Kim Gamel

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National Security

Ex-US commander defends US training of Iraq forces

Kim Gamel · June 12, 2014 7:50 pm

An Afghan police officer stands guard as Afghan election workers, right, note serial numbers of ballot boxes at a warehouse of the Independent Elections Commission warehouse in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 6, 2014. Trucks and donkeys loaded with ballot boxes made their way to counting centers on Sunday as Afghans and the international community sighed with relief that national elections were held without major violence despite a Taliban threat. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

National Security

Afghan election hailed as Taliban threat remains

Kim Gamel · April 6, 2014 7:23 pm

In this photo taken on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, female supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai listen to his speech during a campaign rally in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two Afghan women shrouded in black emerged from the campaign rally with bundles of sticks _ pieces of torn posters still attached. They needed firewood to heat their home more than pictures of the presidential hopeful.(AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghans line up for blocks to vote for new leader

Kim Gamel · April 5, 2014 3:28 am

This 2012 photo shows Kathy Gannon, left, Associated Press special correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus in Afghanistan. An Afghan police commander opened fire Friday, April 4, 2014 on the two journalists inside a security forces base in eastern Afghanistan, killing Niedringhaus and wounding Gannon. (AP Photo)

AP photographer killed, reporter wounded

Kim Gamel · April 4, 2014 10:55 pm

Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai talks during an interview with The Associated Press at his resident in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 3, 2014. A leading Afghan presidential candidate praised Hamid Karzai for allowing the country's first democratic transition of power and said he'll offer the longtime leader an advisory role if he wins. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

AP Interview: Afghan candidate praises Karzai

Kim Gamel · April 3, 2014 1:02 pm

An Afghan special forces soldier, left, is kissed by an Afghan man after the commandos took over control of an election office after the Taliban launched an assault with a suicide bomber detonating his vehicle outside an election office on the edge of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Gunmen stormed into the building, trapping dozens of employees inside and killing four people. A candidate for a seat on a provincial council was among those killed, along with an election worker, a civilian and a policeman. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Foreign observers face hurdles in Afghanistan

Kim Gamel · March 25, 2014 4:30 pm

Afghan journalist’s son survives hotel attack

Kim Gamel · March 24, 2014 2:52 pm

US senator wants decision on Afghan troop levels

Kim Gamel · March 22, 2014 8:33 pm

Video shows gunmen in deadly Afghan hotel attack

Kim Gamel · March 22, 2014 6:15 pm

Afghan women push to enter a room to register for the upcoming presidential elections in a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Last minute registration of voters continues despite the fact that more than 21 million voter registration cards have been issued while only roughly 12 million Afghans are eligible to vote. The discrepancy is the result of repeated registrations since the first round of elections in Afghanistan in 2004. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Candidates vie for Afghan women’s vote

Kim Gamel · March 19, 2014 5:46 am

AP Interview: Afghan candidate vows better US ties

Kim Gamel · March 13, 2014 2:23 pm

In this file photo dated Aug. 20, 2013 and made available by Swedish Radio on Tuesday March 11, 2014, Swedish journalist Nils Horner is photographed in Stockholm. The Swedish journalist was shot to death while he was talking to a translator Tuesday on a street in Kabul, according to officials and witnesses. Nils Horner, 51, who also had British citizenship, had worked for Swedish Radio SR since 2001 as a foreign correspondent mostly in Asia and the Middle East, including Afghanistan and Baghdad. The motive was unclear. (AP Photo/Mattias Ahlm, Swedish Radio) SWEDEN OUT

Swedish journalist shot to death in Afghan capital

Kim Gamel · March 11, 2014 5:38 pm