Al Jazeera - Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, has lashed out at Nato and US forces for failing to adequately protect civilians in the battle against Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in the country.
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Al Jazeera - A suicide bomber who attacked a US base in Afghanistan killing eight people last week was an informant and not a double CIA-Jordanian intelligence agent, as had been previously reported, a Jordanian official told Al Jazeera.
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By RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Writer
KABUL – An explosion tore through a group of children gathered around foreign soldiers visiting a U.S.-funded road project Wednesday, killing four kids and a policeman and wounding scores, including at least three American troops, officials said.
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KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday ordered parliament to suspend a winter break so that it can vet and vote on new cabinet nominees, after lawmakers rejected over two thirds of his original candidates.
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By JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press Writer
KABUL – A roadside bombing killed four U.S. service members, the first American combat deaths of the year in Afghanistan, while a British soldier died during a foot patrol elsewhere in the volatile south of the country, officials said Monday.
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By Emma Graham-Harrison
KABUL (Reuters Life!) – Afghanistan's first skateboarding park and school opened in Kabul on Tuesday with a boarding showdown between dozens of youngsters -- ranging from ministers' children to streetkids -- that it aims to bring together.
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By MICHAEL WINES, The New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Behind an electrified fence, blast-resistant sandbags and 53 National Police outposts, the Afghan surge is well under way.
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By NAHAL TOOSI, Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD – The bodies kept surfacing — hanged, shot, beheaded — and always with a note alleging the victims were anti-Taliban spies. "Learn a lesson from the fate of this man," warned one message found on a corpse in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region.
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By JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press Writer
KABUL – U.S. Congressmen said Tuesday they are urging Afghan President Hamid Karzai to delay the next parliamentary ballot until electoral reforms are in place or risk American financial support for his government.
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By AMIR SHAH and RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Writers
KABUL – The head of a presidential delegation investigating the deaths of 10 people in a village in eastern Afghanistan said Wednesday the team has concluded that civilians — including schoolchildren — were killed in an attack by foreign troops last weekend, denying NATO reports that insurgents were the victims.
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KABUL (AP) - Five months before parliamentary elections in Afghanistan , donor nations are worried about another messy vote and some international officials are even discussing whether the polls should be delayed.
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By SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press Writer
LONDON – Britain's Queen Elizabeth II paid tribute to the country's troops fighting in Afghanistan in her annual Christmas speech broadcast Friday, praising their work while expressing her sadness at the casualties.
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By Jonathon Burch
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan aims to hold a vote for the lower house of parliament by late May although fraud, security and funding could all be problems, he said.
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By Sarah Lazare, Al Jazeera English
The call for over 30,000 more troops to be sent to Afghanistan is a travesty for the people of that country who have already suffered eight brutal years of occupation.
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KABUL (AFP) – An American soldier has been killed by a roadside bomb while serving with NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said Saturday.
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