Afghanistan Archives

November 7, 2008

More Afghan civilians killed in coalition strikes

KABUL, Afghanistan (IHT) As Afghan officials reported more civilian casualties from coalition airstrikes on Thursday, witnesses to a strike that apparently hit a wedding party earlier this week said the civilian death toll could be more than double the 40 reported so far by Afghan officials.

November 3, 2008

Increasing kidnapping cases worsen Afghanistan's already chaotic situation

KABUL (Xinhua) -- The war-torn Afghanistan has seen deteriorating of security in the past months as criminal gangs and militants have resorted to abduction of foreigners and attacking soft targets as a new tactic to destabilize security and defame the government.

October 4, 2008

Afghan governor tries new approach to opium

KABUL (IHT) As the new planting season for opium poppy draws near, the governor of Helmand, Afghanistan's largest poppy-producing province, says that this year he is determined to beat the illicit crop, which is a major source of money for drug lords and insurgents alike.

October 1, 2008

Afghan president to seek negotiation with Taliban through Riyadh

KABUL (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has disclosed that his administration wanted talks with Taliban through the mediation of Saudi Arabia, an Afghan web site Quqnoos reported on Wednesday.

September 20, 2008

Afghan, Foreign Forces Agree to Suspend Operations for Peace Day

(VOA) Afghan and international forces have agreed to suspend military operations on September 21 in observance of United Nations "Peace Day."

September 19, 2008

Cornered by war and drought, Afghans fear a harsh, hungry winter

YAKOWLANG, Afghanistan (IHT) A pitiable harvest this year has left small farmers all over central and northern Afghanistan facing hunger, and aid officials are warning of an acute food shortage this winter for nine million Afghans, more than a quarter of the population.

September 3, 2008

Crime in Afghanistan: The Kabul police chief, the plague of kidnapping, and the meaning of fear

(Guardian) General Ali Shah Khan Paktiwal, the chief of the Kabul criminal investigation department, sits forward in his chair, stubs out a Marlboro Red and stabs the air with his finger. "Paktiwal knows no fear," he says quietly. "Paktiwal does not even know the meaning of the word fear."

September 1, 2008

UN calls for "vital funding” to avert humanitarian crisis

KABUL (IRIN) - The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says donors must provide "vital funding” to enable aid agencies to avert a possible humanitarian crisis this winter.

August 22, 2008

US-led forces kill 76 Afghan civilians – ministry

(Euronews) Reports are coming in of serious loss of civilian life in Afghanistan during a raid by coalition forces. The Afghan Interior Ministry says 76 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed during a US-led bombardment in Herat province.

August 19, 2008

Taliban mount ferocious assaults on allied targets

KABUL (IHT) Taliban insurgents have mounted their most serious attacks in six years of fighting, an ambush on French troops Tuesday that killed 10 soldiers and wounded 21, according to military officials, and a complex attack Monday night on a U.S. military base with several suicide bombers.

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