U.S. troubled by Afghan journalist's death sentence
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The United States said on Friday it was troubled by the case of an Afghan journalist sentenced to death for blasphemy and that the U.S. ambassador in Kabul planned to raise the matter with Afghan authorities.
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Five days before Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election, concerns are growing about media bias in favour of front-runner President Hamid Karzai.
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A US reporter who faces jail for refusing to testify on the exposure of a CIA officer says she is still reluctant to disclose her source.
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KABUL - Taleban-linked militants threatening to kill three UN hostages are accusing the United States of hampering their release, although an Afghan official says a ransom demand is the main stumbling block.
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The fate of the first detainee to die of natural causes at the U.S. prison in GuantÃ¡namo Bay reveals the problem of military tribunals, Afghans say.
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An international rights group said it  knows of more prisoners dying in U.S. military custody in  Afghanistan and called on Washington to reveal details of the  cases.
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An Afghan court has sentenced to death  three Afghans convicted of killing 11 Chinese road engineers in  the northeastern province of Kunduz last June, a Supreme Court  Judge said on Friday.
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[World News]: Kabul, Nov.20 : A court in Kabul has sentenced an Afghan man to death for killing four journalists, including two from the Reuters news agency.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - Dozens of Afghan journalists and activists on Saturday sought the release of a journalist detained by security officials for allegedly making blasphemous comments.
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A leading female Afghan journalist was shot dead overnight, the interior ministry said Wednesday, in the second such killing in a week -- crimes that have raised alarm among media rights groups.
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A record opium crop in Afghanistan is likely to renewed debate about the United Statesâ troubled $600 million counternarcotics program there.
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An Afghan court sentenced a man to death Saturday for the 2001 killing of three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague who were pulled from their cars, robbed and shot as they rushed to cover the collapse of the Taliban.
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Taliban-linked militants threatening to kill three UN hostages accused the United States of hampering their release, though an Afghan official said Saturday a ransom demand was the main stumbling block.
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KABUL : An Afghan court sentenced a man to death for killing three foreign journalists and their Afghan colleague shortly after the fall of the hardline Taliban regime in 2001.
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The lawyer for an American sentenced to 20 years in a US prison for fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan appealed to President Bush to lessen his sentence after a man in a similar case was freed.
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In the weeks after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal stunned Iraq, a story emerged from Afghanistan about a CIA contractor accused of beating a detainee so severely that he later died.
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KABUL -- Clutching scarves nervously around their faces, the women whispered details of Taliban atrocities taking place in their native Helmand province: A translator's body found in a sack, carved into pieces. A police officer taken hostage, blinded and garroted with wire. A woman shot and hanged...