(For full coverage on Afghanistan, double click on[ID:nAFPAK]) (Recasts with details about aircraft, quote) KABUL, July 20 (Reuters) - A military aircraft used byNATO-led forces crashed shortly after take-off from a majorbase in southern Afghanistan on Monday, alliance officialssaid, the second ...Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Canada's defense minister says the country will be able to continue its humanitarian work in Afghanistan after it removes its combat troops. Defense Minister Peter MacKay says he's been making security arrangements with the U.S. and other ...Read More
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Afghan officials say a suicide bomber targeting an Afghan security forces convoy in the south of the country has killed 10 civilians and wounded another 13. The deputy police chief of Uruzgan province, Gulad Khan, says the suicide ...Read More
Afghanistan will control its own security within five years and prosecute corrupt officials, President Hamid Karzai pledged Thursday in an inauguration speech made under intense pressure to shed the cronyism and graft that marked his government's first term. As Karzai vowed ...Read More
Pakistan is mounting an offensive against militants in a portion of South Waziristan, on the border with Afghanistan, against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan group that fights inside the country. But Washington wants the Pakistani army to act to close down sanctuaries for ...Read More
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(CNN) -- Three Americans, including two from the International Security Assistance Force, have been killed in Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said Saturday. It said one U.S. service member with the ISAF was killed by an improvised explosive device Friday in southern ...Read More
LONDON (AP) — Britain's prime minister said Friday he could secure commitments for 5,000 more NATO forces in Afghanistan, offering key backing to the U.S. as it weighs increasing troop levels. Gordon Brown robustly defended Britain's mission in Afghanistan, but he ...Read More
Gordon Brown has pledged to send a further 500 personnel
The UK government is to try to persuade some of its allies to send 5,000 more military personnel to Afghanistan.
Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth is to lobby some of the International ...Read More
The move is part of a push to spread the burden in Afghanistan where troops from America and Britain make up the bulk of the international force. The Prime Minister has ordered Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, and Simon McDonald, the ...Read More
Many allies clearly want an "out" date from Afghanistan
Among military commanders and politicians, there is a sense of growing frustration at the length of time it is taking for the White House to make its decision on strategy and ...Read More
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Military divers have found the body of a U.S. paratrooper who went missing last week in a river in western Afghanistan. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said the soldier was found close to where he disappeared ...Read More
Nato troops are facing rising violence in western Afghanistan
The body of one of two US soldiers believed to have drowned while on a mission in western Afghanistan has been found, Nato officials have said.
The two soldiers, who went missing ...Read More
TORONTO — Canadian military officials in Afghanistan said detainees are being offered swine flu vaccinations - a decision the federal health minister on Tuesday denounced as "outrageous" at a time there is a shortage of the vaccine in Canada. The Defense ...Read More
LONDON -- British and North American Treaty Organization forces will hand over responsibility for security in parts of southern Afghanistan to local forces starting next year, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday.
Mr. Brown told reporters that by mid-2010 he ...Read More
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Security forces in southern Afghanistan seized a huge stash of bomb-making material, NATO's International Security Assistance Force reported Tuesday. Afghan National Police and ISAF forces found 500,000 lbs. of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and 5,000 components used in ...Read More
KABUL, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Two soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have been killed in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan, a press release of the alliance said on Sunday. "Two ISAF service members died in Afghanistan yesterday," the press ...Read More
An investigation has begun on whether a Nato air raid was to blame for the death of Afghan soldiers and foreign troops during a joint operation in the northwest of Afghanistan.
Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said the attack on ...Read More
