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Doctors Abducted in Afghanistan

Wed, 23 May 2012 08:12:41 CDT

Two foreign doctors and their three Afghan colleagues have been kidnapped in a remote area in the extreme northeast Afghanistan, officials said today. The kidnapping occurred yesterday as the group was traveling on horseback between Yaftal and Ragh districts about 56 miles from the provincial capital of Faizabad, a Badakhshan...

9 Killed in Afghanistan Market Blast

Matt Cantor — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:41:00 CDT

An explosion in a northern Afghanistan market has killed nine people, according to the country's interior ministry. One of those killed was an official from a nearby council, the AP reports. The bomb blast took place this morning in a shop in the Ghormuch district of Faryab province. Meanwhile, police...

Twin Afghan Bombings Kill at Least 18

Mark Russell — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:00:00 CDT

Two suicide bombings in Afghanistan killed at least 18 people today, including eight policemen in an attack on a police station in southern Helmand province, reports the AP . Three men with bombs tried to enter a police station. Police spotted the attack and killed one man, but the other two...

Gunmen Kill 25 Iraq Cops

Mark Russell — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:44:06 CST

It was a morning of violence in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha in western Iraq as gunmen killed 25 police officers and injured at least three others, reports AP . The gang was dressed in military uniforms and driving in a convoy of 13 vehicles painted like they were from the...

Ticket to Peace in Afghanistan: Yoga?

Dustin Lushing — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:20:00 CDT

A former male supermodel thinks he knows how to heal the rift between Taliban militants and coalition troops in Afghanistan—through yoga and meditation. Cameron Alborzian, who, incidentally, played Madonna's beau in her 1989 music video for "Express Yourself" and has worked as Ellen DeGeneres' private guru, pitched his peace...

Karzai: In US vs. Pakistan, We Pick Pakistan

Mark Russell — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 05:44:01 CDT

So how well received was Hillary Clinton's admonition to Afghan President Hamid Karzai that he had to step up pressure on Pakistan to stop sending militants into Afghanistan? On Thursday, Karzai seemed to be on board, even slamming his neighbor to the east. Yesterday? Not so much. "If fighting starts...

Iraq Insurgents Hold Police Hostage

Matt Cantor — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:51:00 CDT

Insurgents have stormed an Iraqi police station and taken police and officials—including the town’s mayor—hostage. Insurgents poured into the western town’s station disguised as police and opened fire; one insurgent detonated a suicide bomb, officials tell the AP . The officials taken hostage were working in offices on the...

Taliban Weakens in Afghanistan's South

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:14:05 CDT

Rare good news from Afghanistan: The Taliban is losing ground in the south, meaning that “we start this year in a very different place from last year,” Gen. David Petraeus says. For the first time since the beginning of the war, the Taliban’s summer fighting season begins with less control...

Car Bomb Kills 37 at Baghdad Funeral

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:58:40 CST

A car bomb ripped through a funeral tent in a mainly Shiite area of Baghdad today, killing at least 37 people, including four children and three women. The car, which exploded around 2pm, had been parked with the vehicles of other mourners, several yards away from the tent, so it...