Tag: Afghanistan

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

This undated photo provided by Glidden Lopez shows Army Spc. Ivan Lopez. Authorities said Lopez killed three people and wounded 16 others in a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Glidden Lopez)

Beltway Confidential

Salon ‘makes sense’ of Fort Hood shooting with the ‘crazy veteran’ stereotype

Charles Hoskinson · April 4, 2014 4:00 am

Afghan election workers carry a ballot box at an election commission office in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Eight Afghan presidential candidates are campaigning for the third presidential election. Elections will take place on April 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan election could reset US-Kabul relations

Deb Riechmann · April 3, 2014 7:43 pm

National Security

Jason Chaffetz rips USAID over ‘slush fund’ to Afghan government

Michal Conger · April 3, 2014 4:00 am

Afghan policemen arrive after a suicide bomber wearing a military uniform struck the entrance gate of the Interior Ministry compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Ministry of Interior spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the bomber, who was wearing a military uniform to evade security checks, reached the entrance of the heavily fortified ministry compound before detonating his explosives. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

National Security

Bomb kills 6 at well-guarded area in Afghanistan

AMIR SHAHKIM GAMEL · April 2, 2014 7:48 pm

Washington Secrets

Top Marine warns: U.S. can’t ‘simply pack up and go home’ from Afghanistan

Paul Bedard · April 2, 2014 4:00 am

Taliban abduct provincial candidate in Afghanistan

AMIR SHAHRAHIM FAIEZ · March 31, 2014 7:39 am

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National Security

U.S. tax dollars may be paying salaries of Afghan National Police ‘ghost workers’

Michal Conger · March 31, 2014 4:00 am

Afghanistan’s Karzai steps up Pakistan accusations

Kathy Gannon · March 30, 2014 11:50 am

Mixed legacy for Karzai as Afghan president

Kathy Gannon · March 30, 2014 11:25 am

An Afghan policeman rides on top of his armored vehicle as he rushes to the scene as Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission's headquarters on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, firing on the compound with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns from a house outside its perimeter wall, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Dozens of employees and other people who had been inside the Independent Election Commission compound took cover in the basement, and no casualties were reported. But two warehouses were hit and set on fire, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Attacks threaten to undermine Afghan vote

AMIR SHAHRAHIM FAIEZ · March 29, 2014 1:33 pm

Taliban militants attack US aid group in Kabul

AMIR SHAHKIM GAMEL · March 28, 2014 4:59 pm