Afghanistan’s Taliban movement on Thursday ordered voters to boycott August elections and wage holy war to ”free” the country from Western troops.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Monday called for ”a more coherent effort” to achieve a political solution in Afghanistan.
Britain said on Monday it supports more efforts to talk to hardline insurgents fighting in Afghanistan.
Winning the Afghan war is about politics, people and jobs.
United States Marines pushed deeper into Taliban strongholds on Friday.
Up until now, British-led Nato troops in Helmand have lacked the manpower to hold territory it cleared in heavy fighting.
Dozens of people are feared killed by two strong earthquakes that struck eastern Afghanistan early on Saturday, officials said.
Afghanistan’s president is delaying a law that would limit his control of media, raising worries about a ”level playing field” ahead of elections.
The US administration has unveiled its new thinking on Afghanistan as Richard Holbrooke outlined the White House policy review to Nato allies.
The red plastic sofas in the living room of Maulvi Mohammed Rahmani in Kabul’s Deh Bori quarter are rarely empty these days.
President Hamid Karzai warned the international community on Wednesday to stay clear of getting involved in governance within Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s fledgling cricket team wrapped up training in Pakistan on Tuesday, confident of success at next month’s World Cup qualifying tournament
Presidential polls in Afghanistan can’t be held next month as demanded by President Hamid Karzai, the elections commission said on Wednesday.
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/ 24 February 2009
The US decision to send more troops to Afghanistan will mean little to the people of northern Sang-i-Khel village whose fight is against hunger.
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/ 18 February 2009
US forces killed at least one child, video footage showed on Wednesday, in an air strike in western Afghanistan that police say killed 12 civilians.
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/ 11 February 2009
Taliban insurgents attacked two government buildings in Kabul on Wednesday killing at least 19 people, officials said.
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/ 4 February 2009
A senior British officer serving in Afghanistan has been arrested on suspicion of leaking official secrets, the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday.
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/ 3 February 2009
The Pentagon, in a report to Congress, said insurgent violence was on the rise across Afghanistan.
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/ 20 January 2009
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday the killing of civilians by foreign troops was a main source of instability in Afghanistan.
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/ 12 January 2009
Afghanistan will not be able to reach its goal of being free from landmines by March 2013 unless urgent funding is received, the UN said on Monday.
US-led coalition forces killed 32 insurgents in fighting that erupted in a village in Afghanistan following a raid on a hideout of bomb-makers.
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/ 23 December 2008
Afghanistan has become the heart of the ‘war on terror’ — and 2008 saw a string of reversals for the Nato forces.
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/ 21 December 2008
The United States is to deploy up to 30 000 more troops in Afghanistan by next summer.
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/ 19 December 2008
A lorry load of Christmas turkeys for British troops in Afghanistan on Friday fell victim to a roadside bomb planted by Taliban insurgents.
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/ 16 December 2008
In Afghanistan, a deadly Taliban insurgency, rampant crime and an unchecked drugs trade show no sign of abating.
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/ 15 December 2008
President George Bush went into talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday to assure him that the US will stand by the war-torn country.
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/ 15 December 2008
Nato countries are scrambling for alternative routes as far afield as Belarus and Ukraine to supply their forces in Afghanistan.
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/ 2 December 2008
The SADC ruling that fair compensation be paid to evicted Zimbabwean farmers holds implications for SA, organised agriculture said on Tuesday.
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/ 26 November 2008
President Hamid Karzai has criticised the US and other foreign countries for creating a ”parallel government” in Afghanistan’s countryside.
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/ 12 November 2008
Attackers used a water pistol to spray acid at schoolgirls in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar Wednesday, hurting 15 of them.
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/ 12 November 2008
More than 100 convicted murderers, rapists and kidnappers are on death row in Afghanistan waiting for President Hamid Karzai to sign the orders.
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/ 9 November 2008
A joint Afghan and US military investigation has concluded an air strike last week killed 37 civilians and wounded 35 more.