December 2010
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Militants agree to meet Hamid Karzai officials →
Militants from one of the three main factions fighting in Afghanistan have agreed to meet representatives from Hamid Karzai’s government in Pakistan next week, according to officials involved in the…
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Nato soldiers kill innocent workers in botched... →
The Times Jerome Starkey in Kabul
One guard’s head was split in half, the second was shot four times in the back. Seven bullets hit a parked ambulance and a third man had part of his ear shot off in an attack that bore the hallmarks of a Taleban raid but turned out to be a botched Nato operation.
Nawid Shah Sakhizada was on the third floor of his father’s office block in Kabul when his...
Seven-month lull in Kabul violence ends in suicide... →
A SEVEN-MONTH hiatus on major attacks in Kabul came to a bloody end yesterday when two Taleban suicide bombers ambushed a bus carrying Afghan officers to work.
Aid agency says Afghanistan is more dangerous →
Security in Afghanistan is worse now than at any point in the past 30 years, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross .
A tale of two cities: Kabul is a 'war zone' - or... →
Senior Nato officials are at odds over Afghanistan’s security situation, with one of Britain’s top generals branding Kabul a war zone just days after the coalition’s ambassador claimed the city was…
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The streets run with blood as men perform the... →
The Times Jerome Starkey in Kabul
Tiny flecks of moisture splattered across my face and there were fine red dots on the glass of my camera lens. Watching the frenzied self-flagellation of Moharram was not, I had just discovered, the best time to wear a clean white shirt.
More than two hundred men and teenage boys had poured out of a mosque in downtown Kabul on to a muddy main road next to the...