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 ".
Afghanistan: The US military today said Afghan and coalition forces killed four militants in a firefight north of Kabul. Fighting broke out when troops from the US-led coaliti
Germany has became the first NATO nation to win Russian permission to use the country’s railways to transit military goods bound for Afghanistan. NATO officials see the Russian-German transit deal as an encouraging sign. It is the first major ...
21 (Xinhua) -- Defense ministers of NATO countries involved in Afghanistan are meeting Friday in eastern Canada to discuss how to better manage the mission ...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan fired 20 artillery rounds at insurgents inside Pakistan after coordinating with Islamabad, officials said today. Meanwhile, five Afghan troops were killed in a clash with insurgents in the west.
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A suicide car bomber wounded two U.S. soldiers and some Afghans in an attack in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, a U.S. military spokesman said. The Taliban insurgency has intensified over the past two years and the number of foreign troops has gone up to 70,000, about half of them American...
By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service Nov. 18, 2008 - With U.S., Afghan and Pakistani forces applying pressure on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the enemy "is running out of options for places to go," a senior U.S. officer in the region said today. Army Col. John M...
Kabul, Nov 19 (ANI): The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has reportedly admitted that NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan fired 20 artillery rounds at Taliban inside Pakistan after co-ordinating with Islamabad.
In a statement issued last evening, the ISAF said that it...
NATO and Pakistan agree that winning over the hearts and minds of tribesmen living in the country's lawless border with Afghanistan is crucial to defeating the Taliban, the transatlantic alliance's top military commander said Wednesday.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Thirty Taliban militants have been killed by U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan's Helmand province, officials said Sunday.
KABUL: NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan fired 20 artillery rounds at insurgents inside Pakistan in an attack the alliance said was coordinated with the government in Islamabad.
KABUL: Afghan government representatives and former members of the Taliban are expected to meet in Saudi Arabia soon for their second talks on a way to end the war in Afghanistan, an Afghan government official ...
Associated Press Writer= KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants rejected an offer of peace talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, saying Monday there would be no negotiations until foreign troops leave Afghanistan. Karzai offered Sunday to ...
KABUL, NOV 18 (BNA)--US-LED COALITION TROOPS DETAINED 14 MILITANTS IN OPERATIONS AIMED AT DISRUPTING THE
MOVEMENT OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS AND ATTACKS AGAINST INTERNATIONAL AND AFGHAN FORCES IN EASTERN AFGHANISTAN,
REPORTED DPA TODAY.
BRUSSELS: Nato and Pakistan agree that winning over the hearts and minds of tribesmen living in Pakistan's lawless border with Afghanistan is crucial to defeating the Taliban, the transatlantic alliance's top military commander said yesterday. "Only ...