- 18 May 2013 13:47 - Miriam Arghandiwal, Ibrahimi Aziz,
- Afghanistan's Parliament failed to pass a law banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women's rights in the country.
- 08 Apr 2013 06:23 - Emma Graham-Harrison
- A suicide attack has claimed six lives and air attacks have killed 10 children over a weekend that served as a reminder of Afghanistan's conflict.
- 07 Apr 2013 06:29 - Reuters
- A car bomb blast killed five Americans in Afghanistan, including three US soldiers and a young diplomat on Saturday.
- 02 Apr 2013 11:17 - Jill Serjeant
- Actor Angelina Jolie has opened another girls school in Afghanistan and plans to fund more from the proceeds of a jewellery line.
- 06 Mar 2013 18:59 - Sapa-AFP
- President Hamid Karzai has said that the US would hand over a final group of Afghan prisoners, signalling a breakthrough in disputes with Washington.
- 06 Jan 2013 06:30 - Sapa-AFP
- Soosan Feroz is a surprising new phenomenon in the conservative Islamic country -- the nation's first female rapper.
- 12 Nov 2012 10:23 - Sapa-AFP
- A lone shooter could not have committed the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers blamed on a US soldier, a witness has testified.
- 07 Nov 2012 10:01 - Sapa-AFP
- In Afghanistan, where US troops are fighting in America's longest conflict, the re-election of President Barack Obama was met with a war-weary shrug.
- 21 Sep 2012 05:00 - Editorial
- The "global war on terror" and its awful sequelae seem very far away to most South Africans.
- 21 Sep 2012 05:00 - Editorial
- For all its failings, the military remains effective in one regard: instilling fear. And striking workers at Marikana felt that fear this week.
- 21 Sep 2012 04:40 - Fatima Asmal-Motala
- Prominent members of SA's Muslim community have condemned this week's suicide bomb attack in Kabul that claimed the lives of eight South Africans.
- 15 Sep 2012 10:40 - Sapa-AFP
- Washington says it's deploying forces to cope with violence in as many as 18 different locations as deadly Muslim anger spreads over a US-made movie.
- 14 Sep 2012 00:00 - Matt Waldman
- A genuine dialogue with the mullahs is essential if stability is to gain a foothold in Afghanistan, writes Matt Waldman.
- 08 Sep 2012 11:19 - Reuters
- A suicide bomber detonated explosives near the heavily barricaded Nato headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, Nato and local officials said.
- 11 Aug 2012 11:31 - Rob Taylor
- Three US Marines have been shot dead by an Afghan worker on a military base in southern Afghanistan, in a deadly 24 hours for Nato-led forces.
- 14 Jul 2012 07:49 - Reuters
- A suicide bomber blew himself up at a wedding reception in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 40 others.
- 13 Jul 2012 08:05 - Julian Borger
- A senior commander of the Taliban has offered a pragmatic view on the futility of the war and the future of Afghanistan. Julian Borger reports.
