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

Afghan troops end police HQ siege

Sunday, May 22nd 2011, 13:28

Afghan security forces retake control of a government building which was stormed by four Taliban suicide bombers, local officials say.
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VIDEO: Obama on future of Afghanistan

Sunday, May 22nd 2011, 8:00
related countries: United States

In an exclusive interview with the BBC, US President Barack Obama said progress in Afghanistan was subject to the Taliban accepting certain conditions.
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Suicide blast hits Kabul hospital

Saturday, May 21st 2011, 14:51
related places: Kabul

At least six people are killed and 23 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a hospital canteen in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
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UK soldiers 'unlawfully killed'

Friday, May 20th 2011, 19:57
related countries: United Kingdom

A coroner returns verdicts of unlawful killing but says the state did not fail in its duty to five British soldiers who were shot and killed by a rogue Afghan policeman in 2009.
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Taliban 'kill 35 highway workers'

Thursday, May 19th 2011, 14:18

At least 35 construction workers are shot dead and eight insurgents are killed during a Taliban ambush in eastern Afghanistan, an official says.
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Afghans resume anti-Nato protest

Thursday, May 19th 2011, 14:02

At least three people are injured in new protests in northern Afghanistan against Nato raids, reports say, a day after 12 demonstrators were shot dead.
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Guantanamo Afghan 'kills himself'

Thursday, May 19th 2011, 4:01
related countries: United States

An Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo Bay kills himself, US authorities say, the eighth death at the detention centre since 2002.
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VIDEO: Afghans killed in anti-Nato protest

Wednesday, May 18th 2011, 17:10

Officials in northern Afghanistan say 12 people have been shot dead and 80 injured after clashes with security forces over a Nato-led raid.
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Afghanistan bomb blast 'kills 13'

Wednesday, May 18th 2011, 14:56

A suicide attack targeting police cadets kills at least 13 people in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, officials say.
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Afghans die in anti-Nato protest

Wednesday, May 18th 2011, 14:15

At least 12 people are shot dead and 80 wounded by security forces in northern Afghanistan during a protest against a Nato-led raid.
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UK marine killed in Afghanistan

Sunday, May 15th 2011, 14:57
related countries: United Kingdom

A Royal Marine from 42 Commando has been killed by a bomb in Afghanistan, says the Ministry of Defence.
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Afghan 'policeman' kills Nato duo

Friday, May 13th 2011, 14:25

Two Nato soldiers are shot dead by a man dressed as an Afghan policeman in the latest of a spate of incidents involving gunmen in security uniforms targeting foreign forces.
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India leader addresses Afghan MPs

Friday, May 13th 2011, 10:49
related countries: India

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tells a joint session of the Afghan parliament that their two countries are united in fighting terror, and backs peace talks with the Taliban.
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VIDEO: US and Pakistan relations 'in crisis'

Friday, May 13th 2011, 5:47
related countries: Pakistan, United States

Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US ambassador to the UN and Afghanistan, says he finds it difficult to believe that Pakistan was not aware of the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden.
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VIDEO: Harrowing tales of Afghan ‘child martyrs’

Thursday, May 12th 2011, 21:41

The Afghan intelligence services say so many bombings are being carried out that the insurgents have to recruit child "martyrs".
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India PM pledges $500m to Kabul

Thursday, May 12th 2011, 17:39
related countries: India
related places: Kabul

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledges $500m in new aid on a visit to Afghanistan and backs talks with the Taliban.
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Legacy of terror

Thursday, May 12th 2011, 11:17

What does Bin Laden's death mean for the war in Afghanistan?
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Britain 'under-estimated' Taliban

Wednesday, May 11th 2011, 14:22
related countries: United Kingdom

Britain failed to accurately gauge Taliban resistance to UK troops in Afghanistan's Helmand province, the head of the armed forces says.
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Afghan forces 'not ready' warning

Monday, May 9th 2011, 23:50

Afghan forces taking over responsibility for security from Nato troops too soon could lead to more human rights violations, a leading charity warns.
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Afghanistan is hit by new attacks

Monday, May 9th 2011, 13:26
related places: Ghazni

At least nine people die in fresh Afghanistan violence a day after government forces beat back an attempt by scores of militants to seize parts of Kandahar city.
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Kandahar in crisis

Monday, May 9th 2011, 11:50

Afghanistan's second city left exposed as fighting season begins
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VIDEO: Kandahar recaptured from Taliban

Sunday, May 8th 2011, 21:02
related places: Kandahar

Afghan authorities are reported to have recaptured parts of the city of Kandahar which had been seized by Taliban insurgents, following a two-day battle.
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Taliban Kandahar raid 'put down'

Sunday, May 8th 2011, 19:27
related places: Kandahar

Government forces are mopping up in the Afghan city of Kandahar after a two-day battle with at least 60 militants, say officials.
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Taliban onslaught rocks Kandahar

Saturday, May 7th 2011, 21:49
related places: Kandahar

Clashes break out in the the Kandahar, Afghanistan, after Taliban militants launch a series of attacks, including at least six suicide bombings.
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VIDEO: Official says Pakistan monitored Osama

Tuesday, May 3rd 2011, 11:16
related countries: Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States

Pakistan's High Commissioner in the UK Wajid Shamsul Hasan claims that Pakistan's intelligence services, working in co-operation with US agents, had been monitoring Osama Bin Laden's movements in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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VIDEO: Karzai on Bin Laden: Afghans suffered

Monday, May 2nd 2011, 12:38

Afghan president Hamid Karzai says his people became victims in the hunt for Bin Laden.
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Afghan 'boy' bomber blasts market

Sunday, May 1st 2011, 21:28

A suicide bomber said to be aged 12 kills four people in eastern Afghanistan, one of several attacks a day after the Taliban announced a spring offensive.
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Taliban declare spring offensive

Saturday, April 30th 2011, 17:53

The Taliban announce the start of a spring offensive across Afghanistan, targeting foreign troops as well Afghan forces and officials.
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Inside job?

Wednesday, April 27th 2011, 23:41

Dismay at scale of apparent collusion at heart of Afghan prison escape
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VIDEO: Afghan jailbreak 'inside job'

Wednesday, April 27th 2011, 21:42

The BBC has learned that the jail in Afghanistan from which nearly 500 insurgents escaped earlier this week, had been infiltrated by the Taliban .
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Afghan jail head held over escape

Wednesday, April 27th 2011, 17:21
related places: Kandahar

The governor of the main Kandahar prison is arrested days after the escape of about 500 prisoners, many of them Taliban militants.
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US troops killed by Afghan pilot

Wednesday, April 27th 2011, 16:42
related places: Kabul

Eight US troops and a US contractor are killed by an Afghan military pilot at Kabul airport, in the deadliest of a series of attacks on foreign forces.
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Petraeus 'to be next head of CIA'

Wednesday, April 27th 2011, 13:05
related countries: United States

Gen David Petraeus, commander of forces in Afghanistan, will be nominated as CIA chief when its current head moves to the Pentagon, officials say.
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Al-Qaeda parade French hostages

Wednesday, April 27th 2011, 10:42
related countries: France, Niger

Four Frenchmen seized by al-Qaeda militants in Niger in September are shown in a video asking for France to quit Afghanistan.
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'Inside help' in Afghan jailbreak

Tuesday, April 26th 2011, 17:54
related places: Kandahar

Afghanistan's justice minister says the 488 inmates who escaped from Kandahar's main prison through a Taliban-dug tunnel must have had inside help.
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Al-Qaeda 'Afghan number two dead'

Tuesday, April 26th 2011, 15:17

International forces say they have killed their number two insurgent target in Afghanistan, senior al-Qaeda leader Abdul Ghani.
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Hundreds escape from Afghan jail

Monday, April 25th 2011, 17:53

More than 470 inmates at an Afghan prison - many of them Taliban insurgents - escape through a tunnel hundreds of metres long, officials say.
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VIDEO: Taliban prison break a 'disaster'

Monday, April 25th 2011, 14:49

A spokesman for the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, has described the escape of nearly 500 Taliban militants from a prison as a "disaster"
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Nato supplies resume after rally

Monday, April 25th 2011, 9:27
related countries: Pakistan
related places: Nato

Supplies to Nato forces based in Afghanistan resume after a three-day closure caused by a protest blocking the route in Pakistan.
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'Infidel killer'

Sunday, April 24th 2011, 19:34

Taliban behind Afghan bank attack discuss motives
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VIDEO: Taliban killer speaks to the BBC

Saturday, April 23rd 2011, 21:08

A member of the Taliban who carried out one of the most brutal attacks in the war in Afghanistan has spoken to the BBC.
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Bidding war

Friday, April 22nd 2011, 23:30

Battle for loyalty of Afghan villagers returning to their homes
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VIDEO: US troops recapture key Afghan region

Friday, April 22nd 2011, 14:29
related countries: United States

A surge of American troops has recaptured many of the lost areas in a key strategic area of Afghanistan.
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In pictures

Friday, April 22nd 2011, 9:58

Afghan villagers return to their lush valley after war forced them out
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'Admirable' film-maker remembered

Thursday, April 21st 2011, 15:19
related countries: Denmark, Libya, United Kingdom

Director Janus Metz, whose documentary Armadillo followed Danish soldiers fighting in southern Afghanistan, shares his memories of Tim Hetherington, the British photographer killed while covering the conflict in Libya.
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US accuses Pakistani spy agency

Thursday, April 21st 2011, 5:56
related countries: Pakistan, United States

The US military's top officer, Adm Mike Mullen, accuses Pakistan's spy agency of having links with militants targeting US troops in Afghanistan.
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Tributes paid to UK woman soldier

Thursday, April 21st 2011, 5:01
related countries: United Kingdom

Tributes are paid to a "passionate and courageous" female bomb disposal expert who died following an explosion in Helmand, Afghanistan.
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Explosion kills UK female soldier

Wednesday, April 20th 2011, 17:11
related countries: United Kingdom

A British soldier who died from injuries suffered in an explosion while clearing roadside bombs in Afghanistan is named as Capt Lisa Jade Head.
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Afghan gunmen 'kidnap Iranians'

Monday, April 18th 2011, 14:30
related countries: Iran

At least nine Iranian engineers have been kidnapped in a remote area of western Afghanistan, officials say.
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Deadly attack at Afghan ministry

Monday, April 18th 2011, 10:21
related places: Kabul

Two soldiers are killed and seven people hurt in an attack inside the Afghan defence ministry, which the Taliban say targeted the defence minister.
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Ten die in Afghan army base bomb

Saturday, April 16th 2011, 17:50

Five foreign and five Afghan soldiers are killed in a Taliban suicide attack at an army base in eastern Afghanistan, one of the deadliest in months.
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VIDEO: Afghan suicide bomber kills ten

Saturday, April 16th 2011, 15:24

Five foreign and five Afghan troops have died in a suicide attack at a military base in eastern Afghanistan.
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Pakistani PM meets Hamid Karzai

Saturday, April 16th 2011, 14:28
related countries: Pakistan
related places: Kabul

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani holds talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in which the leaders pledge to boost joint peace efforts with the Taliban.
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Bomber kills Afghan police chief

Friday, April 15th 2011, 18:14
related places: Kandahar

The police chief of Afghanistan's Kandahar province is killed in an attack on his headquarters by a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform.
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VIDEO: Building 'boom' behind Afghan surge

Friday, April 15th 2011, 11:30
related countries: United States

The US troop surge in southern Afghanistan is now at its peak and is being closely followed by a building boom.
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Seized Afghan policemen are freed

Friday, April 15th 2011, 7:59

The last of the 40 Afghan policemen, abducted by Taliban insurgents last month, are freed.
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VIDEO: Nato's progress in Afghanistan

Thursday, April 14th 2011, 14:22

The commander of Nato's training mission in Afghanistan has said that "significant progress" is being made in helping local security forces "develop and grow".
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Taliban squad kills Afghan police

Thursday, April 14th 2011, 9:19

Suicide bombers kill at least three policemen at a training centre in eastern Paktia province in one of a series of attacks across Afghanistan.
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Pakistani anger over drone raid

Thursday, April 14th 2011, 9:02
related countries: Pakistan, United States

Pakistan sharply criticises the US for a deadly drone attack near the Afghan border as the two sides seek to patch up differences in the fight against militants.
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VIDEO: Civilian death sparks Afghan anger

Thursday, April 14th 2011, 6:59
related countries: United States

People in a village in Afghanistan have been expressing their grief after a father was killed by a US soldier during a night raid to arrest another man.
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Suicide bomber kills Afghan elder

Wednesday, April 13th 2011, 14:29

An influential pro-government elder is among at least 10 people killed by a suicide bomber in eastern Afghanistan, the interior ministry says.
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Miliband warns of 'forgotten war'

Wednesday, April 13th 2011, 4:30
related countries: Libya

The war in Afghanistan is in danger of becoming a forgotten conflict because of events in Libya and the Middle East, the former foreign secretary warns.
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Pakistan 'seeks cut in CIA staff'

Tuesday, April 12th 2011, 13:15
related countries: Pakistan, United States

Pakistan has asked the US to reduce the number of CIA agents in the country and to limit drone strikes along the Afghan border, US media reports say.
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Two US soldiers 'killed by drone'

Tuesday, April 12th 2011, 7:39
related countries: United States

A drone missile strike is suspected of killing two US soldiers by mistake in southern Afghanistan last week, US military officials say.
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Karzai pledges Kabul Bank action

Monday, April 11th 2011, 10:34

Action will be taken against those responsible for the troubles at Kabul Bank, which caused a financial crisis in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai says.
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Afghan war 'threatens Pakistan'

Monday, April 11th 2011, 8:49
related countries: Pakistan

The Afghan war is 'destabilising' Pakistan', President Asif Ali Zardari says, in one of his strongest statements since taking office.
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Soldier dies year after bombing

Saturday, April 9th 2011, 12:27

A soldier injured by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan last year has died, the Ministry of Defence says.
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Power of knowledge

Saturday, April 9th 2011, 11:00

Midwives deliver childbirth revolution in Afghanistan
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Unloved US

Thursday, April 7th 2011, 23:02
related countries: Pakistan, United States
related places: America

Rage against America builds up in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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Gunmen attack Afghan police base

Thursday, April 7th 2011, 13:22
related places: Kandahar

Militants kill six security personnel in a gun and bomb attack on a police training centre near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.
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Afghans probe Nato raid killings

Wednesday, April 6th 2011, 16:39

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into reports that a Nato-led raid killed a number of civilians earlier this week.
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Kabul woman dies after Nato crash

Wednesday, April 6th 2011, 11:46
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Kabul

An Afghan woman dies after being hit by a British military vehicle in the capital, Kabul, police say.
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VIDEO: Can the insurgents be defeated?

Wednesday, April 6th 2011, 1:11

Is it possible that the Taliban might be losing in Afghanistan? What would that mean?
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'Insurgents defeated'

Tuesday, April 5th 2011, 17:07
related countries: United Kingdom

UK commander claims success in Afghan district
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