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Barack Obama will announce next Tuesday that the US is sending 34,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to "finish the job", in an announcement that will finally bring to an end three months of deliberation.

Attorney general's office says special court being set up to hear cases against three current and 12 former ministers Associated Press in Kabul guardian.co.uk , Tuesday 24 November 2009 16.15 GMT Hamid Karzai pledged a crackdown on corrupton with government during his inaugural speech for a second term as president.

Khalid Khan stares through the dusty window pane, down across the rooftops of the capital, and wonders if they really know where he lives.

The Conservative government was aware from the first day it took office in 2006 that Taliban suspects, rounded up by Canadian soldiers, might be tortured in Afghan prisons, says Defence Minister Peter MacKay.

A battered taxi sped up a dusty road toward a squad of Afghan soldiers searching for bombs planted in the dirt.

American Forces Press Service Nov. 23, 2009 - A newly established NATO command was activated Nov.

The federal government's senior adviser on Afghanistan says he encouraged diplomatic officials to report their insights and observations "freely and honestly," as long as they were accurate and objective.

It is hard to imagine anyone wanting to live or invest in a city wracked with violence, but the capital of Afghanistan is experiencing a boom in real estate prices which defies the downward trend for property in many other parts of the world.

Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, has bowed to international anger over official corruption by sanctioning investigations into 15 senior appointees in his governments including two serving cabinet ministers.

Afghan government plans to massively boost army and police numbers have been greeted with scepticism by diplomats and military experts who say the figures are too ambitious.

November 21, 2009 The incompetent and corrupt Afghan Karzai government would probably fall within weeks to the insurgent Taliban, if Nato pulled out troops now.

Share + Nov 23, 2009 6:27 am US/Central Facebook YouTube KABUL 1 of 1 Members of the medical team from the 452nd Combat Support Hospital bring a wounded American soldier from a helicopter to the trauma unit at Sunday Olawande Memorial Hospital on forward operating base Salerno Nov.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai could invite militants to attend a "Loya Jirga," or grand council meeting, aiming to seek peace and reconciliation with the Taliban, a spokesman said today.

Children in Afghanistan are suffering from serious child abuse and high levels of mortality.

Officials in Afghanistan have reported a rocket attack near a luxury hotel in the capital Kabul.

Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.

Leaders of anti-Taliban militias in Kunduz Province met Leaders of anti-Taliban militias meet an Afghan Government intelligence chief in Kunduz province.

US DEFENCE Secretary Robert Gates has warned that his country could start holding Afghanistan's Government accountable for corruption by withholding money for projects ''where we control the flow of dollars''. At a news conference with Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay on Friday, Mr Gates echoed a warning that Secretary of State Hillary ...

Australian troops stationed in Afghanistan are getting addicted to cocaine, heroin and other hard drugs which are as cheap as chips in that country.

Whether Canadian troops stay or leave Afghanistan could largely depend on the eloquence of U.S. President Barack Obama and his ability to rally western nations, says former chief of defence staff Rick Hillier.