The stench of sewage hangs in the air as barefoot children clamber up a suburban hillside in Kabul, past green flags that flap ...
A rocket attack near the luxury Serena Hotel in Kabul has injured four people, including two members of the Afghan security forces, a ...
A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up in the heart of Afghanistan's southwestern town of Farah, killing 12 people and wounding dozens more, an official said. The attack occurred the day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai was sworn in for ...
U.S. Army Pfc. Geoffrey Whitsitt, from Grainville, S.C., belonging to the 118th Airborne MP Company stands at a checkpoint near the town of Balisal Afghan, Logar province, Afghanistan Thursday Nov. 19, 2009. Security into the capital city of Kabul was heightened as ...
Canadian government attacks diplomat who testified country turned blind eye to Afghan abuses Canada's defense minister on Thursday attacked the credibility of a senior Canadian diplomat who alleged that government officials ignored evidence that prisoners handed over to Afghanistan's intelligence service a ...
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) speaks during a press conference at the U.S. embassy on November 19, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzai begins his second term in office amid allegations of corruption ...
Canadian troops handed Afghan detainees to local authorities in the knowledge they would be tortured, and later tried to silence critics of the practice, a senior Ottawa diplomat told lawmakers. "According to our information, the likelihood is that all the Afghans we ...
Afghanistan's minister of mines allegedly accepts $20 million to steer mining project to China A senior Afghan official allegedly took a $20 million bribe to steer a copper mining project to a Chinese company, a glaring example of the claims of corruption ...
The United States ramped up pressure on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to start delivering on the eve of his inauguration Thursday for another five years in power with Kabul under security lockdown. The 51-year-old is due to be sworn in for a ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew into Kabul on Wednesday to attend the inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai for another five years in power as tight security brought the city to a halt. The visit is Clinton's first to Afghanistan ...
Germany agreed Wednesday to extend by one year its mission in Afghanistan, Chancellor Angela Merkel said, as her foreign minister warned German troops will not be there forever. "In a regular cabinet meeting, we decided to get the process of extending the ...
The Afghan capital ground to a halt amid tight security on Wednesday as hundreds of VIPs began arriving for the swearing-in of President Hamid Karzai for another five-year term. As the capital locked down, Western diplomats said Karzai's backers in the international ...
