- 12:34 14/05/2012
Lack of security in Afghanistan is a problem, which should be addressed collectively by the entire international community, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview with RIA Novosti, the Rossiya24 and Russia Today television channels in Kabul.
- 07:54 11/05/2012 BEIJING, May 11 (RIA Novosti)
An international meeting on Afghanistan will take place in Kabul on June 14, Russian acting Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during a meeting of foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states in Beijing on Friday.
- 21:11 04/05/2012 BERLIN, May 4 (RIA Novosti)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday said she hopes that NATO would withdraw forces from Afghanistan by 2014 as previously planned.
- 17:27 02/05/2012
There were explosions in Kabul soon after U.S. President Barack Obama left the city. Obama arrived in Kabul on Tuesday night on an unannounced visit.
- 17:01 02/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 2 (RIA Novosti)
At least two explosions hit Kabul after U.S. President Barack Obama left the Afghan capital following a surprise visit to sign a partnership agreement with Hamid Karzai, the Voice of America reported citing local police and witnesses.
- 15:30 02/05/2012
At least six people were killed in an early morning suicide attack on Wednesday in the Afghan capital Kabul, hours after a surprise visit to the country by President Barack Obama, government officials said.
- 07:14 02/05/2012 WASHINGTON, May 2 (RIA Novosti)
Over 20,000 U.S. servicemen will leave Afghanistan by the end of summer, President Barack Obama said in an address to the nation from Afghanistan early on Wednesday.
- 02:02 02/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 2 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan and signed an agreement on cooperation with the Central Asian country's leader Hamid Karzai, CNN reported.
- 13:11 28/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti)
A group of armed Taliban militants on Saturday morning stormed into the provincial governor's compound in the southern city of Kandahar, the Tolo TV channel said.
- 12:27 27/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 27 (RIA Novosti)
An Afghan army soldier opened fire at NATO forces in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, killing a U.S. serviceman and an Afghan interpreter, the Tolo TV station said on Friday.
- 18:10 26/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 26 (RIA Novosti)
The terms and goals of the projected U.S. presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014 need to be clarified, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday.
- 13:07 21/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 21 (RIA Novosti)
Afghan security forces have arrested five militants suspected of planning large-scale attack in Kabul, the BBC reported.
- 19:38 19/04/2012 KIEV, April 19 (RIA Novosti)
Ukraine has offered NATO its air transport capability to help the Alliance withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Hryshchenko said on Thursday.
- 17:19 19/04/2012 BRUSSELS, April 19 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed concerns on Thursday over U.S. plans to keep its military contingent in Afghanistan after the pullout of international troops in 2014.
- 16:18 19/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti)
Russian and U.S. special services are currently carrying out a large-scale anti-drug raid in Afghanistan, Russia’s chief drug control official said on Thursday.
- 14:45 19/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow is concerned over the persisting threat of terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during the Russia-NATO Council meeting on Thursday.
- 19:02 16/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 16 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
The latest wave of attacks by the Taliban in Afghanistan was a mixed success, but it strengthened the movement’s position in talks with official Kabul and NATO forces ahead of their withdrawal, Russian analysts and politicians said.
- 17:28 16/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 16 (RIA Novosti)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday a coordinated attack on the country’s capital Kabul and three provinces on Sunday were a failure on the part of NATO and domestic intelligence force
- 17:05 16/04/2012
Afghan security forces killed 36 Taliban militants during fighting in Kabul and three Afghan provinces. One militant was captured.
- 11:37 16/04/2012
Taliban militants launched a series on coordinated attacks on government buildings and foreign embassies in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday, April 15.
- 11:05 16/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 16 (RIA Novosti)
Fighting between Taliban militants and security forces in the Afghan capital of Kabul ended on Monday, after more than 18 hours of intense gunfire and rocket attacks, government officials say.
- 20:44 15/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 15 (RIA Novosti)
A spokesman for Russia’s embassy in Afghanistan on Sunday dismissed media reports claiming that the embassy’s high-profile compound in Kabul has been attacked.
- 14:50 12/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 12 (RIA Novosti)
The planned 2014 withdrawal of international coalition forces from Afghanistan will only aggravate the situation in the country and the region, the head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said on Thursday.
- 23:16 11/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti)
NATO troops may stay in Afghanistan after 2014, the director of the NATO information bureau in Moscow, Robert Pszel, said on Wednesday.
- 16:17 10/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 10 (RIA Novosti)
At least 18 people were killed and another 45 injured in two separate Taliban attacks in Afghanistan’s Herat and Helmand provinces on Tuesday, Al Jazeera said, quoting local police.
- 14:37 09/04/2012
Afghanistan's Anti-Corruption Network (AACN) has approved President Hamid Karzai’s proposal to set up an investigation into the near collapse last year of Kabul Bank, Pajhwok Afghan News Agency reported on Monday.
- 16:26 05/04/2012 BISHKEK, April 5 (RIA Novosti)
The timeline for the withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan should not be adjusted to “someone’s election schedule”, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
- 17:32 04/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 4 (RIA Novosti)
Ten people including three NATO troops were killed and 30 injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up near the city hall in the town of Maimanah in northern Afghanistan's Faryab province on Wednesday, Afghan Tolo TV channel reported.
- 16:29 03/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 3 (RIA Novosti)
At least nine Afghan police officers were killed and 14 others were taken hostage in two separate attacks by Taliban militants on police outposts in northern and southern Afghanistan in the early hours of Tuesday, local media reported.
- 13:50 03/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 3 (RIA Novosti)
The Taliban have ambushed a NATO supply column in Delaram, southwest Afghanistan, destroying a number of fuel trucks, the Pajhwok news agency reported on Tuesday.
- 16:13 02/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 2 (RIA Novosti)
Three landmine clearers from the British-American humanitarian organization HALO Trust were abducted in the west of Afghanistan, Kabul-based Bahtar news agency reported on Monday.
- 15:02 26/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 26 (RIA Novosti)
An Afghan soldier opened fire on NATO troops in the south of the country on Monday morning, killing two soldiers, local media reported.
- 23:38 23/03/2012 WASHINGTON, March 23 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who went house-to-house shooting Afghan villagers as they slept earlier this month, has been charged with 17 counts of murder and could face the death penalty, CNN reported.
- 13:52 21/03/2012 Maria Kuchma, RIA Novosti
The Kremlin's intention to allow NATO to set up a hub for Afghan transit operations in the Volga region city of Ulyanovsk has triggered protests amid claims the deal would undermine Russia's national interests and security.
- 23:50 20/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 20 (RIA Novosti)
Attempts by the United States to engage in dialogue with the Taliban without the Afghan government are unproductive, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
- 23:04 15/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 15 (RIA Novosti, Maria Kuchma)
The Afghan Taliban movement announced on Thursday that it was suspending recently launched negotiations with the United States over what it described as the “shaky, erratic and vague standpoint” of the U.S. leadership.
- 10:28 12/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 12 (RIA Novosti)
The Taliban have promised the relatives of those civilians killed by an American soldier in a shooting spree on Sunday that they will carry out revenge attacks, the group said on the Voice of Jihad website.
- 13:15 11/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 11 (RIA Novosti)
A U.S. soldier has been detained after shooting dead at least 17 civilians near his base in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan on Sunday morning, Afghan news agency Pazhvak reported quoting local people's representative Hadji Aghi Lalaya.
- 13:22 02/03/2012 DUSHANBE, March 2 (RIA Novosti)
Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon and UK Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey discussed on Friday the impending withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan, planned for completion by 2014.
- 11:31 29/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 29 (RIA Novosti)
A car containing a bomb blew up in the Afghan town of Lashkar Gah on Wednesday morning injuring six people and killing the driver, the local governor's press spokesman Daoud Akhmadi said.
- 20:17 25/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 25 (RIA Novosti)
Two U.S. officers were killed in an attack by Taliban militants inside the Afghan Interior Ministry headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, U.S. media reported.
- 18:56 23/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 23 (RIA Novosti)
Seven Afghans have been killed in the clashes between Afghan security forces and protesters, rallying against Quran’s burning by the U.S. soldiers, Afghan Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
- 16:24 20/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 20 (RIA Novosti)
Night raids conducted by U.S. troops in Afghanistan remain a major stumbling block to a U.S.-Afghan agreement on long-term strategic cooperation, the Afghan media reported on Monday.
- 13:18 18/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 18 (RIA Novosti)
Reducing the number of Afghan security forces, army and police, by more than one-third after 2014 could lead Afghanistan to a catastrophe, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday quoting Afghanistan’s Defense Minister.
- 07:24 03/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and NATO may soon sign an agreement that would ease cargo transportation from Afghanistan via Russia’s territory
- 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.
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