Afghanistan
Missing US soldier's body found in Afghan riverELENA BECATOROS AP 11/12/2009 | UN relocating up to 600 staff from Afghan danger zones The Earth Times 11/06/2009 |
 KABUL — Military divers have found the body of a U.S. paratrooper who disappeared last week along with another soldier as the two tried to retrieve airdropped supplies from a river in western Afghanistan, NATO said Wednesday. |  The United Nations began to relocate up to 600 of its foreign personnel in Afghanistan from danger zones in the country in the face of mounting Taliban attacks, officials said Thursday. |
Afghanistan's Karzai Intends to Create Unity GovernmentAyaz Gul VOA News 11/04/2009 | Hamid Karzai wins Afghan presidential election as run-off cancelled CBC News 11/02/2009 |
 Afghanistan's re-elected President Hamid Karzai says he intends to set up a government with maximum representation from across the country and promised to introduce reforms aimed at eradicating corruption as well as strengthening Afghan security forces. He spoke in Kabul a day after the country's election officials declared him winner of the controversial August 20 election. |  Afghan President Hamid Karzai was declared the victor of the war-torn country's presidential election as the election commission cancelled a run-off vote after his opponent withdrew. |
Abdullah widely expected to boycott Afghan run-off electionPamela Constable The Washington Post 10/31/2009 | Six arrested over U.N. Afghan guest house attack Reuters 10/31/2009 |
 KABUL -- A presidential run-off election planned for Nov. 7 was thrown into turmoil Saturday, with the main challenger to President Hamid Karzai, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, widely expected to pull out of the race. |  KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security officials said on Saturday they had arrested six militants linked to the Taliban and al Qaeda over an attack on a Kabul guest-house in which five foreign U.N. staff were killed. |
Ban Ki-moon Seeks Protection, Funds After UN Workers Killed in KabulBill Varner and Paul Tighe Bloomberg.com 10/30/2009 | Obama considering scaled-down Afghan war planANNE GEARAN and MATTHEW LEE AP 10/29/2009 |
 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed for more protection from U.S. and allied forces for UN personnel after an attack by the Taliban killed five workers at a guesthouse in the capital, Kabul. |  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is considering a scaled-down version of the war plan advanced by his top Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. officials say. |
UN 'undeterred' by Kabul attack Al Jazeera 10/29/2009 | Brother of Afghan President Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.DEXTER FILKINS, MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN The New York Times 10/29/2009 |
 A deadly attack on a guest house used by United Nations staff in Kabul will not stop the UN from carrying out its mission in Afghanistan, the UN secretary general has said. |  KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials. |
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