Pakistani security forces say they have arrested three Uzbek militants rushing to join the Taliban in the Swat Valley where insurgents are fighting Pakistan's army, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
The U.S. Senate has approved a $91.3 billion measure that President Barack Obama sought to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, meeting some of his priorities but leaving out funding to close the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Weeks before the start of the formal three-month campaign for Afghanistan's presidential vote, incumbent Hamid Karzai is maneuvering to stymie domestic political opposition and convince the international community that he remains an indispensible ally.
The Obama administration is confident that Pakistan will not use a planned sharp increase in U.S. aid to strengthen its nuclear arsenal, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.
Four men were arrested on May 20 in a suspected plot to bomb a synagogue and Jewish community center in New York City and to shoot at military planes with stinger missiles, law enforcement officials said.
There is a currently a proposal to establish a fortified region in Kabul to house diplomatic missions, and so better protect these from incidents of violence that continue to occur in Afghanistan’s capital. The idea is modeled on Baghdad's “Green Zone.”
A NATO-led air raid may have killed eight civilians in Afghanistan, the alliance has said, in the latest incident of noncombatant casualties that have stoked anger in the country.
Pakistani soldiers have nearly cleared Taliban fighters from a district 100 kilometers from the capital in heavy fighting in which the militants have suffered heavy casualties, the military said.
Officials for both NATO and the U.S. military said a blast had hit a convoy foreign troops on a road leading to Bagram airfield, to the north of Kabul, but had no further details. Bagram is the key base for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan.
With elections on the horizon, the leaders of Germany's two main parties, Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, are cautiously trying to rally support for the country's role in Afghanistan. But with two-thirds of the population in favor of withdrawal, will Germany's engagement fall victim to the election campaign?
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has met grieving relatives of civilians killed by U.S. air strikes in western Farah Province and confirmed an official death toll of 140, a senior official said.
Two Tajik families illegally entered Afghanistan earlier this month because they said they wanted to live in an Islamic country, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.
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