It's less than two weeks since four French soldiers were gunned down by a rogue Afghan soldier during a jogging session. France immediately denounced it as a Taliban attack, and the French mission was suspended while security was stepped up. Witnesses have also described tensions between the Afghan soldiers and their mentors. So how do the Afghans themselves explain what happened, and how did they carry on without the French? Afghan journalist Sultan Faizy goes inside a training camp in Kabul.
A leaked NATO report says the Taliban, backed by Pakistani intelligence services, are on course to retake control of Afghanistan in 2014 after NATO-led forces withdraw from the country. The "state of the Taliban" report was compiled from information taken from 27,000 interrogations of 4,000 captured al Qaeda and Taliban operatives at the US Bagram air base. The document drew immediate criticism from Pakistan.
Ten years to the day after anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massoud was killed in combat, Afghanistan celebrated his passing with a ceremony that was notable this year for the absence of President Hamid Karzai.
When he was Afghanistan’s top banker, Abdul Qadir Fitrat was known as the "milk cow". But after a high profile parliamentary disclosure on the Kabul Bank scandal, Fitrat's fortunes changed, forcing him to flee Afghanistan.
A suicide bomber attacked the Safi Landmark hotel in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul Monday, killing at least three people and wounding several others. The hotel was the target of a similar attack nearly a year ago, which killed 16 people.
Afghan security forces have beaten angry customers scrambling to withdraw their savings from Kabul bank, which is caught in a corruption scandal. In Australia, Julia Gillard remains in power but now faces the challenge of holding together the country's first minority Labour government in nearly 70 years. And we look at company bosses in China who mix business with trying to convert their employees to Christianity.
In an audacious attack early Wednesday, Taliban militants attacked a major NATO base in Bagram, about 35 miles north of Kabul. Seven Taliban militants were killed in a prolonged attack, which included suicide bombings.
A massive suicide car bombing in a western neighbourhood of the heavily fortified Afghan capital of Kabul has killed at least 12 civilians and six NATO soldiers, according to officials. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
Taliban suicide bombers targeted guesthouses in the heart of Kabul on Friday, killing at least 16 people. Nine Indian nationals, a French film-maker and an Italian diplomat were confirmed killed in the blast as well as several police.
The debacle of the flawed Aug 20 presidential election laid bare the deficiencies of the country’s electoral system. Efforts are underway to avoid the same mistakes but will a new draft electoral law reform stop history from repeating itself?
