The United Nations said on Tuesday the number of civilians killed or wounded in Afghanistan has risen sharply, up by 31 percent during the first half of this year. In a new report, it laid most of the blame for the surge in violence on members of the Taliban and other insurgents, saying they are responsible for 76 percent of [...]
A recent Pentagon report on the situation in Afghanistan over the past 6 months gives the impression that while things aren’t necessarily getting any worse, they are far from improving. Afghan citizens, when polled, showed only limited support for their government, and a slight majority placed the blame for instability on Taliban forces.
The United Nations said on Thursday it would evacuate hundreds of its international staff from Afghanistan for several weeks due to deteriorating security, a sharp blow for Western efforts to stabilise the country.
Back in 2002 during a reporting assignment in Afghanistan, a U.S. helicopter pilot told me that it was important to send a message early on that “we own the skies, night or day”. So at any given point of time if you were at the Bagram air base, north of Kabul, you could see aircraft, mostly choppers taking off, landing [...]
President Hamid Karzai’s rival in a Nov. 7 run-off presidential vote demanded on Monday that Afghanistan’s chief election official be sacked
The foreign ministers of Russia, India and China will meet on Tuesday with the threat of rising Taliban violence in Afghanistan
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