Jason Straziuso

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Kenya president to step down during court hearing

Jason Straziuso · October 6, 2014 1:56 pm

FILE - In this June 1, 2014 file photo, Afghanistan National Army soldiers march during their graduation ceremony at the Kabul Military Training Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan army desperate for more advanced military equipment is suffering death rates 30 percent higher in the 2014 fighting season, the army's first against the Taliban without large-scale assistance from the U.S.-led international military force, officials said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Afghan army death rate spikes 30 percent

Jason Straziuso · October 3, 2014 7:16 am

Afghanistan's presidential election candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai leaves after signing a power-sharing deal at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014. Ahmadzai, who will become president, and Abdullah Abdullah signed the national unity government deal as outgoing President Hamid Karzai watched.(AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

New Afghan leader promises equal rights for women

Jason Straziuso · September 22, 2014 3:13 pm

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, and Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah pray during a ceremony marking the third anniversary of the assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. In 2011, an insurgent with a bomb wrapped in his turban assassinated Rabbani, who was leading a government effort to broker peace with the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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Afghan presidential vote result to come Sunday

Jason Straziuso · September 20, 2014 2:07 pm

Kerry, Afghan candidate discuss vote impasse

Jason Straziuso · September 18, 2014 3:22 pm

NATO and Afghan security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. A Taliban suicide car bomber attacked a foreign motorcade just a couple hundred yards (meters) from the U.S. Embassy, unleashing a blast that injured at least 13 people and rattled nearby neighborhoods, police officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan suicide bomber kills 3 foreign troops

Jason Straziuso · September 16, 2014 2:58 pm

Democracy? No, Afghans say, after vote count ends

Jason Straziuso · September 15, 2014 4:10 pm

Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, center, greets local and international journalists behind a dinner table after a news conference at his resident in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Ghani Ahmadzai, one of two presidential candidates in Afghanistan, said that talks on a national unity government will continue but that it cannot accommodate two leaders. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghan talks could continue after inauguration

Jason Straziuso · September 10, 2014 6:08 pm

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, speaks during a for a ceremony honoring the late Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, background, a beloved anti-Taliban fighter who was assassinated 13 years ago, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. Karzai urged the country's two presidential candidates to reach an agreement on a new national unity government at the state function that devolved into raucous shouting by agitated supporters of candidate Abdullah Abdullah. Karzai told the crowd of hundreds of powerbrokers to urge Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai to reach a deal to end the country's now five-month-long election process. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan president urges rival successors to unify

Jason Straziuso · September 9, 2014 1:59 pm

Afghan candidate warns of unrest amid vote dispute

Jason Straziuso · September 6, 2014 3:05 pm

UN helicopter shot down in South Sudan

Jason Straziuso · August 26, 2014 5:09 pm

FILE - In this Friday, May 11, 2012 file photo, a young South Sudanese soldier who appeared to be drunk reaches for a lighter for his cigarette at the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) headquarters in Bentiu, Unity State, South Sudan. The U.N.'s top official for children and armed conflicts Leila Zerrougui said during a stop in Kenya on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014 that the use of child soldiers and violence against children is commonplace in South Sudan's year of warfare. (AP Photo/Pete Muller, File)

Children used as child soldiers in South Sudan

Jason Straziuso · August 21, 2014 4:08 pm