Violence Returns to Afghanistan After Election Lull
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Afghan children and US soldiers were among six people reported killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, a week after millions voted in a landmark election they hope will bring peace back to their war-ravaged nation.
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Six people, including three children and two US soldiers, have been reported killed in Afghanistan, a week after millions voted in a landmark election meant to help bring peace back to their war-ravaged nation.
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An election worker sorts out a ballot at the vote counting center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004. Afghanistan was expected to start counting votes on Wednesday.
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Afghanistan's presidential vote count neared its end with Hamid Karzai edging closer to victory, but a weekend suicide blast in Kabul offered a deadly reminder of the dangers facing the war-weary nation.
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The vote count in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election has resumed with interim President Hamid Karzai far ahead of his rivals in early results.
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The campaign for Afghanistan's first  direct presidential election opened to little fanfare on  Tuesday, but the Taliban -- ousted in 2001 in a U.S.-led  invasion -- vowed again to disrupt the Oct. 9 poll.
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BAGHDAD -- Leading Iraqi politicians called yesterday for a six-month delay in the Jan. 30 election because of the spiraling violence as US forces uncovered more bodies in the northern city of Mosul, apparent victims of an intimidation campaign by insurgents against Iraq's fledgling security forces.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Campaigning for Afghanistan's first direct presidential election ended with a burst of violence Wednesday as attackers set off a bomb in a failed effort to kill interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai's vice presidential running-mate.    Despite persistent violence, the United Nations declared this hard-luck nation ready for Saturday's vote, a historic experiment with democracy after more than two decades of unrelenting ruin, from Soviet occupation to civil war to the repressive Taliban and the thunderous U.S...
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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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Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential election closed on Saturday without any of the feared large-scale violence but the vote was thrown into turmoil instead by a boycott called by most of the candidates.
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KABUL : Afghanistan&#39;s first ever national election was in crisis as opposition candidates demanded fresh polls, charging widespread fraud, after eager voters turned out in force for a peaceful vote hoping for an end to decades of conflict.
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The top US military commander in Afghanistan is warning of more violence, aimed at disrupting the landmark presidential election set for October 9. The warning comes as insurgents are reported to have killed nine Afghan soldiers in southern Afghanistan.
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Weekend violence in the western city of Herat is a reminder of how volatile the situation in Afghanistan remains, three years after the US overthrew the Taliban and less than four weeks before presidential elections there.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Oct. 6, 2004 - Campaigning for Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election ended with a burst of violence Wednesday as attackers set off a bomb in a failed effort to kill interim
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The Afghan rebels had threatened violence to disrupt Saturday's elections, but failed to deliver.
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Afghan children and U.S. soldiers were  among six people reported killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, a  week after millions voted in a landmark election they hope will  bring peace back to their war-ravaged nation.
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An attempt to shoot down President Hamid Karzai's helicopter just three weeks before Afghanistan's elections is indicative of the fraught security situation which is threatening the success of the polls, analysts said.