Afghanistan News

Jalalabad - A magnetic bomb attached to a district governor's vehicle exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing the governor and his bodyguard, provincial authorities said.The attack in Nangarhar province highlights the security threat surrounding presi...

Payarow Kheyl - A NATO air strike in eastern Afghanistan accidentally killed five Afghan soldiers on Thursday, officials said, the latest incident likely to worsen already fraught relations between Kabul and the US-led coalition.NATO offered its condolences over the d...

Jalalabad - Trundling across the Afghan-Pakistani border in a handcart, Shayma dismisses militant threats and conspiracy theories about polio vaccinators while her four children receive drops that could finally eradicate the crippling disease.About 1.3 million ora...

Montreal - Canada's Defence Minister apologized Tuesday after the mother of a soldier who committed suicide in 2011 received a one cent cheque for "release pay" -- three years after her son's death.Minister Rob Nicholson blamed an "insensitive bureaucratic screw ...

Kabul - It is a spartan life of dormitory beds, communal eating and prayer, but the Jangalak treatment centre in Kabul offers a rare glimmer of hope for heroin addicts caught in Afghanistan's spiralling drug problem.About 250 male addicts at a time undergo a 4...

Kandahar - A dozen Taliban fighters walked out of jail in southern Afghanistan thanks to a trick in which their names were added to a letter listing prisoners who had completed their sentences, officials said Sunday.The 12 men escaped from Kandahar city jail abou...

Kabul - About 200 people protested in Kabul on Wednesday against the killing of 21 soldiers by Taliban militants as Afghanistan faces up to the prospect of fighting the insurgents alone after this year.The massacre in the eastern province of Kunar triggered wi...

Washington - President Barack Obama told Hamid Karzai that he is now planning for a full US troop withdrawal because of the Afghan leader's repeated refusal to sign a security pact.But in a rare telephone call with President Karzai, Obama also held out the possibil...

Washington - President Barack Obama told Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that he is now planning a full US troop withdrawal because of the Afghan leader's continued refusal to sign a security pact.But in a telephone call with the Afghan president, Obama also held out the p...

Washington - President Barack Obama told his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai on Tuesday he is now planning a full US troop withdrawal, but did not rule out agreeing a post-2014 mission with the next Kabul government.The US threat was the latest twist in a long poli...