Baghlan, Afghanistan News

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.

The Afghan Ministry of Defense says it has "credible information" that the Taliban is preparing for a surge of its own in northern and western portions of Afghanistan.

Hundreds of foreign fighters loyal to the Taliban outfit have penetrated into Afghanistan's peaceful northern provinces, a local newspaper reported Thursday.

Militants killed six truck drivers in eastern Afghanistan after burning their vehicles, while police in the western region killed two would-be suicide bombers, officials said Monday.

When Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed General Atta Mohammad Noor as governor of the northern province of Balkh in 2004, the move seemed motivated by a presidential desire to curb the influence of Abdul Rashid Dostum, then the most powerful warlord in Northern Afghanistan.

Northern Afghanistan is swarming with hundreds of foreign fighters bent on disrupting the Northern Distribution Network, a recently developed US re-supply line, an Afghan general says.

Growing Taliban influence in northern Afghanistan is threatening a new military supply line painstakingly negotiated by the U.S., as rising violence takes hold on the one-time Silk Road route.