News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 month ago
The deaths bring to 25 the number of American service members killed in Afghanistan this month, according to an Associated Press count. "Unfortunately, Afghanistan remains a dangerous place. We do try to take all the precautions that we can and we...
News Source: Honolulu Advertiser
| about 1 month ago
Four American troops died in a bombing in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel completed most of its investigation into whether the level of fraud in the August presidential election would require a runoff.
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 month ago
A published report says the findings of a probe into fraud allegations in Afghanistan's August election will trigger a runoff between President Hamid Karzai and his closest challenger. The Washington Post says the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints...
News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 month ago
The U.N.-backed panel investigating fraud in Afghanistan's contested election has completed the bulk of its work, but commissioners are still analyzing complaints and calculating figures that will determine if there will be a runoff, a spokeswoman...
News Source: The Frontier Post
| about 1 month ago
The Afghan government’s appointee resigned from the commission that’s investigating allegations of fraud in the country’s scandal-plagued Aug. 20 presidential election as the Obama administration struggles to craft a strategy to curb the...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 month ago
Abdullah insists the poll held two months earlier, in which he came a distant second according to unofficial results, was massively rigged in favour of Karzai. Amid the controversy, Afghanistan is yet to elect a new president and there is still no...