Afghanistan News

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – U.S.-led coalition forces killed 30 militants, including a Taliban commander, in an air strike in west Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Friday, but Afghan officials said there were also civilian casualties.

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (ISNA)-Afghanistan’s foreign minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta called for campaigning against drug trafficking and terrorism as closely-related issues.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for twin suicide blasts outside Pakistan’s main defense industry complex on Thursday which killed about 40 people.

KABUL (Reuters), Aug 21 – Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Thursday Britain would put more resources into training the Afghan army and pledged an extra $120 million for development in the country which has seen a surge in Taliban violence this year.

KABUL (Reuters) – More than a dozen civilians have been killed in an air strike by U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Laghman, two provincial officials said on Thursday.

His visit was brief but its message was clear. As French soldiers mourn 10 comrades killed in Afghanistan, Nicolas Sarkozy has told the military its mission is essential and must continue.

PARIS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Sarkozy prepared to fly to Afghanistan on Tuesday after 10 French soldiers were killed and 21 wounded in a clash with Taliban insurgents, and declared France remained committed to its mission there.

KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents killed 10 French soldiers and wounded 21 in a major battle in Afghanistan, the French president’s office said on Tuesday, the biggest single loss of foreign troops in combat there since 2001.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad congratulated his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai and Afghan people on Afghanistan’s national day.

KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A Taliban suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into the gate of the main U.S. military base in southeastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing nine civilians and wounding 13, Afghan and U.S. officials said.