Afghanistan News

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, — An American woman and her Afghan driver were kidnapped by gunmen in this southern town Saturday morning on her way to work, the provincial governor said.

GHAZNI, Afghanistan – Nine police and two civilians were killed in an air strike by U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan, a provincial doctor said on Thursday, but the coalition said Taliban fighters had been killed.

KABUL – Afghanistan launched its first prison for women in the capital Kabul on Thursday as part of a plan to build 15 such facilities, officials said.

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 – A senior U.S. military commander said on Wednesday he did not expect the Taliban to mount a major offensive in eastern Afghanistan this spring, but experts warned of rising violence and a stronger insurgency.

A British soldier was killed and five were injured by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan yesterday, the Ministry of Defence revealed today.

KABUL – Afghanistan’s government, largely reliant on foreign help for its security and economy, has called for the launch of another donors’ meeting to garner more international aid.

KABUL – Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said British politician Paddy Ashdown cannot become U.N. envoy to Afghanistan unless the world body clarifies his role, state newspapers said on Monday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) — Taliban fighters killed 12 people, including a provincial reconciliation chief and five civilians, in separate attacks in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.

The war in Afghanistan is only just beginning as NATO occupation forces, far from winning the Taliban, are entering a widening and deepening conflict they may well lose, NGO said on Saturday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A Taliban roadside bomb killed five Afghan civilians and wounded two others in the south of Afghanistan, a provincial official said on Sunday.