American University Afghanistan

Her voice quaking with emotion, law student Ghazia recalled the horror of coming face-to-face with a gunman who stormed the American University in Kabul, as her terrified classmates leapt out of second-floor windows to save themselves.

Sixteen people were killed after militants stormed the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, officials said today, in a nearly 10-hour raid that prompted anguished pleas for help from trapped students.

Twelve people, including seven students, three police and two security guards, were killed in an attack by gunmen on the American University in the Afghan capital, Kabul, police said on Thursday.

Explosions and gunfire rang out as terrorists stormed the elite American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday, prompting desperate calls for help from students trapped inside classrooms, in the latest attack in the Afghan capital.

US military advisers are helping Afghan forces as they respond to an attack on the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday, a US defense official said.

At least one student was killed and 14 wounded when gunmen attacked the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday, the head of the city's hospitals, Mohammad Saleem Rasouly, told Reuters.

An American and an Australian were kidnapped at gunpoint in the heart of Kabul, officials said today, the latest in a series of abductions of foreigners in the conflict-torn country.

Motley, 40, a Marquette University Law School graduate, had never before traveled overseas when she enrolled in a Justice Department program to train Afghan lawyers and flew to one of the world's more dangerous places.

A rare, polio-like syndrome that has no known cure has emerged in a small number of children in California, US researchers said on Sunday.

Several hundred Afghan university students clashed with police and set fire to photographs of US President Barack Obama in yet another protest on Tuesday against an American film insulting Islam.

Her voice quaking with emotion, law student Ghazia recalled the horror of coming face-to-face with a gunman who stormed the American University in Kabul, as her terrified classmates leapt out of second-floor windows to save themselves.

Sixteen people were killed after militants stormed the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, officials said today, in a nearly 10-hour raid that prompted anguished pleas for help from trapped students.

Twelve people, including seven students, three police and two security guards, were killed in an attack by gunmen on the American University in the Afghan capital, Kabul, police said on Thursday.

Explosions and gunfire rang out as terrorists stormed the elite American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday, prompting desperate calls for help from students trapped inside classrooms, in the latest attack in the Afghan capital.

US military advisers are helping Afghan forces as they respond to an attack on the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday, a US defense official said.

At least one student was killed and 14 wounded when gunmen attacked the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday, the head of the city's hospitals, Mohammad Saleem Rasouly, told Reuters.

An American and an Australian were kidnapped at gunpoint in the heart of Kabul, officials said today, the latest in a series of abductions of foreigners in the conflict-torn country.

Motley, 40, a Marquette University Law School graduate, had never before traveled overseas when she enrolled in a Justice Department program to train Afghan lawyers and flew to one of the world's more dangerous places.

A rare, polio-like syndrome that has no known cure has emerged in a small number of children in California, US researchers said on Sunday.

Several hundred Afghan university students clashed with police and set fire to photographs of US President Barack Obama in yet another protest on Tuesday against an American film insulting Islam.