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No regrets over apology to Afghans: US commander
Mar 05, 2012 (AFP)
The commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan said Monday he had no regrets about a US apology to Afghans over the burning of the Koran at a US base and voiced ho...
Suicide bomber attacks NATO convoy, 7 wounded
Mar 02, 2012 (AFP)
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a NATO convoy in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar Friday, wounding seven people including four soldiers, an...
Afghans kill two US troops in latest 'insider' attack
Mar 02, 2012 (AFP)
Two American soldiers were killed by Afghan colleagues on Thursday, the latest in a series of such attacks after the burning of Korans at a US base sparked wide...
Afghans kill two NATO troops: military
Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)
Two American soldiers were killed by Afghan colleagues on Thursday, the latest in a series of such attacks after the burning of Korans at a US base sparked wide...
NATO soldiers killed by Afghans were Americans: US
Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)
Two NATO soldiers who were killed by Afghan colleagues on Thursday were Americans and two of the three gunmen were Afghan government troops, the Pentagon said. ...
NATO urges Afghanistan to sign US deal: Karzai
Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)
NATO has urged Afghanistan to accelerate the signing of a strategic partnership deal with the US in the wake of deadly protests over the burning of the Koran, P...
Obama 'confident' of keeping to Afghan pullout plan
Feb 29, 2012 (AFP)
President Barack Obama said Wednesday he was "confident" the United States could stick to its Afghan drawdown timetable despite a week of deadly unrest over the...
Deadly violence rocks China's restive Xinjiang
Feb 29, 2012 (AFP)
Twenty people died when a group armed with knives attacked a market in Xinjiang, the latest outbreak of violence in the ethnically divided Chinese region, autho...
Outside View: Bin Laden's advice
Feb 28, 2012 (UPI)
Nine months after U.S. Navy SEALs ended Osama bin Laden's terrorist activities -- and life -- an interesting revelation has come to light about the man whose ha...
Riots in China's Xinjiang kill at least 12: state media
Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)
Riots in the volatile Chinese region of Xinjiang left at least 12 people dead Tuesday, state news agency Xinhua reported, in the latest unrest to rock the count...
Iran warns Azerbaijan over Israeli 'arms buy': reports
Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)
Iran challenged Azerbaijan on Tuesday over $1.5 billion in arms it said were purchased from arch-foe Israel, state media reported, in a sign of further strains ...
Fallout from Afghan Koran burning widens
Feb 27, 2012 (AFP)
The fallout from Koran burnings at a US airbase, which triggered a week of violence, has widened as Afghan ministers cancelled a visit to Washington and Western...
Commentary: Afghan war fundamentals
Feb 27, 2012 (UPI)
The United States and its NATO allies are having have trouble coming to grips with the fundamentals of the decade-long Afghan war. Following the assassination o...
US ties with Afghans face crisis after violence
Feb 27, 2012 (AFP)
Deadly unrest in Afghanistan has thrown a spotlight on the uneasy partnership between NATO and Afghan forces, exposing a potential Achilles heel for a war effor...
Taliban bomber kills nine at Afghan NATO base
Feb 27, 2012 (AFP)
A Taliban suicide car bomber targeting NATO troops at an airport in eastern Afghanistan killed nine people Monday, the seventh day of violence over the burning ...
Afghan-US ties hit all time low over Koran: analysts
Feb 26, 2012 (AFP)
An explosion of outrage over the burning of the Koran in a US military base has plunged relations between Afghans and their Western allies to an all time low, a...
Afghan ministers cancel US visit: Pentagon
Feb 26, 2012 (AFP)
Afghanistan's defense and interior ministers have canceled a visit to Washington next week to concentrate on addressing security concerns back home, the Pentago...
US advisors shot in Afghan ministry 'after Koran row'
Feb 26, 2012 (AFP)
Two US advisors who were shot dead in Afghanistan's interior ministry by an Afghan colleague had been mocking anti-US protests over the burning of the Koran, a ...
NATO withdraws staff from Afghan ministries after shooting
Feb 26, 2012 (AFP)
NATO on Saturday pulled all its staff out of Afghan government ministries after two US military advisors were shot dead in the interior ministry, as anti-US pro...
US envoy complains of Haqqani havens: report
Feb 24, 2012 (AFP)
The US ambassador to Afghanistan sent a top-secret cable to Washington last month warning that the existence of enemy havens in Pakistan was placing the US stra...
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