Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan forces (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
U.S. and Afghan authorities are investigating whether a botched NATO airstrike was to blame for the death of Afghan soldiers and police during a search for two American paratroopers missing in a Taliban-infested area of the country’s west. The probe into a possible friendly fire incident further aggravates already strained relations between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the international …
Afghan Taliban deny they have missing U.S. troops’ bodies (MalaysiaNews.net)
KABUL — The Taliban denied on Sunday they were holding the bodies of two U.S. soldiers who had gone missing last week in northwestern Afghanistan after earlier claiming they had recovered the two dea…
Afghan, British soldiers, 26 Taliban killed in blasts, clashes (EARTHtimes.org)
Kabul – One British soldier and three Afghan forces were killed in two separate blasts in volatile southern Afghanistan, while 26 Taliban militants were killed in clashes and NATO’s airstrike elsewhere in the country, officials said Sunday. In the la…
Karzai vows to keep corrupt officials out of Afghan govt (3news)
The embattled Afghan president pledged Sunday that there would be no place for corrupt officials in his new administration – a demand made by Washington and its international partners as they ponder sending more troops to confront the Taliban and shore up his government.
Karzai: ‘We Do What Is Right’ for Afghanistan (The Online NewsHour)
In an exclusive interview with Margaret Warner, Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledges there is corruption at different levels of government, but says the country is working to address it and that the international community must respect the decisions of the Afghan courts.
Karzai vows to fight corruption (The Washington Times)
KABUL, Afghanistan — Embattled Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged Sunday that there would be no place for corrupt officials in his new administration — a demand made by Washington and its international partners as they ponder sending more troops to confront the Taliban and shore up his government. Also Sunday, NATO reported three more coalition soldiers — one American and two Britons …
Another UK soldier killed in Afghanistan (Press TV)
Another British soldier has been killed in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, taking the total number of the UK troop fatalities to 231 in the Afghan war.
3 Afghan army soldiers, 8 Taliban militants killed in S Afghanistan (People’s Daily)
Three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and eight Taliban fighters have been killed in separate incidents in south Afghanistan over the past two days, senior military commander in the region Shir Mohammad Zazi said on Saturday. “Three ANA soldiers were killed as their vehicle overran a landmine at around 10 a.m. local time in Gereshk district of Helmand province,” Zazi told Xinhua. In another …
Afghan Taliban deny have missing US troops’ bodies (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters (For more stories on Afghanistan, click [ID:nAFPAK]) KABUL, Nov 8 (Reuters) – The Taliban denied on Sunday they were holding the bodies of two U.S. soldiers who had gone missing last week in …
