Afghan officials have burned more than 6.7 tons of drugs outside the capital, Kabul, with the country's counternarcotics minister hailing it as a victory against insurgents but just a small step in the fight against drugs.
Canadian troops in a NATO-led security force cordoned off the road leading to the compound. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which killed five policemen and wounded three others.
A U.S. military delegation led by Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Afghanistan's Wardak Province on April 23.
Senior U.S. officials say Washington is working "furiously" to develop a civilian reconstruction mechanism to be deployed in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. The move traces an apparent shift in U.S. policy, introduced by President Barack Obama, aimed at broadening the spectrum of Washington's responses to global crises.
Afghanistan said at the opening of the United Nations' Global Campaign for Education on April 22 that mosques will be used to promote education in the country, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reports.
One Iranian officer was killed in a shoot-out between Iranian and Afghan border guards late on April 22, Iran's Press TV has said.
The Obama administration needs to link its counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan with efforts to improve governance there to be successful in defeating the Taliban, a former Afghan finance minister has said.
In her first appearance before Congress as U.S. secretary of state, Hillary Clinton stressed the danger emanating from South Asia. She described the centerpiece of the U.S. counterterrorism strategy as the dismantling of Al-Qaeda and the prevention of its fighters' return to safe havens in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Afghanistan's Taliban has denied that it was holding peace talks with the government, saying such claims were propaganda aimed at creating a schism among the militants.
The Obama administration wants to pursue broader military ties with Pakistan to help Islamabad combat a growing threat from militant groups including the Taliban, a Pentagon official has said.
U.S. prosecutors have unveiled new charges against an Afghan man accused of conspiring to finance Taliban terrorist activities.
President Barack Obama has opened the door to possible prosecutions of U.S. officials who laid the legal groundwork for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects during the Bush administration.
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