KABUL): The foundation stone of a $42 million UK-funded academy for Afghan National Army (ANA) officers was laid in the capital Kabul on Thursday. Chief

KABUL): The North Atlantic Council on Wednesday approved the appointment of International Security Assistance Force Commander Gen. John Allen as the new Supreme Allied Commander

SHARAN (PAN). The protestors marched through parts of Sharan, the provincial capital, chanting slogans against ISAF and US troops and asking them not to bother

BAMYAN (PAN): Work on a $15 million (781 million afghanis) airport expansion project was launched in the central province of Bamyan on Wednesday, officials said.

BAMYAN CITY (PAN): A 98-kilometre road was asphalted in Bamyan, reducing the four-hour distance between the provincial capital and Yakawlang district to 80 minutes, officials

WASHINGTON (PAN and end the war there, the Obama campaign said on Tuesday. “(Romney) has no concrete plan to bring our troops home from Afghanistan,”

LASHKARGAH (PAN) office in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, Monday afternoon. The bomber crashed his explosives-laden van into the NDS building at 2pm,

KABUL is headed for a devastating political crisis, as the Karzai administration prepares to take full security control in 2014, an international organisation warned on

KABUL): A notorious insurgent commander was killed along an associate in the Syedabad district of central province of Maidan Wardak on Sunday morning, officials said.

JALALABAD (PAN in the ongoing peace process with militants. Members of provincial councils of eastern provinces and representatives of civil society, who participated in the

KABUL on Sunday warned Iranian authorities could execute 1,200 Afghan prisoners and asked the Afghan government and the international community to help the death-row inmates.

CHARIKAR): A power project, involving the installation of five transformers, has been executed in the central province of Parwan, officials said on Sunday. Some 3,000