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Explosions and gunfire rocked central Kabul Friday as the Taliban launched a major attack close to an Afghan intelligence facility and the headquarters of a government force that protects foreign firms.

KABUL -Explosions and gunfire rocked central Kabul Friday as the Taliban launched a major attack close to an Afghan intelligence facility and the headquarters of a government force that protects foreign firms. Smoke rose from the site of at least one suicide car blast that started the coordinated assault before commando security forces began an operation to clear several...

Die Taliban haben den Krieg in Afghanistan wieder in die Hauptstadt gebracht: In Kabul attackierten radikalislamische Kämpfer ein UN-Gebäude. Nach stundenlangen Gefechten wurden alle fünf Angreifer getötet, teilte die Polizei mit.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the top United Nations envoy in Afghanistan have strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a compound of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in central Kabul, which earlier today wounded three of the agency’s staff, one seriously.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on the Kabul compound of the U.N. affiliated International Organization for Migration, killing one Afghan police officer, injuring three of the agency's staff members and an employee of the International Labor Organization (IOM), the U.N. announced. Several U.N. and Afghan security officials were also injured. The incident...

Explosions and gunfire rocked central Kabul Friday as the Taliban launched a major attack close to an Afghan intelligence facility and the headquarters of a government force that protects foreign firms.

A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said.

The top United Nations official in Afghanistan strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a compound of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in central Kabul, which earlier today wounded three of the agencys staff, one seriously.

Mindestens drei Personen starben bei einem Selbstmordanschlag der Taliban in Kabul. Es folgt eine Schießerei zwischen Tätern und Polizei. Mögliches Ziel könnten die Büros des afghanischen Sicherheitsschutzes gewesen sein

The attackers set off a large explosion followed by numerous smaller blasts, sending United Nations and international agency workers into bomb shelters.    

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- In the latest militant strike on the Afghan capital, Taliban gunmen backed by a suicide car bomber attacked an international aid group's compound on Friday, killing two guards and setting off an hours-long street battle with police in the heart of Kabul ....

Taliban militants and Afghan police are locked in a fierce gunfight in the centre of Kabul after four gunmen and a suicide bomber attacked a UN guest house and compound.    

Large explosions have been heard in Kabul today followed by gunfire in central Kabul today near the Indian embassy.

Die Uno ist ins Visier der Taliban in Afghanistans Hauptstadt Kabul geraten: Vier Islamisten sind in ein Gebäude einer Uno-Organisation eingedrungen und lieferten sich ein Feuergefecht mit Polizisten und norwegischen Soldaten.

The attackers set off a large explosion followed by numerous smaller blasts, sending United Nations and international agency workers into bomb shelters.    

Gunmen reportedly targeted American intelligence personnel who were training Afghan officers.

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack on a U.N. compound in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Friday setting off explosions and battling the security forces.

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Hard-line Islamist students protested in Kabul demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women’s rights that they say is un-Islamic.    

NEW DELHI - Addressing media persons in New Delhi, visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday said Kabul has given a wish list to India, but did not specify what the list contains. He also ruled out deployment of Indian soldiers in Afghanistan. Karzai said: “We have a wish list that we have put before the government of India. It is up to the government now...

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Concerns raised over proposals that allow candidates to settle in Britain only if they have 12 months' continuous serviceLawyers representing Afghan interpreters have welcomed the news that about half of them are to be given settlement rights in the UK in recognition for risking their lives for British troops but expressed concerns that the reworked package does not go...

KABUL : A roadside bomb in western Afghanistan and clashes in the volatile south left eleven police officers dead, officials said Tuesday. The bomb killed six police guards in Herat province on Tuesday as they travelled to a hydroelectric dam that is under protection from insurgent attack. The officers were from the Afghan Public Protection Force, a government-run force...

KABUL (Reuters) - About 600 Afghan women and girls are behind bars for so-called moral crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost...

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for “moral crimes." (Kabul) – The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for “moral crimes,” Human Rights...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A powerful roadside bomb killed six policemen in western Afghanistan on Tuesday when their vehicle hit the explosives buried in the road, an Afghan official said....

Najibullah Hashimi, from Kent, is to be sent back to Kabul, despite achieving 13 GCSEs, settling down with a foster family and becoming a pillar of his community.

Karzai is expected to ask India for help with 'military needs and shortages' during three-day visit to subcontinentHamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has arrived in Delhi on a three-day visit during which he is expected to ask India to boost its assistance to Afghan armed forces.The request would heighten tensions in the region, and raise concerns among western observers...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber struck outside a provincial council headquarters in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing the council chief and at least 13 others, authorities said. The Taliban insurgency quickly claimed responsibility....

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience....

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled over a decade ago.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan legislator says conservative lawmakers have blocked a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, saying parts of it violate Islamic principles....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an official said Saturday....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Two bombs hidden in a motorcycle and a car exploded inside an elite gated community linked to the family of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday evening, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 70 near the southern city of Kandahar, an official said....

Dead included two Nato soldiers and four contractors    

KABUL  -  A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans, Afghan and foreign officials said, in one of the worst attacks in the Afghan capital in months. Forty people were wounded in the blast during the morning rush-hour. One Nato sports utility vehicle was completely destroyed in...

A suicide bomber rammed his car into a U.S. convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including two American soldiers and four civilian contractors, officials said

A suicide car bomb targeted a foreign military convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing 14 people including six NATO personnel and two children in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for nearly a year. The powerful explosion, which struck at 8:00 am (0330 GMT) in the Shah Shaheed southeastern residential district, also injured 37 passers-by including many children going...

Beim schwersten Anschlag in Afghanistans Hauptstadt Kabul seit zwei Monaten sind mindestens 16 Menschen getötet worden. Unter den Opfern sollen sechs Angehörige der ISAF-Truppe sein. Zu dem Anschlag bekannte sich die radikalislamische Hesb-i-Islami-Miliz.

Suicide bomber striikes military convoy in Afghan capital; Islamic militant group takes credit.

A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital Kabul kills at least six people. Sarah Sheffer reports

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy during rush hour in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, including six U.S. military advisers and two children, officials said. U.S. soldiers rushed to the scene to help, including some wearing only T-shirts or shorts under their body armor....

Afghans died in attack on vehicles carrying foreign troops    

A suicide car bomb has targeted foreign military vehicles in the Afghan capital, police have said, confirming there were casualties.    

At least six people are dead after a suicide bombing in Afghan capital.

Muslim militant group Hizb-e-Islami claims responsibility and says it has formed a special ‘martyrdom’ unit to attack foreign troops

A suicide car bomb attack in Kabul on Thursday killed six civilians and wounded 37 others, the Afghan health ministry said, in an assault that targeted a foreign military convoy.    

A suicide bomber in a car targeted a convoy of vehicles carrying foreign forces in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday, Kabul Police chief Ayoub Salangi told Reuters.    

At least six Afghans killed, including three children, in rush hour attack that may also have killed a number of Nato personnelA suicide bomber drove his explosives-packed Toyota Corolla into a Nato convoy in Kabul, tearing an armoured vehicle to shreds and killing at least three children and three other civilian passersby.The attacker, from a Taliban-linked militant group,...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least six people in the explosion and wounding more than 30, officials said....

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in a car targeted two vehicles carrying foreign forces in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday killing at least six Afghan civilians, Afghan officials said.

KABUL (AP) -- A powerful explosion has shaken buildings in Kabul and smoke is billowing east of the Afghan capital....

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Afghanistan are hoping that a small steel industry can be born from the mammoth task of withdrawing equipment by the end of next year, jump-starting a scrap trade and injecting cash into local businesses.

KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban said on Tuesday it had freed the remaining four of eight Turkish civilians detained last month, the Islamist group said in a statement, adding it hoped the gesture would improve ties with Ankara.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A truck bombing Monday killed three coalition service members in southern Afghanistan, NATO said in a statement. A local official said the attack targeted a base operated by troops from Georgia....

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KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban will soon free the last four of eight Turkish civilians detained last month, the militants said on Monday, in what they called a gesture of goodwill toward fellow Muslims.

KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban will soon release the remaining four of eight Turkish civilians the group captured last month in a gesture of goodwill towards fellow Muslims, the militants said on Monday.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Iranian border guards killed 10 Afghan migrants and wounded another eight when hundreds tried to illegally cross into Iran in search of work, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said Sunday. Iran denied that....

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Senior American and Afghan officials held talks Saturday to try to iron out the details of a key pact signed a year ago that defines the future of the United States' commitment to Afghanistan.The Strategic Partnership Agreement outlines a set of principles and general commitments for relations between Washington and Kabul after 2014, when foreign...

Agreement signed by Karzai and Obama in 2012 has not forestalled uncertainty over future governance of AfghanistanSenior American and Afghan officials held talks on Saturday, to try to iron out the details of a key pact signed a year ago that defines the future of the United States' commitment to Afghanistan.The Strategic Partnership Agreement outlines a set of principles...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A top U.S. diplomat has begun meetings in Kabul to hammer out the details on a key pact governing the future of the U.S. commitment to Afghanistan, signed a year ago....

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President strikes conciliatory tone about larger-than-expected continuing deployment, despite frequent criticism of US forcesThe United States wants to keep troops at nine bases across Afghanistan, the country's president, Hamid Karzai, said on Thursday – a larger number than expected given Washington's scaled-back ambitions for shaping the country's future.Karzai, who...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. wants to keep nine bases in Afghanistan after U.S. combat troops withdraw in 2014 which is fine as long as America makes "security and economic guarantees" in exchange, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday in his first public overture in what have been private talks on a future pact between the uneasy allies....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he is ready to let the U.S. have nine bases in the country after the 2014 combat troop pullout, but wants Washington's "security and economic guarantees" first....

KABUL: The US-led NATO force fighting Taliban insurgents inAfghanistansaid Wednesday it has launched an investigation into alleged misconduct by its soldiers. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) statement said that the probe would examine a clash on April 28 in the southernprovinceofZabulwhen four insurgent fighters were killed. Meanwhile, NATO has no...

ISLAMABAD  (Our Staff Reporter/Agencies) - Pakistan warned Afghanistan on Tuesday that it would not be responsible for the consequences if a border spat between the two countries escalated further. The Foreign Office summoned the Afghan Charge d’Affaires and conveyed protest of the Government of Pakistan on repetition of an unprovoked firing incident that took place...

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ISLAMABAD/JALALABAD - Pakistan on Monday said Durand-line was a settled issue and opening discussions on this issue was a distraction from the more pressing issues requiring the priority attention and cooperation of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Responding to a query regarding Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s recent press conference in Kabul, Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz...

Israel strikes military facility in Damascus, U.N. investigator says rebels used sarin Top news: The Syrian government charged Sunday that an overnight airstrike that targeted what is believed to be a military research center in Damascus was carried out by Israel, a development that marks the most significant international military action in the ongoing Syrian...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan warned Pakistan on Monday that it will bear the consequences of more clashes on their contested border, hours after a new bout of fighting erupted between the neighbors.