A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 13 people, including a police officer, and wounded 30 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan.
Several children were among those wounded in the morning explosion, said a doctor at the...
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Taliban fighters warned Afghans not to take part in the war-wracked country’s upcoming presidential runoff, threatening Saturday to launch a fresh wave of violence on polling day to stop them.
The warnings came on the first official day of...
The war in Afghanistan has not been going well, and it is no surprise that Americans are frustrated. Many observers can rightly point to signs of progress: the functionality of specific Afghan government ministries and programs, the slow growth of the...
A British Tornado fighter jet crashed at a major NATO base in southern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, the third aircraft mishap in as many days as foreign forces press their new offensives against the Taliban.
With military casualties rising,...
AFGHANISTAN’S appeal court sentenced an Afghan journalist to 20 years in jail, commuting an earlier death sentence, for distributing an Internet article that said the Prophet Mohammad had ignored the rights of women.
Parallels between the collapse of the Soviet Union and America are almost eerie, especially the dire political and economic consequences suffered by both countries as the direct result of engaging in an unwinnable war in Afghanistan, though the USA has...
The Saudi Arabia had been asked by Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai to arrange talks with the ‘Taliban’ about some kind of power-sharing. The British government supports such attempts and British military have spoken in favor of...
A ROYAL Marine has told how he threw himself in front of an exploding grenade to save his colleagues - and escaped with just a nose bleed.
Lance Corporal Matt Croucher has been recommended for a Victoria Cross, Britain’s The Times newspaper...
Iraqi forces fought Shiite militants on Wednesday in battles that threatened to wreck a truce by a powerful cleric that US forces had credited for much of the reduction in violence of the past year.
More than 60 people have been killed and hundreds...
Faced with Taliban militants burning down their schools and killing their people, the elders of this impoverished province took a drastic step. They went behind the backs of the American military and their own government to negotiate with the...
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