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November 3, 2001 | From Reuters
Foreign ministers from six of Afghanistan's neighbors, the United States and Russia intend to meet Nov. 12 with the U.N. envoy who has been trying to set up a post-Taliban government in the central Asian nation, U.S. officials said Friday. Lakhdar Brahimi, the special U.N. representative for Afghanistan, has been holding intensive talks with Afghans and members of the Pakistani government in Islamabad and will visit Iran before returning to New York on Nov. 10.
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October 12, 2001 | JAMES GERSTENZANG, TIMES STAFF WRITER
President Bush gave the Taliban regime in Afghanistan a new chance Thursday to turn over Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants and bring an end to the war there. But barring such surrender, he said, the campaign could last two years. The president also said for the first time that, after the fighting ends, he saw a longer-term "nation-building" role for the United States, along with the United Nations, in stabilizing war-ravaged Afghanistan.
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June 17, 2001 | From Associated Press
The United Nations closed down most of its subsidized food distribution operations in the Afghan capital Saturday over disputes with the hard-line Taliban regime on hiring women. Hungry children, women clad in faded burkas and men in baggy Afghan trousers and knee-length shirts assembled as usual in front of 120 bakeries sponsored by the U.N. World Food Program but were told that there was no bread.
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December 25, 2000 | From Times Wire Reports
U.N. international employees began returning to Afghanistan after the ruling Taliban militia guaranteed they would not face a violent backlash because of newly proposed sanctions. Three U.N. workers arrived in the beleaguered capital, Kabul, while seven others returned to Herat and Kandahar, said Erick de Mul, the U.N. coordinator for Afghanistan.
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December 20, 2000 | MAGGIE FARLEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Security Council voted Tuesday to tighten sanctions on Afghanistan's Taliban regime unless it closes "terrorist" training camps and hands over Osama bin Laden, suspected in the bombings of two U.S. embassies. Russia and the United States joined forces to muscle the resolution through the 15-member council, despite some countries' concern that the sanctions will only fuel Afghanistan's civil war and worsen conditions for its people.
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December 18, 2000 | From Times Wire Reports
More Western aid workers pulled out of the Afghan capital, Kabul, fearing a backlash if the U.N. Security Council imposes new sanctions against the ruling Taliban movement, Western sources said. An announcement about the arms embargo is expected Tuesday. Imposition of an embargo, banning Taliban officials from overseas trips and shutting Taliban offices abroad are sanctions proposed by the U.S. and Russia to force the expulsion of militant Osama bin Laden.