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  • Roadside bomb kills 4 Afghan cops in eastern province

    Nangarhar, May 19 (Xinhua-ANI): Four Afghan policemen were killed Sunday as a roadside bomb went off in the country's eastern province of Nangarhar, the provincial government said in a statement. "Four members of Afghan Border Police died following a roadside bombing in Khawari area of Muhmad Dara district at around 10 a.m. local time Sunday," the statement said. The Nangarhar province with ...

  • Pentagon planning to claim lowest-ever annual Afghan war costs since 2005

    The Pentagon is planning to request the lowest-ever annual supplemental budget from the government, about 79.5 billion dollars, which is the lowest cost for anti-terror war ongoing since 2005. The drop in budget comes as US troops and war equipments deployed in Afghanistan are returning to their homeland, Washington Times reports. According to the report, President Barack Obama's ...

  • Protests halt debate over eliminating violence against women in Afghan parliament

    A debate held by Afghanistan MPs to back up law to eliminate violence against women came to a standstill amid angry protests by traditionalists. A 2009 presidential decree has banned violence against women, child marriages and forced marriages but was not approved in the parliament, the BBC reports. According to the report, the speaker had to end the debate 15 minutes after the protests ...

  • Afghan police officer killed in Taliban attack

    A senior police official was killed in Afghanistan's Farah province when two Taliban militants opened fire on him, an official said Saturday. Ghani Khan, the police chief of Khak-e-Safid district, was visiting Charbagh area outside provincial capital Farah city Friday night. Khan was killed on the spot as two Taliban militants, riding a motorcycle, came across and sprayed bullets, reported ...

  • Afghan Lawmakers Block Womens Rights Law

    Afghanistan's parliament has delayed action on a measure aimed at protecting women's rights. Activists say the move Saturday is a blow to progress made in women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the ousting of the Taliban from power. The Taliban observed strict Islamic rule that banned Afghan women from attending school or participating in most public activity. ...


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  • Afghanistan to ask India for military aid

    KABUL, Afghanistan An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week. Karzai's trip comes during escalating border tension with Pakistan, India's archrival. Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi says the president will discuss recent border skirmishes with Pakistan when he visits New Delhi starting Monday. He added that Karzai ...

  • At least six Afghan police officers dead in Taliban fighting

    At least six Afghan police officers died and four others were injured Sunday in clashes with Taliban militants in Ghazni province, officials said. Moqor District Gov. Sahib Khan Elham said an unknown number of Taliban militants attacked Afghan police at checkpoints in the district. The Taliban suffered casualties as well, although an exact number of killed and injured was not reported, Khaama ...

  • Attacks kill 10 police in Afghanistan

    TALIBAN attacks have killed at least ten Afghan police, officials say. In one of the incidents, Taliban fighters attacked a security check post in the Muqur district of Ghazni province in southern Afghanistan, killing six police, according to the district governor. "Six of our local police were martyred after hours of clashes with the Taliban when they attacked their post early today," ...

  • Afghan president to seek military aid on visit to India amid border tensions with Pakistan

    KABUL - An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week. Karzai's trip comes during escalating border tension with Pakistan, India's archrival. Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi says the president will discuss recent border skirmishes with Pakistan when he visits New Delhi starting Monday. He added that Karzai would seek ...

  • Boko Haram - African version of Taliban

    In Syria, they are chewing the hearts of cadavers; on Indian border they are beheading the soldiers and in the US they are exploding the cooker bombs. How could Africa lag behind when all the continents are on fire? So the richest and most advanced country of this continent after South Africa, namely Nigeria got it in the form of 'Boko ...

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