Afghanistan Politics News

Eyewitnesses in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar say that a group of Taliban militants attacked a convoy of US military tankers around the provincial capital of Jalal Abad on Sunday, torching three out of the five tankers around a...

This is the sort of thing that turns Afghans against the NATO and US forces. Too often air support is called in and often civilians are among the casualties. This time it seems the air strike was on the wrong...

This article makes it clear that one of the reasons there is no unity govt. with Abdullah is that he was not offered enough or that he demanded too much. Notice that the West has not been clamoring for Karzai...

Afghanistan on Saturday rejected criticism of President Hamid Karzai by foreign leaders and the senior UN official in the country, accusing them of disrespecting the country's sovereignty. Kai Eide, the UN's special representative to Afghanistan, was among those who this...

Badghis the previous day mistakenly hit a joint base housing coalition troops and Afghan security forces, killing four Afghan soldiers and three policemen. Afghan authorities were investigating whether an alliance airstrike during an operation Friday to rescue two missing American...

The Ministry of Defence Of Afghanistan said,"8 Afghan police mans killed in a NATO's air attack on Friday, This appeares in province Baghdais, while NATO did not describe any air attack here. They said,"NATO and Afghan leaders are investigating this.According...

Afghanistan yesterday," the press release said.     Giving details, the press release added that one U.S. service member was killed in an insurgent attack in western Afghanistan.     However, it added this event was not related to the ongoing search operation for...

Britain should start withdrawing, not reinforcing, its troops in Afghanistan. Sending extra troops is unnecessary and will prove counter-effective. The additional number of British troops is small, but the US is poised to send tens of thousands more soldiers to...

It'll be part of this country's planned exit of combat soldiers from Afghanistan, an undertaking that begins in July, 2011, and will amount to Canada's biggest military withdrawal since the post-Cold War pullout from Germany. Canada's top soldier, Chief of...

After a closed-door meeting with the UN Security Council, Ban, addressing a press conference on Friday, said he briefed the council about his recent trip to Afghanistan. He said that a coordinated international effort should be undertaken once again to...