Afghanistan News

TOKYO (AFP) — Japan said Wednesday it may scale down a naval mission supporting US-led forces in Afghanistan to try to resolve a row with the opposition that helped bring down the previous government.

WASHINGTON – Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier called for more global “political will” Tuesday to stabilize and rebuild Afghanistan, telling the United Nations that “no one country can do this alone.”

KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide bomber boarded a police bus just after a woman and her two children got on, setting off a blast Tuesday that blew the roof off the bus and killed at least 12 people, including several children, officials and witnesses said.

The young army will be dependent for years to come as it develops several branches, perhaps the most difficult being the air force

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops using airstrikes killed more than 20 suspected militants in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the coalition said, days after President Hamid Karzai renewed his offer to hold peace talks with the Taliban.

A helicopter of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) made an emergency landing in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province Sunday, an ISAF statement said.

TEHRAN – Iran Small Industries and Industrial Parks Organization (ISIPO) and Afghanistan’s Ministry of Commerce and Industries signed an industrial memorandum in Mashhad, southeastern Iran, on Sunday.

KABUL (AFP) – Three Afghan civilians were killed in crossfire between Taliban and soldiers in Afghanistan that also left several rebels dead, while two police died trying to defuse a large bomb Sunday, officials said.

KABUL (AFP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban have released four Red Cross workers, including two foreign nationals, captured near the capital four days ago, officials said Saturday.