Reuters via ABC News: Thousands of people, some shouting "Death to America" and carrying shrouded bodies, protested in the east of Afghanistan on Sunday after up to six people were killed during a raid by US-led coalition forces.      Full news...

Los Angeles Times: If there's one thing Abdul Rasul Sayyaf knows, it's how to guard an exposed flank.As one of many warlords battling for control of Kabul in the early 1990s, Sayyaf ordered his fighters to protect their positions and press for advantage — which they did by shelling civilian neighborhoods and slaughtering members of Afghanistan's oppressed ethnic Hazara minority, human rights groups say.      Full news...

Global Research: The occupation forces in Afghanistan are supporting the drug trade, which brings between 120 and 194 billion dollars of revenues to organized crime, intelligence agencies and Western financial institutions.      Full news...

The Associated Press: Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government, tarnished by corruption and unable to control large swaths of its own territory, is rapidly losing the support of ordinary Afghans, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke said Saturday.      Full news...

Press TV: A UN official has called for outside investment in women's health in Afghanistan to curb high rates of maternal deaths in the war-ravaged country.      Full news...

OhmyNews: In an apparent move to appease former strongmen and Jihadi commanders, the Afghan government has decided to award them special medals on April 28, the day when mujahideen or holy warriors overthrew the Russian-backed regime in Afghanistan in 1992.      Full news...

IRIN News: Local residents in the Sangeen district of the restive southern Afghan province of Helmand said armed Afghan men in military uniforms looted their homes and businesses in early April. There are conflicting reports on whether the men were allied with international forces fighting the Taliban or whether they were an independent militia.      Full news...

Reuters: Afghanistan's Taliban movement has used a 12-year-old boy to execute a man accused of helping U.S. forces hunt down and kill one of its top commanders in December, Al Arabiya television reported on Saturday.      Full news...

Reuters: Afghanistan's attorney-general, accused by critics of regularly breaking the law, has raided Tolo television, one of the country's most popular stations, over a news item, the broadcaster said on Wednesday.      Full news...

The Hindu: An old artillery shell exploded outside a school compound in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing three children and wounding four others, an official said.      Full news...

Associated Press: U.S. forces in Afghanistan recently intercepted Iranian-made mortars and other weaponry in Afghanistan, although it is not clear they were shipped directly from Iran, the military's top general said Tuesday.      Full news...

IRIN News: The United Nations and two prominent human rights organisations have raised grave concerns about the increasing number of civilians affected in armed conflicts in Afghanistan. On Monday, the New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on the dramatic rise in civilian casualties during insurgent attacks in Afghanistan.      Full news...

Pajhwok Afghan News: A man allegedly slaughtered his 14-year-old wife in Mohammad Agha district of the central Logar province last night, police said.      Full news...

BBC News: US marines violated international humanitarian law by using excessive violence in reaction to a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan, a report says.      Full news...

Sunday Times: The bodies of nearly 400 Afghan civilians killed during the communist regime that ended in 1992 have been found in a mass grave in northeastern Afghanistan, officials said.      Full news...

IWPR: President Karzai may have helped save the Prodi government by trading Taliban prisoners for an Italian hostage, but in the process, he has damaged his own credibility at home.      Full news...

The Scotsman: ITALY'S government paid a ransom of £1 million to the Taliban to free an Italian photographer taken hostage in Afghanistan, an aid group has claimed.      Full news...

The Associated Press: Roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan on Sunday left seven NATO soldiers dead, the alliance said, as its forces continued an anti-Taliban offensive in the world's most fertile opium-producing region. It appeared to be the biggest combat loss for foreign troops in Afghanistan since 2005.      Full news...

Pajhwok Afghan News: A mass grave with over 50 bodies was unearthed in the northern province of Badakhshan, officials said on Saturday.      Full news...

FinalCall.com: It is year six of the UN-backed NATO occupation of Afghanistan and Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon admitted in a report to the United Nations Security Council on Mar. 20 that the resistance in Afghanistan appears "emboldened." In 2006, the casualty rates increased on the ground and NATO lost 46 troops.      Full news...

Pajhwok Afghan News: A 20-year-old woman was burnt by her in-laws over family dispute in the eastern province of Kunar.      Full news...

Reuters: The new, white Australian-built Trade Training School of Tirin Kot is spotless, pristine -- and tucked safely away behind blast walls in the middle of a massive military camp in southern Afghanistan.      Full news...

Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN): More than five years after the ousting of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, residents of the southern province of Helmand say their lives have become more insecure.      Full news...

The Hindu: The Taliban on Sunday executed three men accused of spying for NATO and Government forces in southern Afghanistan, a local militant commander and villager said.      Full news...

ABC Radio Australia: A majority of the Afghan people initially welcomed the foreign troops because they saw that as the best way to free themselves from the medievelist rule of the Taliban. But I think over a period of time neither security has been really delivered, nor reconstruction to the extent that was really desirable. And as a result of that, a great majority of the Afghan people have not really profited from the presence of the foreign troops to the extent that they had expected. And as a consequence I think quite a number of Afghans have now turned not only against the Karzai government, but also its international backers.      Full news...

The Associated Press: Afghanistan's national airline could be days from collapse due to corruption, mismanagement and a crippling airplane lease that has drowned the struggling airline in debt.      Full news...

Sunday Telegraph: Islamic militants linked to Osama bin Laden have been offered a safe haven by the Taliban in Afghanistan, bringing them into conflict with British troops patrolling the lawless province of Helmand.      Full news...

The News International: In the markets of Mazar-i-Sharif and the much-turned ground of the nearby ancient city of Balkh where Alexander the Great married and Zoroaster lived, Afghans are eking out a living from the rich treasures of the fabulous Bactrian Empire.      Full news...

BBC News: Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo has returned home to a hero's welcome after two weeks as a captive of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. But the terms of his release, which saw five insurgent leaders freed from Afghan prisons, have been universally criticised.      Full news...

Khaleej Times: Bribery and corruption are pervasive in Afghanistan's current government, according to a survey released Monday that said most Afghans believe their leaders are more corrupt than the Soviet-backed government in the 1980s or the Taliban-run government in the 1990s.      Full news...