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US airstrike kills several civilians in Afghanistan; Trump says new strategy 'very close'
Aug 11, 2017 (AFP)
Saaz Wali Shinwari, the district governor of Haska Mina in Nangarhar province, said the raid was carried out by US troops although there was no official confirm...
Afghanistan contractors accused of misusing money on luxury cars, salaries
Aug 09, 2017 (UPI)
The findings came out of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction quarterly report on the Legacy East intelligence program and have drawn th...
Afghan police killed, NATO soldier wounded in 'insider attack'
Aug 05, 2017 (AFP)
The so called "green on blue" attack happened at Kandahar airfield when NATO advisors, who had completed a training session with their Afghan counterparts, were...
Delay in Afghanistan policy points to White House rift
Aug 04, 2017 (AFP)
Such is the uncertainty about what to do -- send thousands more troops into a nearly 16-year conflict, or take the opposite tack and pull out -- that Trump has ...
Taliban suicide bomber kills two US troops in south Afghanistan
Aug 02, 2017 (AFP)
"Two US service members were killed in action in Kandahar, Afghanistan, when their convoy came under attack," Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis said. "...
For Pakistanis, China 'friendship' road runs one way
Aug 02, 2017 (AFP)
For China, the two-lane thoroughfare symbolises a blossoming partnership, nourished with tens of billions of dollars of infrastructure investment. But for many ...
SIGAR report blasts lack of engagement among U.S. civilian agencies in Afghanistan
Aug 02, 2017 (UPI)
The report details SIGARs concerns that U.S. personnel are adopting a siege mentality and are unable to provide oversight to billions in reconstruction and secu...
US watchdog files report on Afghanistan child abuse
Aug 01, 2017 (AFP)
According to the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), which on Tuesday announced it had sent the classified findings ...
Leidos receives Afghanistan Saturn Arch counter-IED program
Jul 31, 2017 (UPI)
The work will goes toward Saturn Arch quick reaction capabilities, sustainment and integration in Afghanistan as part of U.S. counter-IED operations in the coun...
Does PM Sharif's ouster mean chaos for Pakistan?
Jul 29, 2017 (AFP)
Sharif's disqualification Friday by the Supreme Court over corruption allegations denies him the chance of becoming the country's first prime minister to comple...
26 Afghan soldiers killed in Taliban attack on Kandahar basel
Jul 26, 2017 (AFP)
The Afghan air force said it carried out strikes backing up soldiers on the ground during the hours-long attack on the base, which began late Tuesday and ended ...
16 Afghan policemen killed in US strike
Jul 22, 2017 (AFP)
The incident took place in Helmand province on Friday as Afghan security forces attempted to clear a village of Taliban militants, Salam Afghan, a police spokes...
China gives Tajikistan $230 million for new parliament
Jul 19, 2017 (AFP)
China -- which already owns over half of Tajikistan's public debt -- has long sought to increase ties in the ex-Soviet Central Asia region which Moscow has trad...
Afghan forces retake district in Helmand from Taliban: US
Jul 17, 2017 (AFP)
Backed by strikes from F-16 fighters and AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, Afghan troops began the two-day operation Saturday near the city of Lashkar Gar, which...
Leader of Afghan IS branch killed in US raid: Pentagon
Jul 14, 2017 (AFP)
"US forces killed Abu Sayed, the emir of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria -- Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) -- in a strike on the group's headquarters in Kunar Provi...
Egypt arrests dozens of Chinese Uighur students: HRW
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
"The authorities should disclose their whereabouts, on what grounds they are held, and give them access to lawyers," Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW's Middle East direc...
US soldier killed in Afghanistan's Helmand
Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)
A US soldier has been killed and two others wounded in an attack in Afghanistan's Helmand province while conducting operations against the Taliban, US military ...
Mattis says NATO must finish the job in Afghanistan
Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)
Mattis however refused to give a firm number for how many troops US President Donald Trump would commit under a new strategy, just two years after NATO official...
Kyrgyz court convicts three over China embassy attack
Jun 28, 2017 (AFP)
At least three people were wounded when a vehicle driven by a suicide bomber exploded after ramming through a gate at the embassy in the capital of the Central ...
Tajik leader in spotlight on 20th anniversary of end of civil war
Jun 27, 2017 (AFP)
State TV broadcast festivities in Vahdat, close to the capital Dushanbe, showing citizens holding aloft paintings of Rakhmon riding a white horse and wading thr...
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