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

VIDEO: Afghanistan security 'progressing' - US

Sunday, July 31st 2011, 20:23
related countries: United States

Security in Afghanistan has "made progress" in the last year according to the most senior US military commander.
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VIDEO: Daily Show's Jon Stewart visits troops

Sunday, July 31st 2011, 14:31
related countries: United States

American troops stationed in Afghanistan have been treated to a visit from the comedian Jon Stewart.
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Afghan suicide attack 'kills 13'

Sunday, July 31st 2011, 10:56
related places: Lashkar Gah

Twelve Afghan policemen and a child are killed in a suicide attack on the police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah, officials say.
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Afghan officer 'plotted attacks'

Saturday, July 30th 2011, 16:49

An Afghan army officer is arrested on suspicion of working for the Taliban and plotting suicide attacks, intelligence officials say.
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Taking the heat

Friday, July 29th 2011, 23:25
related countries: United States

Top US soldier arrives in Afghanistan for front-line tour
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Civilians killed in Afghan blast

Friday, July 29th 2011, 15:48

Eighteen Afghan civilians are killed as their bus is struck by a roadside bomb in the southern province of Helmand, police say.
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VIDEO: Petraeus on Afghanistan progress

Friday, July 29th 2011, 0:04

The outgoing Nato commander in Afghanistan, Gen David Petraeus, speaks to Newsnight's Mark Urban about America's longest war.
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Deadly attacks strike Afghan town

Thursday, July 28th 2011, 14:08
related places: Tarin Kowt

Insurgents launch a gun and bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, leaving at least 22 people dead, including a BBC reporter.
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US soldier guilty of Afghan death

Thursday, July 28th 2011, 6:44
related countries: United States

US soldier Derrick Miller, who shot dead an Afghan civilian at close range last year, is found guilty of premeditated murder.
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French army kill Afghan civilians

Thursday, July 28th 2011, 4:10
related countries: France

French soldiers serving with Nato forces in Afghanistan kill three civilians after a car fails to stop at a checkpoint, officials say.
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Bomber kills Afghan city leader

Wednesday, July 27th 2011, 19:57
related places: Kandahar

The mayor of the Afghan city of Kandahar is killed in a suicide attack, a fortnight after the assassination of President Hamid Karzai's half-brother.
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VIDEO: 'Turban bomber' kills Afghan mayor

Wednesday, July 27th 2011, 17:13
related places: Kandahar

An Afghan suicide bomber, who concealed explosives in his turban, has killed the mayor of the southern city of Kandahar.
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Afghan agony

Tuesday, July 26th 2011, 20:34

Insurgents kill son of policeman who refused to be blackmailed
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Nato 'kills 35 Pakistan Taliban'

Tuesday, July 26th 2011, 13:15
related countries: Pakistan
related places: Nato

At least 35 Taliban militants from Pakistan are killed and several wounded by Nato-led forces inside Afghanistan, officials say.
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UK attack injures Afghan children

Monday, July 25th 2011, 12:28
related countries: United Kingdom

Five Afghan children were injured in a strike carried out by a British Apache attack helicopter, the Ministry of Defence says.
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General reflection

Friday, July 22nd 2011, 21:49

Outgoing Nato chief Petraeus on his unfinished Afghan business
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VIDEO: Petraeus on US Pakistan relations

Friday, July 22nd 2011, 18:22
related countries: Iraq, Pakistan, United States
related places: Nato

Mark Urban asks US General David Petraeus - who acted as Nato's US commander in both Afghanistan and Iraq - about the state of relations between Pakistan and the United States.
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Britons arrested in Afghanistan

Thursday, July 21st 2011, 11:12
related countries: United Kingdom

Two Britons are arrested by British armed forces in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.
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Afghan police in deadly gunbattle

Wednesday, July 20th 2011, 13:24
related places: Kandahar

Fighting between Afghan police and insurgents in Kandahar leaves at least three officers dead, while bombs in Mazar-e Sharif and Ghazni kill at least eight.
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Nato hands over key Afghan city

Wednesday, July 20th 2011, 12:47
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Lashkar Gah

British troops in Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province hand control of the city of Lashkar Gah to Afghan security forces.
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VIDEO: British troops hand over Lashkar Gah

Wednesday, July 20th 2011, 5:06
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Lashkar Gah

British troops have handed over a section of Helmand province to the Afghan forces as part of the start of transition to security control by the Afghan government.
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Soldier killed in Helmand named

Tuesday, July 19th 2011, 18:59
related countries: United Kingdom

A British soldier killed in an explosion in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Monday is named by the MoD as Cpl Mark Anthony Palin.
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Aid workers kidnapped in Pakistan

Tuesday, July 19th 2011, 8:43
related countries: Pakistan

Gunmen abduct eight Pakistani aid workers near the Afghan border in the south-west of the country, officials say.
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UK soldier killed in Afghanistan

Monday, July 18th 2011, 19:20
related countries: United Kingdom

A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence announces.
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US general issues Afghan warning

Monday, July 18th 2011, 15:52
related countries: United States

The new commander of international forces in Afghanistan warns of "tough days ahead", as insurgents continue attacks across the country.
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Afghan jigsaw

Monday, July 18th 2011, 15:49

Nato transfers powers but violence threatens search for peace
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Killed British soldier is named

Monday, July 18th 2011, 15:20
related countries: United Kingdom

A British soldier from 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) killed in Afghanistan is named as L/Cpl Paul Watkins by the Ministry of Defence.
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VIDEO: Petraeus hands over Afghan command

Monday, July 18th 2011, 14:25
related countries: United States

Gen David Petraeus, US commander of Nato troops in Afghanistan, has handed responsibility for the military campaign there to his successor, Gen John Allen.
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Petraeus hands on Afghan command

Monday, July 18th 2011, 10:30
related countries: United States

A new commander, Gen John Allen, takes charge of Nato forces in Afghanistan, as Gen David Petraeus prepares to return to the US to run the CIA.
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Optimism or gamble?

Monday, July 18th 2011, 8:22

Afghanistan's '$1m houses' underline sense of change
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Karzai aide dead in Kabul attack

Sunday, July 17th 2011, 21:44
related places: Kabul

A senior aide to the Afghan president is killed at his Kabul home, hours after Nato begins handing its first province back to Afghan security forces.
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Nato hands over first Afghan area

Sunday, July 17th 2011, 14:36

The central Afghan province of Bamiyan is handed from Nato control to Afghan security forces, the first of seven areas to pass to local troops.
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VIDEO: Security fears on streets of Bamiyan

Sunday, July 17th 2011, 12:27

Nato has handed over control of the central Afghan province of Bamiyan to Afghan security forces.
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Troop pull-out 'may be dangerous'

Sunday, July 17th 2011, 9:43
related countries: United Kingdom

Pulling out British troops prematurely from Afghanistan could "dangerously weaken" remaining international forces, MPs say.
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Nato member killed in Afghanistan

Saturday, July 16th 2011, 12:42

A Nato soldier has been shot dead in southern Afghanistan by a man wearing an Afghan army uniform, say officials.
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Taliban names off sanctions list

Saturday, July 16th 2011, 4:51

Fourteen Afghan ex-Taliban leaders are removed from a sanctions blacklist by the UN Security Council at the request of the Afghan government as part of its reconciliation efforts.
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Afghan blast kills five civilians

Friday, July 15th 2011, 9:59

A roadside bomb kills five civilians in eastern Afghanistan, government officials say.
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VIDEO: Mourners targeted at Karzai memorial

Thursday, July 14th 2011, 18:51
related places: Kandahar

A suicide bomber has killed four people at a memorial service in Kandahar for the assassinated half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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Blast hits Karzai brother service

Thursday, July 14th 2011, 18:48
related places: Kandahar

A suicide bomber attacks a Kandahar mosque during a service for the assassinated half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, killing four people.
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Afghan civilians deaths increase

Thursday, July 14th 2011, 12:49

Nearly 1,500 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in the first six months of 2011, the UN says - the highest toll since the conflict began in 2001.
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VIDEO: Karzai leads mourners at funeral

Wednesday, July 13th 2011, 22:08

The Afghan President has led thousands of mourners at the funeral of his half-brother at the family's home village.
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Karzai weeps at brother's funeral

Wednesday, July 13th 2011, 19:04
related places: Kandahar

Thousands join a weeping Afghan president for the funeral of his assassinated half-brother Ahmad Wali Karzai, a key power broker in Kandahar.
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Karzai family tree

Wednesday, July 13th 2011, 16:37

More about key members of the Afghan president's family
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French troops die in Afghan blast

Wednesday, July 13th 2011, 12:33
related countries: France

Five French soldiers and one Afghan civilian are killed in a suicide bomb attack in the north-eastern Afghan province of Kapisa, officials say.
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Afghan veteran gets top US honour

Tuesday, July 12th 2011, 21:38
related countries: United States
related places: Honor

A US soldier becomes just the second active serviceman to receive the Medal of Honor, the US's highest military award, for bravery in Afghanistan.
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Bodyguard kills Karzai's brother

Tuesday, July 12th 2011, 18:29

Controversial Afghan politician Ahmad Wali Karzai, half-brother of President Hamid Karzai and a top power broker in the south, is shot dead in Kandahar.
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VIDEO: Karzai's half-brother shot dead

Tuesday, July 12th 2011, 16:32

The half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Ahmad Wali Karzai, has been shot dead in his compound by his own head of security
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Pakistan in Afghan border threat

Tuesday, July 12th 2011, 15:46
related countries: Pakistan, United States

Pakistan's defence minister threatens to withdraw anti-terror troops from the Afghan border after the US cuts its military aid.
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France to withdraw Afghan troops

Tuesday, July 12th 2011, 6:24
related countries: France

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, says the country plans to withdraw 1,000 troops by the end of 2012.
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Abducted Afghan deminers set free

Monday, July 11th 2011, 11:25

Twenty-seven Afghan deminers, kidnapped last week, are released by militants who killed four of the hostages over the weekend.
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VIDEO: Soldier's family to adopt Afghan dog

Monday, July 11th 2011, 8:35

The family of Private Conrad Lewis, who was killed in Afghanistan, are to honour his wish to look after a stray dog he befriended there.
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Bodies of kidnapped Afghans found

Sunday, July 10th 2011, 8:00

The bodies of six Afghan deminers kidnapped last week have been found, while Nato says three foreign troops were killed in separate attacks.
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Al-Qaeda's defeat 'within reach'

Saturday, July 9th 2011, 14:15
related countries: United States
related places: Kabul

New US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta says the defeat of al-Qaeda is within reach, during his first visit to Afghanistan since assuming the post.
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Afghan protest at civilian deaths

Thursday, July 7th 2011, 13:49

Hundreds of people hold a protest in eastern Afghanistan against the deaths of up to 13 civilians, including women and children, in a Nato air strike on Tuesday.
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Dozens killed in Afghan fighting

Wednesday, July 6th 2011, 16:18

At least 78 people are killed in heavy fighting between the Taliban and security forces in the Afghan province of Nuristan, officials say.
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Boycott after brawl by Afghan MPs

Wednesday, July 6th 2011, 14:34

Ten Afghan MPs boycott parliament in protest at a brawl between two female members.
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Canada begins Afghan withdrawal

Wednesday, July 6th 2011, 13:15
related countries: Canada

Canadian troops begin to return home from Afghanistan as their mission ends nine years after they were first deployed.
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Cargo plane crash in Afghanistan

Wednesday, July 6th 2011, 12:01

An Azeri cargo plane chartered by foreign forces has crashed in eastern Afghanistan with all nine crew on board feared dead.
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VIDEO: On patrol with UK troops in Afghanistan

Tuesday, July 5th 2011, 17:48
related countries: United Kingdom

David Cameron has issued a direct appeal to the Taliban to lay down their arms and become part of the political process in Afghanistan.
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Nato soldiers die in Afghanistan

Tuesday, July 5th 2011, 10:36

Four foreign soldiers have been killed in eastern Afghanistan in two separate attacks, the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) says.
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Infiltration 'virus'

Monday, July 4th 2011, 23:06
related places: Kabul

Spectre of militant collusion hangs over deadly attack on Kabul hotel
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UK soldier missing in Afghanistan

Monday, July 4th 2011, 16:04
related countries: United Kingdom

An air and ground search has been launched for a British soldier who has gone missing in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, the MoD says.
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Pakistan Kurram offensive begins

Monday, July 4th 2011, 14:38
related countries: Pakistan
related places: Kurram

Pakistan begins an offensive in the north-western Kurram tribal region close to the border with Afghanistan, officials say.
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VIDEO: Afghanistan gets first skate park

Monday, July 4th 2011, 3:57
related places: Kabul

Afghanistan's first skate park has opened in the capital city of Kabul, as skateboarding continues its rapid growth in popularity in the country.
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Roadside bomb kills Afghan family

Saturday, July 2nd 2011, 9:00
related countries: Pakistan

A roadside bomb has killed at least 11 members of a family of Afghan refugees returning home from Pakistan through Zabul province.
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Tentative steps

Friday, July 1st 2011, 23:13
related countries: United States

US reaches out to the Taliban over Afghanistan
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'Swap deal' for French hostages

Thursday, June 30th 2011, 22:55
related countries: France

One of two French hostages released by the Afghan Taliban tells the BBC he believes there was an exchange deal involving money and prisoners.
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US in CIA detainee death inquiry

Thursday, June 30th 2011, 22:50
related countries: Iraq, United States

The US will open criminal inquiries into the deaths of two CIA detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2002 and 2003, the attorney general says.
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AUDIO: 'We weren't freed for chocolates'

Thursday, June 30th 2011, 21:38
related countries: France

The two French journalists held hostage for 18 months in Afghanistan have returned home.
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Deadly blast strikes Afghan bus

Thursday, June 30th 2011, 20:34

At least 13 people are killed after a passenger bus in southern Afghanistan strikes a roadside bomb, police officials say.
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Fraud-hit Afghan bank chiefs held

Thursday, June 30th 2011, 16:58

Two former executives of Afghanistan's Kabul Bank, which nearly collapsed after millions of dollars of fraud and bad loans came to light, are arrested.
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Nato 'kills top Afghan militant'

Thursday, June 30th 2011, 15:13
related places: Kabul

Nato says it has killed a senior member of the Haqqani militant network suspected of involvement in Tuesday's deadly attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul.
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VIDEO: First skate school opens in Kabul

Thursday, June 30th 2011, 8:55
related places: Kabul

Afghanistan has celebrated the launch of its first skate park in Kabul.
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Freed hostages return to France

Thursday, June 30th 2011, 8:46
related countries: France

Two French journalists held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for 18 months arrive back in France after being freed.
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