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Taliban chief orders captives killed Mullah Mohammad Omar, the Taliban leader, has ordered the murder of four foreigners kidnapped in Afghanistan on Saturday....
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 7:08am PST
Pakistan accused of Afghan terror attack The head of the upper-house of the Afghan parliament has accused the Pakistani secret service of being behind a suicide bombing which injured him and killed four other people in Kabul. The attack came during a weekend of violence in which four US servicemen died in the deadliest roadside bomb attack on Americans in a month and six Afghan policemen were killed, two of them beheaded, after being abducted from their homes. Elsewhere an armed gang abducted four Albanians working for a German comp...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 6:55am PST
Kabul bombers target Senate chief Suicide bombers have tried to kill Afghanistan's Senate leader, in an attack in which four people died....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 10:17am PST
US marines killed in Afghan bomb Four US marines have been killed by a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan's Kunar Province....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 10:15am PST
Bush’s public slap in the face to Pakistan’s president US President George Bush ended his high-profile tour to South Asia last Saturday with a 24-hour trip to Pakistan that proved to be an acute political embarrassment for President Pervez Musharraf. Having gone out of his way to secure closer relations with India, Pakistan’s long-time rival, Bush delivered what amounted to a thinly disguised public rebuke to the Pakistani military strongman....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 11:02am PST
Pakistan strikes border militants Pakistani soldiers backed by helicopter gunships have killed about 30 militants in a raid on their hideout near the border with Afghanistan, a military spokesman has said....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 11:00am PST
Afghan Women Still Live in Misery As the world celebrates International Women's Day Wednesday, March8 , most Afghan women still have miserable lives despite the ouster of the Taliban regime four years ago....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:22am PST
Pakistan president blasts Afghan leader Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf ripped the president of neighboring Afghanistan on Sunday, telling CNN that Hamid Karzai is "totally oblivious of what is happening in his own country."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 6:47am PST
Dozens of insurgents die as Pakistan takes on 'Taliban' militants More than 50 people have been killed in heavy fighting close to the Afghan border. Hundreds of people fled from North Waziristan, Pakistan, yesterday, clutching clothes and possessions in their arms, after battles between Pakistani security forces and Islamic militants in the streets of Miran Shah, the main town....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 6:24am PST
Pakistan Stifles Protests Against Press-Lampooned Bush Pakistani authorities moved feverishly on Saturday, March4 , to give US President George Bush a trouble-free visit, shutting downtown Islamabad, enforcing watertight security measures and holding opposition leaders under house arrest....
Posted: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 11:25am PST
Taliban disown attacks, torching of schools Taliban on Wednesday disowned attacks and torching of schools in different provinces of war-ravaged Afghanistan and termed it the deeds of the enemies of entire Afghan nation....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 8:07am PST
More Torture in Occupied Afghanistan NEW YORK--"In one of the great deceptive maneuvers in U.S. history," Bob Herbert wrote recently, "the military-industrial complex (with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney as chairman and C.E.O., respectively) took its eye off the real enemy in Afghanistan and launched the pointless but far more remunerative war in Iraq." Herbert, one of the New York Times' better pundits, ought to know better than to point to Afghanistan as the right fight at the right time. But he's not the o...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 7:36am PST
Pakistan suicide bombing claims life of US diplomat With President George Bush due to hold talks in Pakistan tomorrow, four people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a suicide bombing near the US consulate in Karachi....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 7:14am PST
Afghan bombing wounds Canadians A bomber has detonated a car bomb near a Canadian armoured vehicle in southern Afghanistan, killing himself and wounding five Canadian soldiers....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 7:09am PST
New Risk for Afghan Aid Workers The arrest of a suspected suicide bomber who disguised himself as a member of a non-government organisation could put all aid workers at risk....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 10:12pm PST
Eye on the Middle East -- Has Al Qaeda Left Iraq? Has U.S. Strategy Changed? Eye on the Middle East is a biweekly digest of news from the Arab-language media. Jalal Ghazi monitors and translates Arab media for New America Media, a project of Pacific News Service, and Link TV....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 5:49pm PST
Outlook worsens in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan — Fighting between U.S. forces and suspected Taliban rebels on Tuesday killed one American service member and wounded two others in southern Afghanistan, as military officials in Washington and Afghanistan said insurgent attacks rose sharply last year and are likely to worsen in 2006....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:45am PST
Violation of International Law In Afghanistan, War Vet Tells Troops, PM Press release relevant to all soldiers and citizens of all nations involved in the Afghan war. Four documents: -To Canadian troops in Afghanistan, -Canada Violating International Law In Afghanistan, War Vet Tells Troops, PM -Letter to PM Stephen Harper, Feb. 28, 2006 -Research Brief: “Legal Aspects of Canada’s Actions in Afghanistan Deeply Troubling.”...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 7:59am PST
Cash rewards for Taleban fighters Four years ago, the Americans claimed victory over the Taleban. But in the past year, the fighting has intensified, producing the worst casualty figures since 2001.
As a large deployment of British troops arrives in the country, BBC reporter Kate Clark investigates the security situation....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 5:38pm PST
British forces stay away as Afghan opium war begins The convoys are formed, line after line, in the swirling dust of Lashkar Gar airfield - bulldozers, oil tankers and trucks bristling with guns. Afghanistan's opium war is about to begin....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 5:32pm PST
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