Cheney takes refuge in bomb shelter after Afghan blast
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Vice President Dick Cheney was whisked into a bomb shelter immediately after a Taliban suicide bomber struck the main American military base he was visiting in Afghanistan on Tuesday.
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An explosion outside the main U.S. base in Afghanistan causes casualties during Cheney's visit
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Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday tempered comments he made earlier this week that warned of the risk of another terrorist attack if Democratic Sen. John Kerry were elected president.
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An explosion in the Afghan capital Kabul was 200 to 300 meters (yards) outside the U.S. embassy and there were no U.S. casualties, a U.S. official said late on Thursday.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett is in Afghanistan, a day after an attack aimed at US vice-president Dick Cheney.
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It has been confirmed that US Vice President Dick Cheney made a stopover at Shannon airport last night en route from Afghanistan. The White House No.2 was accompanied into the terminal building by an entourage
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber dressed in a doctor's white coat slipped into a hospital compound in eastern Afghanistan, where he was challenged by police and NATO soldiers before detonating his explosives yesterday . Seven NATO troops and a hospital employee were injured, a local official said.
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A Taliban suicide bomber killed up to 12 people at the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday in an attack the rebels said was aimed at Dick Cheney, but the visiting U.S. vice president was not hurt.
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Vice President Dick Cheney said Saturday the Bush administration is working hard to protect the nation from the gravest threat facing it &#151; the possibility that nuclear weapons will fall into the hands of terrorists.
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An Afghan vice president survived an assassination attempt Monday when a remotely controlled device was detonated near his convoy, while two soldiers from the US-led coalition were killed in a separate gunbattle.
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Vice President Dick Cheney had stayed the night at the base, but the explosion was far away from where he was staying, and he was not injured.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's running  mate for a historic presidential election narrowly escaped a  bomb set off by Taliban guerrillas as the campaign closed on  Wednesday.
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Vice President Dick Cheney visited Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday to discuss with officials there a planned spring offensive against the Taliban after the most violent year since the hard-line group was ousted in 2001.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - Steeling for a spring offensive, the Taliban said on Wednesday they had sent 1,000 suicide bombers to relatively quiet northern Afghanistan, a day after a suicide blast targeted Vice President Dick Cheney.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A loud explosion rattled the Afghan capital near the US Embassy early Friday, prompting American officials to order diplomatic staff to take shelter in an underground bunker.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan  - Vice President Dick Cheney made surprise visits to Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday to discuss a planned spring offensive against the Taliban after the most violent year since the hard-line group was ousted in 2001.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO troops in Afghanistan have detained a man at Kabul airport who had traces of explosives on his hands, a day after a US security firm was bombed, killing 10 people, including three Americans.