Almost all the money for the Afghan forces — including the cost of salaries, equipment and training — is now provided by foreign governments.

The Taliban opened an online forum on their website, called "Your questions and Zabihullah Mujahid's answers" where readers are invited to leave queries and spokesman answers.

Monday's killings reflect a spike in tensions between Afghan and international forces that follow the massacre of Afghan civilians.

Their claim that the shootings by a U.S. soldier may have been payback for a roadside bombing has gained wide currency in the area.

Human rights groups and lawyers for prisoners are dismayed that Obama not only failed to overcome resistance in Congress and close the prison, but that his administration has resumed military tribunals at the base and continues to hold men like al-Nahdi who have been cleared for release.

Abdul Razique Samadi, the chief executive officer at Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), said the situation in the capital, Kabul, is far better than the rest of the country, with around 70 percent of households connected.

In criticizing the regional events essay in Indian newspaper by Raof Amer by causing soft media war, the western media, being ordered by CIA and other western Intelligence Service, create dispute among Islamic countries.

After revelation of the Afghan militia group hired by the CIA the news agencies from Washington Post to New York Times as well as the other media base their breaking news on this news item

S. officials have said. The U.S. $ 800 million of its aid to the Pakistani army, because of problems in relations between the countries suspends the state at the same time.

Sunday as the last time set by president for disqualified MPs to quite finished while the parliament verdict deliberately had been ignored by the government and the judicial officials.

The United States has begun moving warships and aircraft closer to Libya and called on its NATO allies to provide more effective assistance to the Libyan opposition. Is the U.S. preparing to open a third front, in addition to the ones in Afghanistan and Iraq?

Shortly after the jirga, Amrullah Saleh, the head of Afghan intelligence agency NDS, resigned. It was widely believed that he had been browbeaten by Karzai for the security lapse that allowed the suicide bombers to be so close to the jirga

This situation may soon alter as a passionate female journalist, Fawzia Fakhri, along with two of her friends, started a Women Journalism Centre two months ago with the aim of training female journalism graduates and helping them find media-related jobs.

About 8,000 British troops based in Helmand province in Afghanistan are to come under the operational command of the US, the Ministry of Defence says.

President Obama recognized the courage and determination of the Afghan people to resist violent extremists and to ensure that their country does not once again become a safe haven for terrorists, including al-Qaeda.

Official: Karzai to focus on long-term support during visit

A visit next week to Washington by Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a chance for him to bolster international legitimacy, U.S. military officials said.

U.S. and Afghan forces pushed Tuesday to the edge of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, poised to seize the major Taliban supply and drug-smuggling stronghold in hopes of building public support by providing aid and services once the insurgents are gone.

United States forces are to take over the main role in southern Afghanistan from the British in a shake-up of the region's command structure, a newspaper reported Thursday.

While NATO has been endeavoring to sweep Taliban insurgents out from their hotbed in southern Afghanistan, the militants by influencing the northern provinces have opened a new front against the western military alliance.