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Trump surprises US troops on Thanksgiving
US President Donald Trump speaks to the troops before a Thanksgiving dinner at Bagram Air Field during a surprise visit on November 28, 2019 in Afghanistan.…
Afghan land mine kills 15
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Fifteen civilians, including eight children, were killed Wednesday when their vehicle hit a land mine in Kunduz province in northern…
Assange health faltering
Assange used WikiLeaks to publish classified military and diplomatic files in 2010 about US bombing campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq that proved highly…
Beijing slams HK unrest, violence
The United States has contentious relations with both Russia and China, but Khalilzad has repeatedly consulted the rival powers and appeared to find common…
Afghans fear Taliban threat
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Ordinary Afghans are divided on whether to defy the Taliban’s threats and cast their ballots in a presidential election this week,…
Taliban attacks kill 48 ahead of election
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in two blasts Tuesday — one at a campaign rally for the…
Taliban kill at least 10 in ‘horrifying’ Kabul bombing
Kabul, Afghanistan — The Taliban killed at least 10 people, including a Romanian soldier, in a fresh bombing in Kabul on Thursday — yet another horrific attack…
U.S.-Taliban peace deal up?
US special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad. Photo: AFP
US-Taliban deal ‘close’
Kabul, Afghanistan — The US and the Taliban are “close” to reaching an agreement for a deal that would see the Pentagon slash its troop numbers in Afghanistan,…
Russia seeks war vindication n war
MOSCOW — Soviet authorities themselves condemned the USSR’s bloody occupation of Afghanistan, but 30 years later some in Vladimir Putin’s Russia are coming to…
DFA warns vs travel to Afghanistan
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) extended its sympathies to Afghanistan after two suicide bomb attacks at a mosque on Friday killed 30 people, including…
Roadside bomb kills 8
HERAT — A roadside bomb hit a Kabul-bound passenger bus in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding around 40, mostly women…
Suicide bombing in Kabul kills 14
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber carried out an attack near the Kabul airport Sunday, killing 14 people and narrowly missing Afghanistan’s vice president,…
Afghan clashes leave 71 dead
KANDAHAR — Up to 62 militants have been killed during airstrikes by Afghan air force in south Afghanistan’s Kandahar province over the past 24 hours, said…
Afghan army loses 40 men
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — Taliban attacks on Afghan security forces in the country’s north have caused “heavy casualties”, officials said Thursday, putting the…
Neo-Nazis in Aussie army?
Photo: AFP / David McNew An Australian army vehicle flew a Nazi swastika flag during an operation in Afghanistan, the prime minister confirmed Thursday in an…