Ghazni, Afghanistan News

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WASHINGTON: The United States authorities are planning to bring grave charges against Dr Aafia Siddiqui, ranging from money laundering for Al Qaeda to assisting the terrorist group in other ways, including ...

A Canadian soldier was injured and an Afghan interpreter was killed in a suicide bomber attack Tuesday morning, on a particularly bloody day that also saw 10 French soldiers die in battles with the Taliban near ...

A former Boston student has been arrested and charged with being an al-Qaida operative who attacked U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.

Monday, August 18, 2008 KANDAHAR: Violence raged across southern Afghanistan with about 60 people killed in a series of bombings and clashes, authorities said on Sunday.

AFP 08/15/2008 By [Printer Friendly Version] KABUL - Afghan security forces withdrew early Friday from an eastern district after days of fighting with Taliban, allowing the rebels to move in and capture the ...

Evidence found in M.I.T. graduate Aafia Siddiqui's purse suggests she was plotting assassinations.

KABUL: Taliban captured the Nawah district in central Afghanistan's Ghazni province after days surrounding, said an official.

Andar district head Abdul Rahim Desiwal came under attack from insurgents on his way from the provincial capital to the district headquarters, a spokesman for the governor said.

A lawyer for a Pakistani woman charged with trying to kill U.S. military officers in a gunfight in Afghanistan accused the government on Wednesday of setting up her client by planting evidence on her.

A group of unknown gunmen attacked the vehicle of international aid workers near Afghan capital Kabul, killing three female aid workers and their local colleague, an official said on Wednesday.

A lawyer for a Pakistani scientist accused of shooting at U.S. officers while in Afghan custody disputed federal charges that her client shot at American troops and FBI agents.

For more than eight centuries the "Towers of Victory" -- monuments to Afghanistan's greatest empire -- have survived wars and invasions, but now weather and neglect could cause them to come crashing down.

One of al Qaeda's most unlikely disciples - a petite, MIT-educated mother of three - was hauled into Manhattan federal court today after being nabbed halfway around the world.

Troops were "threatened" by militants during an operation on Thursday in Ghazni province, it said in a statement.

Coalition and Afghan forces killed enemy fighters and detained three suspected terrorists during operations yesterday in Afghanistan, military officials said.

Ghazni Province, Afghanistan A U.S. military spokeswoman, Lieutenant Colonel Rumi Nelson-Green, says the civilians were killed Thursday as troops moved in on a key Taliban militant in the Giro district of ...

Troops were "threatened'' by militants during an operation yesterday in Ghazni province aimed at a Taliban militant alleged to be coordinating foreign rebels in Afghanistan, it said in a statement.

By FISNIK ABRASHI, Associated Press Writer Hundreds of French troops have deployed to train and mentor Afghan security forces in a key southern province wracked by the Taliban-led insurgency, NATO said ...

As the two women hunkered down in the dark, enveloped in blue burkas, they thought the gun-toting Taliban might free them despite accusations they had run a prostitution ring for a U.S. base.