Did NATO strike kill Afghan forces?
Kabul -- U.S. and Afghan authorities investigated Saturday whether a botched NATO airstrike was to blame for the death of Afghan Soldiers and police during a search for two American paratroopers missing in a Taliban-infested area of the country's west. The probe into a possible friendly-fire incident further aggravates already strained relations between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the international community, which holds his enfeebled government partly responsible for rising instability....

Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan forces
U.S. and Afghan authorities investigated Saturday whether a botched NATO airstrike was to blame for the death of Afghan Soldiers and police during a search for two American paratroopers missing in a Taliban-infested area of the country's west.

Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan forces
Kabul—U.S. and Afghan authorities investigated Saturday whether a botched NATO airstrike was to blame for the death of Afghan Soldiers and police during a search for two American paratroopers missing in a Taliban-infested area of the country's west. The probe into a possible friendly fire incident further aggravates already strained relations between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the international community, which holds his enfeebled government partly responsible for rising...

Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan forces
U.S. and Afghan authorities investigated Saturday whether a botched NATO airstrike was to blame for the death of Afghan Soldiers and police during a search for two American paratroopers missing in a Taliban -infested area of the country's west. The probe into a possible friendly fire incident further aggravates already strained relations between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the international community, which holds his enfeebled government partly responsible for rising instability. After...

Allies probing NATO airstrike
Kabul

Seven Afghan Security Forces killed in NATO Air Strike
Afghanistan: Seven Afghan Security Forces killed in NATO Air Strike, Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed in a NATO air strike in remote

Ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan soldiers
Afghanistan's Defense Ministry says a NATO airstrike in a western province mistakenly hit a joint base housing coalition Troops and Afghan forces, killing four Afghan Soldiers and three policemen.

Afghans: 7 soldiers killed by NATO strike
Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A NATO air strike killed seven Afghan security force members searching for two missing U.S. Soldiers, officials said Saturday. A spokesman for NATO confirmed the deaths, first reported by the Afghan Defense Ministry, The New York Times reported. The spokesman said the operation Friday in Badghis province also wounded five U.S. and 15 Afghan Soldiers, two Afghan police officers and an Afghan civilian who was part of the mission, which arrived in the area...

Ministry: NATO airstrike kills Afghan soldiers
Kabul (AP)

UK & World News: 200th British soldier is killed in Afghanistan
Nov 8 2009 ANOTHER BRITISH soldier has been killed by an explosion in southern Afghanistan - the 200th to die from hostile action since the conflict started. The serviceman, from the 2nd Battalion, The Rifles, who was serving with the 4th Battalion, The Rifles, died following a blast near Sangin, in central Helmand Province, yesterday afternoon. Spokesman for Task Force Helmand, Lieutenant Colonel David Wakefield, said: "It is my sad duty to inform you that a soldier from The Rifles was killed...

UK soldiers killed in Afghan blast
The serviceman from 4th Battalion, The Rifles, died in a blast near Sangin, in central Helmand Province. His family have been informed. Lieutenant Colonel David Wakefield, spokesman for Task Force Helmand, said: "It is my sad duty to inform you that earlier today, the morning of Remembrance Sunday, a soldier from 3 Rifles Battle Group was killed as a result of an explosion near Sangin, in Helmand Province." He continued: "One of our fellow Soldiers, one of us, who we remembered...

2 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Kabul, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Two Soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have been killed in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan, a Press release of the alliance said on Sunday. "Two ISAF service members died in Afghanistan yesterday," the Press release said. Giving details, the Press release added that one U.S. service member was killed in an insurgent attack in western Afghanistan .

2 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
    Kabul, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Two Soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have been killed in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan, a Press release of the alliance said on Sunday.     "Two ISAF service members died in Afghanistan yesterday," the Press release said.     Giving details, the Press release added that one U.S. service member was killed in an insurgent attack in western Afghanistan....

Karzai Says US Airstrikes "Not Acceptable"
Kabul — Video of the aftermath of a disputed incident involving American forces and the Taliban shows bloodied bodies of children laid out with other corpses, confirming international Red Cross findings at the two remote villages in western Afghanistan. The U.S. Military does not contest that civilians died but called "extremely over-exaggerated" a report by an Afghan official that as many as 147 were killed. Afghans blame aerial bombing Monday and Tuesday for the deaths and destruction....

Taliban deny having US soldiers' bodies
The Taliban denied today they were holding the bodies of two US Soldiers who had gone missing last week in northwestern Afghanistan after earlier claiming they had recovered the two dead servicemen.

Editor's Choice: World waits for decision on Afghanistan from Barack Obama
Nov 8 2009 Craig Mcqueen, Sunday Mail Just over a year since his election made history, Barack Obama is on the verge o f making the decision that will dictate how history will judge him. The US President must decide his country's future in Afghanistan as his key advisers split on whether America should send more Troops to secure the country's democratic future or admit the war cannot be won and leave it to the Taliban. The slaughter of five British Soldiers in one incident last week has only...

NATO Friendly Fire Under Investigation
Incident called one of the worst during eight year war. An investigation is underway in what is being described as one of the worst "friendly fire" incidents in an eight-year war. A mis-targeted NATO air strike called to help Troops fight rebels in the remote Badghis province of western Afghanistan has left four army Soldiers and three police officers dead. The strike occurred while NATO and Afghan forces were searching for two American paratroopers who went missing on Wednesday during a...

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition: Afghans die in -Nato air strike'
This is a syndicated post. Original article from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition , available at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition . NATO officials investigate whether the death of eight Afghans working with US Troops was a "friendly-fire" incident.

Karzai is -corrupt' but -our guy': French FM: PHOTO
PARIS: President Hamid Karzai is -corrupt' but NATO has to accept that -he is our guy' in Afghanistan, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said, according to the New York Times on Thursday. Kouchner also complained that President Barack Obama's US administration was drawing up a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan without consulting its European allies within NATO, leaving them in the dark. -What is the goal? What is the road? And in the name of what?' Kouchner asked,...

Air strike 'kills Afghan civilians'
Helmand Province government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi confirmed an air strike in the village of Korkhashien, just south of the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, but said that eight Taliban militants were killed while hiding out in a compound. The villagers drove the bodies to the Governor's office in Lashkar Gah, and news footage shows some children among the dead. Villager Abdul Rashin said the people were killed while harvesting out in their fields. NATO forces did not immediately comment.

NATO: 2 U.S. soldiers die in Afghanistan
NATO is reporting the deaths of two more American service members in Afghanistan.

Nato probes deadly Afghan air raid
An investigation has begun on whether a NATO air raid was to blame for the death of Afghan Soldiers and foreign Troops during a joint operation in the northwest of Afghanistan. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said the attack on Friday killed or injured more than 25 foreign and Afghan Soldiers in the province of Badghis. NATO officials blamed Taliban fighters for the attack, but later said it was possible that the Soldiers were hit by a NATO-led air raid.

Hamid Karzai 'to purge Afghan government of corrupt officials': PHOTO
Hamid Karzai has said he will purge his new administration of corrupt officials, a day after criticising the United Nations for demanding that he clean up his regime.

'Soldiers are dying for Afghan democracy as British values crumble' says Bishop
The Government has allowed the scandal of bankers' bonuses and MPs' expenses to "chip away" at the values of British society yet "throws" Soldiers at Afghanistan to fight corruption there, the Bishop of Lichfield has said.