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United Press International
| 1 year ago
The Taliban said Thursday that at least 12 Afghan security personnel and 14 international troops were killed during the start of their spring offensive...International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, in its Thursday operational update, made...
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Asian Tribune
| 1 year ago
22 editor The United States has the historic habit of abandoning its friend or allies...It was with Kurds but them left it to the brutality of Iraq's Saddam Hussein. In his unannounced and surprised visit to Afghanistan on May 1 to sign a ten-year...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
Afghan President Hamid Karzai hailed a newly signed strategic pact with the United States but warned Thursday that tough negotiations still lay ahead on the US military presence in his war-torn country after 2014. Karzai and US President Barack Obama...
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SF Gate
| 1 year ago
President Obama sought to use a surprise visit to Afghanistan to start lowering the curtain on the longest war in U.S. history. But as Taliban-led insurgents showed only hours after Obama flew home Wednesday, the bloodletting appears far from over.
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama delivers an address to the American people on U.S. policy and the war in Afghanistan during his visit to Bagram Air Base in Kabul, May 2, 2012. May 3 (UPI) -- U.S. troops returning from Afghanistan are providing a challenge for...
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SF Gate
| 1 year ago
More Opinion President Obama made a quick, predawn visit to Afghanistan, timing that underlines the dangerous nature of an unpopular and costly war. But he made the most of the occasion by outlining a plausible though untested exit strategy. The...
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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
President Obama's speech during his surprise visit to Afghanistan might not have been what most Americans wanted to hear but it did shine a little light at the end of a long, dark tunnel...He was there to visit with troops and sign a long-term...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-05-03 02:36 PM Less than two hours after President Obama left Afghan istan, aliban insurgents issued a jarring reminder of the challenges America still faces in...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
The pact between the United States and Afghanistan could leave the door open for continued drone strikes against militant targets in Pakistan after 2014, US Ambassador Ryan Crocker indicated on Wednesday. There is nothing in this agreement that...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
The Taliban announced the start of its "spring offensive" yesterday just hours after the US President, Barack Obama, promised to "finish the job" and end the war in Afghanistan on a flying visit to the country. Suicide bombers killed at least seven...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Afghans push a damaged car away from the scene of a militant suicide car bomb attack which occured just hours after US President Barack Obama's surprise visit. Barack Obama left Kabul the familiar caterwaul of bomb blasts and sirens, black smoke and...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
The Taliban said it was in response to Obama's visit and to the strategic partnership deal he signed with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a pact that sets out a long-term US role after most foreign combat troops leave by the end of 2014. The...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Afghanistan The Taliban have warned they will officially start their annual "spring offensive" in Afghanistan on Thursday. Wednesday's announcement comes hours after a brazen attack on a foreigners' housing compound in Kabul that killed seven...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
The Taliban militia announced their spring offensive would begin across Afghanistan on Thursday. Code-named al Farouq, the primary targets of the offensive would be foreign invaders, their advisors, their contractors, all those who help them...
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Bloomfield Life
| 1 year ago
Afghanistan The Taliban struck back less than two hours after President Barack Obama left Afghanistan on Wednesday, targeting a foreigners' housing compound with a suicide car bomb and militants disguised as women in an assault that killed at least...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Afghan officials say a car bomb has killed at least six people in the capital, Kabul, just hours after U.S. President Barack Obama left the city following an unannounced visit. Kabul police say Wednesday's suicide car bombing was near Jalalabad road,...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Smoke billows from a compound after it was attacked by militants in Kabul. Photograph: Musadeq Sadeq/AP Suicide attackers launched a dawn attack on the outskirts of Kabul, killing seven, just hours after US President Barack Obama visited the Afghan...
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AKI
| 1 year ago
At least seven people were killed early Wednesday during an attack by a suicide bomber and Taliban insurgents on a fortified compound housing foreigners in Kabul. The Green Village compound was attacked in the early-morning raid by the car bomb and...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
A suicide car bomb attack carried out by the Taliban militants in the Afghan capital of Kabul Wednesday, within hours of US President Barack Obama's surprise visit, has left six persons dead and several injured. Share This Story Taliban insurgents,...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
The United States President Barack Obama 's surprise visit to Afghanistan on Wednesday, which also marks the first death anniversary of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, triggered attacks from the Taliban militants...President Barack Obama puts his...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
Taliban rebels attacked foreign targets in Kabul on Wednesday, hours after US President Barack Obama said on a surprise visit on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death that a "time of war" was ending. A suicide car bomb attack rocked the "Green...
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Chicago Tribune
| 1 year ago
Afghan security forces members inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Kabul May 2, 2012. Afghanistan's Taliban said on Wednesday it had carried out a suicide car bombing against a Western military compound in Kabul to protest a visit to the country...
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The Hindustan Times
| 1 year ago
An Afghan police official said three explosions went off early Wednesday in the eastern part of the capital, and were followed by sporadic shooting. The Afghan governmnet says at least six people have been killed in blasts in the capital on Wednesday...
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 1 year ago
Explosions in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul have put the US Embassy on high alert just hours after President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to the country. News agency AFP reported a suicide car bomb had exploded on Jalalabad road where there...
