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16 dead at Afghan hospital after US air strikeAn airstrike hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, killing at least 16 people in what the US military called possible "collateral damage" in the battle to oust Taliban insurgents. More… |
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Afghans vote again in final test as Taliban threats loomAfghans headed back to the polls on Saturday for a second round of voting to elect a successor to President Hamid Karzai in a decisive test of Afghanistan's ambitions to transfer power democratically for the first time in its tumultuous hist More… |
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US soldier flies to freedom after Afghan prisoner swapThe sole American prisoner of war held in Afghanistan was being flown to a US military hospital in Germany on Sunday, after he was dramatically freed in a swap deal for five Taliban militants who were released from the Guantanamo Bay prison in C More… |
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Agility to provide services for Afghan airportsKuwaiti logistics group Agility said on Tuesday it will provide services to airports in Afghanistan as part of a joint venture which will make revenues of $200 million over ten years. The contract covers Kabul, Kandahar and Herat More… |
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Taliban launch attack on Kabul airportSeven Taliban insurgents including suicide bombers attacked the main airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul, early on Monday, with explosions and gunfire heard near an area that also houses major foreign military b More… |
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Taliban, US revive talks in Qatar says KarzaiThe Afghan Taliban and the US have been holding talks in Qatar, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday, but the militant group and Washington denied they had resumed dialogue. The Taliban More… |
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Star on battlefield, felled by affairDavid Petraeus was a star on the battlefield, commanding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but was undone by "poor judgment" in engaging in an extramarital affair that led to his downfall as CIA director. Just two days afte More… |
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US army officer faces Afghan murder chargesArmy Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, accused of killing Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage in Kandahar province last week, will be charged with 17 counts of murder, a US official said on Thursday. Earlier accounts of the incident, which h More… |
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Afghan group in Bahrain for arbitration forumSenior members of the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry completed a three-day workshop on arbitration and mediation at the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution (BCDR-AAA). The event was organised in association with the Americ More… |
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KBR wins Iraq, Afghan defence contractsKBR, a global engineering, construction and services company, said that it has been selected by the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to provide life support, vehicle maintenance and healthcare services in Iraq and Afghanistan. More… |
