Jason Straziuso

Freed Reporter Describes Kidnap Ordeal

Abducted Canadian reporter describes 4-week ordeal in Afghan cave, says she is 'fine' By JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press Writer KABUL, Afghanistan November 9, 2008 (AP) This undated file photo shows journalist Mellissa Fung, a...

Abducted Canadian reporter describes 4-week ordeal

Mellissa Fung says captors kept her blindfolded for four weeks in an underground cave so low the Canadian journalist could barely stand. Chains bound her hands and feet during her last week as a prisoner.

Theft of UN vehicle in Kabul has raised security worries in Kabul

KABUL, Afghanistan - Authorities are searching for a United Nations vehicle stolen from the Kabul airport amid concerns militants could use the SUV as a car bomb or to ferry attackers close to sensiti...

US Official: Taliban Sought Wedding Party Deaths

US official: Tailban hoped to cause deaths at wedding party, held villagers By JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press Writer KABUL, Afghanistan November 7, 2008 (AP) Afghan men work on a house destroyed in alleged airstrikes in Shah...

Afghan agent dies trying to thwart aid-worker abduction

By Jason Straziuso The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — Gunmen in a small red car cut off a van carrying French aid workers Monday, kidnapping one and fatally shooting an Afghan who tried to thwart the abduction by...

US says it killed 19 militants in series of operations in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan - A series of operations by U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan targeted an al-Qaida leader and a bomb-making cell, killing 19 militants. Afghan police say they have investigated ...

US forces in Afghanistan target al-Qaida leader and bomb-making cell, killing 19 militants

By JASON STRAZIUSO | Associated Press Writer KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) _ A series of operations by U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan targeted an al-Qaida leader and a bomb-making cell, killing 19 militants, the coalition said...

Afghan Farmers Shift To Mint, Melons

U.S. sponsored agriculture fairs in Afghanistan are drawing thousands of Afghan citizens and international buyers. The U.S. and Afghan governments are eager to encourage farmers to grow legal crops as opposed to opium.

Mint oil, melons: Afghan farm fairs spur business (AP)

By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer Jason Straziuso, Associated Press Writer – 5 mins ago MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan – Nadir Bahktar's stall at a northern Afghanistan agriculture fair had the faint smell of Christmas....

Gunfire brings down US helicopter in Afghanistan

'Insurgents' exchanged fire with U.S. troops aboard a Black Hawk helicopter in central Afghanistan on Monday before the aircraft was hit and forced to land. Lt. Cmdr. Walter Matthews, a U.S. military spokesman, said there were...

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