The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Afghanistan's ambassador wants Canada and other members of the international coalition fighting in his country to offer incentives to Afghan farmers as a way to ensure poppy-free regions remain that way.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan will ask international donors next month for $50 billion to fund a five-year development plan, a presidential aide said, despite growing criticism that aid money is being wasted.
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By Julian E. Barnes, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- In a pointed admonition to Pentagon planners, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today that the U.S. military was afflicted with "next-war-itis" and must concentrate more on winning in Iraq and less on future conflicts that might never happen.
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ISLAMABAD (APP): Only registered Afghan refugees are entitled to receive the United Nation Higher Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) assistance through the voluntary repatriation process to Afghanistan.
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By Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents have ordered residents of a province near the capital Kabul to stop watching television, saying the networks were showing un-Islamic programmes, officials and local media said on Tuesday.
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By KATHERINE O'NEILL AND GRAEME SMITH, The Globe and Mail
NEAR BAZAR-E-PANJWAI and KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — The swollen green poppy bulbs are being plucked from the fields as the annual spring harvest is under way in Afghanistan's volatile and dangerous Panjwai district.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S.-led coalition says clashes and airstrikes in southern Afghanistan have left a dozen militants dead.
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BBC News - Eight top Afghan government officials have been suspended over last month's attack by the Taleban on a military parade attended by President Karzai.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - More than 200 Taliban suspects ended a weeklong hunger strike at a prison in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar after a parliamentary delegation promised their cases would be reviewed, a lawmaker said Monday.
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AP - Two armored Humvees were missing from a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, a military spokesman said Monday.
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By M Ilyas Khan, BBC News
Pro-Taleban fighters in Pakistan have brought back the bodies of at least nine comrades killed in Afghanistan, officials and witnesses say.
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AFP - About 300 Taliban suspects have been on a hunger strike in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar prison for a week demanding fair trials, rights groups and local lawmakers said Sunday.
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By AMIR SHAH, Associated Press Writer
Dozens of protesters blocked a road Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, claiming U.S.-led coalition forces killed three civilians, and a local official said police fatally shot one of the protesters and injured three of them.
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AFP - At least one person was killed and several wounded in Afghanistan Saturday when police opened fire to disperse a protest accusing US-led soldiers of killing civilians, witnesses said.
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AP - The U.S.-led coalition says it has killed several militants during an operation in eastern Afghanistan.
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