Taliban suicide bomber, gunmen attack Afghan parliament
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban suicide bomber struck the entrance to the Afghan parliament on Monday and gunmen tried to storm the heavily guarded compound, setting off a gunbattle with police...
View ArticleThe Latest: Taliban claim to have seized Afghan city center
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The latest developments in a major Taliban assault on the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, where intense battles are underway with government forces (all times local). ___ 8:15...
View Article105-year-old Afghan refugee seeks better life in Europe
OPATOVAC, Croatia (AP) — She is 105 years old but still dreams of a better life without wars and bombs. Bibihal Uzbeki, from Kunduz, Afghanistan, is among tens of thousands of migrants who have...
View ArticleAfghan quake death toll rises further as survivors await aid
SHANGLA, Pakistan (AP) — Afghanistan and Pakistan were scrambling Wednesday to rush aid to survivors of this week’s magnitude-7.5 earthquake as the region’s overall death toll from the temblor rose to...
View ArticleTaliban overrun remote northern district in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have overrun a district in northern Afghanistan’s Takhar province, and intense battles were underway Wednesday as government forces fought to retake it, an...
View ArticleThousands of Afghans march, demand justice for slain Shiites
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Anger and frustration over the brutal killings of seven members of Afghanistan’s minority Hazaras spilled into the streets of Kabul on Wednesday, with about 10,000 people...
View ArticleAfghan official claims splinter Taliban group leader killed
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — A senior figure of a breakaway Taliban faction has been killed in battle between rival insurgent groups in southeastern Afghanistan, an Afghan police official said...
View ArticleMedal of Honor recipient tackled suicide bomber, saved lives
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — He tackled a suicide bomber while serving in Afghanistan, saving fellow soldiers’ lives while suffering a gruesome leg injury. During three years of recovery and more than 30...
View ArticleEuropean nations shut their borders to economic migrants
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Most nations along Europe’s refugee corridor abruptly shut their borders Thursday to those not coming from war-torn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan or Iraq, leaving...
View ArticleUS general: Afghan army being ‘rebuilt’ for Taliban battle
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — After months of ferocious fighting, Afghan army units battling the Taliban in southern Helmand province are facing major restructuring and leadership changes, with several key...
View ArticlePick to lead Afghanistan forces says situation is worsening
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the next U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Thursday the security situation in the war-torn country is deteriorating and assured senators he...
View ArticleTop US commander says war in Afghanistan is not a lost cause
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top American commander in Afghanistan told lawmakers on Tuesday, Feb 2., that the war is not a lost cause and underscored his optimism with a personal story about his son, an...
View ArticleChange in command of US-NATO forces in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. Army General John W. “Mick” Nicholson took command Wednesday, Mar. 2, of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, inheriting America’s longest war and a vicious Talban-led...
View ArticleAfghan official: Indian consulate attack kills 2, wounds 19
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — At least two civilians have been killed in an attempted car bomb attack on the Indian consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad, an Afghan official said on Wednesday, Mar....
View ArticleAP Explains: Violence against Christians in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The suicide bombing in the city of Lahore on Easter underscores how Pakistan’s Christian minority has become an easy target for the country’s Islamic militants, although Muslims also...
View ArticleCivilians pay the price for expanding conflict in Yemen
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Violence in Yemen has killed an estimated 519 people the past two weeks, 90 of them children, and tens of thousands are fleeing their homes, the U.N. humanitarian chief said...
View ArticleThousands protest woman’s mob killing in Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Thousands marched through the Afghan capital Tuesday, demanding justice for a woman who was beaten to death by a mob after being falsely accused of burning a Quran. Men and...
View ArticlePush for cleaner stoves in poor countries to cut pollution
NEW DELHI (AP) — Every evening, hundreds of millions of Indian women hover over crude stoves making dinner for their families. They feed the flames with polluting fuels like kerosene or cow dung, and...
View ArticleAfter Pakistan bus attack, worry an insurgency growing worse
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — As hundreds of mourners on Saturday protested the killing of 22 people in deadly bus hijackings in western Pakistan, the assaults raised new fears that a long-simmering...
View ArticleCivilians biggest losers on Afghan war’s new northern front
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (AP) — When the Taliban descended a month ago on Dam Shakh, a hamlet on the wheat-growing plains of northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz province, nobody was prepared. “They turned up...
View Article