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Foreigners among 12 Dead in Kabul Attack
September 19, 2012
KABUL - At least a dozen people, including eight foreign employees of an air cargo company, were killed and 11 Afghans injured in a suicide attack near the Kabul International Airport ...
Khar, Clinton to Talk Afghan Security Switch
September 19, 2012
WASHINGTON - The withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan and the 2014 deadline for security transition to Afghans would dominate a meeting between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and ...
U.S. Concerned About Afghan Insider Attacks: Panetta
September 19, 2012
BEIJING - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday the U.S. is concerned about the impact insider attacks are having on its forces in Afghanistan. But he insisted Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander ...
US Won’t Abandon Afghanistan: Grossman
September 18, 2012
KABUL -US Special Representative Ambassador Marc Grossman has renewed Washington's promise to implement the Strategic Partnership Agreement and not to abandon ...
Remote Districts to Have Small Airports
September 18, 2012
KABUL - The Afghan government will build small airports in remote districts of the country to address the transport problems to these areas, Aviation Minister Dawood Ali Najafizada said ...
Insider Attacks are ‘Very Serious Threat’ to NATO Mission: Dempsey
September 18, 2012
WASHINGTON - The US Forces Press Service Army Gen. Martin Dempsey in remarks to the Pentagon's own news service has said that the Afghan government needs to step up and take the problem of ...
Insider Attacks are Taliban Insurgency’s ‘Last Gasp’: Panetta
September 18, 2012
TOKYO - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday that while he is very concerned about rogue Afghan troops and police turning their guns on U.S. and allied forces, he sees the insider ...
Karzai Warns against Delay in Prisoners’ Transfer
September 17, 2012
KABUL - Any delay in the transfer Bagram jail inmates to local authorities would be a serious violation of a recent memorandum of understanding between Afghanistan and the United States, President ...
Afghanistan to Notify UN over Shelling from Pakistan
September 17, 2012
KABUL - The Afghan government will raise the controversial cross-border shelling from Pakistan into Afghanistan's eastern regions with the United Nations Security Council, Ministry of Foreign ...
Mission to Continue Beyond 2014: EUPOL Chief
September 17, 2012
KABUL - European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL) chief Karl Ake Roghe on Sunday said they would continue to support what he called "dramatically improving" Afghan ...
4 ISAF Soldiers Killed in Insider Attack
September 17, 2012
KABUL - Four International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers were killed on Sunday following an insider attack suspected to involve members of Afghan police in southern ...
Mission Not Jeopardized By ANP Killing 6 NATO Troops: Katz
September 17, 2012
KABUL - The killing of six NATO soldiers by Afghan police in 24 hours will not jeopardize the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan, ISAF spokesman Brig. Gen. Gunter Katz said ...
Two Cabinet Picks Voted in, One Rejected
September 16, 2012
KABUL - The lower house of parliament (Wolesi Jirga) on Saturday gave a vote of confidence to President Hamid Karzai's picks for ministers of defense and interior, as well as spy ...
UNAMA Deplores Defamation of Religion
September 16, 2012
KABUL - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) deplores the disrespectful, insulting and inflammatory material posted on the internet that seeks to denigrate the ...
Noor Derides Ulema Silence on Suicide Attacks
September 16, 2012
MAZAR-i-SHARIF - The silence of religious leaders on suicide attacks is "embarrassing", northern Balkh provincial governor Atta Mohammad Noor said Saturday at a ceremony ...
Rebels have Infiltrated Government: ANF
September 16, 2012
KABUL - The Afghanistan National Front (ANF) on Saturday said the international community was disappointed with Afghanistan over widespread administrative corruption and infiltration of ...
US Has Nothing to Do with Anti-Islam Film: Special Envoy
September 15, 2012
WASHINGTON - The United States has nothing to do with the production of an anti-Islam movie that has resulted in violent protests in the Middle East, a top American envoy ...
MPs to Vote on Karzai Cabinet Nominees
September 15, 2012
>KABUL - The Afghan government's key defense positions may finally be filled as lawmakers agreed to vote on President Hamid Karzai's nominees this Saturday after they were introduced to ...
US Congressmen Oppose Direct POL Payments to Kabul
September 15, 2012
WASHINGTON - Troubled over the recent audit report, US lawmakers on Thursday opposed the Pentagon's move to give money directly to the Afghan government for the purchase of petroleum ...
Karzai Postpones Norway Trip over Riot Fears
September 15, 2012
KABUL - President Hamid Karzai has postponed a visit to Norway fearing a violent backlash at home over an anti-Islam film that sparked riots killing the US ambassador in Libya, according to ...
Steps Taken to Prevent Possible Attacks: ISAF
September 15, 2012
KABUL - The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Thursday said it had taken tight security measures to prevent possible violence in the country over a blasphemous ...
Obama, Karzai Confer on US Troops’ Security
September 15, 2012
WASHINGTON - A day after the Benghazi incident that resulted in the killing of the US ambassador to Libya, President Barack Obama telephoned his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai and said the ...
‘War on Terrorism’ Ignores the Real Threat: Karzai
September 13, 2012
KABUL - The war on terrorism – so declared by America after terrorist attacks on US soil in 2001 – has not been conducted as it should have been, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on the 11th ...
Fahim Introduces Cabinet Picks to Wolesi Jirga
September 13, 2012
KABUL - First Vice-President Mohammad Qasim Fahim on Wednesday introduced nominees for three Cabinet slots and the spy service chief to the Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of ...
A String of Peace Conferences This Month: ISAF
September 13, 2012
KABUL - A series of national and international conferences on durable peace and reintegration of militants would be held across country this month, the International Security Assistance Force ...
Taliban Made $400 Million in 2011 from Taxes, Extortion: UN
September 13, 2012
UNITED NATIONS - A United Nations report released Tuesday said that the Taliban raised $400 million in 2011 through taxes, donations, and extortion money from businesses and aid projects ...
Senate Endorses SAARC Pact, ICCROM Statute
September 12, 2012
KABUL - The Meshrano Jirga on Tuesday ratified a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) agreement on trade in services and the statute of the International Centre for the ...
We Fight to Make Sure US is Protected: Panetta
September 12, 2012
WASHINGTON - US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the war in Afghanistan, in which more than 2,000 American soldiers have died, was a fight to protect the ...
MPs Refuse to Give Karzai’s Cabinet Picks Trust Vote
September 12, 2012
KABUL - The lower house of parliament on Tuesday rejected nominees for three Cabinet slots and the spy service chief, saying the picks should be introduced to lawmakers for a vote of confidence by the president or one of his ...
UN to Help End Cross-Border Shelling: Kubiš
September 12, 2012
ASADABAD - The issue of cross-border shelling from Pakistan into eastern Kunar province would be shared with United Nations Security Council members, the secretary-general's special envoy ...
Afghans Take Control of Bagram Prison
September 11, 2012
KABUL - With the hoisting of the Afghan national flag, the control of the Bagram Detention Centre was transferred from US troops to local personnel at a ceremony in the central province ...
UN Stresses Protection of Afghan Women
September 11, 2012
KABUL - Prominent Afghan women activists and rights defenders on Monday joined the UN mission to commemorate the "Global Open Day on Women, Peace and Security" in ...
Lawmaker, Journalists End Hunger Strike over Media Censorship
September 11, 2012
KABUL - Afghan lawmaker Baktash Siawash and several journalists have ended their hunger strike in protest of media censorship after they were promised their demands would be ...
Abdullah Calls for Probe into Pul-I-Sukhta Clash
September 11, 2012
KABUL - Afghanistan National Coalition (ANC) head Dr. Abdullah Abdullah on Monday asked the government to launch a thoroughgoing investigation into Saturday's clash between residents and police ...
FM Asked to Brief Senate on Tobias Blueprint
September 10, 2012
KABUL - The Meshrano Jirga --- upper house of parliament --- on Sunday asked the foreign minister to brief the International Affairs Commission on a British lawmaker's plan for the division ...