KABUL, Afghanistan: On the northern edge of Kabul, down a road riddled with mammoth potholes, is a secure site that bears all the marks of a prison: high stone walls topped with concertina wire, police officers barking into walkie-talkies, forsaken visitors pacing the compound’s edge, waiting for a ...
In his State of the Union speech on February 12, U.S. President Barack Obama declared that by the end of 2014 "our war in Afghanistan will be over." This step, long expected, will decrease security in neighboring Central Asia. Flows northward from Afghanistan of terrorists and narcotics will put at ...
KABUL: In a country where Western accusations of corruption have been lobbed at high-ranking officials and public institutions, the malfeasance that drives Afghans against their own government happens every day on a much smaller scale. Forget special investigations and glossy reports on misspent f...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Suddenly, the effort to strike a deal with the Taliban is very publicly back on the front burner. Frozen for months last year as another fighting season raged in Afghanistan, and as election-year politics consumed American attention, diplomats and political leaders from eight c...
In his State of the Union address, President Obama reaffirmed that the country's war in Afghanistan would be over by the end of 2014. He also laid out more specifics. Of the approximately 66,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan now, more than half -- 34,000 -- will come home in the next year, Obama sa...
The literary significance of the “Bronte” moorlands has been used for the first time to curb the onslaught of wind farms, in a key victory for campaigners.The brooding West Yorkshire countryside that inspired classics such as Wuthering Heights has been protected from plans for more turbines because ...
President Obama faces a knotty decision in whether to approve the much-delayed Keystone oil pipeline: a choice between alienating environmental advocates who overwhelmingly supported his candidacy or causing a deep and perhaps lasting rift with Canada.Canada, the United States’ most important tradin...
“IT IS the fuel of the future—and always will be,” skeptics joke. And in recent years it was hard not to chuckle: fuel cells and other promising hydrogen technologies looked like they would remain little more than science-fair projects.But a series of alliances suggests that things are looking up fo...
Millions of birds have descended on a small Kentucky city this winter, fouling the landscape, scaring pets and raising the risk for disease in a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds.The blackbirds and European starlings blacken the sky of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, before roos...
Following a series of similar widely ridiculed so-called “sting” operations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced last week that it had foiled yet another “terror plot” that, like virtually every supposed “terrorist” case in recent years, was created and managed from start to finish by the ...
US President Barack Obama plans to withdraw some 34,000 American troops from Afghanistan this year – a little more than half the current number. The Karzai government has welcomed the move as long overdue. The office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a statement saying it had long been hopin...
STRONG POINT HAJI RAHMUDDIN II, Afghanistan: When the last American soldiers to occupy this squat, lonely outpost in southern Afghanistan pulled out this week, they left the same way earlier units had arrived: ready for a fight. They were leaving this violent patch of land outside Kandahar, the So...
One of the concerns for Pakistan is 'how responsible' the US exit from Afghanistan will be, said Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's ambassador to the US, at a Feb. 5 breakfast meeting. Pakistani ambassador Sherry Rehman has served as her nation's top envoy to the United States since November 2011. She was ...
KABUL, Afghanistan: The Afghan army is one of the least corrupt parts of a society where more than two-thirds of the citizens think it’s fine for bureaucrats to take bribes. Now that reputation is getting its biggest test: access to more money. Billions of dollars more. For most of the war, equipm...
Last August, because of intense summer heat, pink salmon did not swim upstream in rivers in far northern Japan as they usually do.The fish arrived a month later when temperatures had cooled somewhat.This was bad news for brown bears that inhabit Shiretoko, a World Natural Heritage site in eastern Ho...
Climate change refugees struggle to survive in slums of Dhaka. The city faces a population explosion, with inadequate infrastructure. DHAKA, BANGLADESH: Taslima Masud faces a dilemma every morning: should she prepare food or stay hungry to avoid illness?“The kitchen is so close to the toilet,” she ...
American farmers and ranchers are facing increasing risks to their livelihoods as a result of climate change, according to a recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.“Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to U.S. agriculture because of the sensitivity of agricultural productivit...
Ottawa is quietly using a well-connected Conservative MP as a direct liaison with the U.S. Congress to help build support for the Keystone XL pipeline project and a raft of other Canadian priorities in Washington.Rob Merrifield is operating on a mandate letter from Prime Minister Stephen Harper that...
WASHINGTON :An accelerating U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan this year and next will raise the risk of ill-advised spending of billions in U.S. funds for the country’s rebuilding, the top auditor of U.S. reconstruction spending said Wednesday. John F. Sopko, the special inspector general for...
Reducing the number of Afghan security forces could lead to an increase in Taliban violence inside that country as U.S. forces prepare to leave by the end of 2014, Army Gen. Lloyd Austin said Thursday. Austin was testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee during a hearing to confirm him...
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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...
