Afghanistan News
|
By AFP
Kabul -
A US soldier has been killed in Afghanistan in an operation targeting Islamic State group insurgents, commanders said Thursday, in the latest blow to American forces in the war-torn nation.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
US President Donald Trump will meet Friday with his national security team at Camp David, as he mulls whether or not to send more American troops to war-ravaged Afghanistan.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
The Taliban published an open letter to US President Donald Trump on Tuesday warning him against sending more American forces to Afghanistan.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
Nearly 16 years after US forces entered Afghanistan, a shadowy figure from the past is making the rounds in Washington with a plan to end America's longest war.
|
|
By AFP
Jalalabad -
Several civilians have been killed in an US airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said Friday, the latest setback in efforts to bring peace to the war-torn country.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
President Donald Trump said Thursday he was "very close" to revealing his keenly awaited decision on the number of US troops he plans to keep in Afghanistan.
|
|
By AFP
Belgrade -
A 10-year-old Afghan refugee dubbed "Little Picasso" exhibited his paintings and photographs in Belgrade on Wednesday, hoping to raise money for a Serbian child's post-cancer therapy.
|
|
By AFP
Mazar-e Sharif -
Taliban and Islamic State fighters unleashed a killing spree targeting civilians after capturing a remote village in northern Afghanistan, traumatised families said Wednesday after being released by the insurgents.
|
|
By AFP
Mazar-e Sharif -
The Taliban released 235 hostages from a remote village in northern Afghanistan where it allegedly massacred around 50 civilians along with Islamic State insurgents but others were still feared held, officials said Tuesday.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
The Taliban -- which banned poppy cultivation when it ruled Afghanistan -- now appears to wield significant control over the war-torn country's heroin production line, providing insurgents with billions of dollars, officials have told AFP.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
The Taliban and Islamic State group jointly massacred dozens of civilians in an Afghan village, officials said Monday, highlighting rare co-operation between the insurgents that could increase the strain on Afghanistan's beleaguered security forces.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
Afghan intelligence officials said Sunday they seized a truck in Kabul carrying more than 16 tonnes of explosives hidden in boxes marked as poultry feed, months after a truck bomb killed about 150 people.
|
|
By AFP
Kandahar -
Two Afghan police officers were killed and a NATO soldier was wounded in an apparent insider attack in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
Infamous Afghan warlord and ex-prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar rejected any increase in US troops Saturday as he said elections were the only way to bring stability to the war-torn country.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
A Georgian soldier was killed in a Taliban suicide bomb attack on a convoy of foreign forces near Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, NATO said Friday.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
President Donald Trump has yet to announce a plan for Afghanistan, and delays in unveiling his strategy point to deep rifts in the White House on how to handle America's longest war.
|
|
By AFP
Washington -
President Donald Trump has yet to announce a plan for Afghanistan, and delays in unveiling his strategy point to deep rifts in the White House on how to handle America's longest war.
|
|
By AFP
Herat -
The father of an Afghan girl who represented her country in a robotics competition in the United States died in this week's Herat mosque attack, her family said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Herat -
Thousands of Shiite protesters chanted slogans against the Islamic State group Wednesday as they carried the coffins of victims of a mosque attack that killed 33 people in the western Afghan city of Herat.
|
|
By AFP
Kandahar -
A Taliban suicide bomber Wednesday rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into a convoy of foreign forces in Afghanistan's restive southern province of Kandahar, causing casualties, officials said.
|
|
By AFP
Herat -
Shiites prepared to take to the streets of Afghanistan's Herat Wednesday following a deadly mosque attack as anger grew over authorities' failure to prevent the latest assault on the minority community.
|
|
By AFP
Herat -
A suicide bomber and a gunman killed at least 29 people and wounded 63 at a packed Shiite mosque in Afghanistan's main western city of Herat Tuesday, the latest attack to highlight the country's deteriorating security situation.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
Two people died in an attack on the Iraqi embassy in Kabul claimed by the Islamic State group, Afghan officials said, with analysts describing the attack as revenge for the group's defeat in Iraq.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Iraqi embassy in Kabul Monday and militants breached the compound, Afghan officials said, in a complex hours-long attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
The Islamic State group claimed it had attacked the Iraqi embassy in Kabul Monday, as a series of explosions and the sound of gunfire shook the Afghan capital in a continuing assault.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
The blast walls that cut through Kabul like ramparts are being pulled down, part of a counter-intuitive makeover by local officials who argue the move will give the city's war-weary residents a psychological boost.
|
|
By AFP
Kandahar -
At least 26 Afghan soldiers have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military base in southern Kandahar province, the defence ministry said Wednesday, the latest blow to the country's struggling security forces.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
At least 10 journalists were killed in Afghanistan in the first half of 2017, a 35 percent surge from last year, a media watchdog said Tuesday, with rampant violence on the rise in the war-torn country.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
At least 35 people were killed when the Taliban attacked a hospital in central Ghor province over the weekend, a presidential spokesman said Monday.
|
|
By AFP
Kabul -
At least 26 people were killed and 41 wounded Monday after a Taliban-claimed car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees through a Shiite neighbourhood in Kabul, raising fears of sectarian violence in the Afghan capital.
|
apis-343034 apis-342996 apis-342867 apis-342614 apis-342567 apis-342518 apis-342425 apis-342383 apis-342296 apis-342238 apis-342171 apis-342110 apis-342054 apis-342053 apis-341967 apis-341955 apis-341953 apis-341870 apis-341792 apis-341772 apis-341764 apis-341726 apis-341702 apis-341627 apis-341624 apis-341313 apis-341258 apis-341162 apis-341085 apis-341079
Afghanistan Image
Ross Gundlach is reunited with his bomb-sniffing dog Casey YouTube
President Barack Obama greets U.S. troops at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, March 28, 2010. White House Photo by Pete Souza
Afghan Army unit arrives at site of convoy ambush. Ahmad Massoud
_1.jpg)
Mrs. Ferguson is handed a bouquet of flowers to symbolize the neighborhood support for her family's sacrifice.
A woman accused of adultery squats in front of a crowd before her public execution in a village outside Kabul Jacko Daniels
President Obama upon arriving in Afghanistan White House photo
The Taliban have kidnapped Afghan MP Fariba Ahmadi Kakar in Ghazni, as she and her children were travelling in a rural area south of the capital Kabul Afghan Parliament
President Barack Obama visits with a platoon of U.S. troops at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan that recently lost six members, Dec. 3, 2010. The President made an overnight trip to visit troops in Afghanistan. Pete Souza / White House
A Bactrian deer. University of Massachusetts Amherst
Two Afghan children look at a U.S. Army photographer in June, 2010 U.S. Army photo by Spc. Eric Cabral
Afghan man receives treatment from a U.S. Navy corpsman after being injured in a grenade attack U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Simon Lee
A poster in Iraq Courtesy Human Terrain
US Army Sergeant (retired) Brendan Marrocco, lost all four limbs in an EFP attack in Baiji, Iraq in 2009, being helped from the firing range during 'Operation Proper Exit' at Forward Operating Base Shank in Afghanistan's Logar Province, May 28, 2014 Brendan Smialowski, AFP
Ghanzi, Afghanistan PDTillman
COAS and Prime Minister of Pakistan, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif During his visit to IDPs Camp Bannu. ISPR – Pakistan Army
DEA FAST team members in Afghanistan arrest a farmer for cultivating opium poppies during a raid on his residence. Screen capture - ABC News
Map of Afghanistan showing the location of Nuristan, in the Northeast part of the country. This province is where the researchers primarily conducted their studies on the Kashmir musk deer. University of Texas Libraries
|
|
_(2).jpg)
.jpg)
