13 foreigners among 21 killed in Kabul restaurant attack The Times Of India KABUL: A total of 21 people, including 13 foreigners, died in a Taliban suicide assault on a popular restaurant in Kabul, police said on Saturday, with two British citizens and two Canadians among those confirmed dead. | Desperate customers tried to hide under tables as one attacker detonated his su...
IMF and UN officials killed in Kabul restaurant attack BBC News A senior IMF official and three UN employees were among 14 people killed in a suicide bomb and gun attack on a restaurant in Kabul, officials say. | Wabel Abdallah, the head of the IMF's Afghanistan office, and the UN civilian staff died in the capital's popular Taverna du Liban, in what U...
Making Sense of the Recent Suicide Attack in Kabul Khaama Press By Fahim Masoud | To say that Afghanistan is chaotic and is falling into a complete state of confusion and insecurity is something already too familiar to most of Afghanistan’s peoples. Three decades of war and destruction has destroyed every f...
What did our wars win? WorldNetDaily Ending America’s longest wars may prove to be Barack Obama’s legacy. | For, while ending wars without victory may not garner from the historians’ the accolade of “great” or “near great,” it is sometimes the d...
Karzai again seeks end to air strikes The Japan News The Associated Press KABUL (AP)—Afghanistan’s president says the United States can no longer carry out military operations or air strikes and must jump-start peace talks with the Taliban before his country signs a security deal to keep American t...
Afghanistan stability: a pipe dream? Al Jazeera In recent days, US officials have admitted that negotiations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on a bilateral security agreement (BSA) continue to make little progress. | Washingt...
Deadly suicide attack on Afghanistan base Al Jazeera A multiple suicide attack has hit a coalition base in southern Afghanistan, killing at least one soldier and injuring others, in the latest Taliban-led assault targeting Afghan and international forces. | Jawed Faisal, a spokesman for the govern...
Afghanistan stability: a pipe dream? Al Jazeera In recent days, US officials have admitted that negotiations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on a bilateral security agreement (BSA) continue to make little progress. | Washington's ambassador to Kabul has reportedly concluded that Karzai is unlikely to sign an accord before the elections this spring - and yet the Obama administration, after all...
13 foreigners among 21 killed in Kabul restaurant attack The Times Of India KABUL: A total of 21 people, including 13 foreigners, died in a Taliban suicide assault on a popular restaurant in Kabul, police said on Saturday, with two British citizens and two Canadians among those confirmed dead. | Desperate customers tried to hide under tables as one attacker detonated his suicide vest at the fortified entrance to the Tavern...