KABUL, Aug. 20, 2008 (Reuters) Afghans believe the United States knows about al Qaeda bases in Pakistan, but does not hit them because it wants an unstable Afghanistan to justify its presence for wider regional goals, a state newspaper said on Wednesday. ... > full story
KABUL, Aug. 19, 2008 (Reuters) Taliban insurgents killed 10 French soldiers and wounded 21 in a major battle in Afghanistan, the French president's office said on Tuesday, the biggest single loss of foreign troops in combat there since 2001. ... > full story
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug. 17, 2008 (Reuters) Afghan soldiers killed 28 Taliban in a clash on Sunday after the guerrillas ambushed a convoy carrying supplies for foreign troops in the southern province of Zabul, government officials said. ... > full story
KABUL, Aug. 17, 2008 (Reuters) Afghanistan has changed the venue for its independence celebration on Monday to an undisclosed location, an official said, after President Hamid Karzai survived an attempt on his life by Taliban in a military parade in April. ... > full story
NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2008 (Reuters) A Pakistani woman suspected of links to al Qaeda and accused of trying to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan was examined by a doctor on Tuesday after complaining of pain from gunshot wounds, her lawyer said. ... > full story
LONDON, Aug. 12, 2008 (Reuters) A British soldier was killed and two were wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday. ... > full story
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug. 12, 2008 (Reuters) Senior Al Qaeda commander Abu Saeed al-Masri was killed in recent clashes with Pakistani forces near the Afghan border, a security official said on Tuesday. ... > full story
KABUL, Aug. 12, 2008 (Reuters) The NATO-led force in Afghanistan has denied reports it killed more than a dozen civilians in an air strike to the northeast of the capital. ... > full story
NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2008 (Reuters) A Pakistani woman suspected of links to al Qaeda and accused of trying to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan was granted access to urgent medical attention by a U.S. judge on Monday. ... > full story
ISLAMABAD, Aug. 11, 2008 (Reuters) An audio tape purportedly made by al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al Zawahri has accused Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and other politicians of trying to destabilize Pakistan at the behest of the United States. ... > full story
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Bombing wounds 9 Turkish policemen, bomber killed Aug. 19, 2008 (International Herald Tribune) A suspected suicide bomber triggered an explosion when Turkish police stopped his car near a southern city Tuesday killing himself and wounding ...
British soldier dies in Afghanistan Aug. 12, 2008 (Scotland Herald) Previous | Next | Back to index. A British soldier died and two more were wounded when a suicide bomber rammed a car into their convoy in ...
India dismisses Pak talk of arms race July 25, 2008 (GlobalSecurity.org) India has dismissed a warning by Pakistan that the Indo-US nuke deal will accelerate an atomic arms race in the sub-continent declaring there was ...
Main Catch in War on "Virtually a Free Citizen" in Pakistan July 13, 2008 (Mother Jones) New evidence that the Bush Administration's war on terror is more show than substance.. . In a 2004 presidential debate, Bush sought to assure ...