Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

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  Afghanistan: Bomb kills 15, including 6 Americans

  A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans in a blast so powerful it ... 

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  US drones kill senior Taliban figure in Pakistan

  An American drone strike in Pakistan has killed a top Taliban commander who sent money and fighters to battle the U.S. in Afghanistan but had a truce ... 

• France hosts secretive inter-Afghan meeting

  Afghan officials were meeting Thursday with Taliban rebels and envoys from another Islamist militant group near Paris, looking beyond Afghanistan's ...