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...after which it will move on to Austria, Italy, Spain, China, and the U.S. - this remarkable exposition is itself a symbol of hope, and not only for the 21 students from the Center for Contemporary Arts-Afghanistan (CCAA) in Kabul whose works it includes. In a place where Taliban rule had forced art into hiding, it's also, says Rahraw Omarzad, the institute's director, "the beginning of a new movement, an indicator for deep-reaching change in a new era and a new step in the life of the visual arts...
...death of 10 French paratroopers in a Taliban ambush Monday was the largest combat loss for France since the Beirut barracks bombing of 1983. Yet neither France's political class nor its public opinion appears ready to second-guess the nation's commitment to the NATO-led military operation in Afghanistan. However unpopular the war in Iraq has been in France, public support has remained solid for beating back Islamist extremists and creating stability in a democratic Afghanistan. Still, the deadly Taliban offensives this week have rekindled demands that France and its partners come up with a clear and viable...
...timetable for victory than their peers from the 39 other nations participation in the Afghan mission. But current French troop reinforcements mean Paris has an increasing interest (and perhaps rising influence) in making sure the operation doesn't remain what now appears an open-ended face off with resurgent Taliban forces...
...region that had only recently shifted from U.S. military control to France. It also coincided with the deployment of 700 new French troops to Afghanistan - lifting France's total to around 2,600 - in response to American pleas to for reinforcements that left most European allies largely unmoved. The Taliban waylaying of the French paratroopers was single deadliest attack in Afghanistan since June, 2005, when 16 American soldiers were killed when their helicopter was shot down. At total of 183 alliance soldiers, 99 of them American, have been killed in Afghanistan this year, putting 2008 on pace to eclipse last...
...that point, Karzai was adamant. If Pakistan does not change "its policy towards its neighbor, there will be trouble," he said. He decried efforts he sees as attempting to restore the Taliban regime that are beholden to the ISI. A destabilized Afghanistan, he said, "having a weak puppet government" will only affect Pakistan's restive border provinces, replicating "what is happening in Afghanistan." It is from those regions of Pakistan, he reiterated, that the terrorism that plagues Afghanistan originates. Said Karzai: "The war against terrorism will not be won unless and until we go to the sanctuaries, to the training...