Kabul, Afghanistan News

Kirarmat, center, who asked to go by his nickname because he fears Taliban retaliation for cooperating with NATO, is debriefed at the Rocco combat outpost in the Uzbeen valley, Surobi district, some 50 kms northeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov.

In recent weeks, President Obama has been contemplating the future of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.

Japan said on Tuesday it would give Afghanistan up to $5 billion in new aid, a package Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama hopes will improve strained security ties with Washington ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit this week.

President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though likely not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there, as Pentagon planners work to ready bases and provide equipment the troops would need in a country with scant resources.

Always interesting to see how Photoshop is applied to create and mold identity. In Kabul these wedding singers use: multiple selves, dreamy backgrounds and transparent layers.

Military operations in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of northwestern Pakistan have forced hundreds of households to abandon their homes and seek refuge in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, according to the UN Refugee Agency .

The opening night of a new restaurant, and the place is buzzing. The music is a mixture of rock and pop and there is no shortage of alcohol.

Some 30 UN personnel based in Afghanistan were flown to Dubai last night, the first of hundreds due to be temporarily relocated following a deadly attack that targeted the world body in Kabul last month.

Western patience with Afghanistan's political class was wearing so dangerously thin that coalition forces might quit the country if the situation regarding governance and corruption did not soon change radically for the better.

As if the Taliban, car bombs, roadside bombs, leftover Soviet land mines, political unrest and errant NATO air attacks weren't enough, Afghans are facing a new killer: the H1N1 flu pandemic.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, under fire from his international partners to clean up his administration, insisted Sunday there's no place for corrupt officials within his government.

The United Nations will relocate around 12 percent of its international staff in Afghanistan due to deteriorating security, the head of the U.N. Mission in Afghanistan said Thursday.

THE treacherous killing of five British soldiers inside their Shin Kalay base in Helmand by a 'rogue' policeman is bitter proof of the failure of our Afghan war.

It was another one of those sorties into the city, trying to explain to the driver that we needed to go to the local KFC - Kabul Fried Chicken.

America's top general in Afghanistan believes Britain's 9,000 troops should be removed out of "harm's way" because the Taliban will target them in the run- up to next year's general election, it was reported last night.

A high-ranking Canadian soldier who is assuming a key role in Afghanistan says Canadians need to temper their expectations ahead of a planned pullout in 2011.

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan - As Americans, including President Obama 's top advisers, tensely debate whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, Afghans themselves are having a similar discussion and voicing serious doubts.

The Czech Senate today approved a government proposal that soldiers from the Czech special force guard the Czech embassy in Kabul next year instead of military policemen.

The U.N. says hundreds of its staffers will be temporarily pulled out of Afghanistan in the wake of an Oct.

In this file photograph taken on July 26, 2009, British soldiers with the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force walk during a patrol in Baba Ji district of Helmand province.