Blood-stained Hands: Past Atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan's Legacy of Impunity
DVIDS RSS 2.0 Feed (Free subscription) | yesterday
A ceremony at Camp Eggers is scheduled to mark a significant change to the command structure of Coalition Forces training and mentoring the Afghan National Security Forces in Afghanistan, Nov. 21, 2009.
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect (Free subscription) | yesterday
All heads heavily photoshopped obviously. Of note: the desire/ability to appear twice in the same image; the penchant towards military; gun size preferences - only a pussy would carry a handgun; the acceptability of physical contact by males; the lack of females; the lion at the feet.
Full Comment (Free subscription) | yesterday
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...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid unannounced visit to Afghanistan's capital Kabul on the eve of oath taking ceremony of President Karzai Wednesday, local media reported. However, officials with Afghan Presidential Palace and Afghan Foreign Ministry are reluctant to make comment possibly due to security concern. Over 40 foreign dignitaries is expected to attend the oath taking ceremony of...
Baghdad Bureau (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A worker carries a hose that is used to pump water from an excavation site on the outskirts of Kabul.
Liberalguy (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
...before the arrival of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ." Picture: REUTERS
NHatky (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
KABUL: President Asif Ali Zardari flew into Kabul Wednesday to attend the inauguration of his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai for a second five-year term in power, Karzai’s office said. Security was tight in and around Kabul as “foreign guests” including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived to attend the ceremony, scheduled to take place at [...]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Secretary of State Clinton is among the dignitaries on hand as the president is sworn in for a second term. Fearing attacks, many Afghans stay off the streets on eve of inauguration. Afghan President Hamid Karzai was sworn in today for a second five-year term, assuming leadership of a war-battered nation and a government that the West is demanding be cleansed of corruption.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has met with newly elected Afghan President Hammid Karzai ahead of his inauguration, which is to take place in Kabul on Thursday.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senior diplomat formerly stationed in Kabul claims troops 'handed over for severe torture a lot of innocent people' 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...
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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Afghan police say Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a parliamentarian and powerful former warlord, has narrowly escaped an assassination attempt near Kabul.
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Kabul - UAE Foreign Minister HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan visited yesterday the UAE Force in Afghanistan charged with safeguarding the delivery of humanitarian aid from the United Arab Emirates to the Afghan people. Sheikh Abdulla
The Plank (Free subscription) | yesterday
The WaPo 's Rajiv Chandrasekaran reports that the Obama administration has decided to try a little tenderness with Hamid Karzai: The new approach, which one official described as a "reset" of the relationship, will entail more engagement with members of Karzai's cabinet and provincial governors, officials said, because they have concluded that the Afghan president lacks the political clout...
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | yesterday
D ispatches from the Front: KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 20, 2009 -- At approximately 9 a.m. today, an IED detonated in downtown Farah in western Afghanistan. Initial reports indicate seven Afghans were killed and more than 35 were injured. No ISAF service members were in the area at the time. "This was a malicious attack that killed and injured innocent Afghans. We offer our sincerest condolences...
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