Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops clashed with suspected Taliban militants in the volatile south and called in an airstrike that left four militants dead, the coalition said Tuesday. As Taliban fighters began to flee, coalition aircraft engaged and killed four Taliban fighters who were attempting to escape,” …

KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan promised Tuesday to do its utmost to free two French aid workers seized a week ago by the Taliban as Australia pledged to nearly double its military force in the insurgency-hit country Highlighting the dangers posed by the resurgent Islamic movement that was toppled by US-led …

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai told a South Asia summit that extremism and terrorism in all forms, as well as its sponsorship and funding, should be banned. Speaking Tuesday at the summit of the eight-nation South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation in India’s capital of New Delhi, Karzai warned, “It is …

  Dubai: As Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai takes centre stage in the Indian capital New Delhi as the newest member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), his opponents back home have launched a broadside against him by forming a political party that brings together all his main …

Nine people, five of them children, have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on an army convoy in Afghanistan, according to local police. Elsewhere the Taliban publicly hanged three men after accusing them of spying for British troops. With the approach of spring, violence has surged in Afghanistan in …

The brother of a London man freed from Guantánamo Bay after four years of imprisonment yesterday told of his family’s joy at finally being reunited with their loved one. Bisher al-Rawi returned to British soil late on Friday, four and a half years after being seized in the Gambia and …

Anthony Browne, Chief Political Correspondent Gordon Brown enhanced his image as a prime-minister-in-waiting by making an unannounced one-day visit to British troops in Afghanistan and telling them that they were fighting on one of the “front lines against international terrorism”. The Chancellor made his first trip to the country accompanied …

By Saeed Ali Achakzai Apr 2, 2007 — SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Thousands of Taliban suicide bombers have been deployed across Afghanistan to attack Western troops and the government, the group’s military chief said on Monday. Following last year’s violence, the worst since the Taliban’s ouster in 2001, this year …

La mijlocul anilor ’80, presedintele Reagan nu mai ostenea sa aduca laude “luptatorilor desculti pentru libertate”, sustinandu-i deschis pe curajosii razboinici care luptau impotriva invadatorului sovietic, sfidand “imperiul raului”. Astazi, despre originea miscarii talibane, despre bazele ei ideologice si sociale sau despre ascensiunea sa la putere in Afganistan se scrie …

Chancellor Gordon Brown has told UK troops in Afghanistan they are fighting on one of the “frontlines against international terrorism”.Mr Brown is visiting Camp Bastion, Helmand in the south of the country to meet military commanders and local political leaders. During the surprise visit, he praised troops for their “great …