Afghans Level Torture Accusations

MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan, April 14 (Xinhua)-- Afghan security forces backed by the NATO-led troops targeted and killed a Taliban key commander Safiullah alias Shafiq in Wardak province 35 km west of Kabul on Sunday, spokesman for provincial ...

MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan, April 16 (Xinhua)-- Taliban militants fighting the government ambushed a convoy of Police Public Protection Force in Wardak province 35 km west of Kabul on Monday night leaving five personnel of the body dead and another ...

MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan, April 8 (UPI) -- The bus hit the bomb in central eastern Maidan Wardak province at approximately 9 a.m. local time, provincial police chief spokesman Abdul Wali Noorzai said.. The bus was traveling from eastern Ghazni ...

KABUL (PAN): Construction work on the second portion of a highway that connects central Maidan Wardak province with Bamyan has begun, an official said on Tuesday. The highway between the capital of Wardak and Bamyan City, a project, is viewed by ...

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Tyler Hicks/The New York Times A poster for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a cafe in Lahore, Pakistan. The country's election officials said final results would take days. NEWS Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif began talks on Sunday to form ...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan National Security and coalition forces killed four insurgents, detained five suspected insurgents and found and safely cleared four improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the ...

KABUL, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has agreed with U.S. new proposal to hand over Bagram prison to Afghan government within week, a statement released by Presidential Palace here said. The agreement has taken place in the wake ...