The UK government has thrown its weight behind attempts to draw investment from London-based institutions to back a range of mining and oil and gas projects in Afghanistan. On Wednesday Prime Minister David Cameron said the UK’s Department for International Development would provide a three-year p...
In a dramatic reversal, the Afghan insurgents now want to make friends with the U.S. By Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai. Nearly one year after announcing it was “suspending all dialogue” with the U.S. over its “ever-changing position,” the Taliban seem keen to enter into preliminary peace talks once ...
KABUL: The Afghan government has urged Western nations to help recover millions of dollars smuggled abroad in what it called the "largest and most complex financial crime in the history" of the country. A court in Kabul on Tuesday jailed 20 people, including two senior executives, for their roles ...
An American soldier was sentenced to five years in jail for helping to smuggle more than $1 million (£664,000) out of Afghanistan. Tonya Long, 30, will serve five years in jail, followed by three years’ probation, on charges of bulk cash smuggling and aiding and abetting bulk cash smuggling. Dist...
Is Suntech too big a Chinese brand to fail?On March 15, the cash-strapped solar company—until recently the world’s biggest photovoltaic panel maker—faces a $541 million payment on convertible notes, a quarter of the $2 billion in debt it has incurred.Whether Suntech can strike a deal with its bondho...
In Wang Lianying's backyard are four basins filled with water that she uses for laundry, oneeach for soaking, soaping, scrubbing and rinsing."The water's good for four or five cycles, at least half a month," the 69-year-old housewife said."Our ox has to drink the water we use for washing our feet."B...
Investing in climate change used to mean putting money into efforts to stop global warming. Morgan Stanley (MS), Goldman Sachs (GS), and other firms took stakes in wind farms and tidal-energy projects, and set up carbon-trading desks. The appeal of cleantech has dimmed as efforts to curb greenhouse ...
Burning coal to produce electricity costs Europeans €42.8 billion, or $55 billion, in health care costs annually, a new analysis finds. In Poland alone, the tab tops €8 billion. LONDON: Campaigners are urging a halt to the building of coal plants and an end to the burning of coal throughout the Eur...
Taliban prisoners have seized control of parts of a £4.3 million British-funded prison in Helmand and taken hostages, triggering an armed siege at the flagship aid project. Lashkar Gah: Afghan police and soldiers have been surrounding Helmand central prison for more than two days, after a weekend p...
WASHINGTON: The U.S.-led military command in Afghanistan said Tuesday it will no longer publish figures on Taliban attacks, a week after acknowledging that its report of a 7 percent decline in attacks last year was actually no decline at all. A spokesman for the International Security Assistance F...
An order barring elite troops from Wardak province over a slaying jeopardizes a model for a reduced U.S. troop presence. Some see political factors at play. MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan: The story was gruesome: A university student, captured in a U.S. special forces raid, was found decapitated and wit...
WASHINGTON : The American commander in the Middle East said on Tuesday that he had recommended that 13,600 United States troops remain in Afghanistan after the combat mission ends in 2014, a number slightly higher than the one being considered by NATO and Pentagon officials. The officer, Gen. Jame...
KABUL: NATO expects a decision by the middle of this year on the size of a training force to be kept in Afghanistan once most foreign troops leave in 2014, alliance Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday. The Pentagon has said a NATO-led training force of between 8,000 and 12,000 w...
FORWARD OPERATING BASE APACHE, Afghanistan: At FOB Apache, U.S. military engineers are frantically finishing a second chow hall and a new recreational building four times bigger than the old one. The gym will be expanded soon to more than double its current size, and dozens of new tents and rows of ...
Letter from Europe BERLIN: Over the next 12 months, President Barack Obama will withdraw more than 34,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan, halving the American contingent. By the end of 2014, when NATO’s combat mission ends and its new training mission begins, diplomats say that the United States i...
When U.S. Marines surged into southern Afghanistan in 2010, one of their top priorities was to secure a towering dam on the Helmand River so the U.S. Agency for International Development could begin a construction project to provide much-needed electricity to Kandahar, the country’s second-largest c...
The National Security Council (NSC) of Afghanistan on Sunday called for the international community, especially the United States, to blacklist intelligence organizations that support insurgent groups, referring to Pakistan's spy agency ISI. The Deputy National Security Advisor Rahmatullah Nabil c...
WASHINGTON: A new book by a former senior State Department policy expert paints a sharply critical picture of the Obama administration’s handling of foreign policy, detailing destructive turf battles and policy debates that challenge the White House’s claim that its management of the Afghan war is a...
"My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience." It was close to midnight on Jan. 20, 2009, and I was about to go to sleep when my iPhone beeped. There was a new text message. It was from Richard Holbrooke. It said, "Are you up, can you talk?" When I called...
Their work aiding foreign troops has made them and their families the targets of insurgents. But the U.S. has been slow to approve special immigrant visas. KABUL, Afghanistan: The two bullet-riddled bodies were found splayed on the road near a car. Both men — one an interpreter and the other a secu...
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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...
