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- US troops expand Afghan operation
US marines taking part in an offensive against Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan have been attempting to take control of an area along the border with neighbouring Pakistan. The US forces, backed by the Afghan national army, moved into Baramshar
- A group of Afghan students visits India to learn Hindi
PM IST A group of 34 students from the Nanghar University in Afghanistan recently visited Agra to study Hindi. The students included six girls and 28 boys. The students are being taught the language by the Central Hindi Organisation (CHO).Chandrakant
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai Pardoning Drug Traffickers
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pardoned at least 10 convicted drug traffickers recently, officials say. Five of those pardoned were arrested in 2007 when they were caught wearing military uniforms and using a police truck for drug smuggling, The
- Little Taliban Resistance To British Surge
British troops moving into Afghanistan's restive Helmand province say they're encountering little resistance from Taliban insurgents. A major operation in the province -- considered to be a Taliban stronghold -- is seeing more than 700 British troops
- Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan attack
A Canadian soldier travelling in the same convoy as the commander of Canadian forces in Afghanistan was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack, the Canadian military said Friday. Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance announced the death of
- New British and US strategy to break Taliban
In the baking heat and dust of Afghanistan last week Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe was heading into hostile territory to check on his men engaged in a big operation against the Taliban. He was riding in the front passenger seat of a Viking BVS10, a
- The right war at the right time?
In January 1842, a British column of 4,500 soldiers and 16,000 civilians, including women and children from the soldiers' families, sought to leave Afghanistan for British India through snowy mountain passes where they were repeatedly ambushed by Afghan
- Sterling Energy bidder met the Taliban
An Argentine oil tycoon who once courted the Taliban is the mystery bidder for Sterling Energy, the troubled oil group that is listed in London. Carlos Bulgheroni, credited as the first western oil man into Turkmenistan through his family-owned company
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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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