Baghlan, Afghanistan News

What is the future for Dutch troops in Afghanistan? 23 November, 2009 08:30:00 admin Font size: Gordon Brown recently called on other countries involved in Nato's Afghanistan mission to "share the burden" of troop numbers.

KABUL, Afghanistan - In his inaugural address last week, President Hamid Karzai proudly touted his country's achievements in creating an Afghanistan with a "rehabilitated economic infrastructure" and "budding free-market economy." For the six families who live in a damaged warehouse on the southwest side of the capital, Kabul, the president might ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his administration is investigating numerous reports of "unknown" military helicopters carrying gunmen to the northern provinces of the country amid increasing militancy in the area.

Drive straight, then shoot straight, for Afghan troops Soldiers of the Afghan National Army drive on their pick-up truck while searching for pro-Taliban fighters in Kuk Cenar, Baghlan province earlier this summer.

Once upon a time in Kabul, there was only one roundabout. And what a place it was - a heaving tide of humanity converged on this central axis in the city, an unrivalled space for commerce and conversation.

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Hamid Karzai has been declared the elected president of Afghanistan by poll officials, after they scrapped the planned second round of the vote.

Helicopter rumors refuse to die By Ahmad Kawoosh MAZAR-E-SHARIF - Persistent accounts of Western forces in Afghanistan using their helicopters to ferry Taliban fighters, strongly denied by the military, is feeding mistrust of the forces that are supposed to be bringing order to the country.

The former foreign minister also called for the suspension of three key government ministers during the election period, and the closing down of around 500 polling stations in areas that are too insecure to be monitored properly by election observers.

Reporting from Kunduz, Afghanistan - The hulks of burned-out fuel tankers on the doorstep of this provincial capital stand as scorched testament to the growing reach of the Taliban and other insurgents across Afghanistan's once-stable north.

Friday, October 23, 2009 A senior Afghan intelligence official has reported that a military aircraft crashed in the country's northern region on Thursday.

"An aircraft of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force crashed on a mountain in Bajgah valley of Khinjan district Thursday afternoon," police chief of Khinjan district Mohammad Asif Qazizada told Xinhua.

A senior Afghan intelligence official says a military aircraft has crashed into the country's northern mountains.

A "Freedom Salute" ceremony on Sunday morning at Sycamore High School honored Illinois Army National Guard soldiers who served a one-year deployment in Afghanistan.

Well, the results are in . The Electoral Complaints Commission has published three important decisions, which confirm that major fraud occurred during Afghanistan's August Presidential election.

The past week has proved deadly for Taliban militants in Afghanistan as over 70 of the outfit's fighters including some commanders have been killed.

Police in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province busted a gang of kidnappers after killing the leader, a statement of Interior Ministry said here Sunday.

While NATO has been endeavoring to sweep Taliban insurgents out from their hotbed in southern Afghanistan, the militants by influencing the northern provinces have opened a new front against the western military alliance.

The reaction to a video of police handing guns to Taliban fighters illustrates the fear of ethnic conspiracy gripping Afghanistan They parted ways but not without a smile, and a friendly squeeze of the arm.

The anti-government militants have been tried to expand their activities in relatively peaceful north provinces, but efforts are under way to overcome these problems, said spokesman of Defense Ministry on Wednesday.