Japan Times
But donors have adopted a new mindset, demanding that the money be well spent and promising the government in Kabul and taxpayers back home that they will keep a close eye on the results. Given the scale of corruption in Afghanistan, that will be a...
United Press International
Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force said Sunday. Two soldiers died in a roadside bomb attack Sunday, while a third was killed Saturday in a separate incident, Khaama Press reported...Meanwhile, Taliban militants abducted five...
The Hindustan Times
Afghanistan warned Pakistan on Sunday that any further cross-border shelling could significantly harm relations, just days after the leaders of the two strife-torn neighbours met to discuss peace. More than 300 heavy artillery shells and rockets...
DAWN
Afghan officials said Sunday that hundreds of shells and rockets have been fired into Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistan, hitting homes and killing four civilians along frontier areas from which insurgents have in the past staged cross-border...
Arab News
An Afghan man killed his two teenage daughters when they returned home four days after running away with a man in a southern village, police said Sunday. The father, who shot the girls, has been detained on murder charges in Nad Ali district in the...
DAWN
Taliban insurgents executed five civilians near Kabul for working with Nato troops, authorities said Sunday, the latest in a series of militant activities in villages around the capital. The incident in central Wardak province's Jalrez district, 40...