Afghanistan News

Canadian soldiers are pushing deeper into insurgent-controlled areas southwest of Kandahar city as their commander awaits an expected NATO request that Canada take on greater responsibilities.

ACHIN, Afghanistan a ' American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan, prompting hopes of a large-scale tribal rebellion against the Taliban.

Despite fierce public pressure to end the war in Afghanistan eight years on, politicians and experts on Saturday decried calls for setting an exit date they say would embolden the Taliban.

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

A town centre came to a standstill as thousands of people lined the streets to pay their respects to two soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

A rocket hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in Afghanistan's capital late Saturday, wounding two people, the Interior Ministry said.

Is there any way to get around Afghan President Hamid Karzai? This question dominates the U.S. debate as President Obama prepares to announce his long-delayed Afghan strategy.

The Afghan government would quickly be overthrown if NATO troops pulled out of the country now, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Friday, Reuters reported.

Eight years after a US-led invasion, Afghanistan has been ranked as the worst place in the world for a child to be born, says a United Nations annual report, Press TV reported.

Kazakhstan, Astana, Nov. 20 / Trend News K. Konyrova /

Kazak Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabaev will pay an official visit to Afghanistan Nov. 22.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay says the Conservatives will not try to remove Richard Colvin from his post in Washington.

Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home.

Afghan police say Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a parliamentarian and powerful former warlord, has narrowly escaped an assassination attempt near Kabul.

Houston News.Net Friday 20th November, 2009 Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar has shifted his base from Quetta to Karachi with the help of Pakistana s Inter Services Intelligence, the Washington Times reports.

A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 13 people, including a police officer, and wounded 30 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, AP reported.

Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said on Thursday, Reuters reported.

Germany, the third largest contributor to the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan, on Thursday held out the possibility of sending more troops to the stalled, eight-year-old war after a review early next year, Reuters reported.

President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip.

Faced with an escalating insurgency, Pakistan increasingly views U.S. efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan as critical to its own security - but is worried enough about the chances of American failure that it continues to hedge its bets.

November 19, 2009 Visionmp.com news service Foreign Minister SM Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi attended a luncheon hosted by Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta in Kabul on Thursday.