If you insulate your home, why not insulate your money too?Your carbon footprint comprises emissions from household energy use, transport, food, shopping and waste. But is that all?A new social media campaign called The Vital Few argues there's something we've overlooked: ''Are you accidentally inve...
DENVER: There may be different opinions about the causes of climate change, but experts say there is no denying its existence - and the effects are nothing to sneeze at.Researchers say global warming is leading to larger plants, earlier and more robust pollination and, as a result, worsening allerg...
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan: There’s no crackle of static or catchy radio jingle to be heard. Squeezed into a cramped plywood room adorned with Afghan flags and stacked with electronic equipment, the two women could be speaking among themselves. But they are speaking to a much ...
KABUL: The man who once owned the only Afghan restaurant in Omaha is known for a different distinction here: He’s one of the longest-serving Americans at NATO’s military headquarters and the only person to have advised the last seven U.S. commanders. Gen. John R. Allen called Abdullah Amini “my me...
The sale and exchange of women as goods is rampant in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province with as many as two women traded per day, according to the findings of a sociology researcher. In a report obtained by TOLOnews, researcher Assadullah Ahmadi stated that he found some women had been trad...
Kabul: As the razor wire, the blast walls and the security checks around Kabul’s presidential palace clearly suggest, Afghans employed by the government have a lot to be concerned just by walking to the office. But for Afghan women employees there is an additional hazard: the security officers there...
In his first television interview since taking control of the international force in Afghanistan, Gen. Joseph Dunford told ABC News' Martha Raddatz that while he expects Afghanistan's insurgency to continue beyond the U.S. drawdown next year, he feels hopeful about the direction of the country. "I...
Stephen Biddle is a professor at George Washington University and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Both were in Afghanistan this month on a trip sponsored by the U.S. and NATO military commands. For most...
KABUL: The United Nations will review new allegations by international monitors of fraud at the Afghanistan office of the world body's refugee agency, the top U.S. official in Kabul said on Wednesday. The Monitoring and Evaluation Committee, an anticorruption group of Afghan and international offi...
KABUL: When villagers rose up against Taliban rule in Afghanistan's Andar district last year, U.S. military commanders billed the surprise rebellion as a potential game-changer akin to the Sunni tribal awakening that helped the U.S. leave Iraq. Now, as the spring fighting season begins, it is incr...
The CIA-trained tracker gave militants' GPS coordinates to Americans. Even though his sister was killed in a drone strike, he'd like to work for the U.S. again. KAMA, Afghanistan: For more than two years, he was part of a secret, CIA-trained advance team for America's shadow war in Afghanistan, hel...
A United Nations envoy Wednesday said that the top priority ahead of Afghanistan's presidential election is to found an impartial, trustworthy, and independent structure for the electoral complaints. Special Representative of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan Jan Kubis made the statement at...
KABUL: Accepting a challenge from the captain of the Afghan women’s soccer team, Secretary of State John F. Kerry playfully hit a header Tuesday while hearing the success stories of a handful of female Afghan entrepreneurs. “Hey!” Kerry called when he hit his shot and directed the ball to Zahra Ma...
Optimism Over Peace Pledge Fades as Afghans Accuse Islamabad of Continuing to Press for Cross-Border Influence. KABUL: Afghanistan’s relations with Pakistan are growing increasingly strained, Afghan officials say, even as President Hamid Karzai has patched up, for now, his fraying ties with the U.S...
Yesterday, Afghan and Coalition forces captured a commander from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan during yet another operation in the Kunduz district of Kunduz province. The International Security Assistance Force reported that the captured leader "is alleged to lead a cell of insurgent fighters r...
Rights activists say children are imprisoned for “moral crimes” while the perpetrators escape prosecution. Afghanistan:The 15-year-old refused to give his name, his eyes cast down as he sat in an empty room in the children‘s correction center in Kabul. Slowly, he began to open up and tell his sto...
CANBERRA : Australia will withdraw most troops from Afghanistan's south at the end of this year and shut down a major base for NATO-led forces, handing security to Afghan soldiers and police, Defense Minister Stephen Smith said on Tuesday. Western and Afghan commanders, Smith said, had agreed that...
KABUL: After months of bargaining in Kabul and Washington D.C., the U.S. military finally handed over the control of Bagram prison to Afghan administration on Monday, putting an end to a source of tension between the allies in the war on terror. According to an Afghan observer, the transfer of the...
Huge numbers of weapons and vehicles and tense relations with nearby countries make task more daunting than Iraq pullout Bagram airbase - Fighting wars is expensive, but so is winding them down. As the US prepares to ship most of its weapons, vehicles and other equipment home after more than a deca...
More than 200 years after the arrival of steam locomotives changed the world of transport forever, the "iron horse" has finally made it to Afghanistan. Afghanistan is in the early stages of constructing a cross-country rail network intended to spur economic development and boost trade. The idea ...
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Which Is More Corrupt: Afghanistan or America?
Karzai cash payments highlight a growing friction as Afghans blame NAT...
Coalition Plays Down Afghan Reports of Major Battle in Helmand
Kabul, Afghanistan: The Taliban attacked Afghan police posts in a vio...
Taliban Raid Tests Coalition's Afghan Gains
KABUL: A large number of Taliban insurgents, aided by foreign fighters...
Women rights at stake in Afghanistan
KABUL: Some 200 students of Kabul University came to streets on Wedne...
