Baghlan, Afghanistan News

As NATO leaders met Monday in Chicago to discuss the alliance's exit from Afghanistan and their commitment to the restive nation afterward, Afghans expressed a mixture of optimism, cynicism and fatalism about the future of their country.

A combined Afghan and coalition security force detained a Taliban facilitator in the Zharay district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province today, military officials reported.

KABUL, Afghanistan , May 18, 2012 - An Afghan and coalition security force discovered a drug cache of opium during a patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Afghanistan's Helmand province yesterday, military officials reported.

In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, file photo, 15-year-old Sahar Gul is carried into hospital in Baghlan north of Kabul, Afghanistan.

Remarkable recovery of the tortured child bride: Afghan girl, 15, tells of torment at hands of husband for first time as his family are jailed for ten years Sahar Gul was forced into a marriage when she was just 15 but endured months of torture after she failed to become pregnant Her husband, his mother, father, sister, and brother have all been ... (more)

KABUL: Eight Taliban have been killed during joint Afghan forces and NATO-led coalition troops operations in eight Afghan provinces, the country's Interior Ministry said on Sunday.

Three relatives of 15-year-old Sahar Gul each get 10 years in jail. Two others are still on the run Sahar Gul, as she was brought into hospital in Baghlan last December, showing the effects of violence by her in-laws. Photograph: Jawed Basharat/AP The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan ... (more)

KABUL: The case of a tortured Afghan child bride whose treatment shocked the world has led to three members of her husband's family being jailed for 10 years, an official said Saturday.

The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs partners with the CPD and Juvenile Rehabilitation Directorate in the development of a safe, secure, and humane Afghan corrections system that meets international standards and Afghan cultural requirements.

Afghan security forces led a capable and quick response in containing a Taliban attack in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul today, military officials reported.

Voice of America 05/01/2012 By [Printer Friendly Version] Three in-laws of an Afghan girl who was locked up and brutally tortured have each been sentenced to 10 years in prison for abusing her.

Two groups of Taliban - comprising 33 and 10 rebels - Thursday gave up arms and joined the peace process in Afghanistan, officials said.

Coalition and Afghan special operations teams targeted a senior Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan "facilitator" who is suspected of plotted attacks in the Afghan capital of Kabul.