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A U.S. sailor who died on Sunday of medical complications was the 3,000th life lost in the war in Afghanistan. Petty Officer 1st Class Ryan J. Wilson, 26, of Shasta, California, died May 20 in Manama, Bahrain, the Defense Department said on Friday.

Sans crier gare pour de légitimes raisons de sécurité, François Hollande était hieren Afghanistan. Pour expliquer aux soldats français les raisons du repli des combattants d'ici à la fin 2012 : « La mission est bientôt achevée. » Pour rassurer le président Hamid Karzaï sur l'avenir de la coopération franco-afghane.Articles en rapportUne nouvelle saison de plansLe Voyage à Nantes, promenade dans...

U.S. Army medic Keith "Doc" Benson in Afghanistan couldn't save the life of Staff Sgt. Daniel Quintana, a popular soldier known as Sgt. Q. The sergeant's death haunted him. A few months later, the 27-year-old Doc Benson took his own life.

A U.S. sailor who died last week of medical complications was the 3,000th death among coalition forces in the Afghanistan war, according to CNN's count.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- French President Francois Hollande for the first time provided details of his plan to pull France's combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, saying Friday he would leave around 1,400 soldiers behind to help with training and logistics....

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- The commanding Marine general in one of Afghanistan's hardest-fought regions says he is seeing big improvements in the vetting of Afghan recruits to the country's security forces following attacks by Afghan soldiers on their NATO partners....

WASHINGTON  – Expressing frustration over the ties with Islamabad, a US panel moved on Thursday to block certain military aid payments to Pakistan until the defence secretary could certify Islamabad had reopened supply lines to Afghanistan and released a doctor Shakeel Afridi imprisoned for 33 years for helping the CIA locate Osama bin Laden."Our goal is to have good relationships ...

WASHINGTON  – Expressing frustration over the ties with Islamabad, a US panel moved on Thursday to block certain military aid payments to Pakistan until the defence secretary could certify Islamabad had reopened supply lines to Afghanistan and released a doctor Shakeel Afridi imprisoned for 33 years for helping the CIA locate Osama bin Laden."Our goal is to have good relationships ...

WASHINGTON  – Expressing frustration over the ties with Islamabad, a US panel moved on Thursday to block certain military aid payments to Pakistan until the defence secretary could certify Islamabad had reopened supply lines to Afghanistan and released a doctor Shakeel Afridi imprisoned for 33 years for helping the CIA locate Osama bin Laden."Our goal is to have good relationships ...

Kabul (dpa) - Bei einem Blitzbesuch in Afghanistan hat Frankreichs neuer Präsident François Hollande den Abzug französischer Kampftruppen noch in diesem Jahr bekräftigt. Zugleich sicherte er dem afgh...

Die Botschaft von Frankreichs Staatspräsident an seine Soldaten war eindeutig: Er will sie nach Hause holen. „Die Zeit der afghanischen Souveränität ist gekommen“, sagte Hollande bei seinem ersten Besuch der französischen Isaf-Truppen.

François Hollande’s surprise visit comes less than a week after he announced that France would pull its troops out of Afghanistan by the end of this year.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Earlier this week, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker confirmed that he would be stepping down from his post at some point this summer.The official cause was "health reasons," but it is no small matter that Crocker's departure almost immediately follows the final approval of an international military drawdown plan at last weekend's NATO summit in Chicago, and the ...

Obama claims we will be out of Afghanistan by 2014. Romney seems to think that is about right, depending on who's asking. Fortunately, there is a third way for America.

François Hollande a rendu une visite surprise aux soldats français en Afghanistan. Il est venu leur expliquer en personne les raisons de leur retrait…

Gérard Longuet, ancien ministre de la Défense, estime que l'engagement de...

President Francois Hollande defends his decision to end France's military mission in Afghanistan early, during an unannounced visit to Kabul.

A Boy Scout field trip turned into the surprise of a lifetime for two Wisconsin kids who were reunited with their Army soldier parents as they unexpectedly returned from Afghanistan.

All French combat forces will pull out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, France's new president said in Kabul on Friday.

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President Francois Hollande makes unannounced visit to Afghanistan, telling troops that withdrawal is 'sovereign decision'.

Verspricht «geordneten» Abzug der französischen Truppen bis Ende 2012

French president says his country would co-ordinate with NATO allies withdrawal of its combat troops from Afghanistan.

French President Francois Hollande made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Friday to visit some of the French troops he wants to pull out later this year and meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whom he saw briefly last week in Chicago.

The French president made his first trip to Afghanistan since winning the election and ahead of the withdrawal of 3,400 troops later this year

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Friday to visit some of the French troops he wants to pull out later this year and meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whom he saw briefly last week in Chicago.

France's new President Francois Hollande is in Afghanistan to meet with troops and the country's president.

Russia has rejected a NATO request to allocate $10 million for the support of the Afghan Army, the Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan said following the alliance's summit in Chicago.

The brush fire east of Julian in northern San Diego County, now called the Banner fire, has burned 1,000 acres and has a "rapid rate of spread" toward the Anza-Borrego desert, according to Cal-Fire. Evacuations are underway in the Shelter Valley area. The fire broke out about 2:30 p.m. Cal-Fire has 20 engines, 200 firefighters, and air tankers and air-drop helicopters on the scene and an order...

Public accounts committee says cutting staff and hiring expensive outside consultants could be bad value for taxpayerThe growing practice of officials leaving the Ministry of Defence only to be re-employed as outside consultants could end up being "dreadful value for the taxpayer", a leading parliamentary watchdog has warned.MoD spending on consultants has soared from £6m in 2007 to £270m in th...

In 2008, the Pentagon began investigating whether the main supplier of food to troops in Afghanistan overcharged taxpayers. Now lawmakers are squeezing both the Pentagon and the contractor.

Ban Ki-Moon stated yesterday that the inclusion of Afghanistan at the NATO meeting in Chicago sends a clear message that the International Community will not abandon this troubled Central Asian nation. First, why is it troubled, and second, NATO may be part of the International Community but does not represent the World Community

With about $60m investment from the European Union and the United Arab Emirates, north of Afghanistan is soon to get its own international airport.

Congressional investigators have given the Defense Logistics Agency and its prime food contractor in Afghanistan 10 days to explain why the military paid the contractor what it says were more than $750 million in double-billed and excessive charges since 2005. Read full article >>

With most foreign combat troops set to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014, Iran is using the media in the war-ravaged nation to gain influence.

Defense Minister Pedro Morenés Eulate talks to EL PAÍS about Spain's plans to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan

Just a few weeks after the 9/11 attacks, the US launched its “war on terror” and began to attack Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan.

More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers in Afghanistan have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months blamed on radical Islamists, police and education officials said yesterday.

Three countries involved in a plan to build a natural gas pipeline across Afghanistan signed an agreement on Wednesday in Avaza, Turkmenistan.

A Yorkshire soldier who died with five colleagues in a bomb attack in Afghanistan will be given a full military funeral later.

Obama knows that he can't succeed in Afghanistan without coming to terms with Pakistan. So why is his diplomacy so lousy?

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Five aid workers, including two Western women doctors, have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in northeastern Afghanistan, police and the provincial governor's office said today.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is airing two new ads, one focusing on his work with veterans returning home from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and another aimed at seniors dependent on Medicare....

Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, 22, of the 4th Regiment Royal Military Police, was shot dead on his first tour of Afghanistan when a sniper mistook him for a Taliban bomber.

Kabul (dpa) - Unbekannte haben in Nordostafghanistan nach offiziellen Angaben zwei ausländische Mitarbeiterinnen einer Schweizer Hilfsorganisation entführt. Bei den Frauen handele es sich um eine Eur...

derekmead writes "Last week at Camp David, President Obama met up with fellow NATO leaders to discuss the road ahead in Afghanistan. Although no one there used the language of defeat, the implicit message was clear: the war has gone nowhere in the past few years and it's time to start packing up. Meanwhile, what raked in $25.5 million at the box office? Battleship. And who provided director Pet...

The US ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, is to step down this summer due to ill health after a year in his position, the state department says.

Kiew, Ukraine (ots/PRNewswire) - Die Ukraine plant den Aufbau von Transport- und Energieinfrastruktureinrichtungen in Afghanistan sowie die Unterstützung bei der Instandsetzung von militärischer Ausrüstung aus sowjetischer Produktion, sagte der ukrainische Präsident Wiktor …

President Obama will soon be needing a new ambassador to Afghanistan.

NATO leaders have adopted Barack Obama's exit strategy from Afghanistan, cementing an "irreversible" withdrawal of foreign troops.

KABUL (Reuters) - People in Afghanistan were surprisingly optimistic on Tuesday about NATO's plan to pull combat troops out of their war-ravaged nation by the end of 2014, but warned Western leaders to stick to aid and security promises.

Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, 22, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, killed by a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen fired from a remote observation post.

Afghanistans Präsident sieht sein Land im Kampf gegen die Taliban auch ohne die Nato-Truppen gut gerüstet. Die Gefahr eines Taliban-Regimes schließt Karsai deshalb aus.

Die Nato hat auf dem größten Gipfel ihrer Geschichte den Abzugsplan aus Afghanistan bis Ende 2014 festgeschrieben. Als einziges Mitgliedsland wird Frankreich seine Truppen schon in diesem Jahr abziehen. Dafür bleiben die Franzosen aber mit ihren Ausbildern im Land.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO set an "irreversible" course out of Afghanistan on Monday but President Barack Obama admitted the Western alliance's plan to end the deeply unpopular war in 2014 was fraught with peril.

TWENTY-EIGHT Nato allies and 13 partner countries “leave Chicago with a clear roadmap,” President Barack Obama said at the close of a two-day summit yesterday. “Our coalition is committed to this plan to bring our war in Afghanistan to a responsible end.”

BRITISH troops will have to fight their way out of Afghanistan right until the bitter end, Nato commander reveals

In zwei Jahren wird die Nato Afghanistan verlassen, Tausende Fahrzeuge und Container müssen dann außer Landes gebracht werden. Die Planungen laufen schon. Von M. Schmidt

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says there will be no Canadian boots on the ground in Afghanistan after 2014, but says Canada will continue to financially support the Afghan military with $110-million a year for the next three years.

Despite pressure from NATO, PM tells summit no troops or trainers will remain after 2014

At the 2010 NATO Summit in Lisbon, NATO Heads of State and Government agreed to an enduring partnership between NATO and Afghanistan that would last beyond the transition of full security responsibility for Afghanistan from ISAF to Afghan forces by the end of 2014.  At the Chicago Summit, leaders reaffirmed this partnership, sending a clear message to the Afghan people that as they stand up t...

Frankreich will nächstes Jahr in Afghanistan nicht mehr kämpfen. Doch der neue Präsident Hollande hat den Bündnispartnern in Chicago versprochen, nicht ganz aus der Isaf auszuscheiden - und erst recht nicht aus der Nato.

National Republicans were high on former Vets for Freedom head Pete Hegseth as a Minnesota Senate candidate, but when the state GOP gathered for a convention this weekend -- Ron Paul happened: Marking a profound change of direction among Minnesota conservatives, state Republicans overwhelmingly endorsed Rep. Kurt Bills, a high school economics teacher and disciple of libertarian firebrand Ron...

Thousands of protestors took to the streets of Chicago in anti-NATO protests held while the military alliance’s leadership met there to discuss…

Die Nato versucht einen Spagat – in den Ländern, die Truppen in Afghanistan haben, herrscht Kriegsmüdigkeit. Vor Ort wird Hilfe erwartet. Ein Kompromiss zeichnet sich ab. mehr...

Große Worte dominieren die Reden der Nato-Mitglieder. Das wirkliche Problem soll damit verdeckt werden: Der Wert der Bündnissolidarität sinkt, der Verdruss ist groß. Die Probleme zeigen sich besonders in Afghanistan.

Die französischen Kampftruppen werden Afghanistan schon bis Jahresende verlassen. Frankreichs Staatspräsident François Hollande sichert dem Staat seine langfristige Unterstützung zu. Unterdessen stoßen am Tagungsort Chicago Nato-Kritiker mit Polizisten zusammen.

The highly preventable disease survives in only Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. If we don't wipe it out now, a future epidemic could be devastating.As the World Health Assembly convenes in Geneva this week, one item on the agenda will be polio, or more specifically, how to finally deliver on an epic promise made a quarter-century ago: to liberate humankind from one of the world's most deadly...

While re-affirming the continued engagement of the United Nations in Afghanistan, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the country’s international partners to remain committed to supporting the Central Asian nation even as they pull out their troops.

A NATO summit meeting on long-term security for Afghanistan opened in Chicago with the United States and Pakistan still divided over reopening supply routes for the war.

Die afghanische Armee ist unterwandert von Taliban, Terroristen, Gesetzlosen. Ab 2015 finanziert Deutschland diese Armee mit 150 Millionen Euro pro Jahr.Foto: dapdMehr zum ThemaSchönste FC-Nachricht - Über 20 000 Euro für Kapitän FloheMega-Zoff - HSV-Boss fordert AufsichtsratsauflösungBei „Günther Jauch“ - TV-Krach um Sarrazins neues BuchBei „Günther Jauch“ - TV-Krach um Sarrazins neues BuchBe...

U.S. President Barack Obama promised the war in Afghanistan will end within two years as he met Sunday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai before the start of a NATO summit during which the U.S. and its allies will work to solidify a strategy for the military transition.

Ottawa is under pressure to extend its participation in the Afghanistan war beyond 2014

A Royal Marine who lost an arm and both legs when he stood on a landmine in Afghanistan described carrying the Olympic Torch as a 'humbling experience' on Sunday.

NATO LEADERS gathering in Chicago on Sunday are all, in their own way, looking for the exit from Afghanistan. It’s understandable, after a decade of war. But it is safe to bet that the faster they rush out, the more they — or their successors — will regret. Read full article >>

Britain's war in Afghanistan will cost taxpayers almost £20 billion by time the mission draws to a close, new figures have revealed.

Two Marines received the Navy Cross for bravery in Afghanistan in separate ceremonies Friday. The awards were made to Sgt. Clifford Wooldridge of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment at Twentynine Palms, and Sgt. Christopher Farias of the 1st Battalion,...

Utl.: Stabilisierung Afghanistans ist nunmehr eine entwicklungspolitische Aufgabe = Wien (OTS) - "Die Internationale Gemeinschaft bemüht sich seit über einem Jahrzehnt um die Stabilisierung von Afghanistan. Jetzt ist ein wichtiger Zeitpunkt gekommen um zu handeln", so …

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A small group of anti-war demonstrators staged a peaceful "die in" on Thursday at President Barack Obama's election campaign headquarters to demand an end to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and unmanned drone aircraft attacks overseas.

Between 30 and 50 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars plan to hand back their medals this weekend at the NATO summit in Chicago.

Le Premier ministre Elio Di Rupo n’a toutefois pas exclu le maintien d’une présence militaire belge après cette date. ...lire la suite

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has discussed progress in Afghanistan with US President Barack Obama ahead of a major NATO summit he will host in his hometown Chicago next week.

AUSTRALIA'S troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is on track – and could be completed ahead of schedule.

The body of a soldier from New York who died in Afghanistan after collapsing during a Skype video chat was brought to N.Y. on Saturday.

Afghan teenager Malek Mohammad balances on his hands, readies his stumps, then dives perilously into the water. The 18-year-old, whose legs were blown off by a Soviet land mine, dreams of swimming for Afghanistan in the London Paralympics.

Fachleute sollen künftig 20 Prozent mehr Sold als ranggleiche Soldaten ohne IT-Schwerpunkt erhalten. Laut einem Bericht fehlen der Bundeswehr derzeit 4000 IT-Experten. Vor allem in Afghanistan sei die Personaldecke zu dünn.

IEDs are far and away the greatest threat to our armed forces in Afghanistan, having killed nearly 700 soldiers since 2001 and accounting for roughly half of all US troop deaths in the region since 2008. The newly developed ASTAMIDS system aims to find these booby traps before our ground forces do. More »

On the first anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, two symbolic events reminded us that despite all the whitewash, the original war was still on.  US president Barack Obama swept into Afghanistan in a surprise visit and in the "pre-dawn darkness" signed a strategic partnership agreement with Hamid Karzai, a hard-won deal among two sides who have little trust and less faith in each othe...

Der US-Bobpilot John Napier tauscht seine Schlitten gegen eine Uniform. Der 25-Jährige tritt nach einem Aufenthalt in Afghanistan einer Eliteeinheit des US-Militärs bei.

Lance Corporal Darren Hicks, 29, from Mousehole, West Cornwall, was killed by a landmine in Helmand province of Afghanistan, leaving his wife Katie to bring up Henry, then three, and Daisy, nine months old, on her own.

Cementing India-US ties further, visiting US secretary of state Hillary Clinton focused on the role of Pakistan-based terror groups in attacks in Afghanistan and India. Shishir Gupta reports. Clinton talks Teesta, FDI, Iran | Hillary set to reiterate stated US position | Clinton speak

Frankreichs neuem Präsidenten bleibt kaum Zeit zum Feiern. Euro-Krise, Afghanistan, das Verhältnis zu Merkel – Hollande muss schnell ins Amt wachsen. G. v. Randow, Paris

French voters chose Socialist Francois Hollande as their new president Sunday in a race that will have implications for Europe's debt crisis, the Afghanistan war and global diplomacy....

Afghanistan, Iran and progress in the nuclear deal are among the key issues that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to discuss with her Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna here May 8.

The strategic partnership pact inked between the United States and Afghanistan during US President Barack Obama's secret visit to the central Asian country on Tuesday is widely perceived as beginning a new chapter in US-Afghan relations and paving the way for a continued US military presence in central Asia after NATO forces withdraw in 2014.

La guerre, encore et toujours. Quatre ans après le départ de George W. Bush, responsable de l’engagement des États-Unis en Afghanistan et en Irak, elle demeure au cœur de la nouvelle campagne présidentielle américaine. Il en sera sans doute question...

The changes institutionalize tactics adopted ad hoc in Iraq and Afghanistan, including putting some conventional units under Special Operations command.

US President Obama has marked the anniversary of Bin Laden's death with a surprise visit to Kabul, where he said the end of the war is in plain sight.

As he spoke with wounded soldiers last week, his eyes tearing when told of roadside bombs and lost friends, D.C. United’s Danny Cruz thought of his father. Al Cruz, Army sergeant first class, is stateside these days, preparing for reassignment to Illinois from Arizona. He served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan totaling more than 40 months since 2003 but was never injured. Read full article ...

Tragedy in Afghanistan overshadows Army retaining the Inter-Services Championship before a record 65,000 crowd at Twickenham on Saturday.

The British side - which featured former U-20 Wales, Liverpool Academy and Coventry City players - defeated the Americans in a competitive soccer match.

WHEN PRESIDENT Obama addresses a Nato summit meeting on Afghanistan in Chicago next month he desperately hopes to be able to say that the 11-year-old conflict is close to an end. For the international alliance, at least.

SYDNEY - Australia’s longest-serving foreign minister on Wednesday declared that Hamid Karzai had been an “enormous disappointment” as Afghan president, describing him as weak and misleading. Alexander Downer, who was foreign minister when Canberra committed troops to the decade-long conflict in Afghanistan, said Western powers had “solidly backed” Karzai’s ...

One day in late November an unmanned aerial vehicle lifted off from Shindand Air Base in western Afghanistan heading 75 miles toward the border with Iran The drone's mission to spy on Tehran's nuclear program as well as any insurgent activities the Iranians might be supporting in Afghanistan With an...

Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent in children in southern Asia, where an association with susceptibility to pneumonia—the leading cause of child mortality in the region—has been reported. The case to undertake trials of bolus-dose vitamin D supplementation for pneumonia prevention in this setting is therefore compelling. In The Lancet, Semira Manaseki-Holland and colleagues report result...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Technology that sent unmanned aircraft over Iraq and Afghanistan soon could be steering unstaffed naval boats for such dangerous tasks as minesweeping, submarine detection, intelligence gathering and approaching hostile vessels....

Der Krieg im Irak und in Afghanistan geht langsam zu Ende und die Hersteller von Robotern für den Armeeeinsatz suchen sich nach neuen Betätigungsfeldern um. Und sie scheint einen interessanten Partner gefunden zu haben. Die US-Polizei wird ein neuer Hauptabnehmer der Geräte. mehr...

Kabul, Afghanistan (ots/PRNewswire) - Unter der Leitung von Unternehmer und Menschenfreund Ehsanollah Bayat spendete die Bayat Foundation im Rahmen ihres Winter-Hilfsprogramms 2012 lebenswichtige Güter für bedürftige Afghanen in Not. Während der Wintermonate reiste eine Delegation …

AN Australian consultant is helping Afghanistan build its journalism and radio capabilities.

A huge wave of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have returned to the U.S. in recent months, and that's created a surge of applicants for the GI Bill.

Headline Title:  Afghanistan-US prison transfer gets go-ahead 04 May 2012 A deal that will see US forces handing over Bagram detainees to the Afghan government fails to respect the rights of captives,  leaving them at risk of  torture and other mistreatment, Amnesty Internatio...

James Cameron & Co. are banking on global interest in the epic. It's unlikely to repeat its box office success, but it's a test case for the 3-D re-release model.In the late 1990s, a peculiar global fever broke out. Boys in Afghanistan began cutting their hair like Leonardo DiCaprio, girls in Japan held parties to weep together while listening to "My Heart Will Go On" and cruise line staffe...

Alors que se confirme le retrait progressif des troupes étrangères d'Afghanistan, l'avenir de cet Etat ravagé par les conflits reste incertain : le niveau de corruption à Kaboul dépasse l'entendement et compromet la reconstruction. / Afghanistan, Criminalité financière, Aide au développement, Banque, (...) / Afghanistan, Criminalité financière, Aide au développement, Banque, Finance, Corruptio...

Afghanistan's rugby team are set to continue their development by coming over to England to compete in a sevens tournament. The side were formed less than a year ago.

Three of the U.S. military's newest recruits reported for duty this week at the Army Test and Evaluation Command . These troops are different from normal soldiers in several ways--for starters, each has six feet. And they are robots designed to look and move like cockroaches. Aside from those details, the Army is hoping its new Boston Robotics RHex bots will soon join grunts in Afghanistan. ...

The UK is preparing to pull 1 500 troops out of Afghanistan next year before rapidly accelerating its withdrawal at the beginning of 2014.

Tweet Widget Facebook Like The Afghan government should release the approximately 400 women and girls imprisoned in Afghanistan for “moral crimes.”  (Kabul) – The Afghan government should release the approximately 400 women and girls imprisoned in Afghanistan for “moral crimes,” Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.read...

CRICKET:THE MERITS of Ireland’s victory in the World Twenty20 qualifier in Dubai on Saturday night can best be summed up by the resources they were missing by the time they made it to the final against Afghanistan.

Mohammed Merah, the 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian origin suspected of killing three paratroopers and three Jewish students and a rabbi, died on Thursday in Toulouse, France. According to French Interior Minister Claude Gueant, Merah jumped from a balcony firing "with extreme violence" as security forces stormed the apartment in which he had barricaded himself for over 30 hours, surrounded...

Le tueur présumé au scooter, Mohamed Merah, soupçonné de sept meurtres de...

Mohamed Merah a bien effectué des voyages au Pakistan et en Afghanistan. En...

China supports the recommendation of the UN secretary-general on extending the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for another year.

In Bochum haben mindestens 22.000 Menschen gegen den türkischen Ministerpräsidenten Erdogan demonstriert. Anlass war eine ursprünglich geplante Verleihung des "Steiger Awards". Erdogan hatte seine Teilnahme gestern abgesagt: Grund sei der Absturz eines türkischen Hubschraubers in Afghanistan.

Utl.: Ausgabe vom 18.3.2012 Wien (OTS) - Zurück in die Steinzeit: Mehr als zehn Jahre nach Beginn des Krieges in Afghanistan brauchen die Taliban nur noch auf den Abzug der US-Armee zu warten, um ihr Gottesstaat-Experiment fortzusetzen. Amerika fragt sich, wie das möglich ist. Sergeant ...

by Nalinaksha Mutsuddi I’m not a military strategist, nor a political analyst. For the heck of being idle, I get itch to meddle in the Afghan muddle. What was the objective for the American to wage a war there:  To nip terrorism in the bud; to prevent Talibanisation of the country; to install western type democracy;  to restore modern values of humanity; to eradicate evil from the wo...

Former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo predicted chaos when British forces leave Afghanistan - with a date of 2014 set for the last troops to head home.

Four Polish soldiers acquitted last year of killing eight civilians in Afghanistan are to face a second trial.

It’s not Canada’s fault that our soldiers couldn’t make Afghanistan safe for girls to go to school. They were given an impossible job to do

Afghan officials said Sunday that one or more U.S. soldiers shot dead 16 civilians -- including nine children -- in what witnesses called a massacre. NATO said they had detained one U.S. soldier in the killings, and U.S. officials said the soldier was a staff sergeant. The incident -- one of the worst of its kind since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 -- quickly inflamed  severely s...

Life isn't all bad for our heroes in uniform in Afghanistan ... especially when they encounter MASSIVE marijuana fields as these photos show ... but we've learned these photos have triggered a military investigation.A bunch of guys who appear to be…

By Colum Lynch Last week, I reviewed the diplomatic memoir of Kai Eide, a veteran Norwegian diplomat who served as the U.N.'s top envoy in Afghanistan from February 2008 to March 2010. The book is chock full of dramatic nuggets: near escapes from suicide attackers, secret talks with the Taliban, and private battles with Richard Holbrooke, who opened his first meeting...

[[370100]] WASHINGTON (AFP) : Le président Barack Obama s'est dit "confiant" mercredi dans le fait que la mission de combat américaine en Afghanistan se terminerait bien en 2014, malgré les récentes violences meurtrières qui se sont produites dans le pays. "La guerre est quelque chose de très...

no comment : Manifestations en Afghanistan contre de plus de Coran brûlantes continuent

KABUL (Reuters) - With feathered masks, glitter, cakes and even guns, America's most raucous holiday was feted by NATO troops and colleagues in Kabul late on Tuesday behind the towering concrete...

Könnte man meinen, wenn man The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists von Charles Kurzman vorsätzlich falsch interpetiert. Worum es darin geht, lassen wir ihn doch am besten gleich selbst erklären:The Missing Martyrs promotional video from Charles Kurzman on Vimeo. Fassen wir also zusammen: Wenn man die (Bürger)Kriegsherde Afghanistan, Irak und Pakistan mal herausrech...

THE Western forces should not leave Afghanistan unless conditions are right.

Quality long-form writing has a place in the Internet age, says The New Yorker editor David Remnick -- and it's worth paying for.

Alaina Podmorow explains how she was moved by a speech made by journalist Sally Armstrong, who told of the reality of how women and young girls are treated in Afghanistan

PM: I'm delighted we’ve been able to sign this long-term partnership agreement

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THE MOTHER of two who was killed in a road incident in Connemara this week was sister-in-law of an Irish US army corporal who died five years ago in Afghanistan.

Health workers are alarmed at the reversal of what has been both a local and a worldwide trend — particularly since some of the cases erupted far outside the disease’s traditional areas.

During his reign as the Amir of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, from 1994 to 2001, Mullah Mohammad Omar made a mark on the architecture of Kandahar, an irrigated desert city of about half a million people in the south of the country. He commissioned a tall mosque for Eid celebrations; the . . . (Subscription required.)

Students at Afghanistan's first music academy hope to reclaim the country's musical legacy.

TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) -- Actor Gary Sinise, known for playing a soldier who loses his legs in the film "Forrest Gump," wants to stage a benefit concert to raise money to build a home in Temecula, Calif., for a Marine who lost his limbs in Afghanistan....

US military continues testing a broader range of unmanned aircraft for use in the battlefield

Long before people started talking about Occupy the Caucus, Jeff Cox, an Iowa City resident, professor of history at the University of Iowa and former Democratic Party county chairman, was planning to do just that.“Since last January we’ve been working on an Iowa Healthcare Not Welfare Caucus Campaign,” Cox said in an interview. “Our goal has been to sign people up to go to the Democratic caucu...

The Afghan government and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) inked an agreement here Wednesday after the company won the country's first oilfield bidding. 

China gains potential access to millions of barrels of oil as it wins a key approval for oil exploration in Afghanistan.

KABUL/NEW YORK (Reuters) - - The US Army has charged eight soldiers deployed to Afghanistan in the death of Private Danny Chen, a 19-year-old Chinese-American who was bullied and taunted by fellow troops over his heritage. Chen was found in a guard tower in southern Afghanistan after apparently shooting himself, NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said on Wednesday. Chen’s platoon leader, 1st Lieute...

Nur wenige Wochen, nachdem er zwei Monate in den USA mit Hubschrauber-Training verbracht hatte, wurde nun bekannt gegeben, dass Prinz Harry wieder nach Afghanistan zum Einsatz...

The United States said on Thursday that mistakes and misunderstandings caused last month’s NATO airstrikes that killed 24 soldiers, but insisted U.S. forces were fired on first and had “acted in self defense and with appropriate force.” A fundamental lack of trust between the two countries played a big factor in the border incident that has heightened tension in an already fragile relationship,...

Just weeks after returning to the U.K. following two months of helicopter-pilot training with U.S. troops, Prince Harry has announced that he will once again be deployed to...

The Council on Foreign Relations bought all the seats in the house for a performance of J. T. Rogers’s play “Blood and Gifts.”

KABUL (Reuters) - In a dusty, dimly lit Kabul basement, British cinema fan club 'Secret Cinema' launched their first movie event outside Britain on Thursday evening, bringing costume, audience participation and light-hearted mystery to the high-security Afghan capital.

Camera traps have revealed a leopard thought locally extinct in Afghanistan, along with other big predators—and a pair of poachers.

Au moins 54 personnes ont été tuées ce mardi matin en Afghanistan dans trois attentats. A Kaboul, un kamikaze s'est fait exploser à l'entrée d'un…

As the Afghan government's Western backers pour in cash, and tens of thousands of foreign soldiers patrol the country, a French human rights activist is trying a new way to break the cycle of violence in Afghanistan: yoga and meditation.

Elle est la seule femme gouverneur d'Afghanistan. A la tête de la province de Bamyan depuis 2005, Habiba Sarabi s'emploie à reconstruire un des pays…

AUSTRALIA'S latest war artist, Ben Quilty, says the Diggers he met in Afghanistan didn't fit the mould of the stereotypical soldier.

LAHORE - After extensive deliberations, the federal cabinet which met here on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani at Governor’s House, took a very bold decision of not attending the forthcoming Bonn Conference on Afghanistan despite calls from Afghan President and the Americans to review the decision. “Pakistan looks forward to the success of this conference...

KABUL (Reuters) - Colin Montgomerie has helped transform soldiers' firing ranges into driving ranges on a trip to Afghanistan to support foreign troops and promote golf in a country with plenty of checkpoints, but few fairways.

Im Frankfurter "Tatort" wird ein Mann tot im Zug aufgefunden. Bald kommt heraus, dass er bei der Bundeswehr in Afghanistan an krummen Geschäften beteiligt war. Die Verbrecherjagd im FOCUS-Online-Ticker von Jörn Dreuw.

The battlefield has always driven innovation in science, medicine and surgery. Roman military medics used tourniquets and ligatures to control blood loss and opium poppies to treat pain.

NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - Up to three million people in Afghanistan are facing hunger, malnutrition and disease after a severe drought wiped out their crops and extreme winter weather risks cutting off their access to vital food aid, a group of aid agencies warned Friday.

Espionage charges against three businessmen accused of selling Zimbabwe state secrets to the US, Canada and Afghanistan have been dropped.

Navy corpsmen assigned to Marine units in Afghanistan have a new tool for numbing the pain of a severe battlefield wound.

In Afghanistan 12 people died today after a demonstration by 2,000 Muslims -- angry that a tiny Florida church burned the Quran -- turned into ...

NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, held his first meeting with President Obama in the White House on March 25, 2009. They discussed the operation in Afghanistan, a priority for NATO and the United States.