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An insurgent surrenders weapons Photo: AFP EIGHTY Taliban militants have laid down their weapons and joined Afghanistan's police force, accepting a government amnesty aimed at ending a vicious insurgency. In a ceremony at...
News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Nov 21, 2009 4:03 PM EST TALIBAN militants have laid down their weapons and joined Afghanistan's police force, accepting a government amnesty aimed at ending a vicious insurgency. In a ceremony...
Back in September, I translated the first part of a remarkable story in the Spanish newspaper El País about the experiences of Spanish troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Below is the second part of that report. Click...
Herat (Afghanistan), Nov. 20: Bomb attacks on Friday killed 23 people in Afghanistan, a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai’s second term that underscored spiralling insecurity nine years into the US-led war. The attacks...
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Full_Report (pdf* format - New security arrangements to be adopted in aftermath of attack on UN guesthouse - 2010 Humanitarian Action Plan to be...
Herat: A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up in a town in southwestern Afghanistan today, killing 12 people and wounding dozens more, local officials said. The attack in Farah occurred the day after Afghan...
They need international help to sustain their fragile freedoms HERAT, Afghanistan -- The subjugation of women under the Taliban, who forbade them to work, attend school or leave home without a male relative, once galvanized...
Men gather in the Afghan town of Herat, hoping to get a day’s work (Pic: » Guy Smallman) by Guy Smallman in Herat, Afghanistan The western city of Herat is seen by many as the most stable in Afghanistan yet there is growing...
Published Date: 16 November 2009 ONE of Afghanistan's most powerful warlords has urged America not to send more troops, insisting there are enough to beat the Taleban already – if the rest of Nato simply pulled its weight....
An elegant man in his 50s with a passing resemblance to the actor David Suchet enters the room at the Refugee Council in Leeds. Instead, Said has come to tell me the story of how he once was a lecturer in educational psychology...
