<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Kabul: News &amp; Videos about Kabul - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Kabul</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Kabul from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:37:03 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Kabul: News &amp; Videos about Kabul - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Kabul</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Kabul from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>2 killed in blast outside U.S. base in Kabul</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/13/afghanistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/13/afghanistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two Afghans died when a bomb exploded outside a U.S. military base on the outskirts of Kabul on Friday morning, a spokesman for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>3 U.N. staff killed in firefight in central Kabul</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/27/afghanistan.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/27/afghanistan.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Three U.N. staff members were killed in a firefight in central Kabul on Wednesday morning, a U.N. spokesman said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Strong earthquake rocks Afghanistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/22/afghanistan.quake/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/22/afghanistan.quake/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A strong earthquake rumbled deep beneath mountainous regions northeast of Kabul early Friday, waking residents and sending some into the streets.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Afghan junkies risk triggering AIDS explosion</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/28/afghan.opium.den/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/28/afghan.opium.den/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Afghanistan's reputation as the world's leading narcotics supplier is well-known, but in a squalid ruin in Kabul, the country hides a darker secret -- a huge home grown drug addiction problem now on the brink of fueling an HIV/AIDS epidemic.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>14 from U.S. Embassy security staff in Afghanistan fired</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/04/afghanistan.contractors/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/04/afghanistan.contractors/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Fourteen employees of a U.S. security contractor accused of wrongdoing at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan have been fired and were leaving the country, the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan said Friday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wackenhut aids inquiry into its Afghanistan contractor</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/03/afghanistan.contractors/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/03/afghanistan.contractors/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The parent company of a security contractor said Thursday it is "fully cooperating" in the investigation of allegations that the contractor allowed mistreatment, sexual activity and intimidation within the ranks of private guards hired to protect the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Afghan police: Bomb attacks prevented</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/20/afghanistan.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/20/afghanistan.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Police in northeast Afghanistan prevented two bomb attacks Thursday, as the country held presidential and provincial elections, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Robbers killed in gunbattle at Kabul bank</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/19/afghanistan.bank.robbery/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/19/afghanistan.bank.robbery/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Police stormed a bank and killed three armed robbers Wednesday in Afghanistan's capital after their robbery attempt had escalated into a gun battle with security officers.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pre-election violence kills 7 in Afghan capital</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/18/afghan.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/18/afghan.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Afghan capital, Kabul, came under attack Tuesday, two days before national elections. The violence included a rocket attack that damaged the presidential palace and a deadly suicide strike.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rocket hits Afghan presidential compound</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/18/afghanistan.rockets/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/18/afghanistan.rockets/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A rocket struck the compound of the presidential palace in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, two days before national elections, a palace official said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blast in Kabul kills 7, injures dozens</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/15/afghanistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/08/15/afghanistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide car bombing exploded outside the NATO headquarters in Afghanistan early Saturday, killing seven people and injuring 91 just five days before the country holds presidential elections, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Translated excerpts from the Taliban code of conduct</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/30/taliban.code.excerpt/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/30/taliban.code.excerpt/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Chapter 1: Security  Any Muslim can invite anyone working for the slave government in Kabul to quit their job and remove themselves from the corrupt administration.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Street kids in Afghanistan: A CNN reporter revisits child beggars</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/06/afghanistan.beggar.children/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/06/afghanistan.beggar.children/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>As a journalist, as a human being, the stories of the people around you stick with you. Whether it is in passing memory or in daily wonderment, they are in your mind and many in your heart, engrained forever.</description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 02:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Taliban poised at the gates of Kabul</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/afghanistan.kabul.security/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/afghanistan.kabul.security/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A top Taliban commander has told CNN his insurgents are poised and ready to attack Kabul and could strike virtually anywhere in the city.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Afghan car bomb kills 14 children</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/afghan.carbomb/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/afghan.carbomb/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide car bomb blast near a voter registration site killed 16 people, 14 of them children, and wounded 58 in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday morning, according to a senior police official and the U.S. military.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Taliban 'noose' around Kabul</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/08/afghan.taliban/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/08/afghan.taliban/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Taliban insurgency is widening its presence in Afghanistan and "closing a noose around Kabul," an international think tank report says.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Suicide cyclist kills 2 in Afghan capital</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/30/afghanistan.attacks/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/30/afghanistan.attacks/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide bomber on a bicycle detonated explosives Sunday near a car from the German Embassy in Kabul, a local police official said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Four killed in blast near Afghan U.S. Embassy</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/27/afghan.embassy.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/27/afghan.embassy.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide car bomb blast, apparently targeting a military convoy, killed four people and wounded 15 others in Kabul Thursday morning, officials said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Afghan gunmen kidnap French aid worker</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/03/afghanistan.aid.worker/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/03/afghanistan.aid.worker/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Gunmen kidnapped a French aid worker in Kabul Monday and shot dead an Afghan intelligence official who tried to rescue him, police said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Gunmen Kidnap French National in Kabul
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1855877,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1855877,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Security officials in Afghanistan say gunmen have kidnapped a French aid worker in Kabul.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Taliban Militants Storm Afghan Ministry</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1854925,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1854925,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Taliban militants stormed a government building in the center of the Afghan capital and one of them blew himself up inside, killing five people</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Security guard blamed for Kabul shootings</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/26/afghanistan.shooting.guard/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/26/afghanistan.shooting.guard/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Briton and a South African, killed in Kabul Saturday, were shot by a security guard who then took his own life, an Afghan Interior Ministry official said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two foreign nationals, one Afghan killed in Kabul shooting</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/25/afghanistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/25/afghanistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Afghan authorities have arrested 13 people, including employees of DHL courier service, after a shooting killed two foreign nationals and a security guard in Kabul Saturday, an Interior Ministry official said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Do we care more about animals than humans?</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/22/backstory.animals/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/22/backstory.animals/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Over the years, I've found myself in some dangerous places, from Baghdad to Kabul, Ramallah to Rwanda.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>In Afghanistan, the Dangers of an Ordinary Day</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1852060,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1852060,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A routine drive reminds TIME's correspondent that Kabul is surrounded by an encroaching tide of Taliban violence and criminality
</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blast wounds Kabul police official</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/24/afghanistan.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/24/afghanistan.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An explosion in Kabul on Wednesday wounded a senior police official and killed two of his bodyguards, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>7,000 Police Flood Kabul for Holiday</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1833491,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1833491,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The Afghan police ordered 7,000 officers onto the streets of Kabul to guard against attacks on senior leaders during Independence Day celebrations Monday</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>7,000 extra police deployed in, around Afghan capital</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/17/afghanistan.independence.security/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/17/afghanistan.independence.security/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Security was tightened in and around Kabul on Sunday with 7,000 additional police officers deployed ahead of Monday's 89th observance of Afghanistan's independence from Great Britain.</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>25 Afghan Insurgents Killed, Wounded</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1825384,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1825384,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops clashed with and called in airstrikes on Taliban militants in western Afghanistan, killing and wounding more than 25 insurgents</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Save Afghanistan</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1823753,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1823753,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Violence has dipped in Iraq, but surges in Afghanistan. A veteran diplomat explains why more troops won't help</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kabul car blast kills 41, including Indian envoys</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/07/afghanistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/07/afghanistan.explosion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A car bomb went off on a crowded street Monday near the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan, killing at least 41 people and wounding more than 100, officials said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Afghan Bombing Fuels Regional Furor</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820716,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820716,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Nobody's saying so, but many will quietly point the finger at Pakistan over a deadly attack on India's Kabul embassy
</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Remote-controlled bomb kills 1, injures 5 in Afghanistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/01/afghanistan.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/01/afghanistan.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A remote-controlled bomb targeting a mini-bus carrying Afghan army personnel went off in Kabul Sunday morning, killing a woman and wounding five others, police said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Suicide blast kills six in Kabul</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/13/afghanistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/13/afghanistan.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide bomber rammed his sedan into a convoy carrying U.S. troops near the Kabul airport Thursday, killing at least six civilians and wounding 18 others, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Afghan suicide blasts claim 7 lives</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/31/afghan.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/31/afghan.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Suicide bombers killed seven people, including a leading provincial official, in two attacks in and near mosques in Afghanistan on Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Losing Kabul: A Bombing's Legacy</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1703984,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1703984,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>For Westerners living in the Afghan capital, the attack on a prized social sanctuary may mark the end of their access to streets and the people they're here to help
</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>4 arrested over Kabul hotel attack</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/15/afghan.hotel.bomb/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/15/afghan.hotel.bomb/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Security forces have detained four people in the attack on a luxury hotel in the Afghan capital, authorities said Tuesday. </description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Militants hit Kabul luxury hotel</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/14/afghan.hotel.bomb/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/14/afghan.hotel.bomb/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At least five people and a suicide bomber were killed in a Monday attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul, while six others were wounded, officials said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Detainees finally talk to families</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/14/afghanistan.detainees/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/14/afghanistan.detainees/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Detainees at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan are talking to relatives for the first time in years after the Red Cross set up a system for video-conference calls, the agency said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Suicide bomber kills 13</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/04/afghanistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/04/afghanistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide car bomber rammed a minibus filled with Afghan National Army soldiers south of Kabul Wednesday, killing 13 people, including six soldiers, said military spokesman Gen. Mohammed Zahir Azimi.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A Decade of De-mining</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1690545,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1690545,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Ten years after a global pact to outlaw land mines, Afghanistan has seen genuine progress</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Taliban Bombings Rock Kabul</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1687988,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1687988,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Three attacks in four days highlight the deteriorating security situation in the Afghan capital as ordinary Afghans find themselves increasingly in the crosshairs</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bomber targets Kabul airport</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/31/afghan.airport/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/31/afghan.airport/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide bomber plowed into three vehicles at Kabul International Airport's military gate, killing one Afghan soldier and wounding four other people on Friday, Afghan's Interior Ministry told CNN.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Canadian soldier dies of gunshot wounds in Afghanistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/08/29/canada.afghan.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/08/29/canada.afghan.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Canadian soldier based in the Afghan capital, Kabul, died of a gunshot wound Wednesday after he was found injured in his room, the defense ministry said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>German hostage freed in Afghanistan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/19/afghanistan.hostage.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/19/afghanistan.hostage.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Afghan police freed a female German hostage from a Kabul neighborhood and arrested a group of kidnappers early Monday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Kidnappers of Kabul</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1654149,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1654149,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A German woman is the latest victim of a trend that is targeting not only foreigners but locals as well</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>German aid worker seized in Kabul</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/18/afghanistan.hostages.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/18/afghanistan.hostages.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Armed assailants abducted a German woman from a restaurant in Kabul on Saturday, officials said, as a Taliban spokesman said negotiations over 19 South Korean hostages held since July have failed.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Troops strike in Afghan mountains</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/15/afghanistan.offensive/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/15/afghanistan.offensive/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hundreds of U.S. and Afghan soldiers have embarked on a major operation against militants in the eastern Afghan region of Tora Bora, near the border with Pakistan, officials have told CNN.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Awaiting Takeoff in Afghanistan</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1642875,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1642875,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>With the country unraveling Kabul's newly renovated airport may simply serve as a gateway for the Western exodus</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Terror Target: The Afghan Police</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1634031,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1634031,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In a chilling parallel to the violence that has now engulfed Iraq, a suicide bomber attacks the police force in Kabul</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bomber kills 35 Afghan police</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/06/17/afghan.violence/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/06/17/afghan.violence/index.html</guid><description>A suicide bomber walked on to a bus carrying officers to a police academy and detonated himself in Kabul, killing at least 35 police officers, police say.</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Afghan Woman Broadcaster Murdered</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1629786,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1629786,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Three gunmen fatally shot a female owner of a radio station in northern Afghanistan early Wednesday, less than a week after another female reporter was gunned down in her house</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bomb targets U.S. Embassy convoy in Kabul</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/afghan.blast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/afghan.blast/index.html</guid><description>A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. Embassy convoy in Kabul on Monday morning on a busy highway injuring several people, an embassy spokesman told CNN.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kabul explosion kills at least 13, injures 15</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/03/13/kabul.blast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/03/13/kabul.blast/index.html</guid><description>A powerful explosion ripped through the Old City section of Kabul Wednesday morning, killing at least 13 people and injuring 15 others, Kabul's chief of police said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kabul crash kills Italian soldier </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/21/afghanistan/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/21/afghanistan/index.html</guid><description>An Italian soldier serving with NATO's International Security Assistance Forces died late Wednesday when his armored vehicle overturned on a steep incline outside of Kabul, an ISAF statement said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>In Afghanistan, secure feeling doesn't last long</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/08/hackel.kabul/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/08/hackel.kabul/index.html</guid><description>My first day in Afghanistan's capital began with a warning.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kabul comes 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explosion at an ammunition dump in a northern Afghan village has killed 28 people and wounded 70, the international peacekeeping force said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2005 12:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. sends team to Afghan crash</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/08/afghan.plane/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/08/afghan.plane/index.html</guid><description>The U.S.'s National Transportation Safety Board says it has sent a team to Afghanistan to aid the investigation of last week's plane crash southwest of Kabul.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Human remains at Afghan crash site</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/07/afghan.plane/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/07/afghan.plane/index.html</guid><description>A search and rescue team has arrived at the wreckage of an Afghan passenger jet that crashed last week in mountainous terrain southwest of Kabul, spending a few hours on the mountain, acording to a NATO spokeswoman.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2005 06:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Missing Afghan jetliner crashed outside Kabul</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/05/afghan.plane/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/05/afghan.plane/index.html</guid><description>Rescue teams have located the wreckage of an Afghan passenger jet that crashed two days ago with 104 people aboard, but severe weather and mountainous terrain have prevented rescuers from reaching the site.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2005 06:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Search for Afghan jet called off</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/04/afghan.plane/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/04/afghan.plane/index.html</guid><description>Bad weather forced rescuers to call off their search for a missing Afghan passenger jet with 104 people aboard that went missing near Kabul during a snow storm a day earlier.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:37:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Kidnapped U.N. hostages freed</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/11/23/afghan.hostages/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/11/23/afghan.hostages/index.html</guid><description>Three U.N. workers abducted in Kabul nearly a month ago were freed on Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the NATO-led peacekeeping force said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2004 06:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Two dead after Kabul attack</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/10/24/afghan.blast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/10/24/afghan.blast/index.html</guid><description>An American woman and a Afghan girl have died of wounds sustained in a suicide grenade attack in the center of of Kabul that also injured three international peacekeepers.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kabul suicide attack: 7 injured</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/10/23/afghan.blast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/10/23/afghan.blast/index.html</guid><description>A suicide grenade attack in the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul Saturday injured seven people, including three international peacekeepers.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Afghan blast kills 2 U.S. soldiers</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/10/16/afghan.blast/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/10/16/afghan.blast/index.html</guid><description>Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Afghanistan when an explosion rocked their convoy, a U.S. military spokesman said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blast in Kabul on eve of polls </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/10/08/afghanistan.rockets/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/10/08/afghanistan.rockets/index.html</guid><description>A rocket has exploded near the U.S. military compound in Kabul one day before Afghans vote to elect their president for the first time.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2004 07:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Americans guilty of Afghan torture</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/15/afghan.prison/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/15/afghan.prison/index.html</guid><description>An Afghan court has found three Americans guilty of torturing Afghans in a private jail, a case that comes on the heels of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kabul blast on U.S. office kills 9</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/29/afghan.explosion/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/29/afghan.explosion/index.html</guid><description>An explosion that destroyed a building in downtown Kabul killed 9 people -- at least three of them Americans -- and wounded at least seven others, witnesses said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2004 14:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Americans held over 'fake prison'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/07/09/afghan.prison/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/07/09/afghan.prison/index.html</guid><description>Afghan authorities have arrested three American citizens accused of running a fake prison in Kabul, U.S. State Department and Afghan officials say.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Norwegian soldier killed in 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soldier</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/01/28/afghan.deaths/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/01/28/afghan.deaths/index.html</guid><description>An explosion near a British military base in the Afghan capital of Kabul has killed a British soldier and wounded four others, the British Ministry of Defense has confirmed.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bomber kills Canadian in Kabul</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/01/27/afghan.deaths/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/01/27/afghan.deaths/index.html</guid><description>A suicide bombing in Kabul has killed one Canadian soldier and wounded three others, a spokesman for the NATO-led security force said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Women After War</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/02/17/337300/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/02/17/337300/index.htm</guid><description>KABUL, AFGHANISTAN--As the U.S. lays the groundwork for war with Iraq, Afghanistan is still struggling with the difficult process that follows such a conflict: nation building. 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