kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Afghan security forces say there has been a large explosion near the luxury Serena Hotel in Afghanistan's capital. There are no immediate reports of casualties.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Afghan security forces say there has been a large explosion near the luxury Serena Hotel in Afghanistan's capital. There are no immediate reports of casualties.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Australia is sending a new ambassador to Afghanistan to observe Karzai Government's promised crackdown on corruption.
The Age (Free subscription) | yesterday
The federal government is sending a new ambassador to Afghanistan to observe the Karzai government's promised crackdown on corruption.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
The federal government is sending a new ambassador to Afghanistan to observe the Karzai government's promised crackdown on corruption.
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Just a day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged that respect for women's rights is among his top agenda items, Afghan diplomats at the United Nations will oppose a Canadian-led bid to highlight serious human rights abuse in Iran. As if that's not enough, Afghanistan and other states will side with Iran's bid to avoid censure after votes in another part of the UN Thursday saw Arab and Muslim...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
KABUL - A rocket hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in Afghanistan's capital late Saturday, wounding at least two, the Interior Ministry said. An Associated Press...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Kabul - Top Afghan security chiefs on Saturday unveiled a plan, drafted by NATO's top commander in Afghanistan, to boost country's police and troop strength to 400,000, double the size of its previous goal. Afghan Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak ...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
After a whistleblower revealed Canadian complicity in the torture of Afghan prisoners, a full public inquiry is vital One man has Canada in an uproar. Former second-in-command at the Canadian embassy in Kabul, Richard Colvin , told a parliamentary committee in Ottawa that all detainees handed over to the Afghanistan government by Canadian soldiers were abused . The opposition parties have called for...
CommonDreams.org Headlines (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
by Julian Borger The Canadian government was fending off calls for a public inquiry on torture today after allegations from one of its senior diplomats that Canada was complicit in the torture of Afghan detainees. Richard Colvin, who was second in command at Canada's Kabul embassy in 2006 and 2007, said that Afghans swept up in security sweeps by Canadian troops during that time were routinely handed...
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | yesterday
D ispatches from the Front: KABUL, Nov. 20, 2009 -- Afghan and international forces in Afghanistan killed an enemy militant and detained several terrorism suspects today, military officials reported. A combined Afghan-international security force killed an enemy militant in Takhar province while pursuing a facilitator for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan terrorist organization who is responsible...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday
By PETER SPIEGEL and YOCHI J. DREAZEN WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have turned the focus of Afghan war planning toward an exit strategy, publicly declaring that the U.S. and its allies can't send additional troops without a plan for getting them out. The shift has unnerved some U.S. and foreign officials, who say that planning a pullout now -- with or...
liberal catnip (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hillier minimizes detainee abuse: Mr. Hillier derisively compared the political uproar that surrounded Mr. Colvin's parliamentary testimony to people “howling at the moon” and said nobody ever raised torture concerns with him during the 2006-2007 period in question. “I don't remember reading a single one of those cables [from Mr. Colvin] ... He doesn't stick out in my mind,”...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
KABUL - Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
KABUL — A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 16 people, including two children and a policeman, and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, officials said. Provincial Gov. Rohul Amin said the blast occurred about 55 yards (50 meters) from his compound in a crowded square in Farah. Afghan police shouted "Stop! Stop!" at the motorcyclist...
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eprnetwork | 11/02/2009
The numbers of individuals entering inpatient drug rehab for heroin and opiate addiction continues to increase. In Afghanistan and Pakistan the opium (heroin) trade is tightly controlled by al Qaeda and the Taliban, and despite the war the efforts, the production of heroin and opium has dramatically increased - heroin is still dirt-cheap and readily purchased on the streets of Kabul and sold in short
meri72 | 04/11/2008
The Afghan Association of Blog Writers (Afghan Penlog) overcame financial difficulty and obstacles like electricity shortages to organize the first blogging workshop in their history. The workshop was held in Kabul on April 3-4, in association with Nasim Fekrat and Masoumeh Ebrahimi [Fa], two active Afghan bloggers.
meri72 | 04/11/2008
For the first time in Afghanistan , a two days Blogging workshop was organized by the Afghan Association of Blog Writers . The participants were an Afghan journalist, a University teacher, a poet and writers from different provinces and of various ethnic backgrounds. The main goals of this workshop are better access of journalists to weblogs and other digital media. Since Afghan print and internet
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