Thursday 17th May, 2012
India on track to be top investor in Afghanistan
India is on its way to becoming one of Afghanistan's largest foreign investors, quietly stepping up investments to play a greater role in the country after 2014, when most Nato combat troops ...
U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan
The Department of Defense has identified 1,959 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans ...
Taliban attacks rise in areas that were focus of US Afghanistan surge
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Taliban attacks are jumping in the southern Afghan areas that were the focus of the 2010 US troop surge, posing a renewed challenge to the American-led coalition that ...
Allen: NATO Summit to Define 'Vision' for Afghanistan
Defense LinkBy Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr.American Forces Press Service VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., May 16, 2012 – The upcoming NATO summit in Chicago will help determine the long-term commitment to ...
Video: Major drug bust in Afghanistan
The Globe and MailNew Jersey Governor Chris Christie and the mayor of New Jersey's largest city are channeling the Seinfeld-Newman rivalry in a video parody that spoofs the mayor's heroics and ...
US Lawmakers Calling for Faster Withdrawal From Afghanistan
VOACAPITOL HILL, Washington, D.C.- A bipartisan group of 86 members of the U.S. House of Representatives has written a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to bring the war in Afghanistan to an ...
Combined Force Captures Taliban Leader
Defense LinkCompiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Releases WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 – An Afghan and coalition security force detained a Taliban leader during an operation in ...
Diplomatic Memo: Europeans Have Dim View of Afghan Future
International Herald TribuneKABUL, Afghanistan - There are few certainties for Afghanistan as the NATO troop withdrawal moves into high gear, but one thing is sure: the continental Europeans have a dimmer prognosis for what ...
U.S. path out of Afghanistan faces risks
ReutersA U.S. Army soldier of 3/1 AD Task Force Bulldog takes position as an official looks on during a meeting in Governor's office at Pul-e-Alam, a town in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan, May ...
Survivors recall horror of night Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly shot up Afghan village
Miami HeraldA young Afghan villager named Sadiqullah was wounded in his right ear when he was shot allegedly by U.S. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales at the home of his father, Haji Mohammad ...
Pakistan Plans To Re-Open NATO Supply Routes To Afghanistan
IBTimesAfghanistan , where international troops are fighting against Taliban, al Qaeda and other insurgent forces while training Afghan personnel to take over national security by 2014. Pakistan shut down ...
Czech Cabinet Announces Afghan Exit Plan
Radio Free EuropeThe Czech government plans to start withdrawing its troops from the NATO mission in Afghanistan, bringing the number down from the current 590 to 170 by the end of 2014. Czech Defense Minister ...
Afghanistan: Kabul golf course most hazardous of its kind
KeralaNextSports News: Kabul, It is one big hazard, with unfair fairways of rock and thistles, sand-and-oil "greens" and the chance of falling into a ditch making even the most wicked of traditional ...
At Camp David and Chicago, Obama plays host to world leaders tackling the economy, Afghanistan
Fox NewsWASHINGTON – Dozens of world leaders are heading to the United States to discuss Europe's economic woes and solidify plans for winding down the Afghanistan war. The leaders will join ...
Afghan shrines last resort for Afghan mentally ill
Richmond Times-DispatchFor 300 years, the shrine keepers here have been taking in the mentally ill. They say they are upholding the legacy of their ancestor whom the shrine honors, a holy man by the name of Ali Baba who ...
Afghanistan Top Agenda Item at NATO Chicago Summit
VOAAfghanistan will top the agenda when heads of state and government from the 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization meet in Chicago (May 20 - 21). NATO has been operating in Afghanistan ...
With nowhere to turn, families of mentally ill in Afghanistan look to controversial shrines
Fox NewsJALALABAD, Afghanistan – The young man sits nearly naked in a small concrete room, a thick, heavy chain fastened around his ankle and bolted to the wall. Flies swarm around a wound on his ...
Germany Pledges $193 Million Annually For Afghan Transition
Spero NewsGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country will give Afghanistan 150 million euros ($193 million) annually to support its police and military forces after NATO-led troops leave the country in ...
Pakistan Taliban Release Video Boast Of Jailbreak
Spero NewsThe Taliban in Pakistan has issued a propaganda video of last month's massive jailbreak in the western city of Bannu. The video shows the militants planning and executing the brazen ...
Russian Official Hails Joint Antidrugs Operation In Afghanistan
Spero NewsThe head of Russia's Federal Service for Drugs Control says a joint antinarcotics operation in Afghanistan -- involving forces from Afghanistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and the United States -- had ...
Lawson to coach Afghanistan at Under-19 World Cup
CricinfoGeoff Lawson , the former Australia fast bowler, has signed a deal with the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) to be a consultant coach for the Under-19 World Cup being held in Australia in August. ...
Policeman killed, 5 injured in bomb attack in NW. Afghanistan
SINAKABUL, May 16 (Xinhua) -- An Afghan policeman was killed and five others injured Wednesday in a roadside bombing in northwestern Afghan province of Badghis, a provincial official said. "A ...
NATO Summit Will Likely Produce Vague Plans on Afghanistan
U.S. News & World ReportSyrian gunmen in the Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood during clashes with Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam to which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad belongs, in the Jabal Mohsen neighborhood in the ...
Hollande-Inspired Bulgarian Nationalists Fail to Get Afghanistan Pullout
NoviniteBulgarian nationalist party "Ataka" has failed to bring about an immediate pullout of the 600 Bulgarian troops current serving in ISAF in Afghanistan. Ataka MP Ventsislav Lakov made a ...
Czechs approve troop reduction in Afghanistan
IOLPrague - The Czech government approved plans on Wednesday to cut the number of its soldiers in Afghanistan in the next two years, before NATO withdraws foreign combat troops at the end of ...
Stone carvers defy Taliban to return to the Bamiyan valley
The GuardianUnder perfectly carved niches that once held dozens of small buddha statues, the purposeful tap of chisel on stone echoed over the Bamiyan valley for the first time in centuries.Twelve young Afghans ...
Soldier from Rolla killed in Afghanistan
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. o The Department of Defense says a 22-year-old soldier from Rolla died in Afghanistan. Pfc. Richard L. McNulty III died Sunday when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Bowri ...
AFGHANISTAN: Bonded labour ensnares entire families
IRINKABUL, 16 May 2012 (IRIN) - Bonded labour in Afghanistan’s brick kilns is one of the most common forms of hazardous labour in the country. More than half of the brick kiln workers surveyed in ...
Australia in $300m Afghan pledge
BBCAustralia says it will contribute $100m annually for three years from 2015 toward the $4bn a year cost of running Afghanistan's security forces. Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the money ...
When Afghan partners attack, lives and mission are imperiled
Star AdvertiserBut it was not the Taliban. Over the next 52 minutes, as his company of paratroopers braved bullets and rocket-propelled grenades in the predawn darkness to retake one of their own guard towers in ...
Afghanistan War: Australia Pledges $300 Million To Afghan Forces
Huffington PostCANBERRA, Australia -- Australia will contribute $100 million annually for three years beginning in 2015 toward the $4 billion a year cost of running the Afghan National Security Forces after they ...
A Window On the War in Afghanistan
TimeThe war in Afghanistan is at a crossroads. President Obama will soon decide whether to commit more U.S. troops to a conflict that's already on the verge of becoming the longest military action ...
Post Taliban, Saad Mohseni Builds Afghan Media Empire
NPRMay 16, 2012 Morning Edition's Renee Montagne winds down her reporting from Kabul with a look at how the Afghan media landscape has changed in the decade since the fall of the Taliban. Today ...
Karzai To Sign Strategic Pact With Germany
Spero NewsAfghan President Hamid Karzai is in Germany for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and to sign a long-term strategic partnership agreement with ...
Australia to assist Afghanistan with $ 100 m annually after 2014
Global TimesThe Australian government has announced to assist Afghanistan with 100 million US dollars each year after 2014 when the 130,000-strong NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) ...
Pak Taliban, other militant outfits behind MQM leader's killing: Malik
SifyPakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Raza Haider in Karachi was part of a plan hatched by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and ...
Australia Pledges $300M Devt Assistance for Afghan Army
IBTimesEven as Diggers should be out of the war-torn country over the next two years, Ms Gillard said Canberra "will maintain a substantial development assistance program beyond 2014." The prime ...
NATO leaders eye final two years of troubled Afghan war
Times of OmanAfghanistan: After a decade in Afghanistan, NATO leaders gather for a key summit Sunday hoping for a show of unity in the final two years of combat -- even though allies are eager to bring troops ...
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