Publish to Newswire
Add an EventNewsitem List
54 of 104 
Karzai offers peace, Taliban free Frenchwoman KABUL — The Taliban freed a French aid worker today as President Hamid Karzai marked the anniversary of the end of communist rule with a fresh offer of olive branch to the resurgent Islamic guerrillas....
Posted: Sat, Apr 28, 2007 9:57am PDT
Bomb kiills 15+, injures Pakistani minister A suicide bomber has killed at least 15 people and injured Pakistan's interior minister at a rally in North West Frontier Province, police say....
Posted: Sat, Apr 28, 2007 9:45am PDT
Could Talibanistan be Reaching Pakistan's Capital? According to Aryn Baker of the Time, (April 2, 2007), a new country in the borderlands lying between Pakistan and Afghanistan has already come into being. It’s called Talibanistan and it rhymes with the two countries that surround it....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 7:31pm PDT
British military sanctions Afghan poppy cultivation Angry Afghan officials have reprimanded British diplomats over a campaign by UK troops in Helmand telling farmers that growing poppy was understandable and acceptable....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 6:52am PDT
Reports confirm Canada’s complicity in Afghan state torture “If this report is accurate, Canadians have engaged in war crimes, not only individually but also as a matter of policy”—law professor Michael Byers...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 10:06pm PDT
Taliban leader says Bin Laden alive Mullah Dadullah, a senior Taliban commander, has told Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview that Osama Bin Laden, al-Qaeda's leader, is alive....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 7:44pm PDT
Taliban chief Dadullah 'surrounded' Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's military commander in southern Afghanistan, is reported to have been surrounded by Afghan troops, sources have told Al Jazeera....
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 7:15pm PDT
Punjabi Taliban Rise in Waziristan ISLAMABAD — The ouster of foreign militants, mostly Uzbek, from the troubled South Waziristan region amid a tribal uprising against them is not as simple as it looks, intelligence sources have said....
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 6:59am PDT
Double bombings rock Afghan town At least six people have been killed and several wounded after two explosions hit the town of Khost in eastern Afghanistan, local police say....
Posted: Sun, Apr 22, 2007 10:52am PDT
Afghanistan's bloody new year The Taleban have threatened that hundreds of suicide bombers will attack the Afghan government and foreign military targets this year. Mark Dummett reports from Kabul on the increasing fear of violence in the country....
Posted: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 9:42pm PDT
A Taliban Leader in Pakistan Says He Would Aid bin Laden KABUL, Afghanistan, April 20 — A Pakistani Taliban leader who has been waging a government-backed campaign to evict Central Asian militants from Pakistan’s tribal regions said Friday that he would give Osama bin Laden protection in his area if he sought it....
Posted: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 9:54am PDT
Taliban demand French withdrawal Taliban fighters who say they abducted two French aid workers and three Afghans earlier this month have demanded all French troops withdraw from Afghanistan in one week....
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 6:59pm PDT
Peace process in Afghanistan worrisome Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon recently issued a statement voicing his concern for and condemning recent violence in Afghanistan. He called on the Afghani government to stabilize the country. Afghanistan's security situation has continued to worsen in 2007. NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan has been bombed several times in roadside attacks in the southern part of the country....
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 5:12pm PDT
Afghanistan: Operation Achilles Heel? International forces claim success in their latest operation in Helmand, but locals say the Taleban stopped fighting so that the opium poppy harvest could go ahead....
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 7:36am PDT
Dozens of Taliban killed in battle US special forces and Afghan soldiers have killed 24 Taliban fighters in a seven-hour battle and an air strike in southern Afghanistan....
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 7:27am PDT
Australia dispatches more troops for phoney “war on terror” in Afghanistan The Howard government announced on April 10 that a 300-strong unit of the Australian military’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) and army commandos will be sent to the southern Afghanistan province of Uruzgan within several weeks. Their stated mission will be combat operations against alleged supporters of Al Qaeda and the former Taliban regime who are fighting a guerilla war against the US-NATO occupation of the country....
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 7:14am PDT
Women at forefront of "Talibanization" in Pakistan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Behind Abdul Aziz, the cleric who wants to enforce a strict Islamic code in the Pakistani capital, stands his wife Umm-e-Hassan, who is as fiery as he is....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:57am PDT
UN workers killed in Afghan blast Five United Nations staff have been killed when their convoy was attacked in southern Afghanistan....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:30am PDT
Urgent: Afghan woman activist speaking today and tomorrow at Sacramento City College This sounds like an excellent event. However, the event is posted as starting at 6 pm in the calendar and 7 pm on this announcement. I tried to call the numbers on the announcement, but nobody was there at the time. If anybody sees this, please respond about what is the correct time!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 4:50pm PDT
Policemen die in Afghan attack A suicide attacker has run on to a police training station and blown himself up, killing up to 10 policemen and wounding dozens of others in northern Afghanistan, officials say....
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 7:31am PDT
54 of 104