UN Relocating About 600 Staff After Afghan Attack
KABUL — The United Nations is sending about 600 foreign staff out of the country or into secure compounds because of the deadly Taliban attack o...
KABUL — The United Nations is sending about 600 foreign staff out of the country or into secure compounds because of the deadly Taliban attack o...
Times Online | Nick Horne | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
Two days ago, I left the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan because, as I stated in my resignation letter, "I have believed for some time that the m...
AP | ROBERT H. REID and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
KABUL — The Taliban's brazen attack on U.N. election workers undermines the U.N.'s ability to help steer Afghanistan through a runoff election i...
AP | ROBERT H. REID and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
KABUL — A roadside bomb killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel finished most of its i...
AP | ROBERT H. REID and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
KABUL — Efforts to resolve Afghanistan's fraud-marred presidential election suffered new setbacks Monday when one of two Afghans on the commissi...
The Huffington Post | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
The UN has said that Afghan law does not protect rape victims, according to the Daily Star. The humanitarian organization also criticized communities...
New York Times | KIRK SEMPLE | Posted 01.07.2009 | Home
KABUL, Afghanistan -- In unusually blunt remarks, the chief of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan warned in an interview this weekend that unle...
AP | DEB RIECHMANN and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 11.06.2009 | World