Gunfight - Army Combat Outpost Afghanistan
U.S. Army Soldiers are attacked and return fire at Combat Outpost Able Main in Konar Province, Afghanistan. Film Credits: SGT Russell Gilchrest.
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Afghanistan Airstrikes by NATO civilians killed
Civillian deaths are mounting as another NATO airstrike has killed 11 people in the province of Kunar this is just another example as to why the US and NATO should either be stopped or pull...
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghanistan has been thrown into political turmoil after a months-long dispute between two presidential candidates prevented a successor to outgoing President Hamid Karzai being named.
The country's presidential election was held on April 5, and was followed by a runoff vote in June after the first result was inconclusive. The two contenders, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, have accused each other of fraud and manipulation.
Despite pleas from Karzai and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to come to a resolution, the two opponents remain at an impasse, sparking concerns of bloodshed and instability in the fragile, war-torn country. It has significantly delayed what was to be Afghanistan's first democratic transfer of power.
This comes at a time as the Taliban have carried out deadly attacks on high-profile targets and fought heavily for control of the Helmand province. As the U.S.-led war effort against the Taliban winds down, most NATO troops are due to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of this year.
Afghanistan "urgently needs a new government," and the two runoff candidates must form a unity government, Karzai said earlier this week.
"We want a new government and that can be brought to us by Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai."
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A crumbling agreement?
In July, Abdullah and Ghani came to an agreement, brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, to accept the result of a nationwide audit and form a unity government.
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Uncertainty in Afghanistan
KABUL: Thirteen years ago on September 11, 2001, the world changed as nearly 3,000 innocent people lost their lives and many more followed in the so-called war on terror.
But despite two conflicts that nearly crippled the American economy and another one looming on the horizon, Afghanistan remains unstable and vulnerable to extremists.
When the United States set out to depose the Taliban, which had harboured Al-Qaeda and its chief leader Osama bin Laden, life for ordinary Afghans arguably took a turn for the better. Under Taliban rule, unemployment had skyrocketed and there were reports of widespread persecution. Women were not even allowed to walk the streets unescorted by a man.
Majid Qarar, an Islamic Scholar, recalls those years, but he warns the Taliban is now operating outside the Afghan borders, insidiously seeking to infiltrate the country once again. "The Taliban are still enjoying a safe haven in Pakistan; they exist and their training camps exist. The Taliban are sending madrasah students every summer to Afghanistan in order to cause insecurity all over the country," he said.
Due to the September 11 attacks, Al-Qaeda became the principal target in a war that saw countless innocents lose their lives. Al-Qaeda is no longer the group it was then, having been driven out of Afghanistan and becoming fractured with offshoots involved in extremist movements from West Africa to Southeast Asia.
Afghanistan is also no longer the front line as many Arab fighters who joined extremist groups in Afghanistan have gone and instead taking up arms with the Islamic State (IS) - formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
While Al-Qaeda is weakened and there is no direct immediate threat from IS in Afghanistan, the region has not been purged of the threat.
"There are some differences between both groups. Most Arabs who were with the Taliban in Afghanistan have returned to their countries and are now helping with fighting in Syria and Iraq, said Omar Ansari, a businessman. For ISIS, Afghanistan is a bit far; they have many borders to cross in order to get over here. But the issue of extremism is still around Afghanistan."
Al-Qaeda proved to be a very perilous foe for Washington but experts the world over agree that nothing compares to the new danger posed by IS, fighting for territorial control in a security vacuum.
Meanwhile, the people of Afghanistan have learned from their bitter history never to let a group like Al-Qaeda or ISIS to come to power again and are pushing to restabilise the region and prevent the rebirth of extremism.
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Instability in Afghanistan 13 years after war on terror