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Archaeonews (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Antiques dating back 1,300 years have been stolen from a museum in western Afghanistan, officials said Saturday, blaming a "powerful gang" for the theft after a suspect was found dead. The national museum at Herat, the second largest city in Afghanistan, was raided last week, deputy culture minister Mohammad Zia Afshar told a news conference in Kabul. The authorities said two suspects were taken...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... to be more stable, and more secure, and more prosperous than the rest of the country (it is), Herat nevertheless faces some enormous challenges, starting with the so-called “ Tajik Taliban .” As Tim Foxely explains, The idea that now other ethnic groups are starting to emulate, if not actually join, the Taliban and conduct resistance against the Kabul regime lies somewhere between “a very...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
U.S. dismisses Afghan war comments as "defeatist" A policeman holds a piece of cloth after a suicide bomb blast in the western province of Herat October 5, 2008. (REUTERS/Hoshang Hashimi) By Jonathon Burch and Kristin Roberts October 6, 2008 | | | | Text size – + KABUL (Reuters) - Britain's military commander and ambassador in Afghanistan are being "defeatist" by thinking the war cannot be won,...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Kabul - A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of Afghan army forces in western Afghanistan, killing himself and wounding a soldier and three civilians, while a suspected senior Taliban commander was arrested by NATO forces in the southern region, officials said Sunday. The bomber rammed his explosive-laden motorbike into a convoy of Afghan national army forces in Guzara district of western Herat...
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Time (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
... a thousand yearly, need plenty of help to pull off their holidays safely. In cities like Kabul, Herat, Faizabad and Mazar-i-Sharif, a small legion of Afghans who spent the last seven years as translators and security aides are spinning their expertise at navigating this shifting landscape into a new business. Now, they are also tour guides.The young sector is not exactly crowded. Two companies...
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Time (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
... a thousand yearly, need plenty of help to pull off their holidays safely. In cities like Kabul, Herat, Faizabad and Mazar-i-Sharif, a small legion of Afghans who spent the last seven years as translators and security aides are spinning their expertise at navigating this shifting landscape into a new business. Now, they are also tour guides.The young sector is not exactly crowded. Two companies...
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Travels with Shiloh (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
... Iraq and so will require some different solutions. We can’t wall off sections of Kabul, Kandahar, Herat and Mazar-i-Sharif. We’ve got entrenched warlordism (many of whom we’ve been effectively subsidizing for years) and corruption. We’ve got a generally uneducated, impoverished, populus that is in desperate straits. We have virtually no tradition of centralized control of the territory....
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The Thunder Run (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
The city view from the roof of the medical clinic on the Provincial Reconstruction Team - Herat headquarters, Sept. 26, 2008. The mission of the PRT Herat is to assist the local government in the extension of its authority, in order to facilitate the establishment of a stable and secure environment and to encourage the activities related with the process of reconstruction. Photo by Tech...
