Afghanistan Travel News

A former Taliban fighter hands over his arms to join government troops in Herat.

By Air Force Capt. John T. Stamm Special to American Forces Press Service Nov. 19, 2009 - I felt like a bean-bag being tossed about in the cab of our pickup truck as our convoy traveled several bumpy miles off the main road, deep into the Hindu Kush Mountains of the Panjshir Valley, Nov.

Is there any way to get around Afghan President Hamid Karzai? This question dominates the U.S. debate as President Obama prepares to announce his long-delayed Afghan strategy.

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai greets the guards of honor as he arrives at the presidential palace for his inauguration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov.

They arrive at the meeting by U.S. military helicopter, politely accept a cup of tea and haggle over a U.S.-funded water project gone awry.

Richard Colvin says he first warned Canadian officials of Afghanistan prisoner abuse almost a year before the government admitted it knew.

The NDP is calling for a public inquiry to probe allegations Canadian officials were complicit in the torture of innocent prisoners in Afghanistan.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai accompanies visiting Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari at the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday, Nov.

Page 1 of 2 Afghanistan runs on well-oiled wheels By Pratap Chatterjee KABUL - Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the Hindu Kush down to Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.

All detainees transferred by Canadians to Afghan prisons were likely tortured by Afghan officials, says a former senior diplomat with Canada's mission in Afghanistan.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, on her first trip to Afghanistan as U.S. secretary of state, said Wednesday that President Hamid Karzai's inauguration provides an opportunity for him to improve government accountability and make a difference in the lives of Afghans.

Oversight and controls for more than $40 billion in U.S. funds to rebuild Afghanistan have been "sloppy" so far despite lessons from Iraq, the U.S. chief inspector for Afghanistan reconstruction said on Tuesday.

Oregon's Governor, Ted Kulongoski, offers his high opinion of Oregon soldiers to Master Sgt.

Air Commodore Malcolm Brecht and Colonel Roch Lacroix looked on as Rangina Hamadi and her mother, Spozhai Hamidi, opened Kandahar Treasure Saturday on the Boardwalk - the huge NATO base's main recreational and shopping area.

Afghan officials used talks with German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg on Thursday to petition Berlin to supply the fledgling national army with heavy weapons, the defence ministry said.

The United States is limiting its goals in Afghanistan and demanding better accountability from that country's underperforming leader, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday, and she tied additional U.S. civilian help to results from Kabul.

From Wikinews, the free news source you can write! Saturday, November 14, 2009 NATO Afghan officials said more than twenty people have been wounded today in a suicide car bomb attack on a convoy of vehicles near Camp Phoenix, a US -run NATO military base in the capital of Kabul .

Liberal party leader Stephane Dion and deputy leader Michael Ignatieff met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Saturday, in a fact-finding mission to set long-term goals for Canadaa s mission in Afghanistan.

Apparently a few folks in the armed forces are miffed that Karl Eikenberry - our Ambassador in Afghanistan who deals with President Karzai on a regular basis - hasn't jumped on the COIN bandwagon: The public disclosure of his views has heightened existing tensions between senior military officers and General Eikenberry, who left the military in ...

President Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, is traveling to Europe and Moscow before attending Afghan President Hamid Karzai's second inauguration next week, for what the State Department says are "routine meetings." But with deep divisions surfacing in the Obama administration's internal debate on the future ...