LONDON: Taekwondo has done many things wrong since becoming an Olympic sport in 2000, but the Korean martial art got most things right at the London Games. Plagued by judging controversies, inconsistent scoring and lackluster fights, taekwondo was forced into action in 2008 after Cuban Angel Matos...
KABUL, Afghanistan: When she refused to prostitute herself or have sex with the man she was forced to marry when she was about 13, officials said, Sahar Gul’s in-laws tortured her and threw her into a dirty, windowless cellar for months until the police discovered her lying in hay and animal dung. ...
"It's there," says an archaeologist pointing to the ground, where fragments of a Buddha statue from the ancient Gandhara civilization have been covered up to stop them being stolen or vandalized. Just months before the US-led invasion in 2001, the Taliban regime shocked the world by destroying two...
Last week, we spent three anxious hours in an outer waiting area of the "Non-Immigrant Visa" section of the U.S. consulate here in Kabul, Afghanistan, waiting for our young friends Ali and Abdulhai to return from a sojourn through the inner offices where they were being interviewed for visas to come...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: Hamidullah, 12, and Rahmatullah, 10, have nearly everything in common. They have the same haircuts, the same blue uniforms, the same jokes, the same notebooks with sailboats and convertibles on the cover. They sleep next to each other in a big room where a ceiling fan stirs ...
KABUL: An Afghan police officer killed at least 10 of his fellow officers on Saturday, a day after six U.S. service members were gunned down by their Afghan partners in summer violence that has both international and Afghan forces questioning who is friend or foe. Attacks on foreign troops by Afgh...
KABUL: Three U.S. Marines have been shot dead by an Afghan worker on a military base in southern Afghanistan, in a deadly 24 hours for NATO-led forces during which six American soldiers were killed in rogue attacks. The shooting took place on Friday night in the Garmsir district of Helmand provinc...
India is in the midst of its second drought in four years, with rainfall roughly 20 percent below average nationwide. In the nation's agricultural areas of the west and north -- the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana and Maharashtra, for example -- the situation is far worse. In Punjab -- India's...
Our obsession with honor and all that it entails intrigues me but I always wonder do we actually know what honor truly means. The colloquial meaning of honor is respect, admiration, fairness and integrity, yet, it is said that an estimated number of 5,000 women are killed throughout the year in the ...
SHE FOLLOWS the purdah strictly. A burqa covers her from head to toe, except the eyes. She quotes extensively from religious scriptures and moral tales. But Sabina, 50, is not your ordinary devout Muslim. She is the former kingpin of Kashmir’s high profile sex abuse scandal, involving top politician...
It was just on a whim that Sukhadiya Das started fasting in the month of Ramzan. But the habit stuck with this 46-year-old Hindu, a resident of Veliyil house near the Railway station here, and he has now been observing fast during the month every year for the last 30 years.He vividly recalls the fir...
Islam and Animal Rights Animals not only suffer from us in prisons, but even in the open. We torture them for our recreation. One can easily imagine “bull fight” sport, where a man fights a bull with his swords, and slowly and painfully stabs the bull with those swords until the bull collapses and ...
Afghan man who lost relatives in missile strike says UK role in supplying information to US military may be unlawful Britain's role in supplying information to an American military "kill list" in Afghanistan is being subjected to legal challenge amid growing international concern over targeted stri...
A shortage of NATO trainers is complicating efforts to expedite the instruction of Afghan troops about the top threat they will face after international forces leave in 2014 – roadside bombs. “This is something that they’re crying out for more of,” Canadian army Maj. Gen. Jim Ferron, deputy comman...
Criminal charges were dismissed Thursday against U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Walter Taylor, who had faced potential imprisonment for negligent homicide in the 2011 death of a civilian doctor in Afghanistan. Col. Darren L. Werner, commander of the 16th Sustainment Brigade in Bamberg, Germany, released...
Officials say they just want to prod media into raising standards, but those in the industry warn of censorship risk. Afghanistan: A decree by Afghan president Hamid Karzai ordering government to improve the quality of the country’s media has created fears that the government will try to censor the...
In confirmation hearings last week, Richard Olson, President Barack Obama’s nominee for ambassador to Pakistan, said his top priority would be working with the Pakistanis to degrade the Taliban-allied Haqqani network. With good reason, the U.S. considers the Haqqani network to be the greatest thre...
The parliamentary denouncement of the ministers of defense and the interior may be a sign of Afghan democracy at work but it makes the security situation much more volatile for U.S. forces preparing to withdraw Kabul: The death notices that NATO e-mails to the press when a soldier is killed in acti...
Other dreams may be equal to this one, but few are as accessible. Every able-bodied human being on the planet can and has run, knows the feeling of running full speed — as fast as you can — and the exhilaration of crossing a finish line, or not. Unless you’re Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, someone is alwa...
KABUL, Afghanistan :A man who had been arrested on suspicion of insurgent activity and then released by the Afghan authorities detonated a remote-controlled bomb along a road outside Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least eight people in a packed minibus, the Afghan police said. The attack was brazen ...
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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...
