KABUL, Afghanistan: The decapitated bodies of a 7-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy found Friday in the country’s south and east continued a spate of grisly beheadings in Afghanistan this week. The body of the boy was discovered in the rural Panjwai district of Kandahar Province in the south, wh...
As noted by Ahmad Majidyar yesterday, the killing of three Australian troops this week marked the latest in a string of insider, or so-called green-on-blue, attacks by members of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) against Western troops. These attacks have severely eroded NATO’s trust in its...
WASHINGTON: Risking a new breach in relations with Pakistan, the Obama administration is leaning toward designating the Haqqani network, the insurgent group responsible for some of the most spectacular assaults on American bases in Afghanistan in recent years, as a terrorist organization. With a C...
U.S. President Barack Obama has told U.S. soldiers heading to Afghanistan they still faced a "very tough fight" but vowed to end the war there as "responsibly" as in Iraq. Obama was speaking August 31 at Fort Bliss in the southern state of Texas. "You know this. You carry it in your hearts, the ...
Almost daily, Taliban assassins target Afghan government officials and community elders with ambushes or bombings. The United Nations says such killings are up more than 50 percent compared to the same period last year. On Monday, the target was the powerful police chief in southern Afghanistan's ...
A gunman in an Afghan army uniform killed three Australian soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday night, the latest in an alarming string of so-called “green-on-blue” attacks that have eroded morale and trust at a critical juncture as foreign troops are withdrawing and transitioning security ...
Despite setbacks, the international effort to bring lasting peace and stability to Afghanistan is working Much has been written in the past week regarding Nato's ongoing efforts to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan. It is clear to me that the coalition of 50 nations with troops in Afghanista...
Uzbekistan, which is seeking closer ties to the US, may have made the move in a bid to ease concerns of China and Russia, which are both dominant actors in Central Asia. Almaty, Kazakhstan: Today, Uzbekistan’s upper house of parliament approved a new bill banning any foreign military bases on its ...
CHAR DARAH, Afghanistan* Flagship militia set up to ease public anxiety, not fuel it * But gains often overshadowed by allegations of rape, murder Fahima had just arrived home from school when members of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a U.S.-trained militia charged with making Afghans in Taliban...
KABUL, Afghanistan: President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has broadened a top-level cabinet shake-up, firing the country’s spy chief on Wednesday and, according to Western officials, lining up replacements for that post and the vacant Defense and Interior Ministries, at least one of which seemed lik...
KABUL, Afghanistan: An Afghan Cabinet minister dogged by torture allegations is slated to become the new chief of Afghanistan’s notorious intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security. The appointment of Asadullah Khalid, the minister of border and tribal affairs, will be announced wi...
Hours before flying off to Tehran to attend the Non-Aligned Movement summit on Wednesday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai dismissed the country's intelligence chief and indicated that a slate of three nominees would be submitted soon for parliamentary approval to fill three key vacant security portfol...
KABUL: Two soldiers with the NATO-led coalition or International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed when a military helicopter crashed in Garmser district of restive southern Helmand province Thursday morning. The following is the coalition's air crash incidents in Afghanistan so far in ...
The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor Are things coming to a head in North Waziristan? Certainly the action seems to be warming up with great haste in the most troublesome of Pakistan’s tribal agencies. It is to be seen what impact the reported death of Badruddin Haqqani...
A Mendham Township businessman, who made international headlines when his former wife, the daughter of the president of Uzbekistan, hid their children from him, is now embroiled in a court dispute with his brother over control of multiple family-held corporate entities. Mansur Maqsudi has filed in...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan : The Taliban's beheading of 17 people at a celebration of music and dancing is the latest in a litany of crimes that may turn Afghans away from the Islamic group, some locals say. The killers attacked a large party Sunday in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province in sout...
The day we see truth and do not speak is the day we begin to die. -- Martin Luther KingPaul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndica...
KABUL, Afghanistan: NATO has closed more than 200 bases in Afghanistan and transferred nearly 300 others to local forces, a concrete step toward its 2014 target of handing over security responsibility, NATO officers said Sunday. All 202 closed facilities were small, ranging from isolated checkpoin...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Two American soldiers were shot and killed by a member of the Afghan Army in eastern Afghanistan on Monday when a dispute broke out during a joint American and Afghan patrol, Afghan officials said. There were unconfirmed reports that the dispute erupted after the convoy was hit...
Should we look at Hakimullah Mehsud’s greeting as a sign that he is normalizing the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan? Or should we weep that a man chased by two armies can send mass email like a spam marketer?On August 1, 2012, Hakimullah Mehsud, Amir of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan rallied his supporters...
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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...
