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Telling what's what in Afghanistan

(Reuters)

Does Taliban want to talk peace with the U.S.?

A Pakistani police officer looks at remains of a vehicle destroyed by a bomb explosion in Lower Dir, Pakistan on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Three U.S. soldiers traveling with Pakistan security force members were killed Wednesday in a roadside bombing near a girl's school in northwest Pakistan, Pakistani security officials said. Other casualties included school children. (AP Photo/ Naveed Ali) (AP)

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (AP/Ibrahim Usta)

Susanne Koelbl, Ralf Neukirch

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Riaz Khan, Nahal Toosi

U.S. soldiers patrol through the heart of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. Many Afghans were still sleeping when President Barack Obama announced he was sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to the war. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said NATO and U.S. forces would hand over responsibility for securing the country to the Afghan security forces "as rapidly as conditions allow." Obama said if conditions are right, U.S. troops could begin leaving Afghanistan in 18 months. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (Associated Press)

Obama gets real

Pakistan is circumspect on bin Laden, Afghanistan

President Barack Obama speaks about the war in Afghanistan at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Associated Press)

What (sort of) worked in Iraq won't in Afghanistan

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Afghanistan President, Hamid Karzai, addresses the media on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, at the Presidential Palace mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. In his message to mark the major Muslim holiday of Eid, Karzai said that "all our ... brothers who stand armed against their country," including the militant Islamic faction Hezb-e-Islami led by warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, should help ensure stability and development in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi) (Mustafa Quraishi)

There's not much government left to shore up

Police officials survey the site of a suicide bomb explosion in Charsadda, located about 20 km (12 miles) northeast of Peshawar November 10, 2009. Pakistani Taliban militants vowed to fight a tough, protracted guerrilla war against the army on Tuesday as a suicide car-bomber killed up to 20 people in a northwestern town, police said. A suicide bomber in a car set off explosives in a square in the centre of Charsadda killing up to 20 people and wounding at least 30, town police chief Riaz Khan said. REUTERS/K Parvez (PAKISTAN CONFLICT) (Reuters)

Bombing in Pakistan kills 34, exposes local rifts

Abdullah Abdullah, former Afghan foreign minister who run against President Hamid Karzai in last August's vote, speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Oct. 26, 2009.

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Afghan National Army soldiers stand in formation during a deployment drill ahead of Afghanistan's Presidential elections in their base near the village of Pashad in Kunar province, August 15, 2009.

A U.S. soldier of 2-12 Infantry 4BCT-4ID Task Force Mountain Warrior takes a break during a night mission near Honaker Miracle camp at the Pesh valley of Kunar Province August 12, 2009.

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A security official walks near a burning fuel tanker, which has been standing for more than a day in gridlock along the Chaman Pakistan-Afghanistan border August 30, 2009.

General Stanley McChrystal is the new head of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan. He is taking a new approach to fighting the war.

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, makes a statement in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Wednesday, May 6, 2009, after meetings with Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

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Matthias Gebauer

An Afghan woman voter shows her finger to a friend after casting her ballot at a polling station in a school in Kabul, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009.

American support for the Afghan war collapses

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