U.S.-led NATO troops have launched an offensive designed to seize control of the Taliban's last big stronghold in Afghanistan's most violent province, a Reuters witness said.
Upstart Afghan cricketers this week swept through group play by defeating Ireland, Scotland, and the United States. Success on the cricket field has emerged as a source of national pride.
Stability was just what one Afghan village needed to use its own ingenuity to cope its problems. And it may be all any community in Afghanistan needs to do the same.
In its "World Press Freedom Review" for 2009, the International Press Institute (IPI) is critical of media conditions in many countries, noting that a total of 110 journalists were killed doing their work last year.
Former U.S. Congressman Charlie Wilson, known for his efforts to fund Afghan mujahedin fighters battling Soviet troops, has died in Texas at the age of 76. As a lawmaker, Wilson was instrumental in helping direct billions of dollars to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which distributed funds to buy Afghan fighters sophisticated weapons to use against the Soviet occupiers.
Noor Afghaa had just driven his crowded passenger bus through Afghanistan's Salang Tunnel on the night of February 8 when he heard a rumble and a roar.
In Kabul, U.S. national security adviser James Jones talked to RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan correspondent Jawad Mojahid about the security situation in Afghanistan, and what the United States aims to do to improve it.
Afghanistan is ready to feed thousands if they flee a major assault by NATO troops, but officials hope fighting will be limited and civilians can safely stay home, President Hamid Karzai's spokesman said.
At least 165 people have been killed in avalanches that have blocked a mountain pass north of Kabul, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reports.
A new frenzy of rumors spread about the fate of Pakistan Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud today, but a U.S. counterterrorism official said he could not definitively confirm the death of the militant.
Looking to instill discipline, experience, and honor in the country's youth, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has announced he is considering replacing Afghanistan's volunteer army with one with manned by conscripts.
At least 24 bodies have been recovered and 40 other people are feared dead after avalanches swept vehicles into a ravine and trapped cars in a mountain pass overnight, Afghanistan's Interior Minister said today.
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