Tag: Afghanistan
Multiple attacks kill 19 in Afghanistan as NATO deadline looms
Taliban insurgents killed at least 19 people in a series of gun and suicide attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining…
Briton among 6 dead as Kabul blast hits embassy vehicle
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-packed car into a British embassy vehicle in Kabul on Thursday, killing one Briton and…
50 dead in suicide blast at Afghan volleyball game
Around 50 people were killed and 60 others injured when a suicide blast ripped through crowds gathered to watch a…
Female Afghan MP survives suicide attack, 3 dead
A suicide bomber on Sunday attacked the vehicle convoy of a prominent female Afghan MP near the parliament in Kabul,…
New Afghan first lady backs French veil ban
Afghanistan’s cosmopolitan new first lady has backed France’s controversial ban on the niqab, comparing the full veil to “blinders” as…
Five Afghan gang rapists to be hanged
Five Afghan men are due to be hanged on Wednesday for the gang rape of four women after a trial…
Ghani takes oath as new Afghan president
Ashraf Ghani, a one-time United States-based academic, was sworn in as the new president of Afghanistan on Monday, taking power…
Ghani named next Afghan president, signs power-sharing deal
Former finance minister Ashraf Ghani was declared Afghanistan’s next president on Sunday, hours after signing a power-sharing deal with his…
Taliban attack kills three, wounds 60, in Afghanistan
A Taliban attack on a government compound in Afghanistan on Thursday left three policemen dead and at least 60 people…
Taliban attack Afghan intelligence office
Taliban militants Saturday attacked an Afghan intelligence service office in the eastern city of Jalalabad, killing at least three people…
Gunmen kill 15 people travelling in central Afghanistan
Suspected Taliban gunmen stopped two vehicles in central Afghanistan and shot dead 15 passengers at the side of the road,…
Afghanistan rejects Facebook ban as election tensions rise
The Afghan government on Sunday rejected a proposal to ban Facebook during an ongoing deadlock over the presidential election, despite…
Five US soldiers killed by ‘friendly fire’ in Afghanistan
A NATO air strike in Afghanistan killed five US soldiers in an apparent “friendly fire” accident during clashes with insurgents,…
Afghanistan frees US soldier held for 5 years
United States President Barack Obama said Saturday that an American soldier held for half a decade in Afghanistan has been…
Roadside bomb kills 12 in Afghanistan
A roadside bomb killed 12 civilians, including seven women in eastern Afghanistan Saturday, officials said, the latest violence in the…
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…