Tag Archives : Kabul

‘To better understand Afghan public opinion on the conflict, and how the country can move towards a stable democracy,’ there are ‘underlying causes of insecurity in Afghanistan’ that have to be discussed and resolved. Based on the recent survey conducted by The Asia Foundation on Afghan people,’ insecurity is identified as the biggest problem [...]

Whether the US wants Hamid Karzai for Afghanistan leadership or not is now moot. Karzai’s opponent backed out of the runoff and the country is left with no choice but to accept Karzai’s ‘reelection,’ amidst prevailing speculation of massive electoral fraud. ‘Nearly a third of the votes cast in Mr. Karzai’s favor in presidential elections [...]

The massacre at Fort Hood occurred at a time when US President Barack Obama is at the final stage of decision-making about what to do with the US war in Afghanistan. The Afghan war has been proving to be a failure in the US antiterrorism mobilization, as well as its counterinsurgency campaign. US troops in Afghanistan are said to be disillusioned, [...]

7 Afghan civilians were killed and 91 were wounded as a suicide car bomb exploded near the main gate of the NATO-led international military mission in Kabul. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the bombing. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid signified the claim and proceeded to describe the explosives that weighed 1,100 pounds or 500 kilograms [...]

Even with the relentless offensive against the Taliban both in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and in Afghanistan by Pakistan and the United States respectively, still, there is no easing of suicide terror attacks on NATO and U.S. defense forces in Afghanistan. In a latest development, one of the primary United States bases in Afghanistan [...]

Barely three months to the Afghan elections, efforts at detailed security accelerate to prevent attacks in a time when the whole world would be looking at Afghanistan. “At the end of 2008, there was a time when the Taliban were able to besiege the capital and controlled the main access roads. That would not be repeated,” says a UN official who [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared her ‘deep regret’ over the killing of civilians during a US bombing in Afghanistan. “Any loss of innocent lives is particularly painful. We deeply regret the loss,” she said during a meeting with the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and president of Pakistan, Asif Zardari. Karzai has ordered [...]

The trend of the Taliban being opposed to girls going to school has increased in recent years. The group has also stepped up their offensive against the education of women. In addition to physical attacks such as beatings and acid-throwing, female adolescents have also been bombed, their schools burned, and their teachers killed. Last November, acid-throwing [...]

Currently, there are approximately 38,000 United States soldiers in Afghanistan, with an upcoming addition of over 17,000 in line with US President Barack Obama’s new strategy. Salerno is one of the U.S. bases in Afghanistan, along with Bagram. These soldiers hardly know anything about the country to which most of them were deployed to after [...]

In the latest attack on the westerners in Kabul, two foreigners were killed in a shooting spree near the Sherpur area of Kabul in front of a courier company. The foreigners were apparently Christian workers and that is being told as the reason for their murders. Gayle Williams, 34, and one of those killed, had both South African and British citizenships. This [...]