Kabul, Afghanistan News

INTERNATIONAL aid agencies in Kabul are scaling up efforts to assist refugees suffering the effects of the harshest winter in Afghanistan in 15 years.

The Guardian 02/12/2012 By Jon Boone in Kabul [Printer Friendly Version] Public asked to donate to renovate historic buildings badly damaged during decades of conflict in Afghanistan Few buildings in Kabul are as iconic, or tragic, as Darulaman Palace in the south-west of the Afghan capital.

The soldiers and their loved ones will assemble at the New Brunswick military base before embarking on a mission aimed at strengthening the ability of the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police to quell the insurgency.

It took a medevac unit 59 minutes to get U.S. Army Spec. Chazray Clark to a hospital in southern Afghanistan after receiving a call that a roadside bombing severed three of his limbs.

Pakistan appears to be encouraging a detente with Kabul and Washington, launching a diplomatic offensive to ensure that it remains central to efforts to initiate peace talks with the Taliban.

NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said on Monday they had mistakenly killed a group of children in an air strike that has enraged the government, and said their deaths may have been linked to an anti-insurgent operation in the area.

The 6,000 refugees living in the Charahi Qambar camp did not object when American soldiers came by Saturday to deliver 1,100 blankets for the families there.

The year was 2009. A grey haired, bespectacled man found himself making a journey back home.

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In this file picture taken on December 8, 2011, an Afghan female police officer practices aiming with a Kalashnikov assault rifle at the Police Training Centre in the outskirts of western Herat province.

Three detained terrorists and two young would-be suicide bombers stand with their explosive material after they were captured in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Feb.

A U.S. military contractor says one of its helicopters has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing all four Tajik crew members.

In the crush of people in Kabul's Shahzada money market, conspiracy theories are a currency as hard as the bundles of cash in the hands of bearded traders trying to divine their future.

Mohammed Mansoori clears the grave in Kabul of his brother, Qais, who died at age 20 while working as an interpreter for an American contractor.

A month after arriving in Kabul, Afghanistan, a Columbus-based Georgia National Guard unit faces challenges drawing down troops and closing installations, the commander said this week.

While Army 1st Sgt. Walter Josephs Jr. is on his sixth deployment, his son, Airman 1st Class Walter Josephs Jr., is on his first.

A relative holds the body of 3-month old Khan Mohammad as he is prepared for burial at the Nasaji Bagrami refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday.

An Afghan man warms his hands over a fire in a brazier on a horse cart in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb.

A tearful surprise reunion was the highlight of the Washington University women's basketball game Friday night, as a freshman player, who thought her father was still in Afghanistan , suddenly saw dad at center court.

More than 150 members of the National Guard rejoined their families last night in Reading after a year-long deployment to Kabul City in Afghanistan.