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Karzai angry over West's tactics Saturday, June 23, 2007 : President Hamid Karzai says Western troops' failure to co-ordinate with Afghans is causing civilian casualties....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 9:02am PDT
US To Send Some At Gitmo To Afghanistan Saturday, June 23, 2007 : The U.S. is helping expand a prison in Afghanistan to take some detainees from Guantanamo Bay, while administration officials argue about whether to bring the most dangerous to the U.S. when the Cuban facility shuts down....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:49am PDT
At least 25 Afghan civilians killed in US bomb attack Saturday, June 23, 2007 :At least 25 civilians were killed in a US air strike early Friday morning in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. The dead included nine women, three babies and an elderly mullah in the village of Kunjakak in the Grishk district of Helmand, according to the provincial police chief....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:33am PDT
Afghan air strike kills dozens An air assault by foreign-led forces has killed at least 25 Afghan civilians, a provincial police officer has reported....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 6:25am PDT
Bush administration rushes to Pakistani dictator's aid Thursday, June 21, 2007 :Top Bush administration and Pentagon officials have held intensive consultations with Pakistan’s embattled military regime during the past two weeks with the aim of bolstering the autocratic rule of General Pervez Musharraf and securing increased Pakistani military support in staunching the insurgency against Afghanistan’s US-installed government....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 10:09pm PDT
HRW Calls for Independent Probe Into Pak Missile Attack ISLAMABAD, 21 June 2007 — The US-based Human Rights Watch called on Pakistani authorities yesterday to allow an independent investigation into a suspected missile strike that killed at least 32 alleged Al-Qaeda militants....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 12:40pm PDT
Taleban 'shifting focus to Kabul' The Taleban in Afghanistan are changing their tactics to mount more attacks on the capital, Kabul, a spokesman for the militant group has told the BBC....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 11:09am PDT
Women under siege in Afghanistan For the past three months, Afghan female MP Shukria Barakzai has been receiving a letter saying she may be targeted by a suicide bomber in the next six months....
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 8:03am PDT
UK 'in Afghanistan for decades' The UK presence in Afghanistan will need to go on for decades to help rebuild the country, British ambassador Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles has said....
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 7:27am PDT
Quarter of Afghan Children Forced to Work Tuesday, June 19, 2007 : The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced yesterday that almost one quarter of Afghan children are forced to work. Girls are more likely to be working than boys, and the problem is worst in rural areas, UNICEF says, pointing to "poverty, lack of educational opportunities, and the demand for cheap labor" as the principal conditions contributing to child labor. Additionally, the low rate of registered births in the war-torn country makes it difficult to veri...
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 12:03pm PDT
'Air strike' kills 17 in Pakistan At least 17 people have been killed in a blast in a troubled tribal area of north-west Pakistan near the Afghan border, officials and locals say....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 11:17am PDT
Taleban capture Afghan district Taleban rebels have captured a district in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar after days of fierce fighting....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 9:49am PDT
Iraq, Afghanistan Top "Failed States" Iraq and Afghanistan have emerged as the world's second and eighth "failed" states respectively with both failing to make any impressive progress since the ouster of Saddam Hussein and Taliban by the US despite mind-boggling aid money, according to a survey released on Monday, June 18....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 9:49am PDT
Ex-Afghan MP Pans US Mock Democracy The United States democracy project in Afghanistan after the ouster of Taliban has proved a fiasco as the "liberators" have allied with corrupt lawmakers, criminals and warlords, former Afghan MP Malalaj Joya has said....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 9:47am PDT
US missile strike kills seven children in Afghanistan Tuesday, June 19, 2007 :US-led coalition forces bombed a compound containing a mosque and a religious school in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing seven children aged 10 to 16....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 9:19am PDT
Violence in Afghanistan Surges; Taliban Commits Deadliest Attack Since 2001 Monday, June 18, 2007 : The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomber who blew up a bus transporting police recruits in Afghanistan yesterday. The attack killed 35 people, the...
Posted: Mon, Jun 18, 2007 7:09pm PDT
US air strike kills Afghan children Seven Afghan children have been killed during a US-led coalition air strike against a suspected al-Qaeda safe house in eastern Afghanistan that also left several fighters dead, the force said....
Posted: Mon, Jun 18, 2007 6:34am PDT
Dozens die in Kabul bus bombing At least 35 people died after a police bus was hit by a suicide bomber in the Afghan capital, Kabul, senior officer Ali Shah Paktiawal has said....
Posted: Sat, Jun 16, 2007 11:20pm PDT
US soldiers kill Afghan civilian Saturday, June 16, 2007 : Nato troops have killed a civilian at the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghan and Nato officials say....
Posted: Sat, Jun 16, 2007 8:29am PDT
Suicide bombers hit Afghanistan A suicide car bomber has attacked a convoy believed to be carrying soldiers and civilians in a busy residential area of Kabul, killing at least three civilians and wounding five others, the interior ministry said....
Posted: Sat, Jun 16, 2007 8:17am PDT
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