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Wednesday, December 5, 2007 : At least six soldiers and seven civilians killed in blast south of Kabul....
Posted: Wed, Dec 5, 2007 7:03am PST
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 : As Pakistan has been gripped by political turmoil, another serious crisis has been unfolding in the northwest part of the country. Pro-Taliban extremists have been aggressively making inroads from the tribal areas along the Afghanistan border to towns and villages farther inside Pakistan....
Posted: Tue, Dec 4, 2007 7:33am PST
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 : A Taliban suicide car bomb injures twenty-two civilians in Kabul attack....
Posted: Tue, Dec 4, 2007 7:29am PST
CAIRO — The US-led foreign troops are mulling to train, arm and fund Afghan tribesmen to fight the powerful Taliban movement in its southern stronghold as it has been doing in Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, December 4....
Posted: Tue, Dec 4, 2007 7:26am PST
Saturday, December 1, 2007 :Private Luke Worsley, a 26-year-old from Sydney’s outer suburbs, became the third Australian soldier to be killed in combat in Afghanistan in just six weeks when he was shot on November 22 in the southern province of Uruzgan. Trooper David Pearce was killed on October 8 by a roadside bomb and Sergeant Matthew Locke was killed on October 25 by small arms fire....
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2007 11:43am PST
Friday, November 30, 2007 :An internal United Nations (UN) report into the November 6 bombing in Baghlan, in northern Afghanistan, has revealed how the actions of security guards after the blast greatly increased the death toll. The attack was the deadliest since the occupation of Afghanistan by US-led forces began in November 2001 and one of the bloodiest in the country’s history....
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2007 8:07am PST
Thursday, November 29, 2007 :An air strike by US-led occupation forces in Afghanistan left at least 14 members of a road construction crew dead late Tuesday. The workers, who were building a road in Nuristan Province, about 110 miles northeast of Kabul, were killed in their sleep as jet fighters and helicopter gunships attacked their camp....
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 7:52am PST
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Posted: Wed, Nov 28, 2007 9:04pm PST
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 : At least 12 road workers killed as they slept in tent in air raid by US-led forces....
Posted: Wed, Nov 28, 2007 8:19am PST
From a Wednesday, November 28, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Wed, Nov 28, 2007 8:08am PST
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 : Two Afghans killed in car bomb attack on US convoy in Afghan capital....
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2007 7:42am PST
From a Saturday, November 24, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Sun, Nov 25, 2007 9:34pm PST
Many of the children who died in Afghanistan's worst-ever suicide attack were actually shot dead by bodyguards who fired indiscriminately into the crowd after the blast, a UN report said....
Posted: Mon, Nov 19, 2007 6:57am PST
Saturday, November 17, 2007 : Concern is growing about the safety of four Afghan child stars of The Kite Runner. The film, based on the Khaled Hosseini novel, is due for release next month, and the children have been told to get ready to travel to California. Two of them say they no longer walk to school by themselves because of incidents of harassment....
Posted: Sat, Nov 17, 2007 1:07pm PST
Saturday, November 17, 2007 : A roadside bomb kills two Canadian soldiers of the Nato-led forces in Afghanistan and an interpreter, officials say....
Posted: Sat, Nov 17, 2007 1:07pm PST
Saturday, November 17, 2007 : The head of the UN's anti-narcotics unit has called on Nato forces to crack down on heroin production in Afghanistan ? a policy which contradicts proposals by the Brown government....
Posted: Sat, Nov 17, 2007 1:04pm PST
From a Friday, November 16, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Fri, Nov 16, 2007 7:27am PST
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Event Date: Mon, Nov 19, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Nov 14, 2007 2:35am PST
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 : Rights group singles out National Directorate of Security as a major offender....
Posted: Tue, Nov 13, 2007 8:13am PST
Enjoying the same immunity of colleagues in Iraq, private security companies (PSC) are aggravating the prevailing sense of insecurity in Afghanistan the chaos-mired country, a Swiss think-tank concluded in a study released on Monday, November 12....
Posted: Tue, Nov 13, 2007 7:42am PST
