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
(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
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
Katrina Manson is a Reuters reporter based in East Africa. She recently accompanied the British government's development agency, DFID, on a visit to Helmand province in south Afghanistan.
The new head of Helmand's Provisional Reconstruction Team (PRT), tasked with helping to develop ...Read More
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