Afghanistan News

A contingent of 150 Macedonian troops headed to Afghanistan on Monday to join the ISAF peacekeeping mission. The country had so far sent 90 peacekeepers. The troops will serve as part of the UK contingent in the capital Kabul where they will be tasked with securing the main command of …

KABUL (AFP) – The deputy head of the NATO-led force that has more than 50,000 soldiers in Afghanistan helping to fight extremist insurgents has said security did not deteriorate last year as much as portrayed. A few “spectacular attacks” by the insurgents in 2008 had fed perceptions that security was …

JAMRUD, Pakistan (Reuters) – Trucks rumbled through Pakistan’s Khyber Pass on Friday, resuming the transport of supplies to Western forces in Afghanistan three days after authorities suspended shipments to clear out militants. Pakistani Taliban militants in the Khyber region have been trying for months to block vital supplies bound for …

KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide bomber tried to attack a meeting of tribal elders and blew himself up near an Afghan primary school on Sunday, killing 14 children and wounding 58 people, the U.S. military said. The suicide blast went off near the entrance to a police and army post, …

KABUL, Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai attended a memorial ceremony Tuesday for three Afghans killed in an overnight raid by U.S. forces, an incident Karzai has asked America’s top military officer to investigate. The American military has said that its forces killed three people targeted as “known individuals with al-Qaida …

Europeans saw a fervent wish fulfilled with Barack Obama’s election victory, but it could mean more than they bargained for. For all their enthusiasm over the prospect of a new tone from Washington, European governments now face the sobering realization that the new President is far better placed than his …

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. military says its troops have killed four al-Qaeda-linked militants during a raid in eastern Afghanistan.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – No students showed up at Mirwais Mena girls’ school in the Taliban’s spiritual birthplace the morning after it happened.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Suspected Taliban militants killed a religious leader in western Afghanistan after he criticized the use of suicide attacks as a weapon of war in the country, an Afghan official said Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Barack Obama has pledged a new focus on the war in Afghanistan, including more U.S. troops and possible talks with the Taliban, but the challenges are daunting.