Tag: afghanistan

At least 25 Afghan security force personnel have been killed in an ambush blamed on the Taliban in the northeast of the country. "Fighting is still continuing and the Taliban ...

Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus has been covering conflicts from Bosnia to Afghanistan for more than 20 years, earning a Pulitzer Prize in 2005, as part of a team of ...

The United States reopens its Kabul embassy following its closure due to fears of an al Qaeda attack US Kabul Embassy Reopens The U.S. State Department said it had reopened ...

Afghan security forces have tackled heavily-armed militants who seized a building near the main airport in the capital Kabul. Officials said seven gunmen had been killed in the five-storey building ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has paid a three-day official visit to Washington, D.C. last month with Afghan delegates. The Obama-Karzai meeting was the first one since they got together in ...

Back when Barack Obama began his first term, I argued that we shouldn't expect much from his handling of foreign policy. I was pretty sure he'd do a better job than his ...

A US commando was killed during a mission to rescue an American doctor kidnapped by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, the White House has said. President Barack Obama said the ...

In this exclusive interview with TPQ, the honorable secretary-general provides an overview of the major developments of the past two years in Turkey’s neighborhood, including the Libya operation and crisis ...

The U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan is stepping down. The State Department says Marc Grossman will leave next month to return to private life, and will be replaced ...

Afghanistan has closed down three major public universities in the capital, Kabul, for more than a week after sectarian clashes left one student dead and nearly 30 others wounded.  Interior ...