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UN Envoy: UN Workers Killed Running From Bunker
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan - Fearing for their lives, the U.N. workers dashed into a dark bunker hoping to escape the mob of Afghan protesters angry over the burning of a Quran by a Florida church. Hope wasn't enough for three of them. They were hunted down and brutally slain - their bodies found later in three different parts of the compound in northern Afghanistan. Eric Kanalstein, UNAMA / AP In this photo taken Saturday in Kabul, Afghanistan, UN personnel carry the casket of one of seven colleagues killed in an attack on the UN operations center in Mazar-i-Sharif on ...
Afghanistan's President Blasts US Troops for Gruesome Afghan Deaths
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's president says U.S. soldiers charged with murder in the deaths last year of three unarmed Afghans had killed them for entertainment, after taking drugs. Hamid Karzai condemned the actions of five soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade. The troops have been charged in the United States with murder and conspiracy in the slaying of three men in southern Afghanistan. The remarks on Wednesday were Karzai's first public comments on the issue that came to light after a series of graphic photos showing the soldiers from an Olympia, Washington-based platoon, posing ...
Afghan Forces to Take Control in 7 Areas, Karzai Says
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that his security forces will soon take charge of securing seven areas around Afghanistan - the first step toward his goal of having Afghan police and soldiers protecting the entire nation by the end of 2014. In a speech peppered with criticism of the international effort, Karzai said the provincial capitals of Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan, Herat in the west, Mazer-e-Sharif in the north and Mehterlam in the east are slated for transition from NATO-led forces to Afghan soldiers and police beginning in July. In addition, all of ...
Gates: US Should Stay Involved in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGRAM, Afghanistan -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that both the U.S. and Afghan governments agree the American military should remain involved in Afghanistan after the planned 2014 end of combat operations to help train and advise Afghan forces. "Obviously it would be a small fraction of the presence that we have today, but I think we're willing to do that," Gates told a group of U.S. troops at Bagram air field, which is headquarters for U.S. and NATO forces in eastern Afghanistan. "My sense is, they (Afghan officials) are interested in having us do that." Mandel ...
Afghan President Rejects US Apology Over Killings
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's president on Sunday rejected a U.S. apology for the mistaken killing of nine Afghan boys in a NATO air attack and said civilian casualties are no longer acceptable. According to a statement from his office, Hamid Karzai told Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, that expressing regret was not sufficient in last week's killing of the boys, ages 12 and under, by coalition helicopters. NATO has also apologized for the mistaken killings. Civilian casualties from coalition operations are a major source of strain in the ...
Afghan Official: Roadside Bomb Kills 12 Civilians
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb killed 12 civilians Sunday in east Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, a spokesman for the governor of Paktika province said. Mokhlis Afghan said another five people were wounded Sunday when the bomb planted by insurgents exploded next to a truck carrying civilians. He said the dead included two children, five men and five women. The truck was traveling between the towns of Turwa and Wazakhwa. The Interior Ministry confirmed the attack but said only 10 people were killed. There was no way to immediately reconcile the difference in ...
Petraeus Apologizes After Gunships Kill 9 Afghan Children
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsGen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has issued a rare apology for an airstrike that killed nine children gathering firewood in the east of the country. A 10th child was wounded. "We are deeply sorry for this tragedy and apologize to the members of the Afghan government, the people of Afghanistan and, most importantly, the surviving family members of those killed by our actions," Petraeus said in a statement. "These deaths should have never happened." Petraeus' swift apology Wednesday came hours after Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the deaths were the ...
Afghan Government: NATO Assault Killed 65 Civilians
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Sixty-five civilians, including 40 children, were killed in a NATO assault on insurgents in eastern Afghanistan earlier this month, according to findings of an Afghan government investigation released Sunday. Tribal leaders had alleged that dozens of civilians were killed in the operation in Kunar province, which involved rocket and air strikes, but NATO has not confirmed any civilian deaths. The incident inflamed tensions between the Afghan government and NATO forces, and both sides opened investigations. Civilian deaths have been increasing in recent months as ...
NATO Short Hundreds of Trainers for Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- More nations are pledging support, yet NATO still faces a shortage of 740 trainers needed to get Afghan soldiers and policemen ready to take the lead in securing their nation, the coalition's top training official says. Needed most are 290 police trainers, including those to work in new training centers opening in Afghanistan this year, U.S. Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, the commander of NATO's training mission, told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday. Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants his nation's police and army to take the lead in protecting and defending ...
US Commander Says Forces Face Tough Year in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan says in an assessment of the war that the military has "made impressive progress" in 2010 but that 2011 is "likely to be tough" as forces work to expand security. The assessment comes in a letter from Gen. David Petraeus to the troops Tuesday, ahead of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. Petraeus says in the letter that troops will have to hold onto progress made in Taliban strongholds in the south while working to reverse insurgent advances in the north and northeast. He praises security gains in the ...
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