Rare Afghan fashion show seeks to empower women
By Amir Shah, Kim Gamel
Afghan models paraded down a candle-lined catwalk Friday as men and women watched from the audience in a restaurant off a muddy street in Kabul.
Afghan models paraded down a candle-lined catwalk Friday as men and women watched from the audience in a restaurant off a muddy street in Kabul.
A vehicle apparently driven by a suicide bomber exploded at the gate of a major U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, with initial reports indicating some Afghans were injured but no one was killed, a NATO command spokesman said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
Police say hundreds of people are burning cars and throwing rocks toward a military camp on the outskirts of the Afghan capital in a protest against an anti-Islam film that has caused uproar across the Muslim world.
Heavily armed Taliban insurgents killed 17 people — most of them civilians — in an attack Friday on a lakeside hotel just north of Kabul, Afghan officials said.
KABUL, Afghanistan—A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle outside a small residential hotel frequented by foreigners just after dawn Tuesday, killing at least three guards in the latest of a rising number of violent attacks in northern Afghanistan. After the attacker detonated his cache of explosives, two other militants stormed inside the hotel in [...]
