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

'Suicide attack' hits Afghan city

Thursday, November 3rd 2011, 9:56
related places: Herat

Militants carry out a deadly attack on a private construction company in Afghanistan's western city of Herat, officials say.
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Philippines in worker country ban

Wednesday, November 2nd 2011, 15:54
related countries: India, Philippines

The Philippines orders a ban on the deployment of its workers to 41 countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq and India.
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Karzai warning at Afghan summit

Wednesday, November 2nd 2011, 11:20

Afghan President Hamid Karzai tells a summit in Turkey his country will have no peace without strong regional co-operation on "terror groups".
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Joint Rabbani murder probe agreed

Tuesday, November 1st 2011, 18:55
related countries: Pakistan

The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan agree to a joint investigation into the murder of Afghan peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani, after talks hosted by Turkey.
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US soldier kept Afghans' fingers

Monday, October 31st 2011, 20:53
related countries: United States

An Army staff sergeant charged with killing three Afghan civilians admits taking fingers off their bodies as war trophies.
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Deadly car bomb blast in Kandahar

Monday, October 31st 2011, 12:09
related places: Kandahar

At least five people are killed by a suicide car bomb explosion near aid offices in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
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Two Britons dead in Kabul attack

Sunday, October 30th 2011, 20:26
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Kabul

Two British contractors were among 13 members of the Nato-led force killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan on Saturday, the Foreign Office says.
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Yak's milk and kindness in the Pamirs

Saturday, October 29th 2011, 23:11

It's Afghanistan, but it's peaceful, beautiful and hungry for tourists
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Afghan car bomber rams Nato bus

Saturday, October 29th 2011, 20:38
related places: Kabul

A suicide bomber in the Afghan capital kills five International Security Assistance Force soldiers and eight civilians - most of them American.
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VIDEO: Kabul attack kills 13 US soldiers

Saturday, October 29th 2011, 15:42
related countries: United States
related places: Kabul

A suicide bomber kills at least 13 US soldiers in the Afghan capital, in one of the deadliest attacks against foreigners in Kabul since the war began.
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VIDEO: Regional music returns to Kabul

Friday, October 28th 2011, 20:24
related places: Kabul

Afghanistan's first regional music festival in decades has been held in the country's capital Kabul.
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'Kill team' soldier faces trial

Friday, October 28th 2011, 17:32
related countries: United States
related places: Washington

Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs appears for trial in the US state of Washington for allegedly murdering three Afghan civilians and keeping body parts as war trophies.
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Pakistan denies Taliban support

Thursday, October 27th 2011, 19:50
related countries: Pakistan
related places: Taliban

The Pakistan army strongly denies claims made in a BBC documentary that it is secretly backing the Taliban in the war in Afghanistan.
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Clinton: Al-Qaeda is 'devastated'

Thursday, October 27th 2011, 16:52
related countries: Pakistan, United States
related places: Congress

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells Congress the US has made significant progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but warns that challenges remain.
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Taliban make rare public tribute

Thursday, October 27th 2011, 13:51
related countries: Pakistan
related places: Taliban

The Taliban in Afghanistan issue an unprecedented condolence statement on the death of a top right-wing Pakistani politician.
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Militants attack Afghan compound

Thursday, October 27th 2011, 12:01
related places: Kandahar

A small group of militants is attacking a compound that houses Western officials and military personnel in the Afghan city of Kandahar.
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Afghanistan tanker blast kills 12

Wednesday, October 26th 2011, 9:36

At least 12 people are killed and 33 injured after a magnetised bomb attached to a fuel tanker explodes in northern Afghanistan, officials say.
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Afghan minister escapes bomb bid

Sunday, October 23rd 2011, 14:19

Afghanistan's interior minister escapes an assassination attempt on his convoy by a would-be suicide bomber, officials say.
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VIDEO: Afghan-Iran film suppressed in Kabul

Friday, October 21st 2011, 14:20
related countries: Iran
related places: Kabul

Afghan authorities prevent the domestic release of an Afghan film called The School, about the life of an Afghan refugee girl in Iran.
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Anatomy of an Afghan 'turncoat' killer

Friday, October 21st 2011, 2:53
related countries: United States

Inside the mind of an Afghan who killed his US trainers
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Clinton issues warning to Taliban

Thursday, October 20th 2011, 10:22
related countries: United States
related places: Kabul

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Kabul and urges the Taliban to be part of a peaceful future in Afghanistan or "face continuing assault".
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UK paid £3m to fraud probe agency

Thursday, October 20th 2011, 5:00
related countries: United Kingdom

The UK paid more than £3.2m to an aid agency which has ceased operations in the Afghan capital amid fraud allegations, the BBC has learned.
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France begins Afghan withdrawals

Wednesday, October 19th 2011, 10:51
related countries: France
related places: Paris

France is set to pull out nearly 200 troops from Afghanistan in a few hours, kickstarting withdrawals announced three months ago by Paris.
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Militants strike US Afghan base

Saturday, October 15th 2011, 5:49
related countries: United States

Four militants are killed as their attack on a US base in the eastern Afghan region of Panjshir is repulsed.
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VIDEO: MP forced to stop hunger strike

Friday, October 14th 2011, 20:37

Simin Barakzay, a former Afghan MP went on a hunger strike 13 days ago.
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VIDEO: Afghan opium production rising

Tuesday, October 11th 2011, 17:04

According to a United Nations report, opium production in Afghanistan has risen by 61% this year compared with 2010.
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Afghan opium production 'soars'

Tuesday, October 11th 2011, 11:08

Opium production in Afghanistan rises by 61% this year compared with 2010, says the UN, as farmers expand poppy cultivation because of high prices.
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UN issues Afghan 'torture' report

Monday, October 10th 2011, 13:24

The UN publishes a report alleging that prisoners in some Afghan-run detention facilities have been beaten and tortured, claims first revealed by the BBC in September.
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VIDEO: Injured photographer wants Afghan return

Sunday, October 9th 2011, 8:38

Giles Duley, a photographer who has spent the last 15 years documenting the effects of war, wants to return to Afghanistan after suffering serious injuries there.
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Photo journal: The best and worst of 10 years in Afghanistan

Saturday, October 8th 2011, 1:24

Highs and lows of past decade in Afghanistan
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Karzai: Afghan security a failure

Friday, October 7th 2011, 19:20

President Karzai tells the BBC his government and Nato have failed to provide Afghans with security, 10 years after the Taliban were overthrown.
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Viewpoint: Extra time needed on clock in Afghanistan

Friday, October 7th 2011, 17:19
related countries: United States

PJ Crowley argues US needs longer on the Afghan clock
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US goals in Afghanistan 'distant'

Friday, October 7th 2011, 6:39
related countries: Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), United States

After 10 years in Afghanistan, the US still lacks the knowledge to bring the conflict to a successful end, retired Army Gen Stanley McChrystal says.
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VIDEO: Afghanistan conflict 10 years on

Friday, October 7th 2011, 5:51
related countries: United States

More than 130,000 international troops are still in Afghanistan, 10 years after the start of the US-led invasion of the country.
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VIDEO: Afghans 'will have viable state by 2015'

Friday, October 7th 2011, 3:56
related countries: United Kingdom, United States

It is 10 years since the start of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, the American and British-led operation against Taliban forces in the country.
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VIDEO: Afghans facing unprecedented drought

Thursday, October 6th 2011, 21:37

Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented drought and is appealing for food aid for 10 million people.
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A marine's journey to hell and back again

Thursday, October 6th 2011, 9:17

Documentary film looks at foreign troops in Afghanistan
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VIDEO: Drought looms in Afghanistan

Thursday, October 6th 2011, 5:34
related countries: United States

Ten years after the US-led invasion, Afghanistan is appealing for food aid, as it faces an unprecedented drought.
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Afghanistan asks for drought aid

Thursday, October 6th 2011, 3:09

Afghanistan is appealing for $142m to feed 2.6 million people this winter as it faces the worst drought for a decade, with half the country's provinces affected.
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Third of veterans don't back wars

Wednesday, October 5th 2011, 20:18
related countries: Iraq, United States

A third of post-9/11 veterans in the US say the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting, according to an opinion poll.
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Afghans 'foil Karzai death plot'

Wednesday, October 5th 2011, 17:06

Afghan intelligence officials say they have arrested six people linked to the militant Haqqani network who were plotting to kill President Hamid Karzai.
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VIDEO: Hell and Back Again: Watch a clip

Wednesday, October 5th 2011, 14:48

Documentary film looks at foreign troops in Afghanistan
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Karzai olive branch to Pakistan

Wednesday, October 5th 2011, 9:25
related countries: India, Pakistan
related places: Delhi

Afghan President Hamid Karzai seeks to reassure Pakistan about a strategic partnership agreement he signed with India in Delhi on Tuesday.
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Karzai agrees alliance with India

Tuesday, October 4th 2011, 22:59
related countries: India, Pakistan

The leaders of Afghanistan and India agree a strategic partnership aimed at boosting security and cooperation, on a visit by President Karzai to Delhi.
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VIDEO: Karzai holds talks with India

Tuesday, October 4th 2011, 19:00
related countries: India

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has arrived in India for talks about security and development.
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Pakistan Taliban play down talks

Tuesday, October 4th 2011, 17:40
related countries: Pakistan, United States
related places: Islamabad

A senior Pakistan Taliban leader says talks with the government in Islamabad cannot succeed until after US forces withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014.
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VIDEO: Do Afghans still back Taliban?

Monday, October 3rd 2011, 22:26

The Afghan President Hamid Karzai has indicated that he is no longer prepared to hold direct talks with the Taliban aimed at ending the conflict there.
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Karzai: Pakistan in 'double game'

Monday, October 3rd 2011, 20:29
related countries: Pakistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says Pakistan is playing a "double game" on militants but that talks with Islamabad must continue.
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Analysis: Pakistani links to the Haqqani group

Monday, October 3rd 2011, 16:40
related countries: Pakistan

Why feared Afghan group is playing down Pakistan ties
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In the Afghan villages where Taliban still rule

Monday, October 3rd 2011, 15:45

How Afghanistan's Taliban still find support, 10 years after invasion
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Haqqanis deny killing Afghan aide

Monday, October 3rd 2011, 10:09

Siraj Haqqani, a key leader of Afghanistan's militant Haqqani network, tells the BBC the group did not kill government peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani.
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'Threat' to Afghan women's rights

Monday, October 3rd 2011, 9:10
related countries: United Kingdom

Women's rights in Afghanistan are under threat after 10 years of progress, two leading British aid agencies say.
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Kandahar blast targets minister

Monday, October 3rd 2011, 8:30
related places: Kandahar

Afghanistan's minister of of border and tribal affairs survives a bomb attack in the volatile southern province of Kandahar, but two bystanders are killed.
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'Pakistani' killed Afghan envoy

Sunday, October 2nd 2011, 17:38
related countries: Pakistan
related places: Taliban

The killer of the Afghan government's negotiator with the Taliban, Burhanuddin Rabbani, was a Pakistani, an Afghan presidential statement says.
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VIDEO: Afghanistan holds music festival

Sunday, October 2nd 2011, 10:32
related countries: Australia, Uzbekistan

Bands from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Australia have played to cheering crowds in Afghanistan's first music festival for more than 30 years.
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Helmand is not meant to be like this

Saturday, October 1st 2011, 23:31

The slow, painful progress of guerrilla warfare in one Afghan valley
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Top Afghanistan militant captured

Saturday, October 1st 2011, 13:19

Nato announces the arrest of a senior leader of the Haqqani network, blamed for a string of attacks in Afghanistan, and accused of ties to Pakistan.
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Karzai gives up on Taliban talks

Saturday, October 1st 2011, 0:12
related countries: Pakistan
related places: Taliban

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the way to bring peace to his country, after the killing of Burhanuddin Rabbani, is to talk to Pakistan rather than the Taliban.
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VIDEO: Pakistan denies terrorist 'safe haven'

Friday, September 30th 2011, 22:24
related countries: Pakistan, United States
related places: America

Pakistan is refusing to bow to US pressure to step up its fight against militancy after America accused it of supporting the Haqqani network - one of the most dangerous insurgent groups in Afghanistan.
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VIDEO: Struggling to deliver post in Kabul

Friday, September 30th 2011, 6:00
related places: Kabul

The Afghan capital, Kabul, is a city with few street names, which causes major problems for postmen.
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Kabul's postmen on streets with no names

Thursday, September 29th 2011, 23:02
related places: Kabul

How does a Kabul postman do his rounds?
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Pakistan PM rejects US pressure

Thursday, September 29th 2011, 17:28
related countries: Pakistan, United States

Pakistan's prime minister hits back in a row with the US, refusing to bow to pressure to step up the fight against militants active in Afghanistan.
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Policewomen dead in Afghan blast

Thursday, September 29th 2011, 9:00
related places: Herat

At least two policewomen and a civilian are killed by a roadside bomb blast in the western Afghan city of Herat, officials say.
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Huge jump in Afghan attacks - UN

Wednesday, September 28th 2011, 16:53

The UN says there has been a 39% rise in violent incidents in Afghanistan so far this year compared with the same period last year.
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Deadly raid on Afghan police post

Wednesday, September 28th 2011, 9:49

Eight Afghan policemen were killed when militants overran a checkpoint in the southern province of Helmand, officials say.
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Children dead in Afghan bus blast

Tuesday, September 27th 2011, 14:58

At least 16 people, including 11 children, are killed when a bus hits a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan, local officials say.
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VIDEO: Afghan comedy targets politicians

Tuesday, September 27th 2011, 14:34

Stand-up comedy is drawing large audiences in Afghanistan as television channels push the boundaries with political satire.
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The landscape of war

Tuesday, September 27th 2011, 0:21
related countries: United Kingdom

British photographer records signs of conflict in Afghanistan
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Two killed at Kabul 'CIA station'

Monday, September 26th 2011, 9:10
related places: Kabul

An Afghan employee kills one US citizen and wounds another before being shot dead at a compound believed to house the CIA station in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say.
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Pakistan warns US on Kabul charge

Friday, September 23rd 2011, 15:10
related countries: Pakistan, United States
related places: Kabul

Pakistan's foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar warns the US may lose Pakistan as an ally if it continues to publicly accuse Islamabad of backing militants.
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Rabbani's funeral held in Kabul

Friday, September 23rd 2011, 9:38
related places: Kabul

Afghanistan's peace talks chief Burhanuddin Rabbani, killed by a suicide bomber, is buried in Kabul amid emotional scenes and tight security.
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Pakistan 'supported' Kabul attack

Thursday, September 22nd 2011, 16:11
related countries: Pakistan, United States
related places: Kabul

The most senior US military officer accuses Pakistan's spy agency of supporting the Haqqani group in last week's Kabul US embassy attack.
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Rabbani killer 'duped officials'

Thursday, September 22nd 2011, 14:35

Officials at the very highest levels were deceived by the suicide bomber who killed Afghanistan's peace talks chief, President Hamid Karzai says.
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Afghans mourn peace envoy Rabbani

Wednesday, September 21st 2011, 16:15
related places: Kabul

Afghans gather in Kabul to mourn High Peace Council chief Burhanuddin Rabbani and protest at his killing by a suicide bomber.
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