the US on Friday during a protest rally, one of many demonstrations around the world against perceived insults to the Prophet Muhammad. (photo credit: AP/Channi Anand)

Violent clashes erupt in Bangladesh over anti-Islam film

Several vehicles burned, including a police van, as portesters announce nationwide strike on Sunday

September 21, 2012
8:26 am

Pakistani protesters hold a banner depicting US President Barack Obama and pastor Terry Jones during a rally in Peshawar on Thursday (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Sajjad)

Obama’s 4-year record in the Muslim world

Anti-US protests this month indicate strides as well as setbacks

September 18, 2012
10:24 am

Afghan police stand by burning tires Monday in Kabul during violent protests against the anti-Islam film that ridicules the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Afghan woman’s suicide bombing was revenge for anti-Islam film, says radical group

At least 12 killed, mostly foreigners, in Kabul blast

September 17, 2012
12:29 pm

Violent clashes erupt in 3 countries over anti-Islam film

At least one protester dead in Pakistan

By AP and Michal Shmulovich

September 17, 2012
9:22 am

Demonstrators against the anti-Islam film in Peshawar, Pakistan Sunday. At least one protester was killed in demonstrations in Pakistan Monday. (photo credit: Muhammad Sajjad/AP)

Afghan protest on anti-Islam film turns violent

Hundreds burn a car, throw rocks, and chant ‘Death to America!’ in Kabul as demonstrations continue in Pakistan and Indonesia

By AP and Michal Shmulovich

September 15, 2012
9:58 am

Great Britain's Prince Harry examines the cockpit of an Apache attack helicopter at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan in early September. (photo credit: AP/John Stillwell)

Taliban claims responsibility for attack that killed two US Marines

Group says motive was revenge for anti-Islam film; perpetrators may have been targeting UK’s Prince Harry

By Yoel Goldman and AP

September 15, 2012
6:47 am

2 Marines killed in south Afghanistan attack

Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, stationed near site of encounter which may have been connected to protests over anti-Islamic film

September 13, 2012
1:35 am

Libyans celebrate in Martyrs' Square in Tripoli after voting in the first democratic election in decades in July (photo credit: AP/Abdel Magid Al Fergany)

Eleven years after 9/11, two-thirds of US travel warnings relate to the Muslim world

Of 32 standing State Department travel warnings, 22 are for Muslim-majority countries, with Libya the subject of the latest alert

By Haviv Rettig Gur

September 9, 2012
6:51 pm

FSA soldiers drag a severely wounded colleague after he was allegedly shot by a Syrian Army sniper in Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday. (photo credit: Manu Brabo/AP)

Jordanian al-Qaeda-linked militant warns of attacks in Syria

Abu Sayyaf, head of a Salafi Jihadi group that fought the US in Afghanistan and Iraq, warns Assad: ‘Our fighters are coming to get you’

September 8, 2012
7:20 pm

Sen. John McCain of Arizona salutes before addressing the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012 (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

McCain calls Iran situation a ‘train wreck’

Former presidential nominee slams Obama for delaying ‘tough decisions’ on Iran, criticizes lack of war talk at Republican Convention, says situation in Syria ‘cries out for American leadership’

September 3, 2012
1:17 pm

Protesters at the Jewish settlement of Migron being led away by Israeli border police on Sunday. (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Iran, Migron, and judicial mayhem

A symbolic outpost gets taken down, legal minds battle, and some other country in the Middle East keeps making it to the front pages

By Ilan Ben Zion

September 1, 2012
12:53 pm

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (photo credit: Charles Dharapak/AP)

First since ’52: No talk of war in GOP speech

Romney accepts his party’s nomination without mentioning war, reflecting weak public support for Afghanistan involvement and fatigue over a decade of terrorism fears

By MATT APUZZO

August 25, 2012
4:52 pm

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (photo credit: CC-BY-SA DragonFire1024/Wikipedia)

Iran draws India closer with talks on Afghanistan

Delhi risk offending the US, which is pushing international community to punish Iran over nuclear program

August 24, 2012
7:59 pm

Lakhdar Brahimi, former Algerian foreign affairs minister and new special envoy to Syria (photo credit/Jacques Brinon/AP)

Task of resolving civil war ‘humbles and scares’ new Syria envoy

As last observers leave Damascus, UN chief says Brahimi’s expertise is vital for ‘crucial task of bringing peace and stability to Syria’

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