Provides the latest RSS feeds for Afghanistan News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Afghanistan Sun.com http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/cat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/ en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 09:15:15 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 09:15:15 -0400 30 ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214736647/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 24 May 2013 07:50:01 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214736647/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c In a meeting with Afghan Interior Ministry officials, President Hamid Karzai has reportedly warned that neighbouring countries are trying to split the country. He claimed that these countries have taken undue advantage of the situation in Afghanistan, and added that they always did things to meet their own goals. "Some countries don't want Afghanistan to have a proper system; many don't want ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214735975/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 24 May 2013 07:00:04 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214735975/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Beijing, May 24 (Xinhua-ANI): Humanitarian emergency directors from various UN agencies will travel on a six-day mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan, the United Nations said Thursday. During the visit from May 26 to June 1, the directors will see for themselves "the ongoing humanitarian operations in the countries and look into ways in which the humanitarian community can strengthen its response ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214731632/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 24 May 2013 02:10:02 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214731632/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c NEWS RELEASE: مردم می خواهند خلافت اسلامی برای شغل برای تولید انرژی برای ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/nrid/1089/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/nrid/1089/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c The Taliban influence in Afghanistan may grow after international coalition forces pull out, while rising radicalism in Syria could lead to the country's disintegration, Russian military intelligence agency GRU has said. GRU chief Lt. Gen. Igor Sergun said the situation in Afghanistan poses a "serious challenge to international stability" and that the withdrawal of the International Security ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214730106/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 23:40:01 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214730106/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, May 24, 2013 – An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban facilitator and two other insurgents during an operation in the Dand district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province today, military officials reported. The facilitator is a vital member of improvised explosive device networks ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214736926/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 24 May 2013 08:05:20 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214736926/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Police say a suicide bomber walked up to a vehicle owned by an Afghan religious leader in northwestern Pakistan and set off his explosives, killing three people. The leader, Haji Hayatullah, was not harmed in the attack in Peshawar city because he was in a nearby mosque attending Friday prayers. Police officer Riaz Ali Shah says Hayatullah's driver and guard were ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214736914/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 24 May 2013 07:46:08 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214736914/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Family and friends are paying final respects to a soldier from Massachusetts killed in Afghanistan.A funeral Mass with full military honors for U.S. Army Spc. Mitchell Daehling is scheduled for Friday at St. Agnes Church in Dalton. He will receive the Bronze Star and Purple Heart posthumously.Daehling was killed by an improvised explosive device May 14.The Dalton resident ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214736255/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 24 May 2013 06:54:29 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214736255/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c The killing of drummer Lee Rigby, 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, near London's Woolwich army barracks on Wednesday was a horrific act. Rigby was first run down by two men in a car, who then set about him with knives and a cleaver.One of the men who carried out the killing was identified as Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old British citizen of Nigerian descent. The other has only ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214733522/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 24 May 2013 05:19:50 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214733522/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c ONE of the men allegedly behind the brutal slaying of soldier Lee Rigby had to himself be consoled by friends in 2007 after a soldier mate was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Two terror suspects shot by police in Woolwich remain under arrest in hospital. They were named as Michael Adebolajo, originally of Romford, Essex, and Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, South East London The ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214732692/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 24 May 2013 03:37:32 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214732692/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sept. 11 , 2001, the country is more secure and fewer U.S. troops are in harm's way, Obama said while speaking at the U.S. Defense Department's National Defense University in Washington. However, he warned: "Now, make no mistake, our nation is still threatened by terrorists. From Benghazi to Boston, we have been tragically reminded of that truth. But we have to recognize that the ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214731788/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 24 May 2013 02:05:57 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214731788/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Kabul: The women of Afghanistan have the worst to fear from the return of the Taliban, but not everyone is waiting for someone else to write the script of their lives. On the outskirts of Kabul, at the special forces base, we meet Najla, one of the first and few female soldiers in Afghanistan. Najla has taken part in every operation of her unit and is getting ready to fight the extremists who ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214730261/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 23:39:44 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214730261/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Anthony Cordesman is a former director of intelligence assessment for the U.S. secretary of defense’s office and a recipient of the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal. He now holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He gave RFE/RL Washington Bureau Chief Heather Maher his thoughts ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214725673/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 18:47:44 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214725673/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Navy reservist Joes Boza does pushups with 6th graders (red shirt) Alex Garbee and (stripped shirt) Kaelan Joseph as their classmates from Pembroke Pines Charter Middle School watched Thursday morning during a visit. The school wrote letters to naval reservists on tour in Afghanistan. The soldiers recently made the trip home and offered to visit the students that wrote them every few weeks. The ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214726115/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 18:22:17 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214726115/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL - A Turkish businessman was kidnapped by armed assailants in Afghanistan late on Sunday.Sami Yavuz, head of Afghanistan Turkish Industrialists & Businessmen's Association, was kidnapped at around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday.Armed assailants forced 41-year-old Yavuz to get on a car, and kidnapped him in Kabul.Yavuz has been living in Kabul with his family for more than ten years.Afghan ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214725884/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 18:14:46 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214725884/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Mark Evans , a retired Air Force master sergeant and founder of nonprofit group Pizza 4 Patriots, said Guinness officials notified him that last summer's massive pizza delivery to U.S. service members in Kandahar, Bagram and Camp Bastion was officially the world's largest pizza delivery, ABC News reported Thursday. Evans said he is "completely pleased and overwhelmed" by the ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214726116/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 18:12:31 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214726116/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c On the 18th of May, the BBC, CBC, the UK Guardian and many news outlets worldwide reported that the debate in the Afghan Parliament regarding the Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women (LEVAW) was halted by some Afghan lawmakers who argued that some parts of it violate Islamic principles. The law took effect in 2009 by a decree by President Hamid Karzai but was not ratified by Parliament. ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214724686/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 17:30:09 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214724686/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Afghanistan . Army officials said Lee Rigby, 25, nicknamed Riggers, was married with a 2-year-old son, The Guardian reported. He enlisted in 2006 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009. Rigby, apparently targeted because he was wearing a T-shirt for the soldiers' charity Help for Heroes, was hacked to death Wednesday outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in the Woolwich district of London. ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214721703/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 14:24:55 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214721703/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c The solider brutally slaughter on the streets of London was identified today as an Afghan war veteran and loving father of a 2-year-old boy, British military officials said.Lee "Riggers" Rigby, a 25-year-old Manchester native, survived the war in Afghanistan only to be brutally hacked to death in broad daylight in the south central London neighborhood of Woolwich yesterday. His fellow ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214720075/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 13:43:29 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214720075/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Drummer Lee Rigby, or ‘Riggers’ to his friends, was born in July 1987 in Crumpsall, Manchester. He joined the Army in 2006 and on successful completion of his infantry training course at Infantry Training Centre Catterick he was selected to be a member of the Corps of Drums and posted to 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (also known as "Second Fusiliers" or ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214720076/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 13:31:06 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214720076/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News The British soldier brutally killed in London in a suspected terror attack was a drummer in a military band who had served in Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.Lee Rigby, 25, known as "Riggers" to his friends, ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214720077/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 13:09:10 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214720077/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Artefacts such as a Buddhist sculpture have been extracted from the Mes Aynak archaeology site where miners want to extract rich deposits of copper. Photograph: Jay Price/Getty ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214718507/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 12:22:30 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214718507/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Afghanistan throng with the biggest crowds they have seen in more than 14 centuries. Nearby, rows of sheet metal housing built for Chinese miners are almost empty.Hundreds of archaeologists are working at the site to excavate gilded statues of the Buddha, elaborate stupas that rise from ornately carved floors and delicate frescoes protected by centuries of mud and forgetfulness. The rich vein of ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214718345/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 12:03:26 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214718345/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c QUETTA // A large bomb hidden by the Taliban in a rickshaw exploded as a police vehicle passed in south-west Pakistan yesterday, killing 11 policemen and two civilians, police said. The bombing on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, came on the same day as fighting in the restive north-west left four soldiers dead. Police claimed 20 militants also died in those clashes. ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214716902/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 11:18:26 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214716902/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Burqa clad women in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan - Hard-line Islamist students protested Wednesday in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic. It was the latest sign of a backlash against the legal protections passed in the 12 years since the toppling of the Taliban regime known for its harsh treatment of women.The ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214717412/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 11:12:40 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214717412/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A new female recruit of the Afghanistan police force during a training session south of Herat, western Afghanistan. Photograph: Raheb ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214716755/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 10:50:07 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214716755/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sydney, May 23 : The father of the captain of the Afghanistan cricket team has been abducted by unknown gunmen from his car from the outskirts of the city of Jalalabad in the eastern province of Nangarhar, according to ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214715384/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 10:00:25 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214715384/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c New Delhi, May 23 : The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai paid a two-day working visit to India from May ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214715383/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 10:00:25 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214715383/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, May 23, 2013 – A combined Afghan and coalition security force in Baghlan province's Baghlan-e Jadid district arrested six insurgents today during a search for a Taliban facilitator, military officials reported. The facilitator controls a group responsible for attacks on Afghan and coalition ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214715385/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 09:53:44 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214715385/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c ASTANA, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Kazakhstan’s parliament ratified an agreement with Britain on Thursday on transit of military equipment and personnel across its territory from Afghanistan, where British troops are serving in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). British aircraft will fly through Kazakhstan’s airspace without making a stopover on its territory, ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214715276/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 09:46:42 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214715276/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c My journey of a thousand miles began with a single bribe. I was riding in a Pakistani truck hauling a shipping container from the port city of Karachi to the Afghan capital of Kabul, along one of the two main routes used to supply U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. I was accompanied by the truck driver and his brother, and a friend who served as a translator. We were still on the outskirts of ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214714023/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 08:52:17 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214714023/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Azim Khan stands atop his truck in the main yard of Shireen Jinnah Colony, where hundreds of tankers load up with fuel to supply to U.S.and NATO military presence in Afghanistan. When the Pakistani government closed down the supply routes in response to an errant U.S.airstrike, Mr. Khan spent seven months sleeping in his truck. (Matthieu ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214712652/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 07:42:32 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214712652/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Indian government a 'wish list' for military equipment. The list, said sources, comes after considerable discussions with Afghanistan on what exactly they would want. New Delhi has committed to provide training, equipment and capacity building for Afghan armed forces as part of the strategic partnership pact signed in 2011. However, India appears more hesitant this time, largely because ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214712696/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 07:26:49 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214712696/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c ZARI DISTRICT, Afghanistan — The sound of gunfire was the first sign that the Afghan cop’s loyalty was suspect. It was February in Hadji Musa, a village in ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214712364/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 07:18:14 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214712364/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL - Gunmen kidnapped the father of Afghanistan's national cricket team captain near his home in an eastern city, officials said Thursday. There has been no ransom demand since Mohammad Nabi's 60-year-old father Khobi Khan was abducted from his car in the city of Jalalabad, cricket board president Shazada Masoud said. Police are searching for Khan, but there have been no leads or ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214711492/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 06:01:58 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214711492/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Nabi 's 60-year-old father, Khobi Khan, was abducted near his home in the city of Jalalabad.Cricket board president Shazada Masoud said that police are assisting but there have been no leads or any contact since Mr Khan was taken from his car on Tuesday.He said Nabi told him his family has no personal disputes and he is shocked at the abduction. Kidnapping is fairly common ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214710432/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 05:05:29 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214710432/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Obama will say Thursday. The president will also announce new limits to unmanned combat drone strikes, the officials said of the program that has been central to White House efforts to combat terrorism. Obama's 2 p.m. speech at the Defense Department's National Defense University in Washington will lay out how he intends to bring his counter-terrorism policies in line with the legal ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214710530/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 04:46:04 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214710530/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A total of 94 Azerbaijani peacekeepers serve in Afghanistan at the moment. The statement came from Vice Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament Ziyafat Asgarov in an interview with ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214709354/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 04:09:14 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214709354/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Raza Haider in Karachi was part of a plan hatched by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other banned outfits to destabilise the country. Haider was gunned down in the financial capital along with his security guard by unidentified gunmen inside Jamia Masjid on Monday. Malik said outlawed ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214709415/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 03:57:53 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214709415/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Anti-Muslim rioters fought police and 10 Downing St. called crisis Cabinet meetings after men raging about Islam hacked a soldier to death on a London street. About 250 supporters of the English Defense League street protest movement, all wearing black ski masks and some in paramilitary dress, threw rocks and bottles at police in London's southeast Woolwich district. The rioting occurred ... http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214709586/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Thu, 23 May 2013 03:33:43 -0400 http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/sid/214709586/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c