- 19:12 29/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 29 (RIA Novosti)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to meet with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia in an attempt to restart peace talks, the BBC reported on Sunday.
- 05:26 28/01/2012 PARIS, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
France plans to withdraw its military contingent from Afghanistan in 2013, French President Nicholas Sarkozy said at a joint news conference with his Afghan counterpart.
- 15:28 20/01/2012 PARIS, January 20 (RIA Novosti)
France is putting on hold combat support operations and training programs for Afghan troops after an Afghan soldier killed four French servicemen, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday.
- 00:43 13/01/2012 WASHINGTON, January 13 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has expressed “total dismay” at a video appearing to show U.S. Marines urinating on the bloodied corpses of several Taliban fighters.
- 17:50 12/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 12 (RIA Novosti)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday strongly condemned an online video appearing to show US Marines urinating on the bloodied corpses of several Taliban fighters, world media said.
- 12:38 12/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 12 (RIA Novosti)
The Taliban is ready to restart peace talks to end the violence in Afghanistan, the militant group said on Thursday.
- 02:38 05/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 5 (RIA Novosti)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai welcomed on Wednesday the Taliban’s intention to negotiate a peace deal with the United States in a presidential statement published by Western media outlets.
- 16:56 01/01/2012 DUSHANBE, January 1 (RIA Novosti)
French armed forces will stay in Afghanistan after withdrawal of coalition troops in 2014, France's Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said on Sunday.
- 10:55 30/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 30 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. Army is almost ready to deploy to Afghanistan a new rotary-wing surveillance drone, the Boeing A160T Hummingbird, equipped with a cutting-edge 1.8-gigapixel camera, the army says.
- 22:16 20/12/2011 TBILISI, December 20 (RIA Novosti)
Georgia’s parliament voted on Tuesday in favor of President Mikheil Saakashvili’s plan to send more troops to Afghanistan as part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
- 14:55 16/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and India have said they back handing security affairs over to Afghanistan, putting Kabul in charge of its own security forces.
- 15:59 05/12/2011 BONN, December 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russia has canceled more than $11 billion in Afghanistan’s sovereign debt over the past decade, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
- 19:21 02/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 2 (RIA Novosti, Maria Kuchma)
A group of Afghan lawmakers urged Russia and other countries on Friday to step up efforts to maintain stability and tackle drug production in the war-town Central Asian state, warning of disaster after a U.S. troop pullout due by the end of 2014.
- 10:33 27/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 27 (RIA Novosti)
Members of the radical militant group Taliban who agree to give up fighting are being paid 100 British pounds (over $150) a month and will be allowed to keep their guns under a new initiative to end the insurgency.
- 14:09 20/11/2011 KABUL, November 20 (RIA Novosti)
Over three thousand people, mostly students, protested on Sunday in eastern Afghanistan against a deal that would allow a long-term presence of U.S. troops in the country.
- 23:41 11/11/2011 NIKOLO-URYUPINO (Moscow Region), November 11 (RIA Novosti)
The international forces in Afghanistan play a positive role but are not operating very effectively, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday at a meeting with members of the Valdai discussion club.
- 12:36 06/11/2011 KABUL, November 6 (RIA Novosti)
More than ten people, including three civilians, were killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in northern Afghanistan, local police said on Sunday.
- 17:53 05/11/2011 KABUL, November 5 (RIA Novosti)
The Interior Ministry of Afghanistan have seized 400 kg of hashish in a battle with drug dealers in the southern province of Helmand, local police said on Saturday.
- 12:33 05/11/2011 KABUL, November 5 (RIA Novosti)
Taleban leader Mullah Omar on Saturday threatened Shariah justice on those militants who kill peaceful civilians.
- 12:26 29/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti)
At least three U.S. soldiers have been killed and several Afghan civilians injured by a suicide truck bomber in central Kabul.
- 21:02 24/10/2011 KABUL, October 24 (RIA Novosti)
Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament rejected on Monday an agreement on technical and military cooperation between the Afghan government and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the Pajhwok news agency reported.
- 15:03 20/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 20 (RIA Novosti)
The door is still open to the Taliban for peace talks on the future of Afghanistan, or else they will "face continuing assault,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday.
- 13:09 16/10/2011 KABUL, October 16 (RIA Novosti)
Two soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed on Saturday in the south of Afghanistan, the coalition said in a statement on Sunday, giving no other details.
- 12:07 15/10/2011 KABUL, October 15 (RIA Novosti)
A suicide car bomber attacked a police convoy on Friday night in Spin Boldak district, Kandahar province, a source in the Afghan Internal Affairs Ministry said.
- 20:40 12/10/2011 UN, October 12 (RIA Novosti)
The UN Security Council extended its authorization of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan for one year.
- 01:59 12/10/2011 WARSAW, October 12 (RIA Novosti)
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski extended on Wednesday the mandate for the country's peacekeeping contingent in Afghanistan until April 13, 2012, the Polish press agency said.
- 17:26 01/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti)
A high-ranking member of the Taliban-backed Haqqani militant network, Haji Mali Khan, has been captured in Afghanistan during a security operation by Afghan and coalition forces, NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Saturday.
- 15:18 01/10/2011 KABUL, October 1 (RIA Novosti)
The murder of former Afghan President Rabbani in Kabul last month was planned in Pakistan, the Afghan security agency’s press secretary Latifulla Mashal claimed on Saturday.
- 21:46 29/09/2011 UNITED NATIONS, September 29 (RIA Novosti)
Afghanistan should become a neutral state after the withdrawal of foreign troops, Russian deputy ambassador to the UN Alexander Pankin said on Thursday.
- 14:45 27/09/2011 KABUL, September 27 (RIA Novosti)
At least three people were killed and 26 injured on Tuesday when a car driven by a suicide bomber exploded in front of a local police chief's office in Lashkar Gah, the main city in Helmand province, a local official said.
- 18:11 26/09/2011 ISLAMABAD, September 26 (RIA Novosti)
The Haqqani group that the United States holds responsible for last week's attack against the American embassy in Kabul was the CIA's creation, Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said.
- 15:10 26/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti)
An Afghan employee has killed one U.S. citizen and injured another at a compound believed to house the CIA station in Kabul.
- 13:18 23/09/2011 KABUL, September 23 (RIA Novosti)
The funeral of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was killed in a bomb attack on Tuesday, was held in the capital Kabul on Friday.
- 12:57 21/09/2011 KABUL, September 20 (RIA Novosti)
At least 11 police officers were killed in a terrorist attack in the Afghan Province of Ghazni on Wednesday night, a local police chief said.
- 23:45 20/09/2011 KABUL, September 20 (RIA Novosti)
The head of the Afghan High Peace Council, former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, was killed on Tuesday in an attack at his home in Kabul, officials said.
- 10:02 15/09/2011 KABUL, September 15 (RIA Novosti)
The top brass of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) blamed Pakistan-based insurgents for staging a 20-hour siege in Kabul on Wednesday.
- 12:09 14/09/2011 KABUL, September 14 (RIA Novosti)
Afghan and Iranian military are exchanging fire on the border after Iranian border guards broke into Afghanistan on Tuesday, the local television said on Wednesday.
- 10:58 14/09/2011 KABUL, September 14 (RIA Novosti)
Terrorist attacks on the U.S. Embassy, as well as other buildings in the Afghan capital ended on Wednesday, leaving seven people dead and 17 wounded, an Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
- 20:02 13/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 13 (RIA Novosti)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the Taliban would not derail the transition of his country from the NATO-led coalition to Afghan control, following a string of suicide bomb and gun attacks in central Kabul.
- 15:36 13/09/2011 KABUL, September 13 (RIA Novosti)
Gunmen who attacked the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Tuesday have all been killed, the Afghan National Directorate of Security said.
- 12:18 09/09/2011 KABUL, September 9 (RIA Novosti)
Seven people died and six were wounded in a suicide car bombing at a police headquarters in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Friday, a spokesman for the provincial administration said.
- 16:02 06/09/2011 KABUL, September 6 (RIA Novosti)
Thousands of people are set to march some 150 km towards the Afghan capital of Kabul to protest against the results of last year's parliamentary elections, the Pajhwok news agency said on Tuesday.
- 19:48 01/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will discuss the Afghan peace process on Friday at a four-nation summit, the Kremlin press service said.
- 13:47 19/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 19 (RIA Novosti)
At least three powerful blasts rocked the British Council compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday, killing eight people, the BBC said.
- 10:00 18/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 18 (RIA Novosti)
At least two Afghan guards died and four were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb near the entrance to a heavily-guarded U.S.-run military-civilian compound in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, global media said.
- 16:03 10/08/2011 KABUL, August 10 (RIA Novosti)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai decreed on Wednesday that the country's Independent Election Commission will have the authority to resolve a long-running uncertainty over last year's parliamentary elections.
- 15:11 10/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti)
NATO forces erroneously killed two Afghan policemen in south Afghanistan's Kandahar Province on Tuesday night, officials said.
- 18:45 07/08/2011 KABUL, August 7th (RIA Novosti)
Four NATO soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed on Sunday in two separate insurgent attacks in eastern and southern Afghanistan, NATO reported.
- 11:40 07/08/2011 KABUL, August 7 (RIA Novosti)
The NATO-led coalition on Sunday confirmed the death of 38 U.S. and Afghan troops in a military helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan.
- 14:14 06/08/2011 KABUL, August 6 (RIA Novosti)
A NATO helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 31 U.S. forces and seven Afghan soldiers, in the worst single loss of life for U.S. forces in the nearly decade-long conflict, President Hamid Karzai's office said.
- 20:01 03/08/2011 Alexei Pilko for RIA Novosti
The U.S. political system based on checks and balances forced President Barack Obama to discuss the Afghan issue with Republicans in order to make a deal over the state debt. This is one more piece of evidence how interdependent the domestic and foreign policies in the United States are.
- 13:00 01/08/2011 KABUL, August 1 (RIA Novosti)
Four police officers were killed in a NATO air attack in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, the governor from neighboring Nuristan Province, Jamaluddin Badr, said on Monday.
- 11:12 31/07/2011 KABUL, July 31 (RIA Novosti)
At least six people were killed and another 12 wounded in a suicide bomber attack in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, the press secretary of the local governor said on Sunday.
- 16:33 28/07/2011 KABUL, July 28, (RIA Novosti)
Around 20 people were killed and 37 injured after Taliban gunmen attacked the city of Tirin Kot in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan Province on Thursday.
- 13:23 26/07/2011 KABUL, July 26 (RIA Novosti)
At least three civilians including two schoolchildren died and six were injured following a NATO airstrike in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan, regional governor Said Fazlulla Wakhidi said on Tuesday.
- 22:21 25/07/2011 KABUL, July 25 (RIA Novosti)
The new U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, said on Monday that the United States would not maintain permanent bases in the Central Asian country after the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2014.
- 17:29 11/07/2011 KABUL, July 11 (RIA Novosti)
Hundreds of people on Monday took to the streets in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, the administrative center of Nangarhar Province, to protest against Pakistani shelling, Afghan TV channels reported.
- 12:23 10/07/2011 KABUL, July 10 (RIA Novosti)
Four deminers kidnapped in western Afghanistan by Taliban militants have been beheaded by their abductors, the local TV channel Tolo reported on Sunday.
- 09:12 10/07/2011 KABUL, July 10 (RIA Novosti)
At least three people were killed and another five wounded in a blast in Kandahar in south Afghanistan, a police source said on Sunday.
- 19:55 07/07/2011 KABUL, July 7 (RIA Novosti)
Canada handed control over the Kandahar Air Field to the United States on Thursday, officially ending its participation in the NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
- 15:23 03/07/2011 BRUSSELS, July 3 (RIA Novosti)
Belgium's Defense Minister Pieter De Crem on Sunday proposed to halve the nation's troop numbers in Afghanistan by next year.
- 18:17 29/06/2011 KABUL, June 29 (RIA Novosti)
Religious scholars from across Afghanistan urged the Taliban to stop violence and join the peace process during a session in Kabul, the Pajhwok news agency reported on Wednesday.
- 11:25 29/06/2011 KABUL, June 29 (RIA Novosti)
At least eight civilians and two policemen were killed in a raid by a group of Taliban on a landmark hotel in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Tuesday night where senior provincial governors were staying, police say.
- 12:04 28/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 28 (RIA Novosti)
The chief spokesman for the Afghan president, Waheed Omer, has confirmed that the war-torn country's central bank chief Abdul Qadir Fitrat has fled to the United States but cast doubts on claims that his life was in danger.
- 17:43 27/06/2011 KABUL, June 27 (RIA Novosti)
The Pakistani military fired early on Monday artillery shells at neighboring Afghanistan, killing five civilians and injuring at least 15, Afghan police said.
- 09:27 25/06/2011 KABUL, June 25 (RIA Novosti)
At least six people were killed, with another 18 injured in a terrorist attack in northern Afghanistan, local police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussian said.
- 23:51 23/06/2011 RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev
The numbers are in. Washington finally announced on Wednesday that 10,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan before the end of this year, followed by another 23,000 by the summer of 2012.
- 21:54 20/06/2011 RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev
Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced over the weekend that talks between the U.S administration, the Afghan government and the Taliban "have started already" and are "going well," officially confirming what everyone already knows.
- 07:49 18/06/2011 WARSAW, June 18 (RIA Novosti)
Slovakia will send 20 special services officers to Afghanistan for the first time since the U.S.-led international coalition began its operation against Taliban two decades ago.
- 09:18 15/06/2011 ASTANA, June 15 (RIA Novosti)
Kazakhstan's parliament has decided to abstain from joining the NATO-led international coalition in Afghanistan, a member of the lower house said on Wednesday.
- 14:27 11/06/2011
A series of bombs and explosions across Afghanistan killed at least 24 people on Saturday, officials said.
- 10:42 09/06/2011
The upper house of the Kazakh parliament on Thursday rejected a bill to send troops to fight in the NATO mission in Afghanistan.
- 06:37 08/06/2011
U.S. President Barack Obama told TV stations in an interview on Tuesday that his country has achieved "a big chunk" of its strategic objectives in Afghanistan.
- 20:54 06/06/2011
Afghanistan's government is unprepared for a pullout of the foreign contingent starting from late June, Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the Russian Security Council, said on Monday.
- 12:19 31/05/2011
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday NATO air strikes on people’s homes in pursuit of Taliban insurgents were no longer allowed.
- 13:03 29/05/2011
A NATO air strike has killed 16 and wounded another six civilians in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, an employee of the provincial governor's press service who preferred to stay anonymous told RIA Novosti on Sunday.
- 05:15 29/05/2011
A suicide bomber has seriously injured a senior NATO commander in an attack on a heavily guarded compound in northern Afghanistan that also killed the local police chief and several NATO soldiers and Afghan officials.
- 19:35 27/05/2011
The U.S. Army Forces Command and Russian state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport have sealed a contract for the supply of 21 Mi-17V5 multipurpose helicopters to Afghanistan, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Service of Military-Technical Cooperation said on Friday.
- 17:28 24/05/2011
Poland's military Prosecutor General demanded on Tuesday 12-year sentences for seven Polish soldiers who shot civilians in Afghanistan in 2007.
- 13:54 24/05/2011
A suicide bomber attempted to assassinate Afghan's deputy head of national security in Kabul on Tuesday, the attack coinciding with an unannounced visit by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, regional media said.
- 13:39 21/05/2011
At least six people were killed and 23 injured in an explosion at a military hospital in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Saturday.
- 18:32 03/05/2011
For the last few months Afghanistan was pushed to the background of world news reports, mostly because it was overshadowed by the events in the Middle East. But NATO-led military operation still continues, people are dying there every day and coalition forces seem to be far from achieving their officially declared goals. Oleg Kulakov, a retired colonel, served in the Soviet War in Afghanistan and is now a professor of the Military University in an interview with the chief editor of RussiaProfile.org Andrei Zolotov, Jr. expresses deep doubts about the possibility of a successful end to the current operation in Afghanistan.
- 18:22 27/04/2011
Eight foreign troops from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan and a contractor were killed by an Afghan Air Force pilot at the Kabul Airport on Wednesday following an apparent argument, the BBC reported citing NATO officials.
- 08:45 25/04/2011
Some 500 inmates made a mass prison break via a hand-dug tunnel from a penitentiary in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar early on Monday, regional deputy police chief Nasrallah Yusufzai said.
- 07:50 22/04/2011
A U.S.-led international coalition in Afghanistan may "turn a corner" in its decade-long war against Taliban as early as at the end of the year, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said.
- 13:06 18/04/2011
One person was killed and at least three others injured when a suicide bomber dressed in a military uniform detonated his explosive device inside the Afghan Defense Ministry building in Kabul on Monday, a ministry press service official said.
- 13:54 16/04/2011
Five NATO troops and four Afghan soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber dressed in an army uniform struck at a military base in eastern Afghanistan.
- 12:01 16/04/2011
A suicide bomber dressed in an Afghan army uniform walked up to a military base near the eastern city of Jalalabad on Saturday morning and blew himself up.
- 15:11 13/04/2011
At least ten people were killed on Wednesday in a suicide attack on a meeting of tribal elders in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said.
- 18:08 06/04/2011
One civilian died and two more were injured after a convoy of three NATO vehicles ran into a group of pedestrians in Kabul on Wednesday, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.
- 14:12 06/04/2011
NATO troops killed two women and a child in a traffic accident and then shot dead a civilian in downtown Kabul on Wednesday, a source in the Foreign Ministry of Afghanistan said.
- 20:07 03/04/2011
More than 100 people have died in violence in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, where eyewitnesses say police are firing on crowds with automatic weapons.
- 18:41 03/04/2011
The number of victims of the unrest in the Afghan city of Kandahar over the public burning of a Quran by a U.S. pastor has risen to 38, with 84 woundedю
- 21:40 01/04/2011
Russia condemned on Friday the "unacceptable" attack on the UN mission in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif and demanded that measures be taken to stop violence against United Nations staff.
- 20:07 01/04/2011
At least 8 people were killed on Friday when a mob angered by reports of a Quran-burning in the U.S. stormed the UN office in Afghanistan's fourth largest city.
- 13:35 27/03/2011
Taliban militants have kidnapped over 50 Afghan police in the eastern Kunar province, provincial police chief Gen. Khalilullah Ziayi said on Sunday.
- 14:49 13/03/2011
A roadside bomb killed one and wounded three NATO soldiers in the Daykundi province in central Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) reported on Sunday.
- 16:44 10/03/2011
NATO forces in Afghanistan have mistakenly killed a cousin of the country's president, Hamid Karzai, in the southern Kandahar province, local media said on Thursday.
- 20:41 09/03/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed on Wednesday a law on ratifying an agreement with the United States on military transits to Afghanistan via Russia, the Kremlin said.
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