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UN Relocating About 600 Staff After Afghan Attack

AP | DEB RIECHMANN and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 11.06.2009 | World


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...

Nick Horne, Resigning UN Officer: We Must Force Political Change In Afghanistan, Or Fail

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...

UN In Afghanistan On Lockdown As It Re-Evaluates Mission After Deadly Attack

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...

Afghanistan: 4 US Troops Killed As UN Completes Election Probe

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...

Maulavi Mustafa Barakzai, Afghan Member Of Panel Investigating Election Fraud, Resigns

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...

Afghanistan Rape 'Widespread': UN

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...

Official Calls for Sensitivity to Afghan Demands

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...