Afghanistan
Kabul’s $100m mosque: a sign of a heavyweight battle for post-2014 Afghanistan
Kabul’s $100m mosque: a sign of a heavyweight battle for post-2014 Afghanistan
Suicide Attack Investigators Are Inept: Afghan Senate
Afghan polio program worker’s slaying raises questions
Attack on Afghan Spy Chief Won’t Derail Peace Moves, Says Karzai
For Afghan Officials, Prospect of Death Comes With Territory
Afghanistan to Allow US Troops Conditional Immunity
President Karzai said the suicide attack that wounded the NDS chief was planned in Pakistan. US troops rescued an American civilian who was kidnapped in Kabul. Four Taliban fighters were killed in a premature detonation in Parwan. The Taliban killed two civilians in an IED attack in Khost.
Rural Afghan town feels caught between U.S. and Taliban
Khalid bin Abdul Rahman al Husainan, a senior religious scholar for al Qaeda who is also known as a Abu Zeid al Kuwaiti, is believed to have been killed in a recent drone strike in Pakistan.
Security forces killed seven Taliban fighters in Nangarhar. The suicide bomber who seriously wounded the head of the National Directorate of Security used a bomb hidden in his underwear.
Terror Fight Shifts to Africa
Afghan spy chief ‘wounded by underpants bomber’
Taliban Group attends Paris Conference on Afghanistan
Afghan Spy Chief critically injured by underpants bomber
Afghan-Tajik Counter Narcotics Op Detain 13 Smugglers
Arms depot robbed in Ghazni province of Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide bomber wounded the Afghan intelligence chief and two others in an assassination attempt in Kabul. A Taliban leader named Akhbar and several other insurgents were killed in an operation in Dara-e Pech district in Kunar province. The government ordered an investigation into the shooting of a schoolgirl in Kapisa.
ANSF Responsible for 70% of Security: Afghan Ministry of Defense
Afghan Leader Sharply Criticizes US, NATO For Insecurity
Asadullah Khalid, the chief of Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security, was wounded in an attack at an NDS guesthouse today by a Taliban suicide bomber posing as a peace envoy.
Tehran visit: Zardari likely to take up unmet $330m Iranian pledge
Afghanistan: a graveyard of commitments
Corruption in Police causing insecurity: Afghan MOI
Afghanistan Plans to Create Stock Market: AISA
Afghanistan – Women Activists Slam Govt Silence Over Schoolgirl Murder
The Afghan National Army assumed security responsibility for seven eastern provinces: Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar, Nuristan, Kapisa, Parwan, and Panjshir. Security forces killed three insurgents after an ambush in Paktia. A schoolgirl involved in a polio vaccination program in Kapisa was shot dead by suspected Taliban assassins.
ANSF Takes Over 7 Eastern Provinces
Afghanistan Tops Most Corrupt Countries Index
Clinton says crucial countries meet Afghan funding pledges
Special operations forces killed an al Qaeda leader in Kunar and captured an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan facilitator in Kunduz.