Three held after attack on Karzai
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Afghan authorities arrest three people after an attempt to shoot down President Karzai's helicopter on Thursday.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan: Suspected Taliban militants beheaded three Afghan soldiers in the troubled southern province of Zabul over the weekend in the latest pre-election violence.
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Afghan officials arrested seven suspects in connection with an apparent assassination attempt against President Hamid Karzai, a government spokesman said Monday.
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Authorities in Afghanistan said Sunday they had detained four Pakistanis on suspicion of helping insurgents build bombs, as new blasts killed three soldiers and wounded a dozen people.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Three UN workers who were held hostage in Afghanistan have met with President Hamid Karzai. They looked tired but happy a day after their release from nearly four weeks of captivity.
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Police detained five men Friday in connection with the killing of a German aid worker in northern Afghanistan, officials said. The five were detained in the province of Sari Pul, where Dieter Ruebling, 65, worked for aid group German Agro Action, said police spokesman Zemrai Bashary.
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Afghan officials say they have arrested 17 people who had been trained in Pakistan to carry out suicide attacks.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 10 -- The Taliban carried out an apparent attempt to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, firing rockets that missed him by several hundred yards as he spoke to a group of elders.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first direct presidential election was thrust into turmoil hours after it started Saturday when all 15 candidates challenging interim leader Hamid Karzai said they would boycott the outcome because of potential fraud in the system designed to keep voters from casting more than one ballot.    The poll also was marred by violence, as militants ambushed police escorting boxes of ballots, killing three officers in the deadliest direct assault on the landmark post-Taliban vote, a senior official said...
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KABUL (Afghanistan): A heavy security clampdown was enforced Monday in the Afghan capital after the bombing of a US firm left at least nine people dead, including three Americans, and raised new fears about security just weeks before the countryâs
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Â· Attacks follow ambush on US-Afghan convoy  Â· Taliban accused of using families as shields.
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Armed men wearing military-style jackets abducted three foreign United Nations election workers in broad daylight in Kabul as vote-counting ended in Afghanistan's landmark election.
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Gunmen abducted three foreign election workers yesterday in daylight on a busy street in the capital. The incident was the first of its kind in Kabul since the fall of
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BOGOTA -- Police arrested three men and broke up a plot to attack US military officers who train Colombian police and soldiers in a popular weekend getaway, the US Embassy said yesterday. The suspects were arrested Saturday in the central city of Melgar, home to the Tolemaida military base, which houses a training center for anti drug agents. The men ...
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KABUL - Three suspected Taliban members have been arrested for allegedly trying to kill Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Thursday by shooting down his helicopter with a rocket.
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Three foreign election workers were  kidnapped by armed men in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday,  government officials said.
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A convoy carrying Afghan President Hamid Karzaiâs vice presidential running-mate came under attack today in north-eastern Afghanistan, the presidential palace said.