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By KATHY GANNON and ELENA BECATOROS KABUL Afghan officials say a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle in western Afghanistan has killed six people and wounded 36 others. Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said Friday a police...
Friday 20th November, 04:19 AM JST KABUL — For his critics, President Hamid Karzai’s inaugural speech Thursday struck all the right notes—sober pledges to get tough on corruption and strengthen his own security forces so...
A senior Afghan official allegedly took a $20 million bribe to steer a copper mining project to a Chinese company, a glaring example of the claims of corruption clouding the Obama administration's deliberations over expanding...
Mir Hamza sits close to his son Shamshir Khan, an Afghan boy who was injured in Monday's rocket attack in Tagab, at a hospital at the U.S. base at Bagram, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. An official said the deaths of 14...
KABUL (AP) -- Afghanistan's newly unveiled anti-corruption unit drew guarded praise Monday from a wary international community, which has heard President Hamid Karzai promise before to end the graft and thievery that's bleeding...
Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan soldiers KABUL An Afghan police official says at least two private security guards have been wounded and two fuel tankers set on fire in eastern Afghanistan when militants attacked a...
Sunday 08th November, 06:27 AM JST KABUL — U.S. and Afghan authorities investigated Saturday whether a botched NATO airstrike was to blame for the death of Afghan soldiers and police during a search for two American...
An overnight rocket strike by international forces killed nine civilians, including at least three children, villagers said Thursday. Local Afghan authorities said they had no reports of civilian deaths.
KABUL, Afghanistan - The United Nations is sending about 600 foreign staff out of the country or into secure compounds because of the deadly Taliban attack on U.N. workers, warning the Afghan government that international...
Afghan attack prompts UN to temporarily relocate more than half of its international staff By HEIDI VOGT Associated Press Writer KABUL November 5, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press 3 comments Afghan police officers carry a wounded...
