Oct 12 2008 - Washington Times
Seven years after the overthrow of the Taliban, the Bush administration is struggling to come up with a new strategy to salvage Afghanistan. In that effort, Gen. Dostum and the nation's 14 other warlords are a mixed blessing. Often corrupt and clinging to 14th–century notions of justice, they are an integral part of Afghanistan's past and present and are likely to remain so in the future.
Nov 15 2008 - Seattle PI
KABUL, Afghanistan –– A strike by coalition troops against a bomb–making cell in eastern Afghanistan killed 10 militants, the U.S. military said Saturday.
Nov 14 2008 - Washington Times
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN (AP) – No students showed up at Mirwais Mena girls' school in the Taliban's spiritual birthplace the morning after it happened.
Nov 13 2008 - San Francisco Chronicle
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ––A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy Thursday as it passed through a crowded market in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least eight civilians and an American soldier, Afghan officials said.
Nov 10 2008 - Seattle PI
KABUL, Afghanistan –– Mellissa Fung says captors kept her blindfolded for four weeks in an underground cave so low the Canadian journalist could barely stand. Chains bound her hands and feet during her last week as a prisoner.
Nov 09 2008 - San Francisco Chronicle
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ––A suicide car bomber attacked Spanish forces in western Afghanistan, killing two troops, officials said Sunday.
Nov 07 2008 - Washington Times
KAANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN (AP) – A U.S. coalition airstrike and clashes with the Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan earlier this week killed 37 civilians and 26 insurgents, according to an Afghan government report released Friday.
Nov 03 2008 - San Francisco Chronicle
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ––Gunmen kidnapped a French aid worker off the streets of Kabul on Monday and killed an intelligence agency employee who tried to intervene, in the latest attack against Westerners in the Afghan capital.
Oct 31 2008 - Seattle PI
KABUL, Afghanistan –– Taliban fighters stormed the Ministry of Culture in the heart of Kabul Thursday, killing five people in an attack the president said aimed at derailing the government's new effort to draw militants into a peace process and end a seven–year insurgency.
Oct 30 2008 - San Francisco Chronicle
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ––Taliban militants stormed a government building in the center of the Afghan capital on Thursday and one of them blew himself up inside, killing five people, officials and witnesses said.
Oct 28 2008 - Seattle PI
KABUL, Afghanistan –– Insurgents exchanged fire with U.S. troops aboard a Black Hawk helicopter in central Afghanistan on Monday before the aircraft was hit and forced to land. The crew was rescued, but in the north a suicide bomber killed two U.S. soldiers.
Oct 27 2008 - Washington Times
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP) – Insurgents shot down a U.S. helicopter after exchanging fire with its crew in central Afghanistan on Monday, while a suicide bomber in the north killed two American soldiers inside a police station, officials said.
Oct 26 2008 - Washington Times
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN (AP) – Armed assailants attacked a man and gouged out his eyes in front of his family during a gruesome assault in southern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
Oct 25 2008 - Washington Times
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP) – A private security guard working for the international shipping company DHL opened fire on Saturday, killing the company's country director and his deputy before turning the gun on himself, officials said.
Oct 23 2008 - Washington Times
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP) – U.S. Special Forces soldiers conducting a daring nighttime operation freed a kidnapped American working for the Army Corps of Engineers _ the first known hostage rescue by American forces in Afghanistan.
Oct 22 2008 - Seattle PI
by DEBORAH ORR
Gayle Williams, say those who speak for her Taliban assassins, was killed on Monday because she was a proselytizing Christian. The charge is denied by SERVE Afghanistan, the British aid group the 34–year–old worked for, which says this is a "convenient excuse" for a "completely opportunistic" murder.
It is easy to see how the "opportunity" to kill Williams came about.
Westerners working in Kabul (comparatively secure, even now) are advised not to operate in the way that Williams did. Women are warned that it is better if they do not walk in the streets alone, and both men and women are told they should avoid falling into habitual patterns, for the all–too–obvious reason that routines make people vulnerable to planned ambushes.
Oct 22 2008 - Washington Times
As a U.S.–led coalition races to develop a new strategy to counter growing Taliban and al Qaeda militancy, the next U.S. president will face a crisis that has left U.S. officials walking a tightrope with both Afghanistan and its nuclear–armed neighbor, Pakistan.
Oct 22 2008 - Washington Times
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP) – A U.S.–led coalition airstrike hit an Afghan army checkpoint Wednesday, killing nine soldiers, Afghan officials said, and the American military acknowledged that its forces may have "mistakenly" killed allied troops.
Oct 21 2008 - Washington Times
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP) – An Afghan appeals court overturned a death sentence for a journalism student accused of blasphemy and instead sentenced him Tuesday to 20 years in prison.
Oct 20 2008 - Washington Times
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP) – Taliban gunmen killed a Christian aid worker in Kabul as she was walking to work on Monday, and the militant group said it targeted the woman because she was spreading her religion.
Oct 19 2008 - Washington Times
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN (AP) – Taliban militants stopped a bus traveling on Afghanistan's main highway through a wild and dangerous part of the country's south, captured some 50 people on board and slaughtered around 30 of them, officials said Sunday.
