While the Gaza conflict of 2008 will be remembered for resistance, defiance and victory, the current conflict will be remembered for hypocrisy. This is not to take away from the amazing resilience and patience demonstrated by the Palestinians on the ground who were exemplary in their courage and who...
The next time you stroll through downtown Kabul, you might be able to buy batteries from a RadioShack (RSH) outlet, the result of a new effort by the U.S. to shore up Afghanistan’s economy: selling American franchises to Afghan entrepreneurs. The U.S. has set a 2014 deadline for troops to withdraw...
NEW YORK: The U.S. military has detained more than 200 Afghan teenagers who were captured in the war for about a year at a time at a military prison next to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations. The U.S. State Department characterized the detainees held sin...
KABUL, Afghanistan: The man who tried to kill Afghanistan’s intelligence chief this week by smuggling a bomb into a guesthouse in Kabul concealed the device “around his groin,” according to a statement released Friday by the government. The statement suggested that could have been one reason the bom...
The latest suicide-bomb attack on an Afghan official was far from the first time the insurgents used the same trick. Why does it keep working? Sami Yousafzai reports. There’s something deeply disturbing about the way Taliban suicide bombers keep employing the same ruse to get within killing distanc...
Indonesia's Shi'ite minority is under heavy attack. Men, women, and children have been assaulted, schools damaged, and villages burned to the ground. Many have been killed. It is becoming increasingly clear that Saudi Arabia's intolerant brand of Wahabi Sunni Islam - propagated far and wide by Saudi...
- Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were "exterminated" by economic sanctions and/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says.The slaughter fits the classic definition of Genocide Convention ...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Many Afghans see dark clouds of uncertainty looming over the calendar as the 2014 deadline approaches for most foreign troops to withdraw, and worry that after that the international community will abandon them. Over the last decade, billions of aid dollars have flowed into Afg...
Aid group Swedish Committee for Afghanistan says NATO and Afghan troops damaged its building and used it as jail Kabul: NATO forces stormed into a clinic in central Afghanistan, damaging doors, windows and medical equipment, before using it as a jail and military command center, in violation of the...
The United States has abandoned our most effective and loyal friends in Afghanistan by deliberately failing to implement the Afghan Allies Protection Act. In 2011, I served as the chief adviser on rule of law for the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul (ISAF). I witnessed the heroism an...
Anisa, a volunteer Afghan health worker, had just left her home and was on her way to work when two armed men on motorcycles zipped past her. The gunmen shot the 20-year-old student, who worked as a village polio-vaccination worker, at least six times in the abdomen. Anisa was whisked to a local h...
KABUL, Afghanistan: When it comes to YouTube, the government of Afghanistan intends to keep its hand on the switch for now. More than two months after the Afghan government banned YouTube to prevent the spread of an anti-Islamic video, it has yet to restore access to the popular video Web site. Wh...
In Afghanistan, one of the most dangerous places in the world, Boone Smith is on a mission. Not for the military, but for wildlife organizations that want to track down the most elusive big cat on the planet: The snow leopard of Afghanistan. “This was my Holy Grail for animals I wanted to catch,...
BRUSSELS: The Obama administration pressed its European allies on Wednesday to follow through on their pledges to Afghanistan's security after most international troops withdraw in 2014, fearful of being left with the check in an era of austerity budgets and defense cutbacks. Donors pledged $4.1 b...
Afghanistan: For ex-Taliban, it's peace or death Former members of the Taliban are desperate for peace. Their lives may depend on it. KABUL, Afghanistan: When he was a Taliban member, Mawlawi Pir Mohammed Rohani feared America and its allies. For years, he was scared even to visit his local mosqu...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai blamed the U.S. and NATO forces on Thursday for some of the violence and the brunt of corruption that is rampant in his war-torn country. Karzai bluntly criticized allied tactics, declaring that terrorists won't be beaten "by attacking Afghan villages and Afghan homes."...
WANA, Pakistan : Pakistan's Taliban, one of the world's most feared militant groups, are preparing for a leadership change that could mean less violence against the state but more attacks against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, Pakistani military sources said. Hakimullah Mehsud, a ruthless commande...
BRUSSELS: More than 300 Afghan soldiers and policemen are dying each month as the Afghan national security forces assume increasing responsibility for the war, military officials said Monday. Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said deaths have risen in the past year as the...
Hamid Karzai has demanded British forces hand over Afghan prisoners "with no delay" after London halted transfers amid fears detainees were being tortured. Kabul: The Afghan president ordered his security council to investigate immediately if Britain was holding prisoners on Afghan soil and insiste...
KABUL: The blood-soaked body of 18-year-old Nasrin was surrounded by her mother and about a dozen of her relatives and neighbors in their house in Kunduz, some 250 kilometers north of Kabul. All they could do was cry because they could not expect justice from the violent death of the young woman. ...
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Much of $1bn Afghanistan tax bill is bogus, says US
American watchdog claims Afghan government is charging US contractors ...
Afghanistan Exit: Kabul and Berlin Estranged as Withdrawal Looms
With the security situation deteriorating in Afghanistan, Chancellor ...
Should India Provide Direct Military Aid to Afghanistan?
Over the past decade, India has invested heavily in Afghanistan’s rec...
What have we learned about stabilization in Afghanistan? Not much.
As of this year, Afghanistan has experienced ten years of stabilizatio...
