In Afghanistan, rebels in vehicles swept into Musa Qala and opened fire on the government office with assault rifles and heavy machine-guns. Four of the 30 soldiers defending the compound were killed and eight others wounded. One rebel was also killed and four were captured.
Interim Afghan president Hamid Karzai enacted an election law that requires both presidential and parliamentary elections to be held through free, general, secret and direct voting. To win the race, a presidential candidate needs at least 50 percent of the vote. A presidential candidate is required to gather 10,000 voters backing the bid.
Three children were killed by a recently planted roadside bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Pakistani and U.S. military officials met to discuss mechanism to stop recent military incursions from Afghanistan by U.S. forces hunting suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives in the border region.
U.S. planes helped Afghan National Army forces attack suspected Taliban forces in the mountains of the Arghistan district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, killing some 20 suspected insurgents at a recently discovered camp. Three of his Afghan soldiers were injured.
In Kabul, Afghanistan, a rocket-propelled grenade killed a NorwegianISAF peacekeeper and injured another as a four-vehicle convoy was driving back from patrol.
The U.S. military named Brig. Gen. Charles Jacoby, deputy operational commander at the Bagram Air Base, to carry out a review of U.S. secretive Afghan. Jacoby was to carry out a top-to-bottom review and deliver a report by mid-June.
In Tani village, Khost province, Afghanistan, three civilians were killed and two wounded in a pre_dawn attack by U.S. helicopter gunships. U.S. forces claimed they had been fired on; villagers at the scene said no U.S. patrol had been fired on.
In Doha, Qatar, an international two-day forum opened to discuss financial, technical and personnel-related aid to Afghan police. Representatives of governmental organizations from over 20 countries were in attendance.
Near Girishk in Helmand province, Afghanistan, rebels attacked a U.S.-led coalition combat patrol, killing one U.S. soldier (Chief Warrant Officer Bruce E. Price) and wounding two others. Two men were detained; they were allegedly brothers of Mullah Abdul Ghafoor.
In Helmand province, Afghanistan, U.S. forces defused a bomb at a bridge.
In the Panjwayi district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, local police seized 80 AK-47s smuggled in an oil transport truck. Two of the arrested men were alleged to be brothers of Mullah Shirien.
In Kabul, a 17-year-old Afghan man was killed and another injured when their motorcycle with three people aboard struck a trailer towed by a Canadian army truck. The motorcycle attempted to pass a convoy of Canadian military vehicles headed for the airport.
U.S. troops killed five suspected Taliban rebels and arrested five more during a clash the Paj Kotal mountain pass region of Kandahar province, Afghanistan.
Interim Afghan president Hamid Karzai visited Herat to negotiated with Ismail Khan regarding disarmament. Karzai traveled via a U.S. C-130 military transport plane and was guarded by U.S. bodyguards.
Two foreigners (about 30 years old and wearing Afghan clothes) were found dead in a park in west Afghanistan. One had been beaten with bricks or stones; the other had been strangled. One of the foreigners was carrying a Swisspassport.
In Moscow, Russia, Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah met with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian National Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov to discuss key issues, including the settlement of Afghanistan's Soviet-era debt and the provision of regional security.
Sixty prisoners as a first wave of suspected Taliban prisoners were moved from Sheberghan prison to the Pul-e-Charkhi jail outside Kabul, Afghanistan. Many of them were suffering from tuberculosis. About 900 prisoners staged a riot in the prison a week earlier, protesting their conditions. They were being held without scheduled trials.
Sixty members of the Hawaii Army National Guard's 193rd Aviation left for Afghanistan to replace U.S. soldiers from their unit who were in Kandahar since August, 2003.
Ten Afghan National Army soldiers were found dead in southern Afghanistan after being abducted in two rebel raids. Five soldiers were found dead on a mountainside in Niamashien district of Kandahar province; five soldiers were found dead in the Sur Ghogan area.
About 60 U.S. troops in Afghanistan strayed into Pakistan and searched the village of Alwara Mandi in a night time operation. The incursion was accidental and lasted only 25 minutes.
May 5: President Bush gives interviews to two Arab-language networks, saying that he and the American people were appalled by the revelations.
May 11: Major General Taguba tells Congress the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners was a result of faulty leadership, a "lack of discipline, no training whatsoever and no supervision" of the troops.
May 12: Sgt. Javal Davis, 26, of Maryland and Staff Sgt. Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick II of Buckingham, Va., are ordered to stand trial in the Abu Ghraib scandal.
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