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Gunmen attack US embassy in Kabul
by gonesimera
Taliban suicide fighters launched a multi-pronged attack in Kabul today, firing rockets towards the US and other embassies in central Kabul, and sending two suicide bombers to the city's west later in the afternoon. The Taliban have launched a h...
ATTACK ON KABUL HOTEL RAISES MORE CONCERNS
by BlueMax372
By Laura King and Aimal Yaqubi Los Angeles Times KABUL -- Nazeer Amiri, a former policeman out for a leisurely late dinner with friends at a hilltop hotel, could hardly believe his eyes. Insurgents had burst into the lushly landscaped complex, sprayi...
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Not the Roman Legions September 3, 2012 Oh lordy, lordy, how I love the Afghan war: It just goes on and on, without end. By comparison death and taxes seem long shots. In the latest episode of this long-running sitcom, ...0 opinions2012/09/04 12:55:04
KABUL -- An explosion in a supermarket in the heart of Kabul's diplomatic district Friday [Jan. 28] killed at least eight people and injured six others, according to Afghan police. The blast gutted the Finest supermarket ...7 opinions2011/01/29 17:29:10
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/sep/13/us-embassy-u... http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/13/us-afghanistan-blas... http://news.yahoo.com/rockets-fired-us-embassy-afghan-capital...5 opinions2011/09/13 16:57:56
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Taliban militants staged a major assault against high-profile coalition targets in central Kabul Tuesday, a brazen strike by the tenacious Islamist movement in Afghanistan's capital. "Our insur...0 opinions2011/09/13 12:14:59
By Atia Abawi and Fazal Ahad, NBC News KABUL, Afghanistan -- Six Americans were among at least 15 people killed when a suicide bomber targeted a convoy carrying foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, NATO sources and local o...0 opinions7 days ago
The British Embassy in Kabul has followed in the footsteps of high-security prisons around the world by installing what might politely be described as an electronic orifice scanner to screen visitors for weapons concealed ...0 opinions2012/12/29 20:55:36
A suicide bomber has rammed a car packed with explosives into a mini-bus carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital, killing at least nine people in an attack a militant group said was revenge f...2 opinions2012/09/18 07:34:13
As Chicago residents face a murder rate that, thus far this year, is worse than U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the Chicago Police Department has assigned at least 100 officers to secure the wedding of White House advisor Vale...4 opinions2012/06/26 05:40:08
TALIBAN are still a major force to deal with and are still murdering people. QAIS USYAN/AFP/GETTYIMAGES An Afghan special forces soldier reacts from wounds received during a firefight with Taliban militants at the Spo...1 opinion2012/06/22 13:40:53
KABUL -- Hundreds of insurgents attacked Afghan police checkpoints in a remote northeastern province Tuesday [May 10] with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, but failed to overrun the government positions officials said...9 opinions2011/05/11 14:32:02
Six Taliban fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons have been killed in a half-completed building in Kabul, from where they had fired on the US embassy and Nato compounds in a 20-hour standoff i...2 opinions2011/09/14 15:09:49
KABUL -- Violence hop-scotched across Afghanistan on Saturday [Nov. 13], as a bombing killed 10 people in a northern province and coalition troops repelled an assault by a squad of gunmen and suicide bombers on a base in t...12 opinions2010/11/14 17:45:17
KABUL -- A NATO airstrike killed at least 25 suspected insurgents in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday [Dec. 11], while violence elsewhere left 22 civilians dead in a wave of attacks days before the White House [is to issue]...17 opinions2010/12/13 02:00:30
U.S Ambassy in Kabul under attack Insurgents are in an ongoing firefight with NATO and ISAF forces in Kabul, Afghanistan, after taking control of a building and firing on foreign missions, including the U.S. Embassy and...3 opinions2011/09/13 22:34:48
Editor's note: Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, is a director at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank that seeks innovative solutions across the ideological spectrum, and the author of th...1 vote2012/08/20 16:35:27
KABUL — Several Afghan and US-led coalition service members were killed Monday in the latest suspected insider attack on the international military force, NATO said. Afghan officials said the incident took place in ...5 opinions2013/03/11 12:28:33
Is it me, or do you find that the media never asks the real questions? Real questions I have: 1. What happens if we kickass in Afghanistan, withdraw, and then those in Pakistan just come back in and start it all over ...1 opinion2009/10/07 21:59:24
KABUL -- Afghanistan wants NATO to put on public trial those who burned copies of the Quran at a NATO base, President Hamid Karzai 's office said Thursday, after a third day of bloody protests over the incident. It said N...87 opinions2012/02/26 17:30:37