-
May 30, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Seven aid workers lost their lives in Afghanistan on Tuesday in two separate incidents. At least four were killed in the northern Afghan province of Jawzjan when unidentified gunmen ambushed their vehicle, a government spokesman said in the capital Kabul. Full news...
-
May 30, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP via Toronto Sun: Violent anti-foreigner protests raged across Afghanistan's capital yesterday after a U.S. military truck crashed into traffic, touching off the worst rioting since the Taliban's ouster. Full news...
-
May 23, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CTV.ca News: Up to 80 suspected Taliban militants and an unknown number of civilians died after U.S.-led coalition forces bombed a village in southern Afghanistan. Full news...
-
May 14, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: One man lives penniless in a field under a patchwork tent with baying dogs roaming outside. Another, wearing a suit jacket and tie, glides past his silver Mercedes as he welcomes guests into his plush Kabul villa. Full news...
-
May 14, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA: On April 18th 2006, hundreds of people in the Takhar province of northern Afghanistan staged a demonstration to raise their voices against the brutalities of the war- and drug-lords whose presence has become a dominating factor in their homeland. Full news...
-
May 9, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Times: BOTTLES were thrown, insults traded and chairs knocked over in the bedlam. This was no bar-room brawl, however. It was the scene in the Afghan parliament on Sunday when a woman MP dared to stand up to a male colleague. Full news...
-
May 9, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: Promises of work and security made Ghulam Hazara return to this western Afghan city from Iran two years ago. Now a lack of both is driving him back. Full news...
-
May 5, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Daily Times: The United States and its western allies have no interest in a stable and peaceful Afghanistan as the ravaged country continues to worsen under the Northern Alliance rule, who have big stakes in drug businesses and civil strife, says Kathy Gannon, a veteran journalist and Afghanistan expert. Full news...
-
May 4, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Human Rights Watch: President Hamid Karzai should not appoint known human rights abusers and warlords as provincial police chiefs, Human Rights Watch said today. Full news...