http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/tags/afghanistan.htm Latest news stories from around the world. Radio Australia News nospam@your.abc.net.au nospam@your.abc.net.au 2008-11-25T08:07:45+11:00 2008-11-25T08:07:45+11:00 A United Nations Security Council delegation has arrived in Kabul to assess Afghanistan's progress towards ending the Taliban-led insurgency and rebuilding after decades of war.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2428549.htm2008-11-25T08:07:45+11:00The United States military has announced it will deploy up to 4,000 extra troops in Afghanistan.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427654.htm2008-11-24T18:19:46+11:00The Australian defence minister, Joel Fitzgibbon, says he wants the United Nations to speed up its reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427796.htm2008-11-24T16:55:16+11:00US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States is trying to provide additional troops to US forces in Afghanistan and he wants at least some of the troops in place before Afghanistan's election next year.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2427034.htm2008-11-22T12:26:33+11:00The chief of the Australian Defence Force says he does not think a political settlement with the Taliban insurgents is close in Afghanistan.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2426878.htm2008-11-21T22:02:23+11:00Security authorities in Pakistan say a missile strike by a suspected US drone has killed at least five people in the northwest of the country, near the Afghan border.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2424348.htm2008-11-19T22:20:42+11:00China has confirmed it is not planning on sending troops to Afghanistan to join the International Security Assistance Force there.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2423334.htm2008-11-18T20:05:13+11:00The United States has given a negative response to a plan by Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, to hold peace talks with the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2422754.htm2008-11-18T14:24:00+11:00Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has offered protection to the leader of the Taliban in exchange for peace.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2421522.htm2008-11-17T22:53:04+11:00Afghan and international troops say they have killed 30 militants in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2421143.htm2008-11-17T09:53:59+11:00A Taliban suicide car bomb struck a military convoy in western Afghanistan wounding two US soldiers, a day after another bombing killed a member of the NATO force.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2421035.htm2008-11-16T20:13:45+11:00US drones have fired at least three missiles into Pakistan's Waziristan tribal region on Friday, killing up to 12 people including five foreigners.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2420470.htm2008-11-14T22:40:44+11:00The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has called on the international community to use the opportunity of improved relations with Pakistan to make further progress on crushing terrorism.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2420469.htm2008-11-14T22:40:44+11:00An explosion at a crowded market in eastern Afghanistan has killed 11 people, including a child and an American soldier and injured almost 60 others.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2419270.htm2008-11-14T07:59:55+11:00Attackers have sprayed acid in the faces of up to 15 school girls in Afghanistan.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2418195.htm2008-11-13T11:35:57+11:00Afghanistan's insurgent Taliban movement has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the southern city of Kandahar.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2418179.htm2008-11-13T07:54:27+11:00A suspected bomb blast in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar has killed at least three people and wounded 39 others.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2418128.htm2008-11-12T22:50:29+11:00Afghanistan has dispatched some members of its parliament to observe and learn from more mature parliaments around the world.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2416224.htm2008-11-11T14:02:16+11:00The Afghan government has accused US forces of killing up to 14 security guards in the eastern province of Khost.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2415933.htm2008-11-11T14:02:15+11:00The Afghan government says 14 Afghan security guards have been killed in a clash with American-led troops.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200811/s2415872.htm2008-11-11T14:02:14+11:00