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- Suspected U.S. missile kills 7 in Pakistan: Taliban
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least one missile suspected to have been fired by a U.S. drone hit a house in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border on Wednesday, a Pakistani security official said. The missile, which hit a house near the village of Damadola
- AFGHANISTAN: Over 360,000 affected by reduced health services
affected by reduced health services KABUL: The killing and abduction of dozens of health workers in the past two years has prompted officials to shut down at least 36 health facilities in Afghanistan's volatile southern and eastern provinces, depriving
- Afghanistan: Taliban Tell Public to Turn Off TVs
Afghanistan: Taliban Tell Public to Turn Off TVs KABUL: Taliban insurgents have ordered residents of a province near Kabul to stop watching television, saying the networks were showing un-Islamic programs, Afghan officials and the local news media said.
- UN shuts down Afghan refugee office
UN shuts down Afghan refugee office KABUL: The United Nations refugee organization has suspended return of Afghans from because of security problems. Nilab Mobarez, a spokesman for the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, told reporters Monday in
- NATO missile attack kills 15 in Pakistan's tribal region
Islamabad - At least 15 people were killed on Wednesday when two missiles allegedly fired by NATO forces in Afghanistan targeted a suspected militant hideout in Pakistan's tribal region, officials said. 'The guided missiles hit the house of a local
- Suspected US missile kills 7 in Pakistan: Taliban
At least one missile suspected to have been fired by a US drone hit a house in north-west Pakistan near the Afghan border overnight, a Pakistani security official said. The missile, which hit a house near the village of Damadola in the Bajaur tribal
- NATO urges Pakistan to combat cross-border Afghan attacks
0 'The number of attacks is up significantly from the same period last year,' the alliance's chief spokesman James Appathurai said. 'There is not enough effectiveness in border control on Pakistan's side.' 'The concerns have been communicated to
- More Afghan troops urged to aid security effort
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD -- Top Canadian and Afghanistan army officers want more battalions in the unpredictable and unsecured province of Kandahar. Currently, there are three battalions working alongside Canadian Forces in southern Afghanistan. In Zhari
- At least 14 killed in missile attack on Taliban in Pakistan+
ISLAMABAD, May 15-(Kyodo), At least 14 people were killed in a missile attack in a village in the Bajaur tribal area in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday night, a local Taliban official said. Maulvi Mohammad Umar, a spokesman for Pakistani Taliban, said
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Afghanistan's recent history is characterized by war and civil strife, with intermittent periods of relative calm and stability. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 but was forced to withdraw 10 years later by anti-Communist mujahidin forces supplied and trained by the US, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and others. Fighting subsequently continued among the various mujahidin factions, giving rise to a state of warlordism that spawned the Taliban in the early 1990s. The Taliban was able to seize most of the country, aside from Northern Alliance strongholds primarily in the northeast, until US and allied military action in support of the opposition following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks forced the group's downfall. The four largest Afghan opposition groups met in Bonn, Germany, in late 2001 and agreed on a plan for the formulation of a new government structure that resulted in the inauguration of Hamid KARZAI as Chairman of the Afghan Interim Authority (AIA) on 22 December 2001. In addition to occasionally violent political jockeying and ongoing military action to root out remaining terrorists and Taliban elements, the country suffers from enormous poverty, a crumbling infrastructure, and widespread land mines.
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AFP - Around 500 minors are currently detained by the US army in Iraq, as well as nearly a dozen juveniles in Afghanistan, a US civil liberties group revealed on Wednesday.
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