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Afghanistan acknowledges need for further election delay KABUL: Afghanistan’s electoral commission said Saturday it was necessary to delay parliamentary polls, put off until next year amid shaky security, as it prepared for landmark presidential elections in October.
Election officials said Friday that the already-delayed parliamentary vote would be put off again until April to allow more time for voter registration, the disarming of militia and the strengthening of Afghan security forces....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 10:58am PDT
Twin blasts leave dozens hurt in Afghanistan Kabul - One man died on Wednesday and another 27 people, including children, were injured in two explosions that rocked a city in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
The bombs hit two security posts in the city of Jalalabad shortly after 3pm, Agha Jan, a military official from surrounding Nangarhar province, told reporters.
Deputy police chief Abdul Rehman said one of the explosions occurred close to a bus station and the second at a police post on a main road....
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 9:53am PDT
'Rebel gunmen' kill Afghan voters Suspected Taleban rebels in Afghanistan have shot dead 16 people after finding them in possession of voter registration cards, officials say....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 12:21pm PDT
Afghan troops behead four suspected Taliban Kabul — A senior Afghan militia commander alleged Wednesday that troops from Afghanistan's U.S.-trained national army beheaded four Taliban fighters to avenge the similar slaying of an Afghan soldier and a military interpreter....
Posted: Wed, Jun 23, 2004 1:08pm PDT
Renegade Afghan Overruns Provincial Capital HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A renegade commander has taken control of most of a remote Afghan provincial capital after clashes in which 18 people were killed or wounded and the governor was forced to flee, combatants said on Friday....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 11:55pm PDT
Senior Afghan official shot dead There has been more violence in Afghanistan as its President Hamid Karzai visits the United States....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 5:16pm PDT
Afghan district warns of poll boycott A district in northwestern Afghanistan, an area largely controlled by regional strongmen, has threatened to boycott elections due this year unless it is upgraded to a province....
Posted: Mon, Jun 14, 2004 10:01am PDT
Afghan polls put off again Voter registration, security and funding problems are threatening Afghanistan's historic elections, originally due this month and now likely to be delayed until October at the earliest....
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 9:28am PDT
US 'kills 80 Afghan militants' The US military says it has killed more than 80 anti-government militants in recent operations in a rebel stronghold of south-east Afghanistan....
Posted: Sat, Jun 12, 2004 12:30pm PDT
Attackers target Afghan elections Aid agencies and people preparing for September's elections have again been targeted in attacks in Afghanistan....
Posted: Mon, Jun 7, 2004 9:10am PDT
Clashes in Afghanistan leave many dead Seventeen suspected Taliban have been killed in clashes with US-led troops and local forces in Afghanistan this week...
Posted: Sat, Jun 5, 2004 12:12am PDT
Medecins Sans Frontieres leaves Afghanistan The relief organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) will close down its programme in Afghanistan for the time being, after a Norwegian doctor and four other MSF workers were killed in an ambush in the Badghis province on Wednesday....
Posted: Fri, Jun 4, 2004 9:41am PDT
US troops kill Afghan student US troops fatally shot a student who tried to flee a search operation in troubled eastern Afghanistan, a senior Afghan official said today.
The shooting occurred during a house-to-house search on Saturday evening in Kundi, a village about 150 km south of the capital, Kabul, in Khost province, Governor Sarajuddin Patan said....
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 8:22am PDT
U.S. is lost in Afghanistan The handful of valiant American warriors fighting the ''other'' war in Afghanistan is not a happy band of brothers. They are undermanned and feel neglected, lack confidence in their generals and are disgusted by Afghan political leadership. Most important, they are appalled by the immense but fruitless effort to find Osama bin Laden for purposes of U.S. politics.
This bleak picture goes unreported because journalists are rarely seen there. It was painted to me by hard U.S. fighters who are...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 8:20am PDT
Afghanistan's deadly harvest IN Saudi Arabia, terrorists strike at the economic lifeblood of the West by attacking oil installations.
And in Afghanistan, they strike at the West's morale by promoting opium cultivation and heroin-smuggling....
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 8:18am PDT
US soldiers killed in Afghanistan Four US soldiers have been killed in an attack in Afghanistan amid signs of growing insurgency in the strife-torn country....
Posted: Sat, May 29, 2004 10:29pm PDT
Senior pro-Taliban cleric killed Gunmen riding in two cars and a motorcycle shot and killed a senior Sunni Muslim cleric in this violence-prone Karachi on Sunday....
Posted: Sat, May 29, 2004 10:28pm PDT
US aircraft bombard southern Afghanistan American aircraft have bombed southern Afghanistan for the second time this week after two US soldiers were injured in a clash near the border with Pakistan....
Posted: Sat, May 29, 2004 10:47am PDT
One Day of War: Why is Ahmed Zia fighting for the New Afghan Army? Across the world today, millions of people are caught up in conflict. BBC filmmakers follow 16 different characters in 16 different war zones over a 24-hour period....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 11:40am PDT
U.S. allegedly kills 20 militants in Afghanistan American troops caught in a gunfight with Afghan militants called in air strikes, the U.S. military said yesterday, in fighting that an Afghan commander said killed some 20 Taliban rebels at a newly discovered camp in the south....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 1:19am PDT
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