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

Dozens of Taliban 'switch sides'

Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 16:05

At least 40 Taliban have surrendered and joined pro-government forces in the north of Afghanistan after a military operation, say police.
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Quick march

Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 7:19

Afghanistan's make-or-break year ahead and a to-do list from hell
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Australia in Afghan asylum deal

Monday, January 17th 2011, 12:05
related countries: Australia

Australia signs a deal with the Afghan government allowing for the involuntary repatriation of failed asylum seekers.
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Bomb kills Afghan wedding guests

Sunday, January 16th 2011, 13:14

At least nine Afghans on their way to a wedding in the north are killed by a roadside bomb which destroyed their car, officials say.
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Taliban 'support' girls' schools

Friday, January 14th 2011, 13:32

The Taliban are prepared to drop their ban on schooling girls in Afghanistan, the country's education minister says.
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Troops deployed 'to avoid cuts'

Thursday, January 13th 2011, 19:06
related countries: Iraq, United Kingdom

UK commanders were keen to redeploy Army troops leaving Iraq to Afghanistan because of fears they would be cut if they were not used, it is claimed.
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US top brass warns on Afghanistan

Thursday, January 13th 2011, 11:24
related countries: United States

The US military's top officer Adm Mike Mullen warns that there will be an increase in bloodshed in Afghanistan this year.
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Italy stops people-smuggling ring

Wednesday, January 12th 2011, 23:35

A gang which smuggled mainly Afghan migrants into Europe is smashed and 26 members are arrested, the European police force Europol says.
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Deadly attacks on Afghan forces

Wednesday, January 12th 2011, 13:51
related places: Kabul

At least eight people are killed in attacks on Afghan intelligence forces in Kabul and the northern province of Kunduz.
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US troops may stay in Afghanistan

Tuesday, January 11th 2011, 17:57
related countries: United States

US Vice-President Joe Biden says that his country will not leave Afghanistan in 2014 if the Afghan people do not want them to go.
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Afghan mini circus entertain in Italy

Monday, January 10th 2011, 18:44
related countries: Italy

The Afghan Mobile Mini Circus, launched to help Afghan children take their minds off the war has become so popular that it is performing in Italy.
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US vice president in Afghanistan

Monday, January 10th 2011, 17:58
related countries: United States

US Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Afghanistan on an unexpected visit which will see him hold talks with President Karzai and meet US troops.
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Bomber targets Afghan bath house

Friday, January 7th 2011, 22:14

An explosion in the south of Afghanistan has killed at least 17 people and wounded many others
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Afghans accuse Iran of fuel ban

Friday, January 7th 2011, 16:29
related countries: Iran
related places: Kabul

Hundreds of protesters in Kabul accuse Iran of blocking fuel tankers from crossing the border into Afghanistan.
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Dutch plan Afghan police mission

Friday, January 7th 2011, 15:58
related countries: Netherlands

The Netherlands is to send a 545-strong police training force to Afghanistan, months after withdrawing combat troops.
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Bomber targets Afghan bath house

Friday, January 7th 2011, 15:38
related places: Kandahar

At least 17 people die and many are injured in a blast at a public bath house in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province.
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US to bolster Afghan marine force

Thursday, January 6th 2011, 16:26
related countries: United States

The US is to send an additional 1,400 marines to southern Afghanistan in an effort to pre-empt a Taliban offensive, the Pentagon says.
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Taliban attack truce talks elder

Tuesday, January 4th 2011, 16:45

The Taliban attack an elder trying to negotiate a truce on behalf of his village with the Afghan government.
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Afghanistan blast kills soldier

Sunday, January 2nd 2011, 10:33
related countries: United Kingdom

A soldier from 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.
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In pictures

Sunday, January 2nd 2011, 0:33

New Home, New Life - The Archers for Afghanistan?
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'14 die' in Afghan roadside blast

Thursday, December 30th 2010, 11:22

Fourteen Afghan civilians, including women and children, have died as their minibus hit a roadside bomb in Helmand province, Afghan officials say.
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Soldier killed by explosion named

Wednesday, December 29th 2010, 22:48

A soldier killed in an explosion in Afghanistan as he helped to clear an area of bombs is named as Warrant Officer Class 2 Charlie Wood.
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Afghan hospital chief is sacked

Wednesday, December 29th 2010, 14:51
related places: Kabul

The head of military hospitals in Afghanistan is sacked by the defence ministry, accused of neglecting soldiers wounded in a Kabul suicide bombing.
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France marks kidnap anniversary

Wednesday, December 29th 2010, 10:54
related countries: France
related places: Arc

Images of two French journalists held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan are projected onto the Arc de Triomphe on the anniversary of their capture.
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UK soldier killed in Afghanistan

Tuesday, December 28th 2010, 20:35
related countries: United Kingdom

A soldier serving with the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Task Force has been killed in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.
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Afghan blast kills at least three

Monday, December 27th 2010, 11:58
related places: Kandahar

At least three people are killed and at least 20 wounded in a car bomb explosion in the centre of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, police say.
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Turkish workers in Afghan kidnap

Sunday, December 26th 2010, 15:50
related countries: Pakistan, Turkey

Gunmen snatch four Turkish road workers and their local driver in Afghanistan's Paktia province, close to the Pakistan border.
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'Iran arms smuggler' held by Nato

Friday, December 24th 2010, 10:44
related countries: Iran

A man suspected of helping to smuggle weapons from Iran across the border into Afghanistan is detained by Nato, but is not believed to be a member of an elite Iranian force as first reported.
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How will US troops leave Afghanistan?

Thursday, December 23rd 2010, 17:00
related countries: United States

The US Vice President Joe Biden has said the US troop presence in Afghanistan will be '''totally out of there, come hell or high water, by 2014".
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Afghan policeman killed in attack

Thursday, December 23rd 2010, 5:44

A policeman is killed in a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan, police say.
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US Congress approves defence bill

Wednesday, December 22nd 2010, 18:34
related countries: Iraq, United States

The US Congress approves a bill authorising the Pentagon to spend $160bn (£104bn) in Iraq and Afghanistan during this budget year.
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Isaf investigating Afghan deaths

Tuesday, December 21st 2010, 20:47

The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force says it is investigating the deaths of five civilians in southern Afghanistan.
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Afghan graffiti art hits Kabul

Tuesday, December 21st 2010, 15:09
related places: Kabul

A new Afghan art collective called "Roshd", or "growth", is gaining popularity in the Afghan capital, Kabul
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Life with the Lancers

Monday, December 20th 2010, 10:28
related countries: United Kingdom

A year in the lives of four British soldiers serving in Afghanistan
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Bombers target Afghan army bases

Sunday, December 19th 2010, 12:51
related places: Kabul

Suicide attacks on army bases in the Afghan capital Kabul and a northern city leave at least 13 security personnel dead, with one gun battle raging for hours.
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Bombers target Afghan army bases

Sunday, December 19th 2010, 10:05

Suicide attacks have targeted Afghan military bases in two cities, leaving 13 members of the security forces dead, along with at least five assailants.
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Merkel meets German Afghan troops

Saturday, December 18th 2010, 11:03
related countries: Germany

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made an unannounced visit to troops serving in an increasingly hostile area of Afghanistan.
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Obama says Afghan effort on track

Friday, December 17th 2010, 3:05
related countries: United States

US President Barack Obama hails "significant progress" in the war in Afghanistan but says it remains "a very difficult endeavour".
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Obama: Forces on target in Afghanistan

Thursday, December 16th 2010, 22:40
related countries: United States

President Obama says that American troops are making progress in Afghanistan - but gains are fragile and could easily be undone.
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US Afghan policy 'hits al-Qaeda'

Thursday, December 16th 2010, 14:48
related countries: Pakistan, United States

Al-Qaeda's leadership in Pakistan is at its weakest since it fled Afghanistan in 2001, a US review of Afghan strategy says.
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Deadly bomb attack on Afghan bus

Thursday, December 16th 2010, 13:02

A roadside bomb kills at least 14 passengers travelling on a minibus in Afghanistan's western province of Herat, officials say.
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US 'birther' officer found guilty

Thursday, December 16th 2010, 3:25
related countries: United States

A military jury convicts an army doctor of disobeying orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he questioned Barack Obama's eligibility as president.
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Afghan reports give bleak outlook

Thursday, December 16th 2010, 1:57
related countries: United States
related places: White House

Two new assessments paint bleak pictures of the US-led war in Afghanistan, the day before the White House unveils a key review of US strategy.
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US envoy Richard Holbrooke dies

Tuesday, December 14th 2010, 10:46
related countries: Pakistan, United States
related places: Veteran

Tributes flow in following the death of veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, after emergency surgery.
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Obama pays tribute to Richard Holbrooke

Tuesday, December 14th 2010, 5:20
related countries: Pakistan

President Barack Obama has paid tribute to his special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, who has died.
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Sick Holbrooke gets Karzai call

Monday, December 13th 2010, 14:28
related countries: Pakistan, United States

Veteran US diplomat Richard Holbrooke has received calls from Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, the State Department says.
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Afghan MPs in parliamentary call

Monday, December 13th 2010, 13:11

About 100 Afghan MPs urge President Karzai to inaugurate the new parliament without further delay.
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Nato troops killed in Afghanistan

Sunday, December 12th 2010, 23:32

Six US soldiers die in an attack near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, military sources say, in an apparent suicide car bombing of a checkpoint.
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Holbrooke in 'critical condition'

Sunday, December 12th 2010, 2:03
related countries: Pakistan, United States

Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been taken critically ill with a torn aorta, the US state department says.
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Gas pipeline to cross Afghanistan

Saturday, December 11th 2010, 23:10
related countries: India, Pakistan, Turkmenistan

A deal is struck on building a pipeline to carry Turkmen natural gas across Afghanistan to Pakistan and India.
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Afghan bomb 'kills 15 civilians'

Saturday, December 11th 2010, 10:35

At least 15 civilians die in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, as more civilians and security forces are killed in attacks across the country.
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Love, peace and harmony

Saturday, December 11th 2010, 1:56

The star trying to heal Afghanistan with music
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Afghan women still suffer says UN

Thursday, December 9th 2010, 12:00

Millions of Afghan women continue to suffer from violence and harmful practices despite a new law aimed at curbing such abuse, the UN says.
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MIA special forces dog gets hero's welcome

Thursday, December 9th 2010, 11:29
related countries: Aruba, Australia

An Australian special forces sniffer dog that went missing for almost 14 months after a battle in Afghanistan finally returns home to Australia.
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Gates says Afghan strategy works

Thursday, December 9th 2010, 5:39
related countries: United States

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, on a visit to Afghanistan, says he is convinced that US strategy in the country is working.
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Combustible mix

Thursday, December 9th 2010, 1:40

Election results threaten Afghanistan's ethnic balance
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Taliban video 'shows US soldier'

Wednesday, December 8th 2010, 15:34
related countries: United States

The Taliban in Afghanistan releases a fourth video of Specialist Bowe Bergdahl, a US soldier captured in June 2009 in Paktika province.
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Arrest in mutilated Afghan case

Tuesday, December 7th 2010, 13:21

The father-in-law of an Afghan teenager whose nose and ears were hacked off after she fled her husband's abusive home is being questioned by police.
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Cameron and Karzai downplay leaks

Tuesday, December 7th 2010, 10:26
related countries: United Kingdom

David Cameron and Hamid Karzai play down the impact of Wikileaks cables showing criticism of UK operations, as the UK PM visits Afghanistan.
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Afghan rebels 'gain support' - poll

Monday, December 6th 2010, 15:32

Afghans are more likely to support attacks on foreign troops now than at any time since 2005, a poll for the BBC suggests.
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Karzai's security firm ban U-turn

Monday, December 6th 2010, 15:31

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has abandoned plans to dissolve private security firms working across the country, the interior ministry says.
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Afghan rebels 'gaining support'

Monday, December 6th 2010, 11:59

A poll of Afghans finds increased support for attacks against foreign forces.
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UK soldier dies in Helmand attack

Sunday, December 5th 2010, 22:13
related countries: United Kingdom

A British soldier dies from his wounds after being shot while on patrol in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence announces.
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