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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
KABUL — A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 16 people, including two children and a policeman, and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, officials said. Provincial Gov. Rohul Amin said the blast occurred about 55 yards (50 meters) from his compound in a crowded square in Farah. Afghan police shouted "Stop! Stop!" at the motorcyclist...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
"Karzai's first indication that his relationship with the United States would undergo a profound shift occurred 10 days before Obama's inauguration. Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. had come to the palace for dinner, and halfway through the meal, he began taking his host to task for how he was responding to civilian casualties caused by U.S. and NATO military operations. Biden told Karzai...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Worst Place For The World's Children: Afghanistan -- Foreign Policy Where is the worst place for children to be born in 2009, especially girls? Surprise! Afghanistan. Today, UNICEF published a special report titled State of the World's Children ; Daniel Toole, UNICEF regional director for South Asia, told a news briefing in Geneva earlier today: Afghanistan today is without a doubt the most dangerous...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Several children and a police officer were among the victims of the blast, which took place on a crowded market.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 16 people, including two children and a policeman, and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, officials said.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Kabul - A suicide attack in western Afghanistan killed 10 civilians and three policemen on Friday, while three other civilians were killed in a roadside blast in the country's eastern region, officials said. A bomber riding an explosive-laden motorbi...
Time (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
President Obama wants Pakistan to fight Afghan Taliban elements on its soil, but Islamabad's priority is those who challenge its own authority. Besides, the Afghan Taliban gives Pakistan leverage in shaping Afghanistan's future
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
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.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
U.S. officials say aid will be cut off to any Afghan agency in which corruption persists. The Afghan president, at his second inauguration, also indicates he wants most foreign troops out in 5 years. The United States is developing a set of benchmarks to ensure that Afghan President Hamid Karzai keeps a promise delivered at his inauguration to fight corruption and inefficiency, U.S. officials said....
ABC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Afghan officials: At least 13 killed, 30 wounded in suicide bombing in western Afghanistan Afghanistan - Suicide attack - Asia - Government - Warfare and Conflict
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
KABUL — An Afghan police official says the death toll from a suicide bombing in western Afghanistan has increased to 13. Chief of police of Farah province, Gen. Mohammad Faqir Askar, says the suicide bomber was on a motorcycle and blew himself up in a crowded square near a bus station. Thirty people were wounded.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | yesterday
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.
USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
An Afghan police official says the death toll from a suicide bombing in western Afghanistan has increased to 13.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
On a blogger conference call this afternoon, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced he can't support a potential addition of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. "We ought not to add troops in Afghanistan," Specter said, adding that he questioned "even staying" in Afghanistan unless the administration demonstrates that continuing the war is "indispensable to our fight against al-Qaeda."...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Bombers on Friday killed 18 people in Afghanistan, a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai's second term in office that underscored spiralling insecurity nine years into the US-led war. The attacks brought to 30 the number of people killed since Karzai was sworn in for another five years on Thursday, pledging to try to bring peace to the nation and take over security from foreign forces in five years....
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eprnetwork | 11/02/2009
The numbers of individuals entering inpatient drug rehab for heroin and opiate addiction continues to increase. In Afghanistan and Pakistan the opium (heroin) trade is tightly controlled by al Qaeda and the Taliban, and despite the war the efforts, the production of heroin and opium has dramatically increased - heroin is still dirt-cheap and readily purchased on the streets of Kabul and sold in short
patrickguillard | 10/14/2009
The European Commission allocated €2 million in humanitarian aid to help flood-hit people in northern Afghanistan where many people face an increasingly tough situation as winter approaches and food supplies become increasingly scarce.
rtomas80 | 09/04/2009
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan – A U.S. jet dropped 500-pound bombs on two tanker trucks hijacked by the Taliban before dawn Friday, triggering a huge explosion that Afghan officials said killed more than 70 people, including insurgents and some civilians who had swarmed around the vehicles to siphon off fuel. Germany, whose troops called in the strike, said it feared the hijackers would use the trucks to carry
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