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 …

Professor. Stephen Blank (SUA) – luni, 2 apr. , 17.00 hrs, Sociologie, Schitu Magureanu nr 9, Sala Consiliu: tema propusa : “NATO-Russia Relationships: Prospects for Improving stability and Security in the Black Sea and the Caucasus”. O persp. americana asupra zonei, eventualitatea extinderii NATO (Ucraina, Georgia, Moldova), reactia Rusiei si …

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 …

Multiple suicide bombers struck in predominantly Shiite markets in Baghdad and in a town north of the capital, killing at least 104 people and wounding scores on Thursday — the day that new US Ambassador Ryan Crocker took office.

As people flocked Saturday to a hospital in a Shiite Muslim district of the capital to visit loved ones injured in recent attacks, a car bomb tore through the crowd of well-wishers, killing five people and wounding two dozen others.

The real deadline for Congress to provide more money for the war in Iraq is well beyond the April 15 deadline cited by President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

Iraq’s government has endorsed plans to relocate thousands of Arabs who were moved to Kirkuk as part of Saddam Hussein’s campaign to force ethnic Kurds out of the oil-rich city, in an effort to undo one of the former dictator’s most enduring and hated policies.