KABUL: Afghanistan's military leaders are preparing a weaponry wish list ahead of the withdrawal of most international troops, amid concerns about the ability of Afghan forces to take the lead on the country's security. At the top of the list: more and better aircraft. As first reported by The Wal...
KABUL: A top Afghan peace negotiator said he was cautiously optimistic about prospects for reconciliation with the Taliban and that all sides now realized a military solution to the war was not possible. Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai also told Reuters that the Kabul government hoped to transform the A...
It has been an eventful year in Afghanistan, a year of triumphs and tribulations. From the country's first premier league soccer tournament to progress towards peace, our editors picked 12 events for their potential to shape the country in 2012 and beyond. In rough chronological order, here are th...
Africa's energy demands are skyrocketing, but with 64 recent major discoveries of fuel deposits, it is in a good position to meet its needs. As the sun sets over Africa each day, instead of flicking a light switch or heating up the oven, most people put a match to a kerosene lantern or a burning em...
KABUL: The family of an ailing, pregnant American woman missing in Afghanistan with her Canadian husband has broken months of silence over the mysterious case, making public appeals for the couple's safe return. James Coleman, the father of 27-year-old Caitlan Coleman, told The Associated Press ov...
Only sign of huge US base is pile of rubbish and broken vehicles – and a festering land dispute in a volatile province Kabul: US forces left behind piles of equipment, an unpaid rent bill and a festering land dispute that threatens to undermine the Afghan government when they moved out of a volatil...
KABUL: The casualties of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the Afghan war dropped down in 2012 for the second successive year in comparison with the 2010 when the military alliance suffered the highest losses of lives. According to iCasualties, a website tracking the c...
An Afghan policeman the Taliban tried to recruit in order to betray his comrades has been decorated for infiltrating their suicide bombing network and laying a trap for their arrest. Beyar Khan Weyaar was offered a house in Pakistan and $30,000 (£19,000) in cash to smuggle a team of suicide attacke...
It's been a banner year for solar energy. The United States is on track to install a record number of solar power systems — thanks in large part to low-cost solar panels from China. That's been challenging for American manufacturers, and federal officials have put trade tariffs on Chinese panels.Thi...
An Italian architect has transformed life in the Mali village of Sanogola by designing a portable, locally manufactured light. Momodou Keita, town chief of Sanogola, a small village 300km north of Bamako, Mali's capital, stands proudly beside the community's solar-powered lamp-post – a shiny, blue,...
Fluctuating weather and warmer temperatures mean soon you may have to pay more for your favorite Bordeaux — if you can find it. PARIS, France : From rising shorelines to devastating hurricanes, the visible effects scientists say climate change is wreaking on daily life no longer surprise many peopl...
Take a look at all the gorgeous photographs--from a powerless New York after Sandy to beautiful shots of the deadly plastic floating in the ocean--that enraptured us throughout the year. Set aside a few minutes to be enraptured by some of the most striking photographs we’ve featured on Co.Exist ove...
More trouble than ever is brewing, not only in Afghanistan but across the border in Pakistan too. Even the Taliban are worried. A shroud of anxiety hangs over the coming year in Afghanistan. It’s not only the country’s war-weary civilians who are beset with trepidation and uncertainty—even the Tali...
After nearly a year of tense relations between all the major players in Afghanistan, there was at the end of 2012 a flurry of diplomatic activity that once again raised expectations for peace, writes journalist and author Ahmed Rashid. The renewed hope centered around a dramatic shift by Pakistan'...
KANDAHAR: For 250 years, Masood Akhundzada’s family has protected Afghanistan’s most sacred artifact: a cloak said to have been worn by the prophet Muhammad. Its power drew Afghan kings and presidents and Taliban leaders to a small, blue shrine in a city conquered by Alexander the Great and conteste...
Kyoto Protocol aimed for 5% cut in carbon emissions — instead, we got a 58% increase The controversial and ineffective Kyoto Protocol's first stage comes to an end today, leaving the world with 58 per cent more greenhouse gases than in 1990, as opposed to the five per cent reduction its signatories...
German officials have been training police in Afghanistan for a decade, but a visit to their training center in Mazar-e-Sharif creates major doubts about the effectiveness of the mission. Afghan police remain poorly prepared to tackle the mighty challenges they will face as Western forces withdraw. ...
The U.S. military is scrapping the Afghan air force’s entire fleet of Italian-made cargo planes, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. U.S. and Afghan officials told the paper that the Afghan military isn’t expected to have an independent and fully functioning air force until around 2017, well ...
Families of dozens of Afghan civilians killed in a 2009 air strike have sued the German government for 3.3m euros (£2.7m; $4.3m) in damages. A Germany army commander ordered the attack on two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban because he said they posed a threat to his troops. The army said 91...
The British Embassy in Kabul has followed in the footsteps of high-security prisons around the world by installing what might politely be described as an electronic orifice scanner to screen visitors for weapons concealed inside their bodies. Kabul: Recent visitors have described being asked to sit...
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