Ron Synovitz is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
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Iranian-made weapons have been found in western Afghanistan, and some analysts say Tehran in likely playing a role in sending weapons to Taliban insurgents.
The Palestinian Authority's intelligence chief claims Iran played a "big role" in Hamas's recent seizure of Gaza from Palestinian security forces.
Reports say gunmen in two pickup trucks crossed into western Afghanistan.
June 21, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- A Taliban spokesman says militants are changing their tactics in Afghanistan and will increasingly carry out attacks in Kabul.
NATO officials admit that the growing number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan is costing the alliance support from ordinary Afghans.
June 18, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan says seven children were killed overnight by an air strike against a suspected Al-Qaeda safe house near the border with Pakistan. But the U.S. military has blamed the deaths on Al-Qaeda, saying the militants used the children as human shields and wanted them to die.
June 15, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Insisting that Afghanistan remains the alliance's top-priority mission, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that "concrete measures" must be taken by NATO to reduce civilian casualties.
British troops operating near Kajaki in January 2007 (epa) June 12, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- British and U.S. forces in southern Afghanistan have not yet been able to claim success on their key stated objective despite a major NATO offensive against the Taliban.
June 11, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Hasib is a 12-year-old Afghan boy who spends his days working at a bicycle repair shop in Kabul. He says he considers himself lucky because he is learning a trade that he will have for life. But since he started the job at the age of nine, he has had to quit school. And he does not know how to read or write.
Despite recent fighting in Lebanon, analysts say claims the insurgency in Iraq is exporting fighters and tactics to other countries are exaggerated.
Kyrgyzstan's prime minister has added his name to a growing number of cases of real or suspected poisonings of political figures in former Soviet republics.
Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini's second novel, "A Thousand Splendid Suns," examines the struggles of women in an intensely patriarchical society.
May 17, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- A May 14 cease-fire between Afghan and Pakistani government troops was shattered this morning by the sound of mortars and machine-gun fire.
NATO says the killing of a top Taliban commander is a major setback for the insurgency, though some say there are others ready to take his place.
Afghans protest Iran's mass refugee expulsions in front of Tehran's embassy in Kabul on May 1 (AFP) May 10, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Iran's forcible repatriation of tens of thousands of Afghan refugees has raised suspicions that Tehran is trying to destabilize Afghanistan, and prompted complaints from the Afghan Foreign Ministry.
Tehran has expelled tens of thousands of Afghans in recent weeks, but some claim that even legally registered refugees are being forced to leave.
Afghan civilians are increasingly bearing the brunt of conflict in their country. Now Taliban fighters are wearing Afghan police uniforms and kidnapping civilians at fake checkpoints.
KABUL, April 18, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- More than 100 journalists, supported by some members of the Afghan parliament, protested in Kabul today against a police raid on a private television station that was ordered by Afghanistan's attorney-general.
A new bloc brings together members of the government, opposition parliamentarians, former communists, and anti-communist mujahedin fighters.
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