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/ 29 October 2008
A project that was to bring economic prosperity has become a symbol of failure, writes James Palmer.
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/ 28 October 2008
An Afghan court sentenced a South African man to 16 years in prison for trying to board a plane at Kabul’s international airport with a bag of heroin.
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/ 26 October 2008
A South African and a Briton shot dead in Kabul were killed by one of their own guards who then committed suicide, Interior Ministry officials said.
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/ 25 October 2008
One South African and one British employee of DHL, together with an Afghan guard, were killed in a shooting in the Afghan capital on Saturday.
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/ 23 October 2008
While most of the world spent last weekend trembling for its wealth, in Afghanistan the Taliban busied themselves dying in quite large numbers.
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/ 21 October 2008
An Afghan court on Tuesday overturned the death sentence of a young reporter accused of insulting Islam, but sentenced him to 20 years in jail.
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/ 21 October 2008
The failure of Nato countries to send more combat troops to Afghanistan revealed a ”wavering” political will, says the supreme military commander.
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/ 20 October 2008
A British aid worker was shot dead in Kabul on Monday in a killing claimed by the Taliban which accused her organisation of ”preaching Christianity”.
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/ 20 October 2008
Taliban fighters killed a South African female aid worker on Monday as she was going to her office in the western part of Kabul.
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/ 17 October 2008
British defence officials were on Thursday investigating reports that civilians were killed in an air strike by Nato forces in Afghanistan.
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/ 12 October 2008
About 100 militants were killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, half in air strikes that thwarted a major attack on a key town overnight.
The US called on Nato on Thursday to allow the alliance to attack the Afghan opium trade, which it said was bringing the Taliban up to -million.
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/ 24 September 2008
Three policemen were killed by a landmine planted by Taliban insurgents in a police post in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, a police official said.
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/ 15 September 2008
Taliban militants dragged a school teacher out of a mosque in Afghanistan and cut off his ears as a ”punishment” for working for the government.
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/ 10 September 2008
Abit (21) is sitting in the Kabul headquarters of the National Security Directorate and talking about how he became a suicide bomber.
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/ 8 September 2008
The US military said it planned to reopen an investigation into civilian deaths in a coalition air strike in western Afghanistan last month.
Afghan and United States-led coalition forces have killed more than 100 Taliban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand during days of fighting.
Sixty children were killed in air strikes by United States-led coalition warplanes in western Afghanistan last week, a UN investigation has found.
Figures from the United Nations to be released this week are set to reveal that opium production in the southern regions of Afghanistan has soared/
United States-led coalition forces killed 30 militants, including a Taliban commander, in an air strike in west Afghanistan.
President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday he had no regrets about sending 700 more troops to Afghanistan, after insurgents killed 10 soldiers
A wave of Taliban suicide bombers backed by gunmen attempted to breach the defences of the main US base in south-eastern Afghanistan overnight.
Afghan and US-led coalition forces have killed more than 90 militants during several days of fighting in the south of the country this week.
Shah Muhammad Rais is the biggest book-seller in Afghanistan, but while business is good, he has a mission in mind: to get his countrymen reading.
Nato killed dozens of Taliban insurgents in an air strike on Sunday in Afghanistan’s south-eastern province of Khost, the provincial governor said.
Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday amid tight security on the first leg of his high-profile tour of war zones and foreign capitals.
The Nato-led effort to subdue the Taliban suffered one of its heaviest blows since the 2001 invasion on Sunday when nine US soldiers were killed.
At least 24 people were killed on Sunday in a suicide attack at a crowded bazaar in southern Afghanistan, police said, raising an earlier toll.
A suicide car bomber rammed two diplomatic vehicles entering the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing 41 people and wounding 141.
A helicopter belonging to United States-led coalition troops was shot down by small-arms fire south of the Afghan capital on Wednesday.
Afghanistan’s snow leopards have barely survived three decades of war. But now the few remaining mountain leopards in the country face another threat.
Oil rose more than a barrel on Monday to a new record above , propelled by heightened market fears of conflict between Israel and Iran.