Kabul: With a vast, empty desert as a backdrop, the militants recorded the execution of Khan Wali on video. As someone held a camera, the others encircled the condemned man to read out his sentence. “This is not brutality – this is justice,” declared one of the executioners who sported a black turba...
HERAT, Afghanistan: Ghaus worked in Iran for five years but has nothing to show for it. All he has are memories of being jailed, beaten and sent home to Afghanistan. Afghanistan's oil-rich western neighbor has for years been a destination for Afghans seeking work or fleeing war. Afghanistan and Ir...
KABUL: Late last month, Afghan President Hamid Karzai received the blueprints for a new home he hopes to occupy in 2014, vacating his official residence at the Arg — the royal citadel built in 1880 after British troops leveled the historic Bala Hisar Fort. There appears to a blueprint for little els...
Convulsed by war and civil strife for decades, Afghanistan has experienced some of the largest ebbs and flows of migration anywhere in the world. It began with the Soviet invasion in 1979, which sent millions of Afghans fleeing to Iran and Pakistan. When the Taliban were driven from power in 2001,...
Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan's foreign minister, has presented a draft proposal of a partnership agreement to the Afghans Pakistan is "walking the talk" on peace in Afghanistan, the country's foreign minister claimed on Thursday. Hina Rabbani Khar has long said that Pakistan will do whatever it ta...
Officials say local men claimed rights over land because they knew it was prime real estate. Afghanistan: Afghan officials in Logar province, 60 kilometers south of the Afghan capital Kabul, say they have evidence that the purported owners of a piece of land currently used by NATO forces have no le...
KABUL: A year ago, Shafiullah Nooristani, a religious scholar from eastern Afghanistan’s Nuristan province, was shivering in a rudimentary, snow-covered cell after a month in Taliban captivity, wondering if each day would be his last. Today, his rural district is still under Taliban control, but a...
About 4,000 cases of domestic violence have been reported in Afghanistan in the last seven months, chairperson of Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission Dr Sima Samar has said. "In the last seven months, 4,000 cases of domestic violence were reported in Afghanistan," Samar said during an award f...
JALALABAD, Afghanistan: It is doubly miraculous that the young woman named Gul Meena is alive. After she was struck by an ax 15 times, slashing her head and face so deeply that it exposed her brain, she held on long enough to reach medical care and then, despite the limitations of what the doctors c...
Afghanistan first established a national women's soccer team just five years ago, and while they aren't yet World Cup material, they are making strides. Last week, they got a little help from former U.S. Olympic soccer player Lorrie Fair, who staged a clinic in Kabul that was set up by the State D...
Islamic clerics on Afghanistan's Ulema Council are the country's religious authorities, but their opinions on questions of Islamic law are treated as guideposts rather than legally binding decrees. The Ulema Council wants to change that. Clerics have asked President Hamid Karzai to establish a n...
Kabul, Afghanistan: The number of people forced to flee their homes in Afghanistan is increasing and the conditions for the displaced are falling well below international standards, a new study by the Norwegian Refugee Council found. In 2012 alone, spreading conflict in Afghanistan has forced more...
Massoud Hassani was a young boy living on the northern edge of Kabul during the final days of Soviet occupation when he first built sphere-shaped toys from cheap materials. As he and his brother watched the wind blow the puzzle-like constructions along the ground, the toys ultimately would be carr...
DOHA, Qatar : At the United Nations climate change talks in Doha, India is taking an active role in asking developed nations to commit to ambitious carbon dioxide emission cuts and pledge money to combat the global challenge.Delegates from 194 countries are attending a two-week-long annual conferenc...
Doha: New estimates have shown that when coastal ecosystems suffer degradation or are converted for aquaculture, upstream dams, dredging or urban development, up to one billion metric tons of carbon is emitted into the atmosphere every year - with over half of that coming from mangrove destruction a...
MOSCOW: Americans may have seen the downside of climate change when Hurricane Sandy bashed into New Jersey and New York City in October. Some scientists say melting Arctic ice helped to create the largest Atlantic hurricane on record. Russians and Chinese, however, see an upside to ice melting in t...
Doha: Humans have resorted to 'nomadic' lifestyles as they try to weather out the climate change storm. Only in this case the nomadic lifestyle is not only on finding greener pasture for subsistence farming, but also on humans migrating in search of job opportunities so that they can send remittance...
Balochistan cannot and should not be an exclusively Baloch club; different people have lived here since centuries and have as much right as the ethnic Baloch to live in peace here“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by th...
Canada's cleantech innovators must navigate a business culture where potential profits are huge, but so are risks. First in a week-long series. I'm 34 stories above street level in Beijing's central business district. The windows in the Jing Guang Center point northeast, towards a six-lane express...
New research into the world's major river systems has found that too much water is being taken out, and the situation is likely to get worse with climate change.The findings, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, reveal that environmental flows are not being met in the Colorado and Orange-...
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Flying with the Afghan Air Force
It will take nearly five years for the Afghan Air Force to become full...
Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent
President Barack Obama trimmed his funding request for the war in Afg...
Dr. Cornel West Calls President Obama a War Criminal
Cornel West: 'They say I'm un-American' The American academic and f...
Afghan Taliban Fighters Turn on Pakistan
“The true face of our enemy has now been revealed,” says one commander...
