British diplomat quits Afghanistan post
Britain's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, who has criticized elements of the U.S. war strategy, has resigned and the new government of Prime Minister David Cameron is reviewing whether to fill the job, British officials said Monday.Sherard Cowper-Coles, the British counterpart of Obama administration special representative Richard C. Holbrooke, ...
2 US troops, 11 Afghan civilians killed in south
KABUL, Afghanistan — Three international service members and at least 11 civilians died in violence across southern Afghanistan on Friday, including one attack in which a suicide bomber wearing a burqa blew himself up in a bazaar.Violence has spiked recently in Afghanistan's volatile south as Taliban insurgents step up attacks ...
NATO goods for Afghanistan attacked in Pakistan
Suspected militants attacked trucks carrying military vehicles for foreign forces in Afghanistan early Wednesday close to the Pakistani capital, killing at least two people and wounding seven others, police and witnesses said. Insurgents have occasionally attacked the convoys over the last two years, but Wednesday's strike was the first so ...
NATO suffers deadliest days this year in Afghanistan
KABUL – Thirteen NATO soldiers have been killed in two days in Afghanistan, marking one of the deadliest bouts for the alliance this year as critics warn of increased Taliban momentum.Seven Americans, two Australians and one French soldier were killed on Monday as they pursued a nearly nine-year war against ...
Two more U.S. troops die in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two more American troops were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, the military said, extending a spike of bloodshed into a second day and pushing the NATO losses in the country to 23 in just over a week.The latest deaths came as insurgents step up bombings and ...
Afghan Reconciliation Meeting Disrupted by Rockets, Gunfire
Afghan President Hamid Karzai opened a conference on national reconciliation as rockets and gunfire erupted outside the meeting venue. More than 1,600 politicians, tribal elders and members of civil groups gathered in a tent on the Kabul University campus for the National Consultative Peace Conference. The first explosion occurred as ...
NATO soldier killed in southern Afghanistan
KABUL (AFP) – A bomb favoured by the Taliban has killed a foreign soldier in southern Afghanistan, NATO said Thursday, bringing the number of international troops killed in the country this year to 219.NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the soldier, whose nationality was not revealed, "died following an ...
UK soldier shot dead in Afghanistan
LONDON – A British soldier was shot dead in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence said.The soldier, from 4th Regiment Royal Artillery, died from a gunshot wound sustained during a small arms fire engagement with insurgents in the Nahr-e Saraj area of Helmand Province, the MoD said."He was ...
Taliban insurgents attack Bagram airbase in Afghanistan
• American contractor killed and nine troops wounded• Dozen suicide bombers dead in attack on military baseSuicide bombers carrying rockets and grenades attacked one of the biggest Nato military bases in Afghanistan today, killing an American contractor and wounding nine US troops.About a dozen militants, many wearing suicide vests packed ...
Taliban launch attack on US airfield at Bagram in Afghanistan
Insurgents launched a pre-dawn assault today against the giant US-run Bagram airfield in Afghanistan, the second Taliban strike at Nato forces in and around Kabul in as many days.At least 10 insurgents had been killed so far in the "ongoing attack", which started at about 3am with rockets, small arms ...
US service member killed in Afghan insurgent attack; official's driver killed in separate attack
KABUL (AP) - NATO says a U.S. service member has been killed following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan.Alliance spokesman Col. Wayne Shanks confirmed an American died Sunday but declined to provide details, pending notification of the family of the service member.Twenty-four NATO troops, including 16 U.S. service members, have ...
Protesters say NATO attack killed Afghan civilians
KABUL — Hundreds of protesters brandished sticks, threw stones and burned an American flag Friday in eastern Afghanistan as they accused NATO forces of killing civilians in an overnight raid, but the alliance said eight insurgents were killed in the attack.Also Friday, the governor of eastern Paktiya province narrowly escaped ...
President Obama, Bringing the Truthiness on Afghanistan
President Obama told reporters on May 12, 2010, that "we're beginning to reverse the momentum of the insurgency" in Afghanistan. According to his administration's own report given to Congress last week, that's not true. The insurgency is growing in size and capabilities. Simply put, the president's continued troop increases aren't ...
Obama, Karzai say Afghan war to worsen
WASHINGTON — President Obama and his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, appeared side by side yesterday in a stiff, choreographed effort to demonstrate they have set aside differences over how to prosecute the war in Afghanistan.Both acknowledged the war is likely to worsen in the months ahead as U.S. troops push ...
APNewsBreak: US reviewing Iraq troop pullout pace
BAGHDAD — Worries over increased violence fueled by Iraq's political instability have forced U.S. commanders to reconsider the pace of a major pullout this summer without overstepping a deadline to cut the military's presence by nearly half by the end of August.More than two months after parliamentary elections, the next ...
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Nothing to See Here, Folks: Covering Up a Massacre in Afghanistan
“I want to ask: What does apology mean? We apologize for our mistakes and repeat our mistakes again? What meaning does this have?” –Sayid Mohammed Mal, Vice Chancellor, Gardez UniversityPlease sign Rethink Afghanistan’s petition calling for an independent, U.N.-led investigation into what happened at Gardez and who tried to cover ...
NATO airstrike kills at least 27 civilians
KABUL – A NATO airstrike killed at least 27 Afghan civilians, officials said Monday, in the third coalition strike this month to kill noncombatants and draw a sharp rebuke from Afghanistan's government about endangering civilians.In eastern Afghanistan, a suicide bomber killed 15 people on Monday, including a tribal leader who ...
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