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The Overseas Press Club has honored several photographers for their coverage of conflicts that have spanned decades, or almost escaped attention....

As Tony Blair makes speech on Middle East, study puts cost of post-cold war UK military operations at more than £34bn What went wrong with operations in Iraq and Afghanistan which costs most of the £37bn Britain has spent on military conflicts over the past fifteen years (excluding the long-term cost of veteran care estimated to amount to as much as £30bn), seriously dented the reputation...

Study says bulk of money was spent on Iraq and Afghanistan, interventions judged later to be 'strategic failures' Britain's military operations since the end of the cold war have cost £34.7bn and a further £30bn may have to be spent on long-term veteran care, according to an authoritative study. The bulk of the money has been spent on interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan judged to have...

Afghanistan hailed news of high turnout in Andar district as a triumph for democracy, but interviews with villagers near polling sites offered a stark contrast to the government narrative....

Next president of Afghanistan to inherit growing budget shortfall that could leave civil servants unpaid When the next president of Afghanistan takes office later this year, he will inherit a growing budget shortfall that could leave tens of thousands of civil servants unpaid and force key public programmes to shut down. After more than a decade of western aid projects designed to make the Afghan economy...

The winner of this year’s award in honor of Chris Hondros shares his sense of compassion and respect for his subjects....

Mohammad Ali and Zakia, running from her family and the police, were welcomed into the home of distant relatives until their location was revealed....

The candidate Abdullah Abdullah widened his lead, but neither of the top contenders seemed to be on track to win more than 50 percent of the vote....

Votes from more than 1,000 polling centres have been quarantined for checks over fraud complaints The former mujahideen doctor Abdullah Abdullah has lengthened his lead in Afghanistan's presidential race, according to organisers, but rising concerns about fraud overshadowed the latest batch of preliminary poll results. Votes from more than 1,000 polling centres around one in six of those opened on...

US officials indicate fate of inmates captured during the country's longest conflict will continue to complicate Obama administration's efforts to close wartime detention complex Typically, when a war ends, so does the combatants authority to detain the other sides fighters. But as the conclusion of the US war in Afghanistan approaches, the inmate population of Guantánamo Bay is likely to be...

The United States must first focus on handing over the peacemaking to Afghanistan’s neighbors to end the war quickly....

The authorities in Wardak Province said they had reports that a dozen officers had been kidnapped by insurgents while traveling to Kabul in order to collect their salaries....

Local officials say rocket fire into a village in Khost Province killed and a woman and two children....

Report on 2012 Taliban assault, which left two dead and 17 injured, describes attitude of MoD as obstructive and unhelpful Inadequate defences and "high-level complacency" led to a devastating Taliban attack on Camp Bastion, the giant joint US/UK base in Afghanistan, which left two US marines dead and 17 UK and American personnel injured, according to a damning report by MPs. Only 11 of 24...

Australian film-maker David Michôd is to write and direct film about the controversial former US general News: Obama sacks Afghan war commander McChrystal Brad Pitt may star in a biopic of the controversial former commander of international forces in Afghanistan, US general Stanley McChrystal, reports Deadline . Based on Michael Hastings ' biography of McChrystal, The Operators will be written and...

Gunmen run Ahmad Shah Wahid's car off the road before dragging him into vehicle and driving off Gunmen have abducted the Afghan deputy public works minister in Kabul, officials say. Ahmad Shah Wahid was on his way to work on Tuesday when five gunmen ran his car off the road in northern Kabul, dragged him into their four-wheel-drive vehicle and sped away, said Gul Agha Hashim, the city's police chief...

Results from 10 percent of the votes cast in 26 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces showed that the candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani appeared to be leading....

A news media known for its no-holds-barred criticism has decided to focus on the positive to help foster confidence in the democratic process....

International development secretary says system must be overhauled to ensure that more is done to prepare for disasters The global humanitarian aid system is being "stretched to breaking point" by climate change, war, population growth and extremism, and must be overhauled to ensure that more is done to prepare for disasters rather than merely relieve them, the British government will warn...

Ministry of Defence in counter-productive bid to ban book TA officer resigns in protest MoD appears to be frightened of criticism Not for the first time, the Ministry of Defence has scored a spectacular own goal. In trying to suppress a book by a territorial army officer which is highly critical of the British operations in Helmand, the MoD has simply drawn more attention to it. Continue reading......