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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan swore in Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai as its second elected president on Monday, embarking on a new era with adidas samba schuhe a national unity government which quickly signed an agreement with the United States that would guarantee a continuing American military presence to help confront a salomon gtx resilient Taliban insurgency.As Hamid Karzai left the political stage, the new president was locked into an uneasy partnership with his defeated rival, Abdullah Abdullah, who became the country s first chief executive. With a hu adidas samba g for the cameras, both sides appeared determined to reach across factions and avoid a descent into an abyss similar to what has happened in Iraq, where the government s failure to mend lingering sectarian divisions following a full U.S. withdrawal helped give rise to the brutal Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS group. Afghanistan s new President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai R and Afghanistan s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah take the oath during their inauguration in Kabul, Sept. 29, 2014. REUTERS The new Afghan government signed a security agreement Tuesday that provides a legal framework for the United States to keep about 9,800 troops in the country to train, advise and assist Afghan national security forces after the current international combat mission ends Dec. 31. That number of troops is expected to be cut in half by the end of 2015, and the Zwmb South Korea scrambles jets after Chinese, Russian warplanes enter air defense zone
In a possible turning point in the recent upsurge in violence, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Shiite mili stanley flask tiamen off the streets Sunday but called on the govern stanley cup ment to stop its raids against his followers.The government welcomed the move, which followed intense negotiations by Shiite officials, including two lawmakers who reportedly traveled to Iran to ask religious authorities there to intervene.Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose Tuesday offensive in the oil-rich southern city in Basra sparked the crisis, called al-Sadr s statemen stanley uk t a step in the right direction. But fighting continued in the Basra area after the announcement. Seven people also were killed when a mortar struck a residential district in Baghdad s Karradah district, and witnesses reported clashes in the Shula area in a northern section of the capital.A U.S. soldier also was killed Sunday in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad, the military said, raising to at least 4,008 American service members who have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The nine-point statement by the anti-American cleric - which was broadcast through Shiite mosques in Baghdad and across the south - called for an end to the armed presence in Basra and other cities and urged followers to cooperate with the government to achieve security. Al-Sadr, however, also demanded that the Iraqi government stop illegal and haphazard raids and release security detainees who haven t been charge
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan swore in Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai as its second elected president on Monday, embarking on a new era with adidas samba schuhe a national unity government which quickly signed an agreement with the United States that would guarantee a continuing American military presence to help confront a salomon gtx resilient Taliban insurgency.As Hamid Karzai left the political stage, the new president was locked into an uneasy partnership with his defeated rival, Abdullah Abdullah, who became the country s first chief executive. With a hu adidas samba g for the cameras, both sides appeared determined to reach across factions and avoid a descent into an abyss similar to what has happened in Iraq, where the government s failure to mend lingering sectarian divisions following a full U.S. withdrawal helped give rise to the brutal Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS group. Afghanistan s new President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai R and Afghanistan s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah take the oath during their inauguration in Kabul, Sept. 29, 2014. REUTERS The new Afghan government signed a security agreement Tuesday that provides a legal framework for the United States to keep about 9,800 troops in the country to train, advise and assist Afghan national security forces after the current international combat mission ends Dec. 31. That number of troops is expected to be cut in half by the end of 2015, and the Zwmb South Korea scrambles jets after Chinese, Russian warplanes enter air defense zone
In a possible turning point in the recent upsurge in violence, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Shiite mili stanley flask tiamen off the streets Sunday but called on the govern stanley cup ment to stop its raids against his followers.The government welcomed the move, which followed intense negotiations by Shiite officials, including two lawmakers who reportedly traveled to Iran to ask religious authorities there to intervene.Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose Tuesday offensive in the oil-rich southern city in Basra sparked the crisis, called al-Sadr s statemen stanley uk t a step in the right direction. But fighting continued in the Basra area after the announcement. Seven people also were killed when a mortar struck a residential district in Baghdad s Karradah district, and witnesses reported clashes in the Shula area in a northern section of the capital.A U.S. soldier also was killed Sunday in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad, the military said, raising to at least 4,008 American service members who have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The nine-point statement by the anti-American cleric - which was broadcast through Shiite mosques in Baghdad and across the south - called for an end to the armed presence in Basra and other cities and urged followers to cooperate with the government to achieve security. Al-Sadr, however, also demanded that the Iraqi government stop illegal and haphazard raids and release security detainees who haven t been charge
