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 Afghan vice president on Monday escaped a bomb attack, which slightly injured his driver, while travelling in north-east Afghanistan.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett met Afghan President Hamid Karzai amid tight security Wednesday, a day after a suicide blast during a visit by US Vice President Dick Cheney killed up to 20 people.
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Vice President Dick Cheney, who has  a history of heart attacks, went to a Washington hospital on  Saturday after experiencing shortness of breath but later left  for home and said he was fine.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A convoy carrying Vice President Nematullah Shahrani was attacked by remote-control explosives yesterday in northern Afghanistan, just four days after a rocket was fired at President Hamid Karzai's helicopter as it was landing at a school in southern Afghanistan.
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A powerful explosion has killed at least one man in a district of Kabul housing international aid agencies and accommodation for their staff.
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With a low-profile, tightly secured arrival at Bagram Air Base, Vice President Dick Cheney became the highest-ranking United States official to visit Kabul since the Taliban&#39;s overthrow.
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The government has done "a helluva   job" guarding America, Vice President Dick Cheney said on   Sunday, as President George W. Bush prepared to visit Ground   Zero amid an election-year debate on whether the country is   safer five years after the September 11 attacks.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Intelligence reports indicated that the Taliban had the ability to carry out suicide attacks near the main US base in Afghanistan even before a bloody bombing during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, NATO said yesterday.
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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 Thursday night that a too-soon withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq could send victorious militants spreading out, with some flocking to Afghanistan to fight alongside a regrouping Taliban. He demanded that the Democratic-controlled Congress support President Bush's military buildup "on time and in full."
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A high-tech bomb, similar to the ones used by militants in Iraq, is found in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
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Vice President Dick Cheney warned Monday that al-Qaida was regrouping in Pakistan's remote border area and sought President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's help in a stiffened push against Taliban and al-Qaida militants, officials said.
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Vice President Dick Cheney, back home after a brief hospital visit, has nothing more than a bad cold and his heart is fine, his wife and an adviser said Sunday.
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Vice President Dick Cheney issued a rallying call on Friday not to abandon Iraq or other nations he said could provide a haven for terrorists, warning a defeat in Iraq would see violence spread in the Middle East.
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A deputy to Afghanistan&#39;s president, Hamid Karzai, escaped a roadside bombing in northern Afghanistan on Monday, just four days after a rocket was fired at Karzai&#39;s helicopter as he was heading to a campaign event for the Oct. 9 elections.
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Vice President Dick Cheney, arriving  in New York on the eve of the Republican convention on Sunday,  praised President Bush's response to the Sept. 11 attacks while  tens of thousands of protesters opposed to the administration  flooded the city's streets.