Tag: Afghanistan

Washington Secrets

New Washington memorial is first for living Americans

Paul Bedard · March 19, 2014 4:00 am

Afghan police forces and civilians inspect the site of a suicide attack in Maymana, capital of Faryab province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. A suicide bomber riding a rickshaw blew himself up outside a checkpoint at a market in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 13 civilians, officials said, in the latest attack in the countdown to presidential elections to be held in less than three weeks. (AP Photo)

Suicide bomber kills at least 17 in Afghanistan

Rahim Faiez · March 18, 2014 11:51 pm

Afghanistan envoy certain pact with US signed soon

Edith Lederer · March 17, 2014 12:09 pm

Military Looking to Sell or Destroy MRAPs, Humvees, and Other Equipment

Geoffrey Norman · March 17, 2014 11:02 am

Official: Gunmen kill Afghan judge and bodyguard

Washington Examiner · March 17, 2014 4:01 am

Ex-defense minister drops out of Afghan race

Rahim Faiez · March 16, 2014 11:15 am

US goes high-tech to help oversee Afghan aid work

Associated Press, Deb Riechmann · March 15, 2014 12:34 pm

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during his final address to parliament during its opening session at the parliament house in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Karzai said the last 12 years of war were "imposed" on Afghans, a reference to the U.S.-led invasion that ousted the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

National Security

Karzai says Afghanistan doesn’t need US troops

KATHY GANNONRAHIM FAIEZ · March 15, 2014 12:27 pm

Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Commander, International Security Assistance Force, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2014, during a Senate Armed Services Committee on the situation in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama has threatened to withdraw all American forces from Afghanistan if a new security agreement is not signed by the end of the year, but there is no legal reason the U.S. has to resort to the "zero option," as administration officials have repeatedly claimed. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Existing Afghan deal would cover US post-2014

Deb Riechmann · March 12, 2014 3:54 pm

Afghan forces kill 3 attackers in battle in south

Kathy Gannon · March 12, 2014 3:22 pm

UN: Drone use down in Pakistan, up in Afghanistan

John Heilprin · March 12, 2014 3:04 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

Afghan group says it killed Swedish reporter

Washington Examiner · March 12, 2014 7:40 am