News: Afghanistan

We have started to collect the most important news related to Afghanistan in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Afghanistan: news

'US missiles' hit Pakistan town

Sunday, October 12th 2008, 1:33
related countries: Pakistan, United States

At least four people die in a missile attack on a town in a Pakistani tribal region near Afghanistan, officials say.
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Dozens killed in Pakistan bombing

Friday, October 10th 2008, 19:40
related countries: Pakistan

Twenty-seven people are killed and more than 80 wounded in a suicide bombing on Pakistani tribal elders near the Afghan border.
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Nato to attack Afghan opium labs

Friday, October 10th 2008, 16:04

Nato allows its troops to attack opium factories for the first time in Afghanistan to help stem the flow of funds to the Taleban.
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New media plan to combat Taleban

Friday, October 10th 2008, 8:06
related countries: United Kingdom

The UK government mulls a radical plan to counter growing Taleban propaganda in Afghanistan, the BBC learns.
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End to war?

Thursday, October 9th 2008, 16:37

The chances of Afghan Taleban joining peace talks
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US admits higher Afghan raid toll

Wednesday, October 8th 2008, 22:38
related countries: United States
related places: August

A US military inquiry finds that an air strike in Afghanistan in August killed many more civilians than first acknowledged.
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Nato general seeks opium assault

Wednesday, October 8th 2008, 15:24

Nato's top operations commander calls for more aggressive tactics against the opium trade in Afghanistan.
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Karzai's brother 'met ex-Taleban'

Wednesday, October 8th 2008, 12:20
related countries: Saudi Arabia

The Afghan president's brother met former Taleban leaders at a religious meal hosted by the Saudi king, the BBC learns.
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US renounces Afghan 'defeatism'

Tuesday, October 7th 2008, 6:19
related countries: United Kingdom, United States

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates rejects as 'defeatist' a comment by a top British commander that the war in Afghanistan cannot be won.
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Manageable war?

Sunday, October 5th 2008, 12:06
related countries: United Kingdom

British Brigadier downgrades Afghan aims
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Afghan victory hopes played down

Sunday, October 5th 2008, 4:30
related countries: United Kingdom

Britain's military commander in Helmand has warned that there will be no "decisive victory" in Afghanistan.
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Saving mothers

Saturday, October 4th 2008, 7:12

The struggle to cut maternal mortality in Afghanistan
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'US strike' hits Pakistan village

Friday, October 3rd 2008, 18:21
related countries: Pakistan, United States

A US missile strike on a Pakistani village kills at least nine people including suspected foreign militants, Pakistani sources say.
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Karzai pleas for Saudi peace role

Tuesday, September 30th 2008, 11:03
related countries: Saudi Arabia

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says that he has made repeated efforts to engage Saudi Arabia in Taleban peace talks.
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Kidnapped Afghan diplomat 'freed'

Tuesday, September 30th 2008, 9:12
related countries: Pakistan

Afghanistan's ambassador-designate in Pakistan, Abdul Khaliq Farahi, is released a week after he was kidnapped by unknown gunmen, reports say.
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Pakistanis flee into Afghanistan

Monday, September 29th 2008, 16:13
related countries: Pakistan

Some 20,000 Pakistanis have crossed into Afghanistan to escape fighting in the Bajaur region, the UN says.
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Top Afghan policewoman shot dead

Sunday, September 28th 2008, 11:04
related places: Kandahar

Afghanistan's most prominent policewoman is shot dead outside her house in the southern city of Kandahar, officials say.
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Top Afghan policewoman shot dead

Sunday, September 28th 2008, 11:04
related places: Kandahar

Afghanistan's most prominent policewoman is shot dead outside her house in the southern city of Kandahar, officials say.
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Road to Tora Bora

Saturday, September 27th 2008, 20:41

The treacherous beauty of Afghan mountains
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Pakistan welcomes US 'blessing'

Friday, September 26th 2008, 21:23
related countries: Pakistan, United States

Pakistan's president says US support of his country is a "blessing", a day after a brief clash on the Afghanistan border.
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Taleban free abducted labourers

Friday, September 26th 2008, 16:59

More than 100 labourers kidnapped this week by the Afghan Taleban are freed, officials and militants say.
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Shots fired in US-Pakistan clash

Thursday, September 25th 2008, 22:31
related countries: Pakistan, United States

The US military says its troops have exchanged gunfire with Pakistani forces across the border with Afghanistan.
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Pakistan fires on Nato aircraft

Thursday, September 25th 2008, 17:40
related countries: Pakistan
related places: Nato

Pakistan says its troops fired warning shots at two Nato helicopters as they crossed the eastern Afghan border.
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Insider account

Thursday, September 25th 2008, 10:27
related countries: United States

Reporter tells of 'year of abuse' in US Afghan base
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Pakistan recovers 'US spy drone'

Wednesday, September 24th 2008, 15:59
related countries: Pakistan, United States

The Pakistani army says it is investigating the wreckage of a suspected US spy plane found near the Afghan border.
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US unable to spare Afghan troops

Tuesday, September 23rd 2008, 16:13
related countries: United States

The Pentagon says that a call for three extra combat brigades to go to Afghanistan cannot be met before spring 2009.
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Family visits for Bagram inmates

Tuesday, September 23rd 2008, 8:17
related countries: United States
related places: Bagram, Kabul

Detainees in US custody at the Bagram air base near Kabul are being visited by relatives for the first time.
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France to beef up Afghan mission

Monday, September 22nd 2008, 20:39
related countries: France

The French prime minister says Paris will reinforce its military presence in Afghanistan, as MPs vote in support of the mission.
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Labourers abducted in Afghanistan

Monday, September 22nd 2008, 15:29
related places: Farah

Suspected Taleban militants kidnap at least 140 civilian labourers in the south-west Afghan province of Farah.
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Pakistan troops 'repel US raid'

Monday, September 22nd 2008, 15:05
related countries: Pakistan, United States

Pakistani troops fire shots into the air to stop US helicopters crossing the border from Afghanistan, local officials say.
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France to vote on Afghan troops

Monday, September 22nd 2008, 6:52
related countries: France

The French parliament is due to vote shortly on whether to keep its troops in Afghanistan.
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Gates backs Afghan border strikes

Thursday, September 18th 2008, 19:23
related countries: Pakistan, United States

US defence chief Robert Gates defends US air strikes across the Afghan border into Pakistan.
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Like buying sugar

Thursday, September 18th 2008, 18:39

How the Afghan Taleban got armed to the hilt
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US 'must cut' Afghan casualties

Wednesday, September 17th 2008, 11:09
related countries: United States
related places: Kabul

The US must do more to limit civilian casualties in Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Robert Gates says in Kabul.
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US commander holds Pakistan talks

Wednesday, September 17th 2008, 10:32
related countries: Pakistan, United States
related places: America

America's top military commander, Adm Michael Mullen, meets Pakistani officials "to defuse tension" on the Afghan border.
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Afghan blast kills US-led troops

Wednesday, September 17th 2008, 7:16
related countries: United States

Four US-led soldiers and an Afghan national are killed in a bomb blast in east Afghanistan, the coalition forces say.
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Next mission

Wednesday, September 17th 2008, 4:35
related countries: United States

After Iraq, US general takes on Afghan challenge
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Pakistan in border warning to US

Tuesday, September 16th 2008, 16:48
related countries: Pakistan, United States

Pakistan's army says incursions by US troops across the border from Afghanistan will not be tolerated.
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Afghan civilian casualties soar

Tuesday, September 16th 2008, 14:53

UN figures show a sharp rise in the number of civilians killed by Taleban militants and foreign forces in Afghanistan.
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Risky business

Tuesday, September 16th 2008, 9:30

Kidnappings prompt fears among Afghan traders
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Iran 'sending weapons to Taleban'

Monday, September 15th 2008, 10:49
related countries: Iran

Elements in the Iranian state are sending weapons across the border to the Taleban in Afghanistan, the BBC learns.
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Women swim Channel to aid Afghans

Sunday, September 14th 2008, 2:38

A group of six women begin a charity swim across the English Channel to raise money for maternity hospitals in Afghanistan.
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Braving Afghanistan's dangerous roads

Saturday, September 13th 2008, 11:53

Kate Clark explains the dangers of travelling on some of Afghanistan's most insecure roads.
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Afghan provincial governor killed

Saturday, September 13th 2008, 10:11
related places: Kabul

The governor of the Afghan province of Logar is killed in a roadside bomb attack near Kabul, officials say.
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Bush 'approved' Pakistan attacks

Thursday, September 11th 2008, 22:36
related countries: Pakistan

President Bush approved US military raids on militants inside Pakistan without Islamabad's agreement, the BBC learns.
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