Afghans enjoy freedom despite growing fear
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Five years after U.S. forces launched their offensive to oust Afghanistan's Taliban, Shakeela Jan says she is happy to have the freedom to work but that she travels to her job every day in fear.
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The election for president in Afghanistan may have brought us one small step closer to worldwide democracy. At least the people there left no doubt that they wanted to vote.
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President Hamid Karzai took the helm yesterday of a country whose revival is threatened by a growing opium trade and a persistent Taliban insurgency, pledging to bring stability and prosperity to Afghanistan even as rebels made attacks near the Pakistani
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Despite a long history of sectarian enmity, Afghanistan today seems to have convinced the rival sects to live together
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Afghanistan used to be content merely to supply most of the world's heroin. Now a growing number of Afghans are using the drug as well
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A Kosovar and a Filipino kidnapped in Afghanistan have called home to say they are OK. The two were among three UN workers kidnapped 12 days ago when armed men halted their vehicle in downtown Kabul.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan&#39;s government said Tuesday that progress had been made towards freeing three
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban movement suffered a serious psychological and military setback after failing to disrupt Afghanistan's presidential election last month, but the radical Islamic militia still poses a formidable military threat and one faction has begun carrying out daring, Al Qaeda-style urban terrorist attacks, say Afghan and foreign analysts.
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AHMAD KHAN VILLAGE, Afghanistan  - Standing on a parched plain flanked by rugged mountains near Kabul, you don't have to look far to see the dangers.
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BRUSSELS, May 21 (IPS) - When archive material showing Osama bin Laden  hiding in an underground fortress is aired  on Western news  bulletins, the perception that Afghanistan is a lawless periphery  is  reinforced.
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Three UN workers freed by kidnappers in Afghanistan rejoiced at their freedom Wednesday and said they were sustained through 27 days of captivity by thoughts of their family and friends.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage  in Afghanistan were freed unharmed on Tuesday, almost four  weeks after their abduction at gunpoint on a Kabul street  raised fears of a wave of Iraq-style kidnappings.
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KABUL -- The room was carpeted and cozy, warm from the wood stove and filled with the chatter of children. But the tales their mothers and older sisters told recently, speaking hesitantly even in the safety of a guarded private shelter, were bone-chilling.
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Afghans feeling almost as vulnerable as they did during 1990s civil war amid increased violence.
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Afghanistan's opium trade has revived and  is thriving under the country's U.S.-backed leaders and experts  say that is not likely to change any time soon no matter who  wins next month's first direct presidential election.
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Comment is free: Max Hastings: Unlike Iraq, the battle against the Taliban carries a flicker of a hope of success, even if it is a misguided one.
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ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees in Pakistan exercised their right to vote in Afghanistanâs first presidential elections on Saturday under tight security.