News Source: The Globe & Mail
| about 1 year ago
Afghan authorities often blame foreign influences for trouble in their country and the Taliban denied a role in the attack. The suspects were not shown publicly, as often happens in high-profile cases in Kandahar, and authorities gave few details...
News Source: Toronto Star
| about 1 year ago
T here are not many cheerful sights in Afghanistan. But one of them is watching little girls go off to school in the morning, tidy white head scarves knotted at the throat, book bags slung over their shoulders...Toronto, mothers accompanying their...
News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| about 1 year ago
Afghanistan and the entire international community behind them, "still we are not able to defeat the Taliban," Karzai told the gathering at his presidential palace. Karzai, who is facing re-election next year and making increasing overtures to...
News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 year ago
Coalition forces in the operation targeting a senior Taliban commander in the Zormat district of Paktia province engaged and killed five militants, the statement said. During another operation in Sabori district of the province, the forces killed...
News Source: Hindustan times
| about 1 year ago
US-led coalition forces killed 10 militants in two separate operations aimed at wanted Taliban commanders in southeastern Afghanistan, the US military said today. Violence has sharply escalated in Afghanistan this year, the bloodiest period since the...
News Source: Sky News
| about 1 year ago
Its author, a retired Brigadier who was in charge of operational requirements for the Ministry of Defence , warns it may take a major defeat on the battlefield before the problem is put right...Reg Keys agrees that extravagant projects diverted money...