LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan – A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan on Thursday killing a deputy provincial governor and at least five other people, officials said.
Read More »Afghans protest against death sentence for reporter
KABUL – Around 200 Afghans demonstrated in the capital Kabul on Thursday against the death sentence passed against a reporter convicted of blasphemy.
Read More »Suicide bomber kills one, wounds four in Kabul
KABUL – A suicide bomber targeted an Afghan army bus in the centre of Kabul on Thursday, causing numerous casualties, officials said.
Read More »Tailban decapitate four, kill three others in Afghanistan
ASADABAD, Afghanistan (AFP) — Taliban militants beheaded Wednesday four Afghan roadworkers abducted a week ago while a series of rebel bombings killed three civilians, authorities said.
Read More »NATO Urges Canada to Stay in Afghanistan
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — NATO on Wednesday urged Canada not to pull its troops from Afghanistan’s dangerous Kandahar region and pledged to help find the 1,000 additional allied troops Ottawa is demanding.
Read More »Study: Afghanistan Could Fail As a State
WASHINGTON (AP) — Afghanistan risks sliding into a failed state and becoming the “forgotten war” because of deteriorating international support and a growing violent insurgency, according to an independent study.
Read More »Canada takes fewer prisoners in Afghanistan: report
OTTAWA (AFP) — Canada’s military in Afghanistan has been taking fewer prisoners and releasing them quicker after it stopped turning them over to Afghan authorities following torture allegations, The Globe and Mail said.
Read More »Canada’s Harper Wants Conditional Stay in Afghanistan
By Alexandre Deslongchamps Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada should place conditions on a decision to extend its military mission in Afghanistan beyond 2009, as a government- commissioned panel recommended last week.
Read More »Karzai Praises Iran’s Assistance to Afghanistan
TEHRAN (FNA) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is in Davos to participate in the World Economic Forum, has said Iran has been supporting his country since the ouster of the Taliban regime in 2001.
Read More »Karzai says US help saved Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, Jan 26: The US-installed Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that he knew people called him “a puppet of America†and he was willing to accept this image because without US help Afghanistan would have been occupied by its neighbours and Al Qaeda.
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