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  • On Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Afghan Gen. Majid Rouzi, a former civil war commander who now is an adviser to the Ministry of Interior, shows off his favorite civil war photograph, in which he is pictured with one of the best-known Afghan military leaders, Ahmad Shah Massoud. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

    Afghanistan war enters its 12th year

    Nobody wants a repeat of the bloody ethnic fighting that followed the Soviet exit from Afghanistan in the 1990s — least of all 32-year-old Wahidullah, who was crippled by a bullet that pierced his spine during the civil war.


  • Afghan security forces rush to a battle in Kabul on Sunday, when militants launched a series of coordinated attacks across the city. The militant group Hizb-i-Islami, which walked out of peace talks last month, returned after their attack was foiled. (Associated Press)

    Afghan militants return to peace talks

    A militant group responsible for the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan has rejoined peace talks with President Hamid Karzai's government, and four other factions followed after Afghan security forces crushed an attack by terrorists in Kabul earlier this week.


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