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News of Afghanistan
Roadside bomb kills 5 police in Afghanistan
A roadside bomb struck a police van in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing five police as they were on their way to a training session, authorities said. Seven other police were wounded in the early morning blast in Paktika province, a statement from the provincial governor's office said. The (...)

15 - 06 - 2013
Roadside bomb kills 6 policemen in Afghanistan
An Afghan official says a powerful roadside bomb has killed six policemen in the country's west. The officers' vehicle hit the explosives planted in the road they were driving on Tuesday morning in Herat province. District Police Chief Sher Agha says the explosion was so strong that the police (...)

21 - 05 - 2013
Roadside bomb kills 6 policemen in Afghanistan
An Afghan official says a powerful roadside bomb has killed six policemen in the country's west. The officers' vehicle hit the explosives planted in the road they were driving on Tuesday morning in Herat province. District Police Chief Sher Agha says the explosion was so strong that the police (...)

21 - 05 - 2013
Bomb kills five U.S. soldiers in Afghan south
Five U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the U.S. Armed Forces said on Saturday. The Taliban launched their annual spring offensive on Sunday, saying it would take aim at foreign military bases and diplomatic areas. Three British troops were killed by a (...)

04 - 05 - 2013
Taliban start spring Afghan offensive with bombing
Taliban insurgents marked the start of their spring offensive on Sunday by claiming responsibility for a remote-controlled roadside bomb blast that killed three police officers. In past years, spring has marked a significant upsurge in fighting between the Taliban and NATO forces along with their (...)

28 - 04 - 2013
Blast in Afghanistan kills 5
NATO says a blast in Afghanistan has killed three coalition service members and two civilians working with the alliance. The blast from a roadside bomb occurred on Saturday in southern Afghanistan. NATO did not provide additional details about the explosion or disclose the nationalities of those (...)

06 - 04 - 2013
Top U.S. diplomat Kerry makes unannounced visit to Afghanistan
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry paid an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Monday for talks with President Hamid Karzai, a U.S. official said. Kerry and Karzai will discuss a host of issues including Afghan reconciliation, the transfer of security responsibility to Afghan forces as most foreign (...)

25 - 03 - 2013
Hagel says budget cuts put Pentagon missions at risk
New Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel vowed on Friday to preserve U.S. military effectiveness despite $46 billion in new defense cuts he said would jeopardize the Pentagon's ability to fulfill its missions effectively. Hagel, appearing at his first Pentagon news conference since taking office on (...)

02 - 03 - 2013
Ten Afghan "civilians" killed in NATO airstrike
A NATO airstrike killed 10 Afghan civilians, including five children, in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, local officials said, a toll that if confirmed is likely to raise tension between President Hamid Karzai's government and U.S.-led NATO forces. The strike, in the Shigal district of Kunar (...)

13 - 02 - 2013
Obama announces 34000 troop drawdown in Afghanistan
President Obama's decision to reduce troop levels in Afghanistan by 34,000 by this time next year still gives the coalition enough muscle to support Afghan security forces as they battle through another fighting season this summer while staying on track to wrap up the combat mission in two years, (...)

13 - 02 - 2013
Third Bomb Attack In 24 Hours Kills Eight Afghan Police
A roadside bomb killed eight policemen in Afghanistan's volatile southern province of Kandahar, police said on Sunday, the third deadly attack by insurgents against police in 24 hours. Twenty police have been killed across Afghanistan since midday on Saturday, a level of violence that underlines (...)

27 - 01 - 2013
Militant groups clash in NW Pakistan, 24 killed
A Pakistani official says clashes between two Islamic militant groups over control of a prized valley near the Afghan border have killed 24 people. Arshad Khan of the Khyber tribal region said Saturday that the clashes started Friday when the main militant group Tehrik-e-Taliban captured a base of (...)

26 - 01 - 2013
US military suicides hit record high in 2012
The Associated Press has learned that suicides in the US military surged to a record 349 last year. That far exceeds the 295 American combat deaths in Afghanistan in 2012, and compares with 301 military suicides in 2011. Some private experts predict that the trend will worsen this year. Defense (...)

14 - 01 - 2013
Obama: US war in Afghanistan winding down
With the war in Afghanistan winding down after 11 years, President Barack Obama says the time is right for U.S. forces to let Afghans do their own fighting. In his radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama says U.S. forces will shift to a support role as Afghan soldiers take the lead in defending (...)

12 - 01 - 2013
Roadside bomb kills 17 after wedding in western Afghanistan
A roadside bomb exploded under a van in western Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 17 people and wounding nine, mostly women and children returning from a wedding, a local official said on Friday. The bombing took place mid afternoon in the relatively peaceful province of Farah and was (...)

18 - 11 - 2012
Thousands of UK troops to leave Afghanistan in 2013
Britain plans to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan next year, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday, as pressure mounts to end British involvement in the costly and unpopular war. Some 500 troops are due to be repatriated by the end of this year, leaving around 9,000. Hammond (...)

14 - 10 - 2012
Five Marines Charged With Murder
Five Royal Marines have been charged with murder in connection with an incident in Afghanistan in 2011, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. Two marines were detained by Royal Military Police (RMP) over the weekend, bringing the total number of arrests to nine. Four of those held have been (...)

14 - 10 - 2012
Afghan transition moving forward but facing numerous challenges
Afghanistan is moving forward in the transition to greater ownership and responsibility for its affairs but faces a number of challenges, including generating a perception of greater security for ordinary citizens and addressing human development needs, the United Nations envoy to the Central Asian (...)

21 - 09 - 2012
NATO says four soldiers killed in 'insider' attack in Afghan south
Four soldiers fighting with the NATO-led alliance were killed in an attack believed to involve members of the Afghan police in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the coalition said. The attack came a day after two British soldiers were shot dead by an Afghan policeman while returning from a patrol in (...)

16 - 09 - 2012
Afghan Protests Over Anti-Islam Film So Far Peaceful - Pentagon
Protests in Afghanistan over a film insulting the Muslim Prophet Mohammad have so far been peaceful, the Pentagon said on Friday, as it expressed appreciation for calls by religious leaders for a non-violent response to the movie. "We're gratified based on what we know now that religious leaders (...)

14 - 09 - 2012
Afghanistan: Investigate ‘despicable' beheadings of children
In separate incidents in Afghanistan, a 12-year-old boy was found beheaded on Wednesday and a 7-year-old girl was reportedly beheaded and had her legs amputated by unknown assailants on Thursday. Amnesty International's Deputy Director, Asia-Pacific Program, Polly Truscott said: “These two acts of (...)

01 - 09 - 2012
US Taliban fighter battles prison group prayer ban
A U.S.-born Taliban fighter has testified that the U.S. government is forcing him to sin by denying him the right to pray daily with other Muslims in the highly restricted federal prison unit where he is detained. John Walker Lindh said Monday that the Indiana prison, where he's serving a 20-year (...)

28 - 08 - 2012
Three More U.S. Soldiers Killed By Afghans In Grim Day For NATO
Three U.S. Marines have been shot dead by an Afghan worker on a military base in southern Afghanistan, in a deadly 24 hours for NATO-led forces during which six American soldiers were killed in rogue attacks. The shooting took place on Friday night in the Garmsir district of Helmand province, where (...)

12 - 08 - 2012
Afghan minister survives assassination attempt
An Afghan government minister survived a bomb attack on his motorcade in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, the second assault on a high-profile politician in two days, but two of his bodyguards were wounded, provincial officials said. Higher Education Minister Obaidullah Obaid was travelling from (...)

15 - 07 - 2012
Afghan Minister Survives Assassination Attempt
An Afghan government minister survived a bomb attack on his motorcade in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, the second assault on a high-profile politician in two days, but two of his bodyguards were wounded, provincial officials said. Higher Education Minister Obaidullah Obaid was travelling from (...)

15 - 07 - 2012
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