Dion Nissenbaum

NATO Challenged Over Kabul Raid That Killed Two Guards

Kabul, Afghanistan - The international Special Forces military team that targeted a Kabul office complex on Christmas Eve day thought they were thwarting a holiday season plot to bomb …

By: Hashim Shukoor &; Dion Nissenbaum ,; McClatchyNewspapers|Report

December 27, 2010

Contractor Leaves Afghan Police Stations Half-Complete

Shahri Buzurg, Afghanistan - When police officers in this isolated Afghanistan village moved out of their dilapidated headquarters in 2008 to make way for U.S.-funded construction crews, they were …

By: Hashim Shukoor &; Dion Nissenbaum ,; McClatchyNewspapers|Report

November 15, 2010

Obama Backs India Post on UN Security Council

New Delhi - President Barack Obama on Monday explicitly endorsed India’s longstanding hopes of securing a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, an influential endorsement that could …

By: Dion Nissenbaum &; Margaret Talev ,; McClatchyNewspapers|Report

November 8, 2010

UK Leader Says Aid Worker May Have Been Killed by US Forces

Kabul, Afghanistan - U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of the international military coalition in Afghanistan, launched an investigation into the failed weekend rescue attempt of British aid …

By: Dion Nissenbaum ,; McClatchyNewspapers|Report

October 11, 2010

Afghan Election Panel Reports New Evidence of Serious Fraud

KABUL, Afghanistan — Internal reports Tuesday from Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission provided new evidence of serious fraud in the country's parliamentary elections, including turnouts that exceeded 100 percent in …

By: Dion Nissenbaum &; Jonathan S Landay ,; McClatchyNewspapers|Report

September 21, 2010

Family, US Offer Differing Versions of Deadly Afghan Raid

Kabul, Afghanistan - When Ismail Nemati set out from Kabul last week to join his family in nearby Wardak province for the start of the Islamic holy month of …

By: Hashim Shukoor &; Dion Nissenbaum ,; McClatchyNewspapers|Report

August 21, 2010

Karzai to Ban Private Security Companies in Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office on Monday announced that it will close the country's 52 private security companies by year's end, a decision that could create …

By: Hashim Shukoor &; Dion Nissenbaum ,; McClatchyNewspapers|Report

August 17, 2010

US Soldiers’ Mission Shows Afghan War’s Uncertainties

Arghandab, Afghanistan - Setting out on one of their final patrols in Afghanistan, the U.S. Army and Afghan soldiers waded through waist-deep streams, scampered over crumbling 9-foot-tall mud walls …

By: Dion Nissenbaum ,; McClatchyNewspapers|Report

August 13, 2010

Ten Medical Aid Workers Robbed, Killed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — Ten members of an international medical mission, including six Americans, were robbed and killed while returning from a two-week trek through risky parts of eastern Afghanistan, …

By: Hashim Shukoor &; Dion Nissenbaum ,; McClatchyNewspapers|Report

August 7, 2010

Taliban’s Mullah Omar Orders Attacks on Women, US Says

Arghandab, Afghanistan - U.S. intelligence officials say they have intercepted new orders from the Taliban's spiritual leader that call on insurgents to target women and Afghan civilians helping American-led …

By: Saeed Shah &; Dion Nissenbaum ,; McClatchyNewspapers

July 18, 2010

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