Afghanistan Travel News

"A guy called and wanted to see me," Brent Musolf says. "I told him to come right over.

An Afghan motorcyclist adjusts a newly purchased surgical mask at a market place in Kabul, Afghanistan, 02 Nov 2009 The Afghan government has closed the country's schools and universities for most of November in response to an increased number of H1N1 flu cases.

Staff Sgt. Luis Agostini of Haverstraw, a combat correspondent for the Marines, recently was deployed to Afghanistan and will be writing about his experiences for The Journal News and lohud.com. He was deployed in August 2004 to Al Anbar province in Iraq, where he covered the battle of Fallujah.

In Afghanistan's Helmand province, in the face of fierce Taliban opposition, British forces and the government's agencies increasingly rely on one man's help.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai with his vice presidents, Karim Khalili and Mohammad Qasim Fahim at a press conference in Kabul on November 3. November 03, 2009 By Tanya Goudsouzian , Helena Malikyar Scarcely an hour after the Afghan Independent Election Commission announced that President Hamid Karzai had won a second term in office by default, the ...

THE 10 weeks of chaos that dogged Afghanistan's tumultuous election were accompanied by a string of diplomatic blunders that ended with the scrapping of a run-off imposed on President Hamid Karzai.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon arrived in Afghan capital Kabul Monday morning, spokesman of Foreign Ministry Ahmad Zahir Faqiri said.

PARIS a ' Canada's diplomats in Afghanistan have regular contact with Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's brother who has been accused of being deeply involved in both the country's drug economy and ballot-stuffing during the August presidential elections, according to Canada's diplomatic representative in Kandahar.

Canadian military officials in Afghanistan say they don't expect to benefit from what was once a traditional lull in Taliban activity over the winter period.

The White House says specific steps are needed to crack down on corruption in Afghanistan.

The Taliban insurgency is spilling more blood and Hamid Karzai's government reeks of corruption, but Afghan lawyers are determined to prove that, if life isn't fair, at least justice can be.

Afghanistan's election commission has declared incumbent Hamid Karzai the winner of the country's presidential election, after his opponent pulled out.

Let's face it, the news from Afghanistan can be a real downer. So let's focus on the good news.

Why all the president's Afghan options are bad ones. - By Tom Engelhardt Sun November 1, 2009 8:01 PM PST This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.

Foreign ministers of China, Russia and India, holding their 9th meeting in Bangalore in India, have jointly urged the international community not to let the focus slip from their mission in Afghanistan.

Peter Galbraith has an op-ed in today's New York Times in which he rightly points out that the Afghan elections were tainted by fraud, something which several election monitors have also reported.

President Barack Obama is still weeks away from deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, the White House said Sunday amid pressure from lawmakers to settle on a war strategy despite muddled politics and concerns of corruption in Kabul.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's election rival Abdullah Abdullah cancelled a planned trip to India today, his advisers said, heightening speculation he would pull out of next week's disputed run-off vote.

At a former al-Qaida stronghold southeast of the Afghan capital, a state-owned Chinese company is at work on a $3 billion mine project to tap one of the world's largest unexploited copper reserves, a potential financial boon for an impoverished country mired in war.

Korea has decided to send troops to Afghanistan to protect civilian professionals helping with rebuilding work in the war-torn nation.