Gardez, Afghanistan News

KABUL Police fought a three-hour gunbattle in the center of an Afghan provincial capital Monday, finally killing two Taliban militants firing from the top floor of a commercial building with dozens of civilians inside, an official said.

Editor's note: This is the last in a series of stories profiling the men and women of the Georgia National Guard's 48th Brigade.

U.S. officials put a lot of hope last year in Haji Rashid, an up-and-coming community leader in the Zormat district of Afghanistan's Paktia province.

Secretary of Defense Gates's detentions-policy advisors see GuantA namo as old policy.

Hamid Karzai sez : After giving up on winning victory in Afghanistan by military means, the international community is resorting to the centuries-old method of buying its way out.

NEW YORK: As a major technical partner for health development in Afghanistan, the World Health Organization will continue to work with Afghan ministries and groups to improve health care in the country this year.

GARDEZ, Afghanistan a ' Taliban suicide bombers attacked a Kabul shopping mall near the Afghan Presidential Palace on Monday, setting the building on fire and causing civilian and security force casualties.

A BBC poll commissioned with ABC News and Germany's ARD suggests that Afghans are increasingly confident about the future.

8, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. Air operations in Afghanistan: Musa Qala Coalition aircraft provided armed overwatch for friendly forces.

Kabul, Jan 7 A sucide bomber blew himself up against soldiers collaborating with NATO forces in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing nine and wounded another 27 in a crowded market in the southeastern province of Paktia.

Col. Mike Chase, of Chandler, pins the rank of Corporal on Dustin Johnson, of Durant, at his promotion ceremony in Gardez, Afghanistan, on Thursday.

A suicide bomber has killed seven people at a busy bazaar in Gardez, the capital city of Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber aiming for a pro-government militia commander detonated his bomb-laden vest in a southeastern provincial capital, Gardez, yesterday, and witnesses said he killed 10 people and wounded 27, most of them civilians.

Afghan election: Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission on Thursday reaffirmed plans to hold parliamentary elections May 22 but pleaded for financial support from the international community.

An Afghan official says at least eight people have been killed after a suicide bomber detonated explosives in the eastern town of Gardez.

"A suicide bomber aiming for a progovernment militia commander detonated his bomb-laden vest in a southeastern provincial capital, Gardez, yesterday, and witnesses said he killed 10 people and wounded 27, most of them civilians.

American Forces Press Service Jan. 7, 2010 - The commander of day-to-day military operations in Afghanistan condemned a bombing attack on Gardez Bazaar in Afghanistan's Paktia province today that killed at least four civilians and wounded several others.

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - In a rising tide of violence in Afghanistan's east, a suicide bomber struck a crowded urban marketplace today, killing at least nine people, and another blast rocked a provincial governor's compound, injuring him and several aides.

Military medical staff attempt to save the life of an Afghan man who was wounded in a suicide bombing in Gardez on January 7, 2010 at the trauma bay at Forward Operating Base Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber wearing an explosives-filled vest Thursday killed eight people and wounded 24 others while targeting a private security convoy in an eastern Afghan town, an official said.