U.S. Army soldiers conduct a combat patrol in Khowst province, Afghanistan, Jan. 25, 2012. The soldiers are assigned to 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Epperso
Emboldened Taliban Try To Sell Softer Image -- Wall Street Journal
KABUL—When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, Maulvi Qalamuddin headed the Committee to Protect Virtue and Prevent Vice, the religious police that shut down girls' schools, beat up men with insufficiently long beards and arrested those in possession of music or video tapes.
Nowadays, the 60-year-old Taliban cleric is on a different mission: He is overseeing a network of schools that teach reading, writing and math to thousands of girls in his home province of Logar, an insurgent hotbed just south of Kabul.
"Education for women is just as necessary as education for men," Mr. Qalamuddin thunders. "In Islam, men and women have the same duty to pray, to fast—and to seek learning."
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France accelerating Afghanistan withdrawal -- UPI
France to Resume Training, but Will Withdraw from Afghanistan Next Year -- Voice of America
Afghans Blast French Plan to Withdraw Troops Early -- Military.com/AP
Afghan unease over French troop pullout -- Euronews
Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai thanks UK for 'sacrifice' -- BBC
David Cameron and President Hamid Karzai to sign agreement on Afghanistan's future -- The Telegraph
U.S. lawmakers' meeting sets back Obama's Afghan agenda -- McClathcy News
General David Richards: Afghan campaign was woeful -- The Telegraph
Film sheds light on war crimes committed in Afghanistan -- BBC
Obama's Bagram Problem -- Candace Rondeaux, Foreign Policy
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