Taliban bring down U.S. helicopter

Officials and Thirty-one U.S. Special Forces were killed in Afghanistan when the Taliban shot down their planes, Saturday, the deadliest incident for foreign troops in a war that lasted ten years - Poly Alam, Afghanistan (AFP).

To kill Americans and seven Afghan soldiers during an operation to fight the Taliban on Friday night when a rocket fired by insurgents landed their planes hit the Chinook in Wardak province, southwest of the capital Kabul.
Given the number of deaths in a statement issued by the office of President Hamid Karzai and was not confirmed immediately by the NATO-led International Force for Security Assistance (ISAF).
"The president of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan expresses its deep sympathy and condolences to U.S. President Barack Obama and the family of the victims," ​​said he.
The Afghan Defense Ministry said the local forces who were killed as they were special forces.
The U.S. television network ABC News, twenty-five of the dead U.S. Navy SEALs. The Pentagon refused to comment on the case or the number of deaths. And the strike so far the worst to hit the foreign forces since the beginning of U.S. and other international invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban in 2001 following the attacks of September 11.

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Afghanistan withdrawal: 500 troops to leave next year, David Cameron says

Prime Minister announced in the UK will withdraw 500 troops from Afghanistan next year, where the armed forces begin to move combat missions for the Afghan security forces on Wednesday. The decision comes two weeks after Obama said he intended to withdraw U.S. troops than 33,000 in the country by the end of autumn. The announcement was a controversial move that went against the advice of commanders on the ground. And David Cameron were also under pressure to consider withdrawing from the more radical areas of the province of Helmand, where currently stationed in Britain, but he took a more cautious approach of the White

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Afghan governor kidnapped

ASADABAD: Suspected militants kidnapped governor of the restive Afghan province near the border with Pakistan, a senior local official as saying on Saturday.

He said Khan was kidnapped traveler Qayyumzai, Ghazi Abad district governor, on Friday with his son and two of his bodyguards and Mr. Fadlallah Kunar provincial governor Waahedi.
"When he was on his way to his office from home, and taken from his car by unknown assailants and taken away," said Waahedi. He added that local officials now had "to take steps to secure the release of the governor of the province through the mediation of tribal and negotiate with the Taliban."
Taliban and other often kidnapped police, soldiers and NGO workers in Afghanistan, but relatively rare for them to target prominent local politicians. Taliban insurgents are waging a near 10-year-long insurgency against the government of President Hamid Karzai and Afghan security forces and foreign troops that support the administration.

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ISAF 'sorry' about the deaths of Afghan civilians

Has apologized to foreign forces in Afghanistan killed nine Afghan civilians after criticizing President Hamid Karzai's air raid, which officials said that 14 were killed, including children.

He said NATO officials said in a statement and carried out the attack in southern Helmand province on Saturday after the rebels who had been killed earlier in the U.S. Marines patrolling the compound and hid in the continuous shooting.

The complex was affected

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The lives of Afghan women

What most Westerners know about Afghanistan, at best, simplistic and one dimensional.

Canadians, whether they favor or oppose the inclusion of this country in Afghanistan, and the huge cost in lives and dollars, that they have the impression of some vast tracts of land, where there is no law, where untamed bad either base or roam freely, and copies of all corruption.

This will be sweeping the memoir written by Fawzia Kufi, the female politician in Afghanistan, the most popular, and not to change this impression, but it will add some meat to the bones of the human drawn by a vague image for the most part of government propaganda. In all

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U.S. Secretary of State hopes from Pakistan to take decisive action against militants

Islamabad, May 27. Visitor of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday that the U.S. hopes Pakistan to take decisive action against militants in the coming days -Speaking to reporters after meeting with the Pakistani political and military leaders in Islamabad, said Hillary Clinton, Osama bin Laden is dead, but al-Qaeda still poses a serious threat."They target people in Pakistan and Afghanistan and anywhere in the world al-Qaida has a safe heaven here in Pakistan. Vicious terrorists were living in Pakistan over the past decades, and operated from here," said Hillary Clinton.Clinton said "There is no evidence to suggestthat any one at the top level in the Pakistani government knew that the Osama bin Laden had been living just miles from Islamabad."She added that the two sides also discussed the investigation

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