A community portal about Afghanistan with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Afganistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Asia and the Middle East...
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A community portal about Afghanistan with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Afganistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Asia and the Middle East. Generally considered a part of Central Asia, it is sometimes ascribed to a regional bloc in either South Asia or the Middle East, as it has religious, ethno-linguistic, and geographic links with most of its neighbours. It is largely bordered by Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and the People's Republic of China in the far northeast. The name Afghanistan means the "Land of Afghans ".
(Reuters) - Militants set off a roadside bomb in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday as trucks supplying Western forces in Afghanistan were passing by, wounding three people, a government official and witnesses said.
Kabul, Dec 1 (DPA) A suicide attack in a market in southern Afghanistan Monday killed eight civilians and two policemen and wounded 27 people, while a district governor was killed by gunmen in the same region, officials said.A suicide bomber attacked a police ranger vehicle in the main market of...
By Michael R. GordonTHE NEW YORK TIMES One of the most difficult challenges President-elect Barack Obama’s national security team faces is Obama’s vow to send thousands of U.S. troops to help defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Los Angeles Times 11/28/2008 By CandM. Karim Faiez and Laura King [Printer Friendly Version] Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Islamabad, Pakistan -- Even amid the everyday brutality of war, it was an ...
A suicide bomber killed eight civilians and two policemen in an attack on a police convoy in a crowded bazaar in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on Monday, the local police chief said.
PESHAWAR: Militants torched 22 vehicles, including two Humvee armoured personnel carriers, and killed two drivers after they stormed early on Monday morning a terminal on the Ring Road where trucks taking Nato supplies to Afghanistan were parked ...
Militants destroyed trucks ferrying Humvees to Western forces in Afghanistan on Monday in an attack that killed two people and underscored the vulnerability of the crucial supply line.The raid on a terminal in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar came as the country faces rising tensions...
The New York Times reported this week that the Taliban have cut back on poppy cultivation and is stockpiling opium, grossly overstating the group’s role in the Afghanistan drug trade.
“Afghanistan has produced so much opium in recent years,” the Times reported Thursday, “that the Taliban are...
Concerns over the crisis caused by the terrorist attacks in India may overshadow NATO talks this week on drawing Georgia and Ukraine closer to the alliance, officials said Monday.NATO nations are worried that rising tensions between India and Pakistan, after last week's attacks in Mumbai, could...
12/1/2008 - KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFNS) -- A small group of Airmen helped transform a once empty building into a fully functional hospital at Camp Hero in Kandahar Province that is now staffed by ANA personnel and capable of caring for fellow ANA soldiers, Afghan national police members, and...
London, Dec 1 : The hunt for dreaded Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders has got a shot in the arm with a top secret British spy plane, which can spot a man on the ground through clouds from seven miles, reportedly ...
Kabul, Dec 1 (RIA Novosti) At least 60 Taliban militants have been killed in Afghanistan in security operation overnight Monday, a defence ministry said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 2008 Coalition forces detained six militants yesterday while continuing to target terrorist networks in Afghanistans Paktia province, military officials reported. The operation in Zadran district, about 85 miles south of Kabul and near the Pakistan border, targeted a known...