Four Afghan factions Tuesday agreed on a U.N.-brokered plan for an interim government and submitted the names of potential ministers.

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Amid heavy U.S. airstrikes, anti-Taliban troops battled for control of the airport outside the southern city of Kandahar. Meanwhile in the north, factional fighting prompted the United Nations to pull out of the region.

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Hamid Karzai, a 44-year-old Pashtun tribal leader, was sworn in Dec. 22 to lead Afghanistan's interim government -- the country's first official post-Taliban ruling body.

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In a sign of how difficult it will be to form a post-Taliban government, the head of the Northern Alliance in Kabul rejected some key points devised at the Bonn meeting and an ethnic Pashtun representative walked out of the…

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Margaret Warner examines the ongoing talks about Afghanistan's political future with Steven Erlanger, Berlin bureau chief for the New York Times.

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On the 55th day of U.S. strikes on Afghanistan, Independent Television News reports on the military and humanitarian situation there, and Kwame Holman reports on the Pentagon assessment of the Afghan campaign.

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In the third day of negotiations, the Northern Alliance dropped its objection to international peacekeeping forces and agreed to form an interim national parliament.

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As more U.S. ground troops move into Afghanistan, the Pentagon is trying to clarify reports of a massacre in southeastern Afghanistan and anti-Taliban troop movements toward Kandahar.

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The Northern Alliance today rejected the idea of sending an international peacekeeping mission to Afghanistan once the Taliban is defeated.

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Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet today confirmed the death of a CIA officer during a bloody prison uprising near the Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif.

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