Indian Express (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
The conveyor belt at the airport is a lot like life in the cty itself. Kabul is a moth-eaten city with a war-tainted landscape - rumbling and shaky. But the city is intriguing and inviting - many a friendship is offered and currency isn't a problem - Indian money is acceptable, desirable even. Taj Mahal, Shahrukh Khan, Jalebi - India is well-known and much loved.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
His right arm bandaged to cover the wounds he acquired a week previously when he was almost killed by a Taliban bomb, Kabul's chief police investigator incredulously...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
Afghanistan is anxious to show that it is taking serious steps to crack down on the problem by setting up a new organisation with the power to launch its own investigations
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
London's Bankside art complex and Kabul could not be farther apart in cultural terms. The Taleban banned all depictions of the human form during its rule, destroyed ancient works of art and blew up music shops.
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The Policharki prison in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo from Sweetness And Light ) Afghanistan Thwarts Taliban Prison Plot -- L.A. Times The reported plan for Policharki prison involved freeing Taliban and criminal inmates. Meanwhile, a new interior minister is named. Mohamad Hanif Atmar replaces Zarar Ahmad Moqbel. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- Afghanistan's intelligence service said Saturday that it had broken...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Kabul - More than 100 Taliban insurgents were killed in two separate operations using NATO air power in the southern province of Helmand, a government spokesman said Sunday. At least 62 Taliban militants including foreign fighters were killed when re...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Kabul - More than 100 Taliban insurgents were killed in two separate operations using NATO air power in the southern province of Helmand, a government spokesman said Sunday. At least 62 Taliban militants including foreign fighters were killed when re...
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Sunday Telegraph: The offer was made through his brother Qayoun at a secret meeting in Saudi Arabia of which Britain was aware. Britain has been encouraging the Kabul government to talk to its Taliban enemies for more than two years and the Americans are thought to be coming round to the idea of a deal which would end the costly war in Afghanistan. But The Sunday Telegraph has learned that the allies...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
KABUL (Reuters) - NATO is not losing the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, but there are not enough troops to provide sufficient security for the people, the commander of international troops in Afghanistan said Sunday.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
NATO-led forces repel a bold Taliban assault on a provincial capital. By M. Karim Faiez and Laura King, Special to The Times KABUL -- Taliban fighters made an unusual bid to capture a provincial capital, Afghan and Western officials said Sunday, a failed assault that nonetheless underscored their heightened boldness and ambition in recent months.
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
KABUL, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Battle between Taliban-led ...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Nine Taliban and al-Qaida militants were killed in Afghanistan in two separate operations by U.S.-led coalition forces, officials said Saturday. Among those killed in the Friday raids were two commanders who were believed to have led militant activities against Afghan government and coalition forces, coalition officials told CNN. There were no reported coalition...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
With its two million dollar mansions menacing armed guards and landcruisers with blackedout windows the Kabul district of Shirpur has become an ironic symbol of the new Afghanistan for the city's longsuffering residents.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced on Saturday a reshuffle in five ministries including the interior portfolio, amid mounting concerns about insecurity and rule of law caused by Taliban-led insurgents and criminal gangs in the war-torn c...
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed nine militants in overnight clashes in southern and central Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
