It’s happening again. On April 21, the authorities in Takhar Province in northeastern Afghanistan announced that up to 74 girls at Bibi Maryam School had fallen ill and were suspected of having been poisoned by gas. On April18, more than a dozen girls were hospitalized at a nearby school with simi...
When future generations ask who silenced Pashtun music, the Taliban won’t get the blame – it will be piracy. The “pirates” are easily identifiable – they are the young men armed with laptops who can be found on street corners throughout northwestern Pakistan. Word on the street is that they are th...
A number of experts said Tuesday that some of the Afghan diplomats, especially ambassadors to other countries, have not returned to the country after their working term ended and have sought asylum, an act which according to the pundits is caused for inattention from foreign ministry while employing...
When I first traveled to Afghanistan in 2004, I immediately fell in love with the country and its people, and I was optimistic that the young people in Kabul would soon have better lives. Yet my hopes dimmed as I learned about a revolving door of exploitation at the hands of the Russians, Americans ...
Female police officers often suffer harassment from colleagues amid lack of dedicated facilities, says Human Rights Watch Kabul: It is the smallest but most telling of details that reveals Afghanistan's real attitude towards the women it claims to want at the heart of the national police force. T...
Bagram Batman TV Spots Educate Military; 'He Acts Just as Well as Adam West Did' BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan: In fictional Gotham City, Batman protects citizens from crime. Here, at the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan, another Dark Knight is on a different kind of crusade: making sure soldiers c...
HERAT, Afghanistan :Nine-year-old Ali Sena Nowruzee’s disappearance was disturbingly predictable, even in a city largely untouched by the Taliban and often held up as an example of what a peaceful Afghanistan might look like. As in dozens of other kidnappings targeting Herat’s burgeoning middle cl...
BRUSSELS: After meeting for more than three hours here Wednesday with Afghan and Pakistani leaders, Secretary of State John F. Kerry reported progress in re-launching negotiations but warned, “We’re not going to raise expectations or promise results that can’t be delivered.” Instead, Kerry said be...
Scientists believe they have identified a time in history, which provides the most complete picture of how the planet might respond to rising CO2 levels.The world is warmer, by around 2-3 degrees C. The tropics are wetter, sea levels are higher, there is less ice and CO2 levels are rising above pres...
Could one of life’s simple pleasures, the apple, be endangered by changes in our climate?It could, according to some experts, who maintain that apples, like other fruit, depend heavily on a certain amount of what is called “winter chill,” before they bloom in the spring.“If there’s not enough winter...
After years of bloodshed, a tenuous calm has emerged in Helmand. Large swaths of the southern Afghan province, once a bastion of the Taliban insurgency, have been wrested from militant control. The daily firefights and roadside bombs that plagued Helmand have abated. Development is evident. School...
Ottawa: The Harper government has backed away from a proposal to claw back overpayments of danger pay for soldiers in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Stephen Harper says soldiers won't have to repay hundreds of dollars they got through an administrative error. After an outcry two weeks ago, the Cons...
US troops reduced to advisory role as Taliban begins its annual onslaught. Qalat, Afghanistan: Beside the twisted remains of three Afghan police trucks destroyed by roadside bombs, a pomegranate tree too young to bear fruit grows through a tangle of razor wire. The tree's home is a small Afghan N...
A scathing look at journalism in Pakistan This article has been submitted for publication to all major newspapers in Pakistan Every one in the present morally, intellectually and financially depleted Pakistan -- the print media and its well-entrenched "gurus" among the foremost --- is shouting from...
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: As international troops prepare to leave Afghanistan in 2014, some businesses and aid groups are looking to curb their investments in the country. But others are planning to expand, despite the uncertainty. Bethany Matta reports from Kabul. Even for those Afghans who are not an...
Not long after the European parliament cast doubt on the future of the EU’s key policy to confront global warming, José Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, huddled with his climate commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, in the VIP lounge at Strasbourg airport.Mr. Barroso, according to people...
Severe land degradation is now affecting 168 countries across the world, according to new research released by the UN Severe land degradation is now affecting 168 countries across the world, according to new research released by the UN Desertification Convention (UNCCD).The figure, based on submissi...
Debra White Plume and Marie Brush Breaker Randall stood in the middle of Highway 44, alongside more than 70 other members of the Oglala Lakota Nation. For hours, they didn't budge -- much to the chagrin of some tractor-trailer drivers bound for the tar sands region of Alberta, Canada."This is our la...
CANAPÉ VERTE, Haiti : Robert Naylor walks the perimeter of an electricity substation high above the earthquake-battered capital of Port-au-Prince, pointing out new batteries, switches and transformers that his construction company, Perini Management Corp., installed here as part of a $12.7 million U...
The Taliban fighters who blew up a half-dozen U.S. Marine fighter jets on a sprawling NATO base last fall were able to walk easily onto the encampment because patrols of the perimeter had been scaled back and watchtowers left unmanned, according to senior military officials. After the attack, whic...
| «Previous | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 | Next» |
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...
