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.

World news related to Afghanistan – overview

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• '10 dead' in Afghanistan attack – 'Judges to rule' on Kabul convert
• 'Karzai attackers' die in siege – 'Taleban fighter' killed in clash
• 'Taleban held' after hotel attack – Afghan 'enemies will be beaten'
• Afghan 'health link' to uranium – Afghan bomb kills Italian troops
• Afghan bomb kills Nato Canadians – Afghan clashes 'leave five dead'
• Afghan clashes displace thousands – Afghan helicopter crash kills 16
• Afghan helicopter crash kills six – Afghan opium production 'soars'
• Afghan optimism hit by violence – Afghan raids 'kill 22 militants'
• Afghan raids 'kill 22 militants' – Afghan suicide bomb kills eight
• Afghan suicide bomb near Nato HQ – Afghanistan 'friendly fire' probe
• Afghanistan 'holds Pakistani spy' – Afghans 'seize key al-Qaeda man'
• Afghans 'seize key al-Qaeda man' – Air force 'failing' in Afghanistan
• Air raid 'kills Afghan civilians' – Australian killed in Afghanistan
• Australian military clears troops – Bomber targets Afghan city centre
• Bombers strike on Afghan new year – Canada in Afghan detainee deal
• Canada in Afghanistan warning – Clashes at Pakistan refugee camp
• Clinton expects Nato troop pledge – Devastating blast rocks Afghan city
• Dinner date with the presidents – Experts probe Afghan mass grave
• Explosion at Nato base in Kabul – Four US troops die in Afghanistan
• Four US troops die in Afghanistan – Guards 'killed Afghan civilians'
• Guards killed in Afghan firefight – Iran 'sending weapons to Taleban'
• Iran accepts US Afghan invitation – Jubilant Afghans welcome nation's first ev...
• Kabul 'suicide attack' kills two – Karzai angry over West's tactics
• Karzai appeals for forces funding – Karzai visits US bombing victims
• Karzai vows to battle corruption – Many dead in Afghan suicide blast
• Many die in Afghan tanker blasts – More UK soldiers for Afghanistan
• More US marines for Afghanistan – Nato chief defends Afghan plans
• Nato chief faults Afghan leaders – Nato set for Afghan expansion
• Nato soldier dead in Afghan blast – New UK Afghan deployment begins
• New US drone attack 'kills three' – On the take
• One killed in Kabul airport blast – Pakistan militants hijack trucks
• Pakistan missile hit 'kills 20' – Police die in Afghan bomb blast
• Police hunt for Taleban fighters – Robust defence
• Rocket attack on Afghan capital – Seven die in Afghanistan attack
• Seven soldiers die in Afghanistan – Suicide bomb hits Pakistan border
• Suicide bomb kills Afghan troops – Taleban death toll 'inaccurate'
• Taleban defector Khaksar killed – Taleban's ex-spokesman killed
• Taliban defiant over Obama surge – Troops 'kill five in Afghanistan'
• Troops kill 'scores of Taleban' – UK pledges £3m Afghan food aid
• UK PM to unveil Afghan strategy – UK troops lead attack on Taleban
• UK troops pull out of Afghan town – US 'deadline' for Afghan results
• US 'deeply' regrets Afghan deaths – US commander holds Pakistan talks
• US commander in Pakistan warning – US official defends Afghan wait
• US opens 'major Afghan offensive' – US suffers heavy Afghan losses
• US suffers losses in Afghanistan – Warning over Pentagon funding
• Warning over UK Afghan mission – Zardari postpones visit to Kabul

Afghanistan: news

Taliban defiant over Obama surge

Wednesday, December 2nd 2009, 21:20
related countries: United States

The Taliban say they will step up the fight in Afghanistan, after the US pledges to send substantial reinforcements.
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Taliban demand air strike inquiry

Monday, September 7th 2009, 12:17
related countries: United States

The Afghan Taliban call for an international inquiry into a US air raid which a human rights group says killed up to 70 civilians.
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Taliban gunmen storm Afghan town

Monday, December 21st 2009, 10:40

Security forces in eastern Afghanistan kill two militants who seized a building in the city of Gardez, officials say.
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Taliban leader 'flees Pakistan'

Tuesday, November 17th 2009, 14:54
related countries: Pakistan
related places: Swat, Taliban

One of the most wanted Taliban leaders in Pakistan says he has escaped to Afghanistan and is planning new attacks.
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Taliban link to shootings probed

Wednesday, November 4th 2009, 16:13
related countries: United Kingdom

The Taliban could have infiltrated the Afghan police to kill five British soldiers in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown says.
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Taliban return

Wednesday, July 8th 2009, 0:00

Radicals gaining strength in Afghanistan's north
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Taliban urge Afghan poll boycott

Thursday, July 30th 2009, 10:57

The Taliban call on Afghans to boycott August elections and order their fighters to try to prevent the vote taking place.
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Taliban video 'shows US soldier'

Friday, December 25th 2009, 8:04
related countries: United States

The Taliban releases a video purporting to show US soldier Bowe Robert Bergdahl, captured in Afghanistan six months ago.
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Taliban vow to attack Afghan poll

Saturday, October 24th 2009, 9:31

Campaigning opens for Afghanistan's run-off presidential election, but the Taliban threatens anyone taking part.
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Talks on Korean hostages resume

Saturday, July 28th 2007, 9:43
related countries: North Korea

Afghan tribal leaders negotiate with the Taleban in an attempt to secure the release of 22 South Koreans.
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Teenage inmate leaves Guantanamo

Monday, August 24th 2009, 17:37

One of the youngest detainees at Guantanamo Bay is released and sent back to his native Afghanistan, lawyers say.
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Ten die in Afghan chopper crash

Saturday, May 6th 2006, 11:32
related countries: United States

Ten US soldiers are killed after their military helicopter crashes in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
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Ten die in Afghan chopper crash

Saturday, May 6th 2006, 8:43
related countries: United States

Ten soldiers from the US-led coalition die after a military helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, officials say.
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Ten die in Afghan suicide attack

Monday, December 1st 2008, 14:45

A suicide attack kills 10 people, including two policemen, in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
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Ten police dead in Afghan blast

Monday, April 16th 2007, 6:41

Ten policemen are killed and 10 others hurt in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, security sources say.
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Ten Taleban fighters 'killed'

Saturday, July 8th 2006, 18:35
related countries: United States

Ten Taleban are reported killed in clashes in southern Afghanistan, and a Peruvian soldier is killed in the west.
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The 'long war'

Tuesday, December 16th 2008, 11:42
related countries: United States

On the frontline with US troops in Afghanistan
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Third German in Afghan 'kidnap'

Wednesday, July 25th 2007, 8:43
related countries: Germany

The third German in a week - a journalist - is kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan, local officials say.
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Thirteen killed by Kabul car bomb

Wednesday, December 5th 2007, 11:58
related places: Kabul

Thirteen people are killed as a suicide bomber attacks a bus carrying Afghan soldiers in the capital, Kabul.
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Thirty die in severe Afghan cold

Wednesday, February 1st 2006, 19:23

Thirty people die due to severe winter conditions in Badakshan province in north-eastern Afghanistan.
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Three Afghans held over US 'plot'

Sunday, September 20th 2009, 7:59
related countries: United States
related places: Denver, Colorado

Three Afghan-born men are arrested in Denver and New York in connection with a plot to launch an attack in the US.
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Three dead in Afghan bomb

Thursday, August 23rd 2007, 11:15

At least three people are killed in a bomb attack on a police convoy in southern Afghanistan, officials say.
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Three die in Afghan Koran protest

Thursday, May 22nd 2008, 15:28
related countries: Iraq, United States
related places: Koran

Two civilians and a Nato soldier die in a protest in Afghanistan over the shooting of a Koran by a US soldier.
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Three held over Afghan kidnap

Tuesday, September 18th 2007, 4:32
related countries: Bangladesh

Afghan police say they have arrested three men over the kidnapping of a Bangladeshi aid worker.
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Three killed in Afghanistan blast

Sunday, December 14th 2008, 6:54
related places: Kandahar

At least three policemen are killed by an explosion outside a hospital in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, police say.
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Three Taleban 'militants' killed

Tuesday, March 20th 2007, 7:11

Three suspected militants are killed in a joint operation by Afghan and coalition forces in southern Helmand province.
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Three UK soldiers die in Helmand

Thursday, August 13th 2009, 21:41
related countries: United Kingdom

Three British soldiers have been killed in an explosion while on patrol in Helmand province, the UK government says.
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Three UK troops killed in Afghanistan

Friday, August 7th 2009, 11:36
related countries: United Kingdom

Three British soldiers from the Parachute Regiment have been killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.
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Tight security at Afghan ceremony

Tuesday, April 28th 2009, 17:13

Police are patrolling the Afghan capital, as a ceremony is held to mark the 17th anniversary of the overthrow of the Communists.
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Toll rises in Taleban town battle

Saturday, December 8th 2007, 20:56

Twelve insurgents are reported dead in fighting at a Taleban-held town, with one British soldier confirmed dead.
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Top Afghan law officer assaulted

Friday, June 8th 2007, 14:38

The most senior law officer in Afghanistan tells the BBC he is beaten up by an army general's bodyguards.
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Top Afghan militant 'captured'

Monday, February 11th 2008, 15:26
related countries: Pakistan

A leading Afghan Taleban fighter is captured after a shootout in south-west Pakistan, police 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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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 al-Qaeda commander 'killed'

Friday, February 1st 2008, 11:38

A senior al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, top Western officials say.
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Top of the pops

Tuesday, July 7th 2009, 1:10
related countries: United Kingdom

The Afghan singing star working the London Tube
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Top Taleban commander 'seized'

Friday, May 19th 2006, 17:26

Mullah Dadullah, the Taleban's leading military commander, is captured in Afghanistan, officials tell the BBC.
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Torture in Afghan 'secret prison'

Monday, December 19th 2005, 6:07
related countries: United States

Human Rights Watch says the US operated a secret prison in Afghanistan where detainees were tortured.
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Tough task

Monday, March 23rd 2009, 11:22
related countries: United States

US envoy on why Afghan challenge is 'hardest thing'
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Tragic wedding

Sunday, July 13th 2008, 21:48
related countries: United States

Afghan civilians tell of US raid that killed dozens
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Trauma nation

Tuesday, January 20th 2009, 18:40

Coping with mental disorder in Afghanistan
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Trial begins in Afghan death case

Tuesday, August 8th 2006, 8:12
related countries: United States

The trial of an American contractor accused of the death of an Afghan prisoner begins in the US.
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Tribe in Pakistan security plea

Monday, April 16th 2007, 10:36
related countries: Pakistan

A leading tribe near the Afghan border urges Pakistan's government to resume control of law and order there.
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Troops 'kill 37 Afghan Taleban'

Monday, June 12th 2006, 14:23
related countries: United States

UP to 37 Taleban fighters are killed in three clashes with Afghan and US-led troops, a top Afghan general says.
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Troops 'kill five in Afghanistan'

Wednesday, May 2nd 2007, 7:53
related countries: United States

US-led troops and Afghan police kill five militants in a clash in the south, coalition forces say.
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'10 dead' in Afghanistan attack – 'Judges to rule' on Kabul convert'Karzai attackers' die in siege – 'Taleban fighter' killed in clash'Taleban held' after hotel attack – Afghan 'enemies will be beaten'Afghan 'health link' to uranium – Afghan bomb kills Italian troopsAfghan bomb kills Nato Canadians – Afghan clashes 'leave five dead'Afghan clashes displace thousands – Afghan helicopter crash kills 16Afghan helicopter crash kills six – Afghan opium production 'soars'Afghan optimism hit by violence – Afghan raids 'kill 22 militants'Afghan raids 'kill 22 militants' – Afghan suicide bomb kills eightAfghan suicide bomb near Nato HQ – Afghanistan 'friendly fire' probeAfghanistan 'holds Pakistani spy' – Afghans 'seize key al-Qaeda man'Afghans 'seize key al-Qaeda man' – Air force 'failing' in AfghanistanAir raid 'kills Afghan civilians' – Australian killed in AfghanistanAustralian military clears troops – Bomber targets Afghan city centreBombers strike on Afghan new year – Canada in Afghan detainee dealCanada in Afghanistan warning – Clashes at Pakistan refugee campClinton expects Nato troop pledge – Devastating blast rocks Afghan cityDinner date with the presidents – Experts probe Afghan mass graveExplosion at Nato base in Kabul – Four US troops die in AfghanistanFour US troops die in Afghanistan – Guards 'killed Afghan civilians'Guards killed in Afghan firefight – Iran 'sending weapons to Taleban'Iran accepts US Afghan invitation – Jubilant Afghans welcome nation's first ev...Kabul 'suicide attack' kills two – Karzai angry over West's tacticsKarzai appeals for forces funding – Karzai visits US bombing victimsKarzai vows to battle corruption – Many dead in Afghan suicide blastMany die in Afghan tanker blasts – More UK soldiers for AfghanistanMore US marines for Afghanistan – Nato chief defends Afghan plansNato chief faults Afghan leaders – Nato set for Afghan expansionNato soldier dead in Afghan blast – New UK Afghan deployment beginsNew US drone attack 'kills three' – On the takeOne killed in Kabul airport blast – Pakistan militants hijack trucksPakistan missile hit 'kills 20' – Police die in Afghan bomb blastPolice hunt for Taleban fighters – Robust defenceRocket attack on Afghan capital – Seven die in Afghanistan attackSeven soldiers die in Afghanistan – Suicide bomb hits Pakistan borderSuicide bomb kills Afghan troops – Taleban death toll 'inaccurate'Taleban defector Khaksar killed – Taleban's ex-spokesman killedTaliban defiant over Obama surge – Troops 'kill five in Afghanistan'Troops kill 'scores of Taleban' – UK pledges £3m Afghan food aidUK PM to unveil Afghan strategy – UK troops lead attack on TalebanUK troops pull out of Afghan town – US 'deadline' for Afghan resultsUS 'deeply' regrets Afghan deaths – US commander holds Pakistan talksUS commander in Pakistan warning – US official defends Afghan waitUS opens 'major Afghan offensive' – US suffers heavy Afghan lossesUS suffers losses in Afghanistan – Warning over Pentagon fundingWarning over UK Afghan mission – Zardari postpones visit to Kabul