Afghanistan blasts wound 9 Western troops
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - Two explosions in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday killed at least three children and an Afghan policeman and injured dozens of people, including nine Western troops, officials said. The blasts -- one outside the east's main urban hub of Jalalabad and the other in troubled Khowst ...
Afghan war kills three children a day: report
KABUL — Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, with more than 1,050 people under 18 years old killed last year alone, according to an Afghan human rights watchdog. Taliban-linked militants caused around 64 percent of all violent child deaths last year, the Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) ...
Afghan parliament rejects most Cabinet nominees
KABUL (AP) — Afghanistan's parliament dealt a stinging rebuke to President Hamid Karzai on Saturday by rejecting 70% of his nominees for a new cabinet, including a regionally powerful warlord and the country's only female minister.The laborious voting that took much of Saturday ended with the rejection of 17 of ...
Afghan militant attacks set pace for a bloody 2010
KABUL — Afghanistan's war exited 2009 on a sour note for an international community that has committed thousands of troops and billions of dollars into transforming the country into a peaceful, modern democracy.And there is only likely to be more violence in 2010, analysts said.As tens of thousands of soldiers ...
Kabul demands foreign 'killers' handed over
KABUL — The Afghan government demanded Thursday to take into its custody foreigners wanted over the alleged killing of 10 civilians, sharply escalating a war of words with its powerful Western military backers.The National Security Council (NSC) made the demand at talks chaired by President Hamid Karzai, who has been ...
Hamid Karzai demands US hand over gunmen who killed children
President Karzai’s security chiefs have demanded that America should hand over the gunmen behind a night raid in eastern Afghanistan that government investigators and the United Nations say killed at least eight schoolchildren.It was the Afghan Government’s most aggressive response yet to an alleged attack on civilians. But the US ...
Afghans protest civilian deaths in foreign raid
ASADABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets on Wednesday to protest against the killing of 10 civilians, mostly teenagers, in a raid by foreign forces, which heightened tensions between the Afghan government and NATO.President Hamid Karzai rapidly condemned the attack and ordered an investigation, but his ...
Afghanistan children killed 'during Western operation'
At least 10 Afghan civilians, including eight schoolchildren, have been killed in fighting involving Western troops, President Hamid Karzai has said.Mr Karzai said the deaths occurred during military operations in eastern Kunar province two days ago. Kunar governor Sayed Fazlullah Wahedi told the Reuters news agency officials could not visit ...
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