While the U.S. is scrambling to react to a series of damaging setbacks, the Taliban has not taken full advantage, apparently because it is divided over its strategy. Kabul, Afghanistan: Lately, it has seemed that the Taliban can just sit back and wait for the next American mistake. Over the last ...
WASHINGTON: The United States military has decided that no service members will face disciplinary charges for their involvement in a NATO airstrike in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, an accident that plunged relations between the two countries to new depths and has greatly complicated th...
WASHINGTON :As Afghanistan seizes more of the political spotlight, the Republican presidential candidates are quick to criticize President Barack Obama's handling of the war but struggle to explain how they would change the strategy they would inherit. GOP front-runner Mitt Romney says Obama has e...
I must admit, I didn't pay much attention to the plants of Afghanistan during the short trip I made there in 2010. I was part of a small BBC team, following a Scottish expedition to previously unclimbed peaks in the Wakhan valley. I do remember a field of bright blue flowers, soon after we cross...
There isn’t too much that binds together Ama Gullah, a 45-year-old grandmother from the city of Kandahar, and Dr. Becky Whetstone, a marriage counselor and therapist in Little Rock, Arkansas. But they are two of the tens of thousands of mothers strewn across four continents whose sons and daughter...
He doubled down on a war that is wildly unpopular with Americans. On the other hand, Bin Laden is dead and Mitt Romney is waffling. In one of the major foreign policy speeches that Barack Obama gave in 2008, he declared that "the central front in the war on terror is not Iraq, and it never was. Tha...
It’s time for the United States to think of new ways to combat terrorism in Southwest Asia. Marc Thiessen wrote a column in the Washington Post last week warning of "five disasters" waiting to happen if the Obama administration accelerates the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Topping his...
PASHTUN KOT: One hillside in Pashtun Kot District in the northern Afghan province of Faryab stands out. Dotted with graves, it is the final resting place for the victims of underdevelopment: Villagers travel from far-off mountains by donkey to bury their dead here - people whose demise was hastened ...
It is among the more intriguing mysteries swirling around the killings of civilian villagers in southern Afghanistan: How could the Army staff sergeant charged with 17 counts of murder have left his combat outpost, located in a dangerous region, not once but twice in the middle of the night to commi...
On April 1, Michael Koch begins his new job as Germany's special envoy for Afghanistan. Among Germany's top diplomats there are few as capable for handling this difficult task. Unlike his predecessor, Michael Steiner, who was known for getting loud if necessary, Koch is a man of quiet words. Born ...
Senior U.S. military commanders met with their Pakistani counterparts on Wednesday, the first such contacts since relations were ruptured when U.S. helicopters accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in an airstrike in November. Gen. James Mattis, who as commander of the U.S. Central Command is ...
Afghan security forces and police killed three NATO soldiers in two separate incidents Monday. Two of the soldiers killed were British and one was American. The latest "green on blue" attacks came as the top commander of the U.S.-led mission in Afghanistan wrapped up a visit to Washington during whi...
Gen. John Allen, the top US commander in Afghanistan, said Monday that he is investigating the military command structure following Sgt. Bales' massacre of 17 Afghan civilians. General John Allen, the top US commander in Afghanistan, said Monday that he is investigating the US military command stru...
Public anger over the killing of 17 Afghan civilians, allegedly by a U.S. soldier, may yet spark a backlash against American forces, the governor of the south’s most populous province and tribal elders say. Anger remains intense in southern Afghanistan after the March 11 incident, presenting what ...
Kabul, Afghanistan: In the busy street markets of Kabul, stacks of cash sit in piles as moneychangers shout the day's exchange rate to shoppers bustling by. Currency is bought and sold in the open air. But all the money changing hands on the streets is barely a drop in the bucket compared to all t...
KABUL: A series of deadly attacks by Afghans in army and police uniform on the NATO-led forces in Afghanistan proved in part Taliban penetration into the fledgling Afghan security forces, analysts believe. In the latest attacks, three soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Fo...
There were celebrations on March 23, as usual, but not for what the day really signifies since Independence.The Muslim League Working Committee decided on February 22, 1941, that March 23 would be celebrated every year to publicize the Pakistan Resolution, which was moved at the Muslim League conven...
The defense relies on the plea of sudden and grave provocation in cases of honor offences and pleads for a lesser sentence on mitigating circumstancesThe Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (RSICC) defines crimes against humanity as a category of various offences that are committed as p...
Seems simple enough, but at what point does something cross the threshold from the simple design found in nature to second-order design produced only by intelligence? Mathematician William Dembski illustrates the difference by having us visualize a rat trying to go through a maze.In a simple maze, t...
An Afghan Villager Who Lost 11 Members of His Family Describes What He Found. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: Mohammed Wazir says he was having breakfast with his brother in the town of Spin Boldak when he received the phone call from his village three hours away. "All your family members are martyred," a n...
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US, Germany, Italy vow key Afghan roles post-2014
BRUSSELS: Germany and Italy will join the United States as "lead nati...
Soldier pleads guilty in massacre of 16 Afghans
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash: The American soldier accused of killin...
Coalition Deliberates Afghan Presence
Brussels: The top commander of the U.S.-led military coalition in Afg...
In Afghanistan, grief for a husband who shouldn't have died
Khosh Gombat, Afghanistan: Whenever Bibi Laila heard the all-too-fami...
