Charikar, Afghanistan News

The Korean government yesterday finalized a plan to send up to 350 soldiers to Afghanistan to protect civilian workers in Parwan Province from July 2, 2010 to Dec.

Korea has narrowed down the number of civilian aid workers to be sent to Afghanistan to less than 100, while the troop number will be set at slightly above 300, a senior Foreign Ministry official said yesterday.

"They shoot Russians," the young paratrooper told me. It was cold. We had come across his unit, the Soviet 105th Airborne Division, near Charikar, north of Kabul, and he was holding out a bandaged hand.

How much time should it take to make a decision? I just read the Sunday editorial titled "Escalation of Afghan war is no decision to be made in haste." To quote: "Let Mr.

As Americans, including President Obama 's top advisers, tensely debate whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan , Afghans themselves are having a similar discussion and voicing serious doubts.

Hassina Syed talks about how she finds opportunity in a war-torn country and why ''if a male businessman can do it, so can a woman.'' Ever since the collapse of the Taliban regime in the fall of 2001, Afghanistan's over-$20 billion recovery effort has been undermined by worsening security, corruption and mixed agendas by the international ...

AECOM Government Services in Fort Worth, TX received a $78.8 million, 6-month extension to the US Army's global maintenance support and service contract for AECOM's work in Afghanistan.

Taliban fighters drove around Kabul flying the white flags of their movement yesterday after capturing the Afghan capital following an overnight battle that left hundreds dead and government forces fleeing to the north.

The leading challenger in Afghanistan's national elections warned Monday that if President Hamid Karzai wins another term based on a fraudulent vote, the U.S.-led war against al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan will fail.

Counting the ballots in Afghanistan's second presidential and provincial council elections has begun.

The leading challenger hoping to win the Afghan presidency away from Hamid Karzai is a man defined by his associations.

Monday, July 27, 2009 Photo: Omar Sobhani/Reuters Afghan men listen to a speech by Helmand Governor Gulab Mangal during at Malgeer village.

In early 2002, not long after the fall of the Taliban, the Shomali Plain looked like a theme park of wartime devastation.