Articles tagged with: “Hamid Karzai”
Afghans call for Nato to leave after airstrike kills 27 civilians
Relatives of 27 people killed when Nato aircraft bombed a civilian convoy in southern Afghanistan have demanded that foreign forces leave the country.Afghan officials said ...
Afghanistan war: Marjah offensive is trial run for Kandahar push
Kabul, Afghanistan — The current U.S.-led military operation – the Marjah offensive in Helmand province – is a trial run for what could be the ...
U.S. Special Operations Ordered Deadly Afghan Strike
KABUL—U.S. Special Operations Forces ordered an airstrike that killed at least 27 civilians in southern Afghanistan and the soldiers may not have satisfied rules of ...
NATO airstrike kills at least 27 civilians
KABUL – A NATO airstrike killed at least 27 Afghan civilians, officials said Monday, in the third coalition strike this month to kill noncombatants and ...
Karzai: Too Many Civilians Dead by NATO
(AP) Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that NATO's efforts to prevent civilian deaths during its operations are not enough because innocent people keep dying, ...
NATO strike kills seven Afghan police
A NATO air strike mistakenly killed seven Afghan police and wounded two others in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, hospital and government officials said. The NATO-run ...
‘We’re a go’
Thousands of US Marines and Afghan soldiers travelling in helicopters and mine-resistant vehicles began punching into a key Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan early Saturday, ...
ICRC says casualties up in Helmand
KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The Red Cross said casualties in Afghanistan's Helmand province are on the rise ahead of a major military operation ...
French minister: No more combat troops to Afghanistan
France will not send any more combat troops to Afghanistan, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told CNN Thursday, reinforcing his country's opposition to joining the ...
Afghanistan's corruption poses dilemma for U.S. military
The meeting in a muggy tent at Kandahar Airfield was dragging on when a lieutenant colonel with the Army Corps of Engineers broke in with ...
US troops shoot and kill Afghan cleric near Kabul
KABUL - U.S. soldiers shot and killed an Afghan cleric as he drove Thursday with his young son near an American base on the eastern ...
Car Bomb Wounds 14 Near US Base in Afghan Capital
KABUL — A suicide car bomber struck a barrier outside a U.S. base in Kabul on Tuesday, wounding six Afghans and eight American troops hours ...
Blair’s appearance at Iraq inquiry to spark mass anti-war protest
Thousands of anti-war campaigners are preparing for Tony Blair’s appearance at the Iraq inquiry in what could be the biggest political demonstration since last year’s ...
McChrystal sees Taliban role
General Stanley McChrystal, the Nato commander in Afghanistan, has raised the prospect that his troop surge will lead to a negotiated peace with the Taliban.Gen ...
Canadian soldiers killed four Afghan civilians in 2009, military says
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Canadian soldiers struggling to contain the Taliban insurgency in southern Afghanistan killed four civilians last year, according to military figures obtained by ...
Afghan president Hamid Karzai urges West to buy off the Taliban
After giving up on winning victory in Afghanistan by military means, the international community is resorting to the centuries-old method of buying its way out. ...
U.N. report finds corruption rife in Afghanistan
LONDON (Reuters) - Corruption costs Afghans $2.5 billion a year, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday, with the scale of bribery matching Afghanistan's opium ...
Taliban Attacks Paralyze Afghan Capital
(CBS/AP) Taliban militants wearing explosive vests launched a brazen daylight assault Monday on the center of Kabul, with suicide bombings and gunbattles near the presidential ...
Civilian Deaths Unleash Emotions In Afghanistan
KABUL (AP) - Thousands of Afghans shouting "Death to America!" protested the killings of children Thursday, the latest in a string of controversial cases in ...
Why Obama Has Defaulted to Bush Foreign Policy Positions
After a year with President Barack Obama at the helm of U.S. foreign policy, an observer could be forgiven for concluding that the presidency is ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Suicide bomber attacks CIA base in Afghanistan, killing at least 7 Americans
The CIA on Thursday confirmed the deaths of seven of its officers in a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan, an audacious attack on a key ...
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