US and Canadian military commanders are reviewing whether to maintain elaborate air defenses set up after the attacks of September 11, 2001, a ...
The international community must ensure that aid and development projects in Afghanistan do not fuel corruption in the war-torn nation, US Secretary of ...
A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up in the heart of Afghanistan's southwestern town of Farah, killing six people and wounding 36 civilians, the provincial police chief said. The attack occurred the day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai was sworn ...
A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up in the heart of Afghanistan's southwestern town of Farah, killing six people and wounding 36 civilians, the provincial police chief said. The bomber struck in an area where heavy trucks were being loaded ...
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 20: Afghan actress Trena Amiri, 22, (R) watches as an Afghan National Army military policeman argues with the cameraman during the filming of the soap opera November 20, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Trena has been acting for two ...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Eight Islamist militants were killed in a U.S. missile strike in northwest Pakistan on Friday, officials said, after three policemen were killed in a bomb blast. The attack came shortly before the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence ...
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in southwestern Afghanistan killed 17 people Friday, and an Afghan lawmaker escaped a separate blast on the outskirts of Kabul but five of his bodyguards were killed, officials said. The provincial governor of southwestern Farah ...
UN war crimes court appoints British lawyer as standby counsel for Radovan Karadzic The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has appointed a British lawyer to represent Radovan Karadzic if the former Bosnian Serb leader continues to boycott his trial when it resumes in ...
Map locates Farah, Afghanistan, where a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives Copyright 2009 AP News
Philippine troops have killed one of the top commanders of the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group, the military said Friday. The death of the Islamist militant, Abdulla Ajijul, in a special operation on the southern island of Basilan Thursday is "a significant ...
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles at a northwestern Pakistani militant stronghold on Friday, killing eight people, the second such attack this week, security and Taliban officials said. The United States has carried out more than ...
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 ...
