Afghan voters went to the polling stations across the country on October 20 to vote in parliamentary elections, which are seen as a key test of the government's ability to provide security across the country.
Afghanistan’s long-delayed parliamentary elections got off to a chaotic start on October 20, with polling stations hit by logistical problems as several minor incidents of violence were reported across the country.
The killing of General Abdul Raziq, one of the most powerful security leaders in Afghanistan, has plunged the volatile region he presided over into uncertainty.
At least 10 candidates contesting Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections have been killed in the past two months.
Afghans go to the polls on October 20 for the country's first parliamentary elections in eight years. The run-up to the vote has been plagued by Taliban attacks and concerns about vote-rigging, while election staff scramble to get new biometric ID systems for polling stations ready in time.
Hundreds of young, first-time Afghan candidates are contesting the October 20 parliamentary elections in a bid to bring new ideas to a tradition-bound establishment.
Parliamentary elections in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar will be delayed by one week following the assassination of the powerful provincial police commander, Afghan officials said.
Top U.S. officials have decried the killing of a powerful police chief in southern Afghanistan just two days before national elections and urged the Afghan people not to let it deter them from going to the polls.
French and Afghan archaeologists are digging through the ruins of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley to uncover the mysteries of a great lost city. (VOA)
The police chief and intelligence head of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar have been killed in a shooting attack, officials say, in a major blow to the West-backed government in Kabul.
A bombing targeting a NATO convoy near Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, has killed at least two civilians and wounded several alliance soldiers, Afghan and NATO officials say.
When Afghans vote for a new parliament on October 20, they will have an unprecedented number of women on the ballot. The road to politics in this conservative country has been bumpy but some sense a change.
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