Afghanistan: Election observers pull foreign staff out of Afghanistan after...
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanBy Jessica DonatiKABUL, March 23 (Reuters) - Two major foreign election observer and support missions have pulled staff out of Afghanistan after a Taliban...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Afghan woman bids for power to halt slide in rights
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanBy Katharine Houreld and Jessica DonatiKABUL/KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 31 (Reuters) - The deeply conservative, all-male crowd at Afghanistan's Kandahar...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Afghan women stand to be counted as West begins to disengage
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanBy Jessica DonatiKANDAHAR, Afghanistan, April 17 (Reuters) - Framed by her blue shawl, the solemn, bespectacled face of Serena Faizi peers out from an...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Afghanistan's "forgotten" poor wince as billions in aid go to...
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanAAB BAREEK/KABUL, Afghanistan, May 9 (Reuters) - For all the billions of dollars in foreign aid that have poured into Afghanistan over the past 12 years,...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Castles in the air: Afghans pay a heavy price for uncertainty
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanSource: Reuters - Mon, 19 May 2014 09:24 AMBy Jeremy Laurence and Mirwais HarooniKABUL, May 19 (Reuters) - A bored security guard, a Kalashnikov rifle over...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Four Afghans killed in Pakistani border strike, say Afghan...
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanASADABAD, Afghanistan, May 31 (Reuters) - An airstrike by Pakistani forces along the Afghan border killed four civilians on Saturday, officials said, as a...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Thousands march on Afghan president's palace to protest elections
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanBy Mirwais Harooni and Praveen MenonKABUL, June 27 (Reuters) - Thousands of angry protesters marched on the Afghan president's palace on Friday in support...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Lights set to go out in Kandahar after U.S. aid winds down
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: Afghanistan, United States of AmericaSource: Reuters - Tue, 5 Aug 2014 22:10 GMT Author: ReutersBy Jessica Donati and Sarwar AmaniKABUL/KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug 5...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Where do we start? Afghan unity talks at early impasse
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanSource: Reuters - Wed, 6 Aug 2014 12:21 GMTElection audit and recount moves slowly forwardTalks on unity government have yet to startAbdullah aides demand...
View ArticleAfghanistan: ICRC says five aid workers seized in western Afghanistan
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanBy Krista MahrKABUL, Aug 16 (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Saturday that five of its Afghan staff were kidnapped...
View ArticleAfghanistan: SPECIAL REPORT-Left to fight alone, Afghanistan battles to save...
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanRead this story in a PDF: http://reut.rs/1qnHkoNNATO-led coalition ends combat mission in December Civilian hospitals treat many Afghan security personnel...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Insight: As US-led combat mission ends, Afghan women fear...
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanSource: Reuters - Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:00 GMTBy Jessica DonatiKABUL, Dec 31 (Reuters) - No one ever claimed responsibility after a suicide bomber rammed...
View ArticlePakistan: Afghans ordered out of Pakistan as 'diversion' in militant fight
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: Afghanistan, PakistanBy Jibran Ahmad and Rafiz Shirzad PESHAWAR, Pakistan/TORKHAM, Afghanistan, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A fghan immigrants ordered out of Pakistan in what...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Awash in opium, Afghan "wild west" slips from Kabul's grasp
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanBy Jessica Donati and Mirwais HarooniFARAH, Afghanistan, Feb 18 (Reuters) - In fields less than a 10-minute drive from the intelligence headquarters of...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Afghan aid workers found dead; 100 students hospitalised after meal
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanKABUL, April 11 (Reuters) - Authorities in western Afghanistan are investigating whether 100 schoolboys who were hospitalised on Saturday were poisoned,...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Nineteen kidnapped Afghans released, 12 more could be freed soon...
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanBy Mustafa AndalibGHAZNI, Afghanistan, May 11 (Reuters) - Nineteen Afghan men from among 31 kidnapped by gunmen from a bus in February were freed on Monday...
View ArticleItaly: Italy coast guard rescues 70 Afghan, Iraqi migrants from crowded boat
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: Afghanistan, Iraq, ItalyROME, May 24 (Reuters) - Seventy Afghan and Iraqi migrants were rescued from a packed boat off the southeastern coast of Italy and brought to...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Frustrated donors end funding for Afghan parliamentary elections
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanSource: Reuters - Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:51 GMTAuthor: Reuters By Jessica DonatiKABUL, June 12 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's failure to set a date for postponed...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Afghan aid donors face quandary over future of police fund
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: AfghanistanBy Jessica DonatiKABUL, June 14 (Reuters) - Afghanistan is locked in a wrangle with the United Nations over control of a fund for police salaries,...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Cricket helps young Afghan refugees field a new life in the UK
Source: Reuters - AlertNetCountry: Afghanistan, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandBy Kieran GuilbertCROYDON, England, June 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The two bowlers gasp as...
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