Tag: Afghanistan
Gunmen attack Indian consulate in Afghanistan
Gunmen attacked India’s consulate in the main western Afghan city of Herat on Friday before being repelled by security forces,…
Afghan deputy minister kidnapped
KABUL (AFP) – A senior Afghan government official was kidnapped along with his driver on his way to work in…
Sallah Day terror: Microphone bomb kills governor
On a day that muslim pilgrims gathered in Mina, Saudi Arabia to pelt the devil with stones, terrorists in Muslim…
Taliban mock US over government shutdown
Taliban militants fighting US troops in Afghanistan taunted Washington Wednesday over the government shutdown, accusing US politicians of “sucking the…
Pakistan frees senior Taliban leader
ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistan on Saturday released its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee, Abdul Ghani Baradar, a senior official of…
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In Afghanistan, soccer provides reason to celebrate
Bad news is almost synonymous with Afghanistan. If it is not Afghan Taliban bombing Americans or killing people, it is…
General Carter: West should have talked to Taliban
The West should have negotiated with the Taliban more than a decade ago, soon after they were toppled, Britain’s senior…
Taliban punish two Afghans with amputations
Afghanistan’s Taliban Islamic insurgents have amputated a hand and a foot of two private security guards because they worked for…
Obama stakes second term on progressive goals
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday staked his second term on an ambitious bid to mend America, pledging…
3rd generation of Al Qaeda causing havoc in Nigeria
Retired CIA veteran Bruce Riedel, a counterterrorism expert at the Brookings Institution think tank who has advised four US presidents,…
Afghanistan: Obama to speed up US troops pullout
US President Barack Obama said Saturday that the US goal in Afghanistan was “within reach” as he vowed to move…
WHO to compel Nigerians going abroad take polio vaccine
From May 2013, Nigerians travelling abroad would be compelled to take the oral polio vaccine before leaving Nigeria, Dr Ray…
Polio still endemic in Nigeria
Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries where polio remains endemic, experts revealed at a conference of virologists in…
Religious intolerance global phenomenon, reveals study
Restrictions on religion were growing worldwide by mid-2010, even in Western countries with traditionally few limits on the practice of…
Female bomber kills 12 to avenge anti Islam movie
A female suicide bomber killed 12 people in Kabul on Tuesday in the deadliest single attack claimed to avenge a…