Afghanistan News

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan Two U-S soldiers have been wounded by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

"Our wish and our request to the international community is that with the parliamentary elections, they do not immediately think that the mission in Afghanistan is over and Afghanistan can go ahead with its own ...

Four years ago Shukria Barakzai was running a secret school for girls in her Kabul home, risking severe punishment from the Taliban's religious police.

As Afghanistan prepares for its parliamentary elections this weekend, U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will encourage NATO allies to provide greater and more flexible funding to the peacekeeping mission ...

Wing commanders from McChord Air Force Base are cooperating in the Middle East to manage the daily flights of U.S. troops and supplies into and out of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa.

With thousands of Islamic madrasa schools refusing an order to register with authorities, ... Pakistan saw a spectacular rise in madrasa numbers in the 1980s when the schools, backed by funding from the West and Arab countries, became recruiting grounds for Islamic volunteers fighting Soviet forces in neighbouring Afghanistan.2.7

In June and July the American troops and the Afghan government functionaries, came under a series of armed attacks, shattering the comparative calm in Afghanistan.2.9

The President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has called on the United States-led international forces in his country to reassess their approach to ridding his country of terrorism.2.7

Defence ministers from Nato nations are meeting in Berlin with one of the key issues for debate being the deployment of its forces in Afghanistan.2.7

"Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the ... -- Henry Ward Beecher "The disaster that is Afghanistan is about to make it back above the fold on the NY Times and the Washington Post.

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As part of the BBC News website's One Day in Afghanistan coverage, we will be hearing from people from all walks of life, all over the country.2.9

One Afghan policeman and a Taliban insurgent were killed and another policeman wounded when suspected rebels ambushed a police patrol in Afghanistan.2.7

The elections complaints Commission on Monday disqualified 28 candidates for violations of the elections law, 21 of them for retaining links with armed militias, six days before parliamentary elections.

A Woman's Place Four years after the fall of the Taliban, Afghan women are now guaranteed a role in government.

A BRITISH soldier killed on Sunday by a roadside bomb in Iraq was named last night by the Ministry ... He had survived tours in conflict zones including Northern Ireland, the Gulf, former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan.2.7

On Tuesday, the BBC News website will go behind the headlines and chart a day in the life of the country from dawn to dusk.2.9

Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines bow their heads in a moment of silence during a memorial ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the Sept.1.3

Afghanistan's remote mainly-Pashtun province of Paktika is home to a new independent radio station set up by Internews.4

A Colombian airliner with 25 people aboard, including a congressman, was hijacked Monday by two people carrying grenades, authorities said.1.3

CIJ surveyed a total of 2, 554 people on problems facing them under a government that has received billion of dollars in aid for the reconstruction of the country.2.9

As freshmen arrives at Philadelphia's Temple University, they will learn about campus rules, meet with academic advisers and, hopefully, read a book: ``West of Kabul, East of New York,'' Tamim Ansary's memoir ...

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Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission today disqualified 28 more candidates from competing in Afghanistan's national and provincial parliamentary elections, due to take place on 18 September.

Three young female candidates in western Herat and northern Badakhshan provinces are likely to ... Jamshida Ahmadi, a candidate for the lower house, without specifically naming any one, told Pajhwok Afghan News some female candidates were trying to attract people by using their photographs.4

Ground-breaking television channel attracts both praise and threats. By Hafizullah Gardesh in Kabul.2.9

An Australian security source said Gadahn was known to local authorities but this was the first ... In May last year, the FBI said Gadahn had ties with senior al-Qa'ida lieutenant Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan and that he had attended training camps in Afghanistan and served as a translator for the terror network.

Nearly one third of Germans under 30 say that the U.S. government ordered the 9/11 attacks.

The DreamWorks Pictures movie will be an adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling critic-pleasing novel about a man who returns to his native Afghanistan in the hope of rescuing the son of a childhood ...2.7

Dynastic rule longest in India was that of the Moghuls starting with Babar and ending with Bahadur ... First, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh invites Rahul to accompany him to Kabul and even to be a silent witness to talks between Dr Singh and Afghan leaders.2.7

Four years ago, a nation awoke to a changed world when the twin towers fell under attack from ... They lay flush on a meadow on the southeast side of Green Lake until silent pallbearers lifted the ladders and carried them away while Seattle playwright Ed Mast recited: "The world I was in no longer exists.

Starting Tuesday, September 13, during the ABC7 News at Six, Cheryl Jennings begins a series of reports from her recent and extremely dangerous trip to Afghanistan called "Inside Afghanistan: A Journey of ...

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The Israeli government is meeting to decide what should happen to more than twodozen synagogues at ... Afghan minister escapes shooting Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle belonging to Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak on Saturday after he had got out, and shortly afterwards a helicopter carrying another top military official crash-landed.2.7

The Examiner today begins publishing excerpts from 'Roberts Ridge,' a true tale of courage and valor in the war in Afghanistan, by Malcolm MacPherson, an ex-Marine and a veteran war correspondent for Time and ...