Two French journalists kidnapped in Afghanistan urged the French government to speed negotiations for their freedom in a video released by the Taliban today.
On the second day of a major military offensive against a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, allied troops’ advance was reportedly being slowed by bombs and booby-traps left behind by militants.
A U.S. drone aircraft killed five militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border today, Pakistani security officials said.
A U.S. Marine company position came under intense fire from all sides today at a building where an Afghan flag had been raised to mark progress in a NATO offensive against a Taliban stronghold.
Six decades of lost opportunities have shown that the only rational way forward is to quarantine the religious fanatics and take back only those who have freed themselves of the toxic ideology of the religious supremacists.
NATO and Afghan forces have launched a crucial offensive to regain control of Helmand Province, one of the Taliban's last main strongholds in Afghanistan. The attack, which began early today, is the biggest joint Afghan-international offensive since the Afghan war began in late 2001.
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.
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