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Jalalabad dispatch: Strange victories in poppy province Four weeks before the new poppy planting season starts, Declan Walsh meets both sides of Afghanistan's war on drugs...
Posted: Thu, Oct 5, 2006 7:43am PDT
Afghanistan -- Hub for Secret U.S. Torture Centers On Sept. 6 President Bush admitted what for five years the U.S. has denied: that a "small number" of terrorism suspects are being held in secret prisons. A.C. Thompson -- in a 10-day trip to Afghanistan in May -- found that the country is ground zero for holding and torturing hundreds of such suspects from neighboring countries as well as Afghanistan. Photos are available; contact acthompson@hushmail.com....
Posted: Wed, Oct 4, 2006 7:40am PDT
Fear stalks the streets of Kabul Violence has been escalating in Afghanistan's capital Kabul over recent months.
After a suicide bomber killed at least 12 people outside the interior ministry, residents of the city describe how the bloodshed has injected fear into daily life....
Posted: Sat, Sep 30, 2006 9:50am PDT
Behind the rift between the Afghan and Pakistani presidents US President George Bush’s highly publicised attempt on Wednesday to reconcile two American allies—Afghan and Pakistani presidents Hamid Karzai and General Pervez Musharraf—appears to have come to nought....
Posted: Sat, Sep 30, 2006 9:40am PDT
Nato to take over Afghanistan operation Nato will take command next month of peacekeeping duties in all parts of Afghanistan hit by the Taliban insurgency after the US said it would transfer 12,000 more troops to its force....
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 7:08am PDT
AFGHANISTAN - THE OTHER LOST WAR HOW THE US PLUNDERED AFGHANISTAN IN THE NAME OF LIBERATION...
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 2:29am PDT
Afghans Fear Fallout from Iran Sanctions If the United Nations takes tough measures against Iran, its neighbour Afghanistan will be undermined economically and could be drawn into a new conflict....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 7:29am PDT
Afghan attacks up despite truce Militant attacks in Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border, have tripled in some areas, the US military has said....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 7:25am PDT
Helmand governor escapes as suicide bomber kills 18 The governor of Helmand, a key British ally in Afghanistan, was the target of a suicide bomb attack yesterday which killed 18 people....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 6:32am PDT
Many dead in Taliban bomb attacks A bomb attack in a southern Afghan town has killed 18 people, while an Italian soldier has also died after a separate blast near the capital, Kabul....
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 7:33am PDT
Afghanistan: 'The small advances women have made are now being wiped out' Late last year the pupils of a rural Afghan girls school made a horrying discovery. The Taliban had hidden a landmine under a bag in their classroom. Their teacher was not completely surprised since a few weeks earlier the Taliban had left a threatening note in the village mosque ordering all girls schools to close....
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 7:30am PDT
The woman who defied the Taliban, and paid with her life Women's rights campaigner in Afghanistan shot dead
One in two Afghan women a victim of violence
Suicide on the rise as Taliban's power increases...
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 7:30am PDT
Afghan women's official shot dead A leading Afghan official working on women's rights has been shot dead in the southern province of Kandahar....
Posted: Mon, Sep 25, 2006 6:33am PDT
A journey into the 'Taliban republic' where the militias rule unchallenged Civil war is raging through the Iraqi countryside. Sunni insurgents have largely taken control of the province of Diyala, where local leaders believe the insurgents are close to establishing a "Taliban republic"....
Posted: Mon, Sep 25, 2006 6:27am PDT
Officers warn of British troops' plight in Afghanistan British troops in Afghanistan are exhausted and desperately short of helicopters, and there is no sign that the casualty rate will fall, according to accounts yesterday from officers on the frontline. The reports, including a leaked email describing the RAF as "utterly, utterly useless", put the government under fresh pressure over whether it adequately prepared British troops for operations in the hostile south of the country....
Posted: Fri, Sep 22, 2006 6:36pm PDT
Afghan workers killed in ambush Nineteen construction workers have been killed in southern Afghanistan when their bus was hit by a bomb and then fired on by insurgents, officials say....
Posted: Fri, Sep 22, 2006 8:02am PDT
Further Nato fatalities in Afghanistan Four Nato soldiers and several Afghan civilians have been killed by a bomber in the southern province of Kandahar....
Posted: Mon, Sep 18, 2006 7:06am PDT
Let Them Drink Coke! Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan To understand why so many US representatives in foreign countries are figures of fun or even derision and contempt to their inhabitants one need look no further than a Public Broadcasting Service item of August 7....
Posted: Sun, Sep 17, 2006 9:49am PDT
Britain may send more troops to bolster Nato in Afghanistan Britain is considering sending extra troops to Afghanistan following Nato's failure to offer the reinforcements requested by commanders struggling to combat a reinvigorated Taliban....
Posted: Sun, Sep 17, 2006 9:45am PDT
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