Media ID: 55330587
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Afghan policemen run as they arrive near the Afghan election commission during an attack on the election centre in Kabul on March 29, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/WAKIL KOHSAR)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 29, 2014 | World
Kabul, AP— Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission’s headquarters Saturday in Kabul, firing on the compound with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns from a house outside its perimeter wall, according to police. Dozens of...
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In this Saturday, February 8, 2014, file photo, Afghan presidential candidate Qayyum Karzai, incumbent President Hamid Karzai’s brother, talks during an election debate at the OneTV building in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 6, 2014 | World
Kabul, AP—The Afghan president’s elder brother is dropping out of the April 5 presidential race and throwing his support behind the country’s former foreign minister, a campaign official said Wednesday. The official, who asked not to be named because he...
