Suicide bombers, not fighters main Afghan threat: U.S.
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The United States sees suicide bombers in Afghanistan as a greater threat than any organized summer offensive by the Taliban, which has been weakened by the loss of key commanders, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
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Suicide bombers attacked foreign troops in central and southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing several bystanders and wounding at least two soldiers, local police and a provincial government official said.
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By Abdul QodousLASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - Key allies in the war against Afghanistan's Taliban militants pledged to stay the course on Tuesday as a suicide bomber killed 18 in the south and a blast killed an ...Comment
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American officials warned U.S. citizens Monday to avoid high-profile locations and government facilities in the Afghan capital after Sunday's car bombing outside the office of an American security firm here.
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The US issued a travel alert for its citizens in Afghanistan after weekend bombings that killed at least 19 people in the capital, Kabul, and in Paktia province.
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The Afghan government on Thursday blamed drug smugglers -- not Taliban or al-Qaida fighters -- for a bomb attack on interim leader Hamid Karzai&#39;s vice presidential
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The United States faces a range of threats from North Korean and Iranian missiles to a Sept. 11-scale attack by Islamist militants, inspired by Osama bin Laden and hardened by their experience in Iraq, top U.S. intelligence officials warned Wednesday.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHARANA, Afghanistan -- The incoming commander of US troops in Afghanistan said yesterday he expects Taliban militants to launch more suicide attacks this year than in 2006, when militants set off a record 139 such bombings.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - More than 80 percent of suicide bombers in Afghanistan are recruited and trained in neighboring Pakistan, the United Nations said in a report today that showed attacks running at record levels this year.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban threatened a spring offensive of thousands of suicide bombers as the United States, doubling its combat troops in Afghanistan, took over command of the 33,000-strong NATO force yesterday.
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Arab Islamic radicals who fled Afghanistan in the U.S.-led invasion are coming back, eager to support suicide bombers in their increasingly frequent and effective attacks on Western and Afghan forces.
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The US government is warning its citizens in Afghanistan to &quot;keep a low profile&quot; after a car bombing Sunday at the offices of a US private security contractor in Kabul killed 11 people, including three Americans.
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A suicide bomber killed up to 10 people outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan in an attack aimed at visiting Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday, but Cheney was not hurt in the blast.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia  - U.S. Defense Secretary   Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday there was no way to measure if   more Islamic extremists were being created than killed in   American-led operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A man identified on tape as the Taliban's new top field commander warned yesterday that recruits were volunteering as suicide bombers and that fighters would continue their holy war until Western powers leave Afghanistan.
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"We must take into account that there will be more violent assaults once winter is over with the additional goal of killing civilians via suicide attacks"  By Markus WacketBERLIN  - Germany rejected on Friday a call from the United States to send combat soldiers to dangerous parts of southern Afghanistan and said there were no plans to change its deployment in the less violent north.Following a strongly worded letter from U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung said he did not envisage a change to the mandate allowing Germany to send 3,500 troops to northern Afghanistan."We have agreed on a clear division of labor," Jung told reporters on Friday. "I think that we really must keep our focus on the North." Read more
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - After a suicide bomber attacked their military convoy in Afghanistan on Sunday, U.S. troops opened fire and killed eight civilians and wounded more than 30, Afghan police said.