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president Obama unveils new strategy
An extra 4,000 US personnel will train and bolster afghan army and police -
Presidentail elections held in Afghanistan
progress is slowed by wide spread taliban attacks and incendents of fraud -
Mr. Karazi delcared winner of presedentail election
Wins after second place opponenet Abdullah Abdullah pulls out of race -
President Obama Boosts amount of troops
US troop totals in Afghanistan are boosted 30,000 bringing the total to 100,000 -
Nato Led Forces Launch Offensive
Nato Forces launch operation Moshtarak in an attempt to secure goverment control in the southern helmand province -
Wikileaks Publsihses classified documents
wikileaks a whistle blowing website publishes thousands of classified US military documents -
Dutch Troops Quit
Dutch troops quit helping wiotht the war in afghanistan -
Parlimentry polls slowed down
Due to talliban attacks and wide spread fraud have delayed annoucing election results -
Nato at summit in Lisbon
Nato agrees to a plan to hand over control of security forces to Afghanistan in 2014 -
Afghan leader makes offical visit to Russia
President Karzai makes first officail state visit to Russia by an Afghan leader since the end of the Soviet invasion in 1989 -
number of civilians killed hits record levels
since the 2001 invasion civilian deaths are higher then ever -
500 Taliban Escape prison
500 Taliban prisoners break out of prison in Kandahar -
Kandahar governor is killed
The presidents half brother and governor of Kandahar Ahmed Wali Karzai is killed -
Ex president is killed
Ex president Burhanuddin Rabbani a go between in talks with the taliban is assassinated -
Relation with Pakistan worsen
Afghanistan and india sign a strategic partnership to expand co operations in security -
President Karzai gets endorsement of tribal elders
this allows him to negotiate a 10 year millitary partnership with the US -
58 people killed at shrine
in a twin attack 58 people are killed at a shia shrine -
Taliban Agree to Have peace talks
Taliban agree to open an office in Dubia to have peace talks witht he US -
30 people killed at US airbase
30 people are killed during a protest at US airbase Bagram -
US army sergant accused of killing 16 civillains
Sgt Robert Bales is accused of killing 16 civilians in armed rampage in Panjwai district of Kandahar -
taliban anounce spring offensive
Taliban attack the diplomatic quter of Kabul, security forces kill 38 militants