US relationship with Pakistan wary but improving
By KEN DILANIAN The U.S. has carried out a series of airstrikes in recent days against some of Pakistan’s most wanted militants hiding in a remote border area, the latest…
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Ashraf Ghani Afghan president to overhaul security
By LYNNE O’DONNELL Facing an intensified Taliban insurgency, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani plans to fire senior civilian and military leaders in the country’s most volatile provinces to reinvigorate the battle…
2,558 complaints over Afghan presidential runoff
By RAHIM FAIEZ FILE – In this Sunday, June 15, 2014 file photo, Afghan men, who their fingers have been cut off by Taliban fighters as a punishment for voting,…
AFGHAN WOMEN RALLY AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
By AHMAD SEIR Afghan women listen during a demonstration to protest violence that you can check here, against women in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. Afghan women are marching…
PAKISTAN TALKS WITH TALIBAN TEAM DELAYED
By MUNIR AHMED Pakistani religious cleric and member of Taliban’s negotiating committee Maulana Sami-ul-Haq arrives for a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. A three-member committee appointed…
AFGHAN EXPRESSES OPTIMISM KARZAI WILL SIGN US PACT
By KAY JOHNSON Afghan National Security Adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta addresses a news conference at presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. President Hamid Karzai’s national security adviser…
SUICIDE ATTACK ON AFGHAN RESTAURANT KILLS 21
By PATRICK QUINN Afghan security forces investigate the aftermath of Friday’s suicide attack and shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a…
AFGHANISTAN’S FIRST FEMALE POLICE CHIEF STARTS JOB
Afghanistan’s first-ever female district police chief, Col. Jamila Bayaz, 50, left, talks on the phone at her office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Afghanistan’s first-ever female district police…