Afghanistan News

Two bodies found in a ditch near Afghanistan's southern border with Pakistan late last week have been confirmed as those of two missing Japanese teachers from Hiroshima Prefecture, Foreign Ministry sources said ...

The outriders decorated their motorbikes with sunflowers, and at every stop people tossed flowers at their convoy and offered prayers.

Mrs. Cindy Sheehan has become a media sensation for her vigil in Crawford, Texas, to protest the ... Some senators may criticize the conduct of the war or ask for a timetable for withdrawal, but Hillary Clinton and John Kerry and other Democrats do not find it expedient to ally themselves with a woman who has labeled Bush a "murderer" and ...

THE family of a British man killed after he was kidnapped in Afghanistan by Taleban rebels was ... Delivery formats for "International" RSS feed Add to my email Related Articles: Terrorism Tribesman helping in Al-Qaida hunt slain (03-Sep-05) British worker kidnapped by Taliban in Afghanistan (01-Sep-05) Indonesia warns of terror attack ...

The international and national media keep everyone informed with up-to-the-minute news of all the attacks, bombings, and other horrors of combat in Iraq and in Afghanistan.1.3

Eight cops among 12 killed in Afghanistan By Mudassir Shah KABUL: Taliban insurgents gunned down eight Afghan policemen, including a senior officer, in a new spate of attacks in the restive southern provinces ...

A rescue helictopter flies over a New Orleans neighborhood, searching for survivors of Hurricane ... And war-torn Afghanistan has offered $US100,000 in disaster relief to aid the hurricane victims.2.7

The Afghan border guard post at Torkhum. Telegraph picture Torkhum, Khyber Pass: Large turquoise eyes freeze in shock and the hand that can lift the purdah now pulls the veil down tight.2.9

As the NATO armored car inches through a crowded Kabul market, its machine gun sweeping over the heads of shoppers, the Portuguese officer on board banters with street kids and traders, exchanging waves and ...

Staff Sgt. Thomas Finch is a believer. Finch believes in the might of little airplanes that others might mistake for toys, so much so that he's learned to fly them in order to do for others what UAV pilots once ...1.3

Reuters - Afghanistan goes to the polls on Sept. 18 to elect a lower house of parliament and councils in each of its 34 provinces.4

A Canadian piper played mournfully Saturday as yet another flag-draped coffin of an American soldier was loaded onto a military transport for the long journey home from Kandahar.

Someone snatched a WHAS Crusade for Children donation jar filled with dollar bills from a New ... Indianapolis Afghan girl undergoes successful heart surgery A 6-year-old Afghan girl successfully made it through heart surgery at Riley Hospital for Children, officials said, although she is expected to be in the hospital for four to five days.

ALINGAR, September 04 : Two senior Taliban commanders have surrendered to the government in the eastern Laghman province, a senior official claimed.2.9

KABUL - A body found during a raid yesterday by US-led coalition troops on a Taliban hideout in Afghan mountains was believed to be that of a kidnapped British engineer officials said.

LAHORE: A fire broke out in a shoe manufacturing factory in Begum Kot, Shahdara, on Friday ... app 19 Taliban fighters killed in Uruzgan and Zabul ATC remands couple accused of blasphemy Senate session on 13th 1,000 Afghan

GARESHTAK, September 04 : Taliban have slaughtered a man in the southern province of Helmand, saying he was standing in the September 18 elections militants have vowed to disrupt.2.9

WASHINGTON, D.C., SEPT. 3, 2005 .- Concern over extremist Islamic groups and terrorism has renewed interest in the role played by Shariah, a form of Islamic law.

Saskatchewan reminded all Canadians yesterday that no matter the distance, no matter the ... Yesterday, the provincial flag that flew over Camp Julien in May found a new home at the legislature in Regina.2.7

Fifteen soldiers from Fort Benning have died in either Iraq or Afghanistan since February.

Ryan Mauro: Much has been written about the "American Hiroshima" report. How did you first learn about the plot? Paul Williams: I have a unique background.

Published Date: 09-03-2005 12:20 AM The US military says an American soldier and four others have been killed in a clash in southern Afghanistan.1.2

BAGRAM AIR BASE, AFGHANISTAN - A total force unit supports joint missions in saving the lives of the coalition men and women on the front lines in the war.

The Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute here offered a medical readiness course in August ... uniformed services, a handful of officers brought an international flavor to the event, including three Germans, two Australians, three Canadians, and one Afghan, the first doctor from Afghanistan to attend the course.

Mike Kirsch Mike Kirsch began his career in 1985 covering civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua as a stringer for the NPR and Pacifica radio station in his hometown, Los Angeles.

Two former Guantanamo prisoners, Airat Vakhitov and Rustam Akhmyarov, extradited to Russia in 2004, have been freed from a Moscow detention center, where they had been held since the end of August, Interfax ...2.9

A heat wave in Arizona has caused a record number of deaths among illegal immigrants trekking across the scorching deserts from Mexico, authorities said Thursday.

Yunus Samad London Media and security analysts have gone into overdrive in trying to explain the ... Well if it is a virus then its a genetically modified virus created in the laboratory of Afghanistan by the US.2.7

National News Archives More Bodies found in Afghanistan suspected to be of two missing Japanese Young politicians reluctant to wriggle free from polite necktie culture Group uses Aichi Expo cable car to film ...4.1

The Afghan Ministry of Mines and Industries Thursday announced leasing out two big mines of copper and iron through a bidding to be joined by private companies and contractors in the next two months.2.7

When Katrina Blankenship started getting phone calls about the projected path of Hurricane Katrina, she wasn't quite sure why.1.5

It appears to be over for Chelsea Clinton, 25, and boyfriend Ian Klaus, 26, PEOPLE reports in its latest issue.1.3

Widespread floods and depleting water reservoirs have led to a 50 per cent decrease in rice yield this year in the northern Kunduz province, sparking concern among farmers.2.7

THE dreaded Ebola virus is putting some ape species on the brink of extinction in Central Africa, conservationists claim.2.7

OTTAWA - Canadian commanders in Afghanistan say their troops likely prevented a suicide bomb attack on one of their patrols when they disabled an Afghan vehicle with four machine-gun rounds last month.