By Rob Taylor SWISSINFO.CH KABUL (Reuters) – Insurgents fired two rockets at the main NATO airbase in Afghanistan, damaging an aircraft used by U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Martin Dempsey, a NATO spokesman said on Tuesday. The general was not on board at the time. Dempsey arrived in the […]
The vulnerability of the recently reopened Pakistani transit route supplying NATO troops in Afghanistan has been a headache for over a decade. But the real problem will emerge once troops […]
swissinfo.ch and agencies Five aid workers with the Swiss-based humanitarian group Medair – two foreign female doctors and three male Afghan colleagues – have been kidnapped in a remote part of north-eastern Afghanistan, a government spokesman has confirmed. The five Medair workers were reportedly visiting a clinic and bringing food […]
TALIQAN, Afghanistan – Reuters SOURCE: DAILY NEWS TURKEY More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months blamed on conservative radicals […]
Source: The Guardian (Author): (Reuters in Kabul) Hackers have for the third time in less than a year attacked the main website of the Afghan Taliban. The Taliban has blamed western intelligence agencies amid an intensifying cyberwar with the insurgents. The unidentified hackers broke into the Taliban’s El Emara website […]