Ariana Afghan Airlines will merge with the privately-owned Afghan airline Kam Air, airline officials said Saturday, although the final agreement has not been inked. Kam Air president Zmarai Kamgar said the merging of the two Afghan carriers makes sense in the face of the stiff competition from int...
Afghan troops suffered a 124 percent increase in the number of casualties from improvised explosive attacks last year, a sign of their increasing role on the battlefield, according to the Pentagon. The 2012 statistics show the number of attacks against Afghans rose in the second half of 2012. Fo...
Eleven years on, there is confidence in the stability of civil society and governance Kabul: After decades of civil war, it is surprising that normal civil society is becoming a durable part of Afghan life. As NATO forces hand back responsibility for security to the Afghan armed forces, it seems h...
Any strategy must build civilian trust Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies issued a report in December on the U.S. war in Afghanistan, sparing no military kiss-up or diplomatic busybody. With U.S. troop levels past their peak and with post-2014 status of force...
Denying al Qaeda's re-emergence in Afghanistan requires ensuring that Afghanistan can be sufficiently stable and capable of defending itself, as President Barack Obama explained during the surge announcement at West Point on Dec. 1, 2009. Al Qaeda is not present in large numbers (perhaps less than 1...
ISLAMABAD: As U.S.-led international combat troops prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan, officials in neighboring Pakistan are airing reservations about the drawdown, reporting increased militant violence and skepticism about the effectiveness of the Afghan National Security Force (ANSF). Citing a...
LONDON: People in Assam, northeast India, are used to coping with extremes in the weather. When the monsoon sweeps in there are floods. When temperatures soar in late summer, there is drought. The trouble is that in recent years, the timetable of such events has gone haywire.Assam is home to more th...
Harvests will fall dramatically during severe heat waves, predicted to become many times more likely in coming decades The world's food crisis, where 1 billion people are already going hungry and a further 2 billion people will be affected by 2050, is set to worsen as increasing heat waves reverse ...
Signaling China’s ambition to be the world’s leader in solar energy, Beijing officials announced in January that the country had installed an impressive seven gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2012 and would add an additional ten gigawatts this year. The bold announcement is consistent with the “...
A state of emergency has been declared after heavy rains have paralyzed much of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. Analysts worry the flooding could affect economic investment. Flooding brought one of Asia’s megacities to a halt on Thursday, as monsoon rainwater in the central business district reach...
The Taliban group in Afghanistan following a statement on Friday denied the group’s participation in Dubai conference. The statement issued by the Taliban said, “A number of the media agencies have broadcasted reports regarding Taliban’s participation in a conference organized by an International ...
The U.S. government paid $6.8 million for maintenance of more than 7,000 Afghan police vehicles that had been destroyed or were out of commission, according to an inspector general report released Thursday. The report, prepared by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, cast ...
The Taliban group regime was toppled down following US-led invasion in 2001 however the group once again increased its activities across the country three years back. According to Foreign Policy Global, the main motive behind return of Taliban militants is the government of Afghanistan under the l...
In 2004-5, I did a study on the future of the Taliban for Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, who was then the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan. After the 2001 U.S.-led intervention, the Taliban had appeared on the run, but three years later, they were making a comeback. What I found in ...
ABU DHABI: Pakistan plans to release all Afghan Taliban prisoners still in its detention, including the group's former second-in-command, an official said on Friday, in the clearest signal yet that it backs reconciliation efforts. Regional power Pakistan is seen as critical to the success of U.S. ...
The Shammies celebrate the finest sham media. “Competition for the 2013 Gold Shammy,” said the panel of judges “has been cutthroat.” The Shammies are not for the tabloid lower orders. Rupert Murdoch has been honored enough. Shammies distinguish respectable journalism that guards the limits of what t...
In the virtual space created by The Afghan Women’s Writing Project ( AWWP), women have the freedom to write about whatever they want and they can receive mentoring by a volunteer team of teachers and authors. Zahra A., who is in her 20s, is excited about telling her story through the project’s web...
New Delhi: Concerns over heightened terrorism from Pakistan, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir, post 2014 US pullout, have brought Washington and New Delhi closer. India and US last week decided to set-up a bilateral dialogue on Afghanistan to keep terrorism emanating from Af-Pak area under control ...
KABUL, Afghanistan: The American military has suspended the transfer of detainees to some Afghan prisons out of concern over continuing human rights abuses and torture, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said Wednesday in response to questions about the subject. In addition, the ...
CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina: A U.S. Marine pleaded guilty on Wednesday to urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and then posing for photographs in a scene captured in a widely circulated video on the Internet and denounced by world leaders. Staff Sergeant Edward W. Depto...
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Which Is More Corrupt: Afghanistan or America?
Karzai cash payments highlight a growing friction as Afghans blame NAT...
Coalition Plays Down Afghan Reports of Major Battle in Helmand
Kabul, Afghanistan: The Taliban attacked Afghan police posts in a vio...
Taliban Raid Tests Coalition's Afghan Gains
KABUL: A large number of Taliban insurgents, aided by foreign fighters...
Women rights at stake in Afghanistan
KABUL: Some 200 students of Kabul University came to streets on Wedne...
