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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.

Activista por los derechos del colectivo LGTB, la mediática hija del actual presidente cubano irrita por igual al sector más cavernario de los exiliados y al más talibán del partido comunista

QUETTA - Taliban kidnappers killed another abducted employee of Balochistan Rural Support Programme (BRSP) after not being paid ransom money. Six employees of BRSP were kidnapped by a group of armed men from Barshore area of Pishin district, about 70-kilometer away from Quetta, on December 13th, 2011 and they were shifted to Waziristan. The kidnapped BRSP employees included Bashir Ahmed, Abdul ...

Private Chris Kershaw (pictured), 19, was buried with full military honours at his funeral at the church of Holy Trinity in the village of Idle, near Bradford, West Yorkshire.

As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls?

The Pakistani doctor sentenced to 33 years for treason after being recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden is in poor health and under medical watch, officials told AFP on Thursday.

Toxic powder used to contaminate air in girls' classrooms, leaving scores of students unconscious in Takhar province.

Plus de 120 écolières et trois enseignantes ont été empoisonnées, probablement par des taliban, en Afghanistan. Une poudre toxique a en effet été…

Der eine will nicht, der andere kann nicht so recht: Nach Oskar Lafontaines Verzicht gilt Dietmar Bartsch als Favorit für den Parteivorsitz bei den Linken. Jetzt streben allerdings zwei Frauen an die Spitze.Mehr zum ThemaOskar Lafontaine verzichtet auf Parteivorsitz - Weibliche Doppelspitze soll die Linke rettenVorbereitungen laufen auf Hochtouren - Nordkorea reißt ganzes Dorf für Raketentests ...

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, Afghanistan (AP) -- The NATO summit's plan to "responsibly wind down" the Afghan war is not entirely in the hands of President Barack Obama and his fellow world leaders....

In rural Afghanistan a fierce battle is going on between the Taliban and country's government. And the victims in this battle, it seems, are school children.

Military officers to begin planning a post-2014 mission to focus on training, advising and assisting Afghan troops to ensure the government can ward off Taliban insurgency.

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...

US president urges Afghan counterpart to implement electoral reform, cut out corruption and press Taliban for settlementBarack Obama pressed the Afghanistan leader Hamid Karzai at the Nato summit in Chicago on Sunday to engage with greater urgency in secret talks with the Taliban about a political settlement.Obama also urged Karzai to implement electoral reforms to cut down in the 2014 presiden...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO leaders gathered in Chicago on Sunday to chart a path out of Afghanistan as war-weary Western nations seek to fend off dissent in their alliance and ensure Afghanistan can hold a still-potent Taliban at bay when foreign troops withdraw.

Nato leaders gather in Chicago today for a summit that will chart a path out of Afghanistan, as Western nations seek to fend off fissures in their alliance and ensure Afghanistan can hold a still-potent Taliban at bay when foreign troops withdraw.

Nato leaders gather in Chicago today for a summit that will chart a path out of Afghanistan, as Western nations seek to fend off fissures in their alliance and ensure Afghanistan can hold a still-potent Taliban at bay when foreign troops withdraw.

While the Taliban publicly disavowed the new group, Mullah Dadullah Front, Afghan intelligence officials depicted it as a faction of the Taliban.

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,...

Responding to a report in a French daily about threat from Taliban to the Indian mission in Paris, the government on Friday said its embassy there was in touch with relevant French authorities for its security.

"Sie werden uns jagen und töten": Hunderte afghanische Helfer der Bundeswehr fürchten die Rache der Taliban, wenn die Soldaten abgezogen sind. Denn die Extremisten halten sie für Verräter. Die deutschen Behörden stellen sich bereits auf eine Visa-Antragswelle ein.

TWO US troops were killed today in a Taliban rocket attack on a NATO base in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar.

During the ten and a half years that Americans have been fighting in Afghanistan, as tens of thousands of troops have rotated in and out of the combat zone, only one soldier has ever been captured by the Taliban. His name is Bowe Bergdahl, and since June 30, 2009, he has been America’s last living Prisoner of War.Read More...More on Missing Persons

Afghan women are more and more taking part in sports in public since the fall of the Taliban 10 years ago.

Husband of woman killed on 9/11 reportedly offers to testify against putting alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, pictured right in courtroom sketch, and four accomplices to death.Family Seeks Justice for 9/11 VictimMember Says Majority of Taliban Wants a Peace SettlementYemeni Troops Pound Al Qaeda Militants, Kill 30

Bowe Bergdahl, who is being held prisoner by Afghan militants, saw enlisting in the Army as a way to find a direction, relatives say.

KABUL — A former Taliban leader-turned peace negotiator was assassinated Sunday by three unidentified gunmen in a brazen attack in the Afghan capital, hours before leaders here announced the next phase in the country's security transition. Read full article >>

<img style="float:left; margin-right:5px" src="http://images.zeit.de/news/../publishedPictures/jpeg-14815A00A1B567D1-20120513-img_36519114_onlineBild.jpg-148x84.jpg"/>Kabul (dpa) - Die Bemühungen der afghanischen Regierung um eine Aussöhnung mit den Taliban haben erneut einen Rückschlag erlitten. Acht Monate nach dem Mord an Ex-Präsident Burhanuddin Rabbani wurde ...

Arsala Rahmani was a former Taliban official who reconciled with the government and was active in trying to set up formal talks with the insurgents.

Gunmen shot dead Maulvi Arsala Rahmani in the capital Kabul, dealing another blow to the country’s attempts to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban

Rückschlag für Dialog mit den Taliban

Arsala Rahmani was a former Taliban official who reconciled with the government and was active in trying to set up formal talks with the insurgents.

A new anthology of insurgent poetry, just published in Britain, is being received with both appreciation and anger. The poems themselves show how the Taliban's public bravado and severe Islamic code are sometimes at odds with its fighters' ruminations.

The parents of Bowe Bergdahl, the only US soldier held by the Taliban, go public on their frustration with the pace of US efforts to have him freed.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Frustrated by what they said are stalled efforts to free a U.S. soldier taken prisoner three years ago in Afghanistan, the man's parents have gone public with previously secret U.S. attempts to trade him for Taliban prisoners in U.S. hands....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The family of Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier held prisoner by the Taliban since 2009, says it is frustrated that more than a year of covert diplomacy has been unable to free their son and is urging the Obama administration to push harder for his release.

MIRANSHAH - Taliban militants killed 14 soldiers in Miranshah, beheaded all but one of them and hung two of the heads from wooden poles in the centre of town, officials said Monday.The killings in Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area, highlight the situation facing the military in dealing with the militancy.The US has repeatedly demanded that Pakistan launch an offensive...

MIRANSHAH - Taliban militants killed 14 soldiers in Miranshah, beheaded all but one of them and hung two of the heads from wooden poles in the centre of town, officials said Monday.The killings in Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area, highlight the situation facing the military in dealing with the militancy.The US has repeatedly demanded that Pakistan launch an offensive...

The killings in the main town of the North Waziristan tribal area are a further demonstration of heightened tensions in the region as militants continue to attack security forces.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that the Taliban is growing in strength and the insurgency in Afghanistan may not be defeated before the U.S. withdraws its troops. “President [Hamid] Karzai believes that the Taliban will not come back. I’m not so sure,” Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on CNN's "State of the Union." She said the Taliban has a “shadow” ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Taliban is stronger now than before President Barack Obama ordered a surge of troops to Afghanistan, two senior U.S. lawmakers said on Sunday, contradicting the administration's assessment of the insurgency.

A British publisher is preparing to release a collection of poems authored by Afghanistan's Taliban.

KABUL (Reuters) - Spot made the clandestine journey from the Afghan Taliban stronghold of Helmand to the capital Kabul, where he is undergoing medical treatment before moving to the United States to...

Bei einem Selbstmordanschlag der radikalislamischen Taliban sind fast zwei Dutzend Menschen ums Leben gekommen - viele der Opfern sind Schulkinder.

Zwei Stammesälteste, die sich gegen die Taliban ausgesprochen hatten, wurden durch einen Anschlag getötet. Noch hat sich niemand zu den Morden bekannt. mehr...

Hours after President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed a strategic pact, the Taliban issued its deadly response.

Suicide bombers attacked a compound housing westerners in Kabul yesterday, just hours after US president Barack Obama signed a security pact during a short visit to a city that remains vulnerable to a resilient insurgency.

Obama verspricht in Kabul dem kriegsmüden Amerika, er sehe schon das Ende des Krieges nahen. Am neuen Morgen lassen die Taliban Bomben sprechen.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack which involved a car bomb and insurgents disguised as women on the eastern outskirts of the capital, killing seven people, a Gurkha guard and six passers-by, and wounding 17

Taliban insurgents announced Wednesday they would launch their "spring offensive" across Afghanistan on Thursday.

The new U.S.-Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement sends a powerful message to Afghans, al Qaeda and the Taliban, our neighbors, and the world.

Maybe the reason that the Afghan counterinsurgency has been such a flop is that the people there are too traumatized and depressed to make nation-building work. More »

Maybe the reason that the Afghan counterinsurgency has been such a flop is that the people there are too traumatized and depressed to make nation-building work. That's the controversial conclusion of an Air Force colonel who recently spent a year in Afghanistan as the head of a reconstruction team.

Earlier, two Taliban militants hiding small guns in their shoes slipped into a provincial governor's compound in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, setting off a fierce gun battle that left two security guards and both attackers dead

Am Donnerstag wurde der "Wiener Taliban" Mohamed M. in Deutschland mit einem Aufenthaltsverbot belegt. Nach Österreich kehrt der radikale Islamist aber offenbar nicht zurück. Stattdessen soll er mit seiner Frau nach Kairo geflogen sein, berichtete das Ö1-"Mittagsjournal" am Freitag. Eine offizielle Bestätigung für seine Ausreise aus Deutschland gab es vorerst jedoch nicht.

KABUL (Reuters) - Hackers have for the third time in less than a year crippled the main website of the Afghan Taliban, with a Taliban spokesman on Friday blaming Western intelligence agencies amid an intensifying cyber war with the insurgents.

The Afghan wing of the terrorist group Taliban appealed to the Muslim world asking for financial help. In a message posted on its website, the Taliban displayed telephone hotline and e-mails, and noted that the funds raised will be used to help the soldiers of jihad against the non-Muslim "invaders"

Jeremiah Cornelius writes "While conducting investigative reporting on civilian contractors in the Pentagon's "InfoOps" Internet propaganda operations, two reporters found themselves the subject of a highly targeted, professional media manipulation effort. Reporter Tom Vanden Brook and Editor Ray Locker found that Twitter and Facebook accounts have been created in their names, along with a Wiki...

The guests on the Sunday political talk shows include Obama campaign chief strategist David Axelrod on NBC’s Meet the press and CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley. A host of lawmakers who work on national security affairs will appear on the shows to discuss the secret service scandal in Colombia and the photos the LA Times ran of U.S. service members posing with dead Taliban fighters. ...

DEFENCE Minister says photos showing US soldiers with the remains of suspected Taliban suicide bombers in Afghanistan are "terrible".

Want to undermine the Taliban, curb the heroin trade and boost supplies of medical morphine? Buy Afghanistan's opium crop.

For Taliban militants and U.S. strategists alike, all roads in this impoverished country of mountain passes, arid deserts and nearly impassable goat tracks lead to this ancient capital of 3 million people nestled in a high and narrow valley.

18 Stunden lang versetzten die Taliban mit ihren Angriffen afghanische Städte in Angst und Schrecken. Nun hat Präsident Hamid Karsai Vorwürfe gegen Nato und Geheimdienste erhoben. Er hält sie für mitverantwortlich, bleibt aber vage.

Afghanistan says its regained control of Kabul, killing all the Taliban militants who launched one of the biggest attacks on the city in a decade.

Die Taliban greifen das Botschaftsviertel in Kabul an. In Pakistan befreien sie hunderte ihrer Kameraden aus einem Gefängnis. In verschiedenen Teilen des Landes flammen Kämpfe auf. Die Frühjahrsoffen...

In Kabul und in mehreren Provinzhauptstädten hatten die Taliban am Wochenende zugeschlagen. Auch die deutsche Botschaft geriet ins Fadenkreuz. Erst nach 18 Stunden konnten die Angriffe niedergeschlagen werden.

Los talibanes iniciaron este domingo una "ofensiva de primavera" en Afganistán con seis ataques coordinados, tres de ellos en Kabul contra el Parlamento, un vicepresidente y varias embajadas.

par Hamid Shalizi et Jack Kimball KABOUL (Reuters) - Les taliban afghans...

His voice quivering, Marine Cpl. Joseph Orr spoke Thursday of the death of his friend and fellow scout-sniper in Afghanistan. “I broke down in tears when I heard about his death,” Orr said. “It hurt, and it’s painful. I love you, and I miss you, Ben.” Lance Cpl. Benjamin Schmidt  was one of five Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment killed during the battalion’s recent deployment ...

Die Taliban nannte man früher Mudschahedin (oder wie auch immer geschrieben), also Freiheitskämpfer. das war, als die gegen die bösen Russen kämpften. Heute sind die gleichen Leute Terroristen..... Der 'Mudschahedin' als Dschihadist und Kämpfer Allahs ist nie als 'Freiheitskämpfer' zu verstehen gewesen. - Der Rest deutet leider ebenfalls auf politisches Mangelwissen hin, sonst würde Dr. W näher...

Four Afghan policemen were killed on Friday as the Taliban have stepped up their attacks against government and NATO troops.

Release Time:  For Immediate Release Via Conference Call 6:15 P.M. KST MR. RHODES:  Hi, everybody.  Thanks for getting on this call.  I just wanted to read out the President’s meeting with Prime Minister Gilani.  This meeting (inaudible) to discuss the importance that they place on nuclear security and the need to maintain vig...

Neuf soldats, dont un de l’Otan, ont été tués par une mine artisanale dans la province de Kandahar, bastion taliban du sud de l’Afghanistan. ...lire la suitehistoires liées09:07 La compagne d’Abdelkader Merah libérée09:13 Santorum remporte la primaire de Louisiane10:05 Aung San Suu Kyi annule la fin de sa campagne pour raisons de santé10:01 NBA : les résultats de samedi soir10:19 Début du secon...

Welcome to the all-Carolina-most-of-the-time edition of Bracket Racket, your one-stop shopping for all things NCAA on tournament game days....

FACED WITH the difficult task of defending the U.S. mission in Afghanistan after a series of setbacks, Gen. John R. Allen underlined Tuesday some of the good news that has been overlooked recently. Testifying to the House Armed Services Committee, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan pointed out that the Taliban has been greatly weakened by a NATO offensive in the south and by special forces o...

Killing of civilians makes it impossible for US to contact and negotiate with the Taliban, and hard to withdraw moothly.

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 ...

Rich Oppel performs the courtesy of quoting me at length in his New York Times story on the GOP candidates and their newfound dovishness on Afghanistan.  My contribution: Amid a series of bloody and troubling episodes in Afghanistan that have inflamed Afghan opinion against the United States, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are now calling for a reassessment of American policy the...

L'auteur du massacre de seize civils afghans devrait être traduit devant une cour martiale. Les taliban ont menacé mardi de décapiter des militaires américains en représailles.Articles en rapportSyrie : découverte de dizaines de cadavres à HomsWashington et Kaboul sur le fil du rasoirUn général pakistanais sur les traces de Ben LadenSyrie : Moscou et Pékin ne se laissent pas fléchir à l'ONUTurq...

Die Taliban wollen nach den tödlichen Schüssen eines US-Soldaten auf 16 Zivilisten Vergeltung üben. Unterdessen haben afghanische Politiker die Einzeltäterthese angezweifelt.

Taliban militants are threatening to carry out fresh attacks if the three widows of Osama Bin Laden are not released by Pakistani authorities.

The families of some of the six British soldiers killed by a Taliban bomb in southern Afghanistan pay tribute to their bravery and humour.

David Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary, has called for engagement with the Taliban, after the militant group planted a roadside bomb that killed six British soldiers in Afghanistan.

The odds were against them: Taliban suicide bombers laid siege to their rehearsal space and the search for actresses in ultra-conservative Afghanistan was arduous.

NATO recalls staff in Kabul ministries following shooting; Taliban claim responsibility for deadly attack.

As the U.S. eyes an exit from Afghanistan, speculation swirls over a potential deal between the country’s leadership and the Taliban

The number of civilian casualties resulting from the conflict in Afghanistan has risen for a fifth consecutive year, the United Nations reported today, blaming a change in tactics by the Taliban and other anti-Government forces for the higher death toll.

[[357587]] KABOUL (AFP) : Il était l'un des hommes les plus craints du régime taliban, le chef de "la police des vices et vertus", qui terrorisait intellectuels, femmes ou simples téléspectateurs; il est désormais membre du Haut conseil pour la paix, nommé par le président afghan Hamid Karzaï, pour...

Seit Jahren müht sich die internationale Streitmacht, demokratische Werte in Afghanistan zu etablieren. Doch weil der Staat noch immer heillos korrupt ist, sind auch die Taliban so mächtig wie zu Beginn der Mission.

This story is from the May 19 2005 issue of Rolling Stone Pul-e-Charkhi Prison a vast crumbling Afghan fortress twenty miles outside of Kabul is not an easy place for an American to wind up Its dank cellblocks house scores of Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters Pul-e-Charkhi is also home to...

Former officials said Taliban negotiators traveled to Qatar for discussions with American officials that included a possible prisoner transfer.

India has sought a cautious approach on the US-backed peace talks with the Taliban, warning against a victory for the "dark forces of terrorism" if such negotiations are put on a fast track.

[[351514]] KABOUL (AFP) : Le visionnage de la vidéo de soldats américains urinant sur des cadavres afghans est, d'après lui, ce qui a poussé le meurtrier des soldats français à passer à l'acte vendredi, et non son éventuelle appartenance au mouvement taliban, ont déclaré à l'AFP des sources...

Le visionnage de la vidéo de soldats américains urinant sur des cadavres afghans est, d'après lui, ce qui a poussé le meurtrier des soldats français à passer à l'acte vendredi, et non son éventuelle appartenance au mouvement taliban, ont déclaré à l'AFP des sources sécuritaires.Articles en rapportEgypte: les islamistes remportent plus des deux tiers des sièges de députésAfghanistan: un «taliban...

KABUL - Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have been enraged by a video which shows US marines urinating on 3 corpses, believed to be insurgents, and some say they do not understand their leadership’s relatively measured response to the tape. News of the clip spread fast across Afghanistan, even though only a minority of people have electricity and the internet is restricted to a tiny urban ... ...

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.)

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton isn't too thrilled about the recent antics of the Marines. News has spread that soldiers were caught urinating on dead Taliban fighters. Hilary states that she is in dismay and does not acceptable the "deplorable behavior" of the troops. She goes on to say that the United States will continue to help Afghanistan's [...]

Desecration of dead bodies, appalling as it is, shouldn’t derail peace work being done in Qatar - or overshadow the Taliban’s lethal campaign against civilians

Marine Corps to investigate a web video that appears to show soldiers in Afghanistan urinating on corpses of alleged Taliban fighters.

As the insurgents say, the U.S. has the watches but the Taliban has the time.The Taliban's on-again, off-again approach to negotiations on a political settlement appears to be on again. Or so it seems from the announcement that it will open an office in Qatar to have a secure "address" (this seems to be the prevailing diplomatic term of art) from which it can participate in talks.

I am getting a little tired of people abusing me for pouring my heart out on this blog. Why? The girls don’t have a problem with the life I am leading. They seem to have a problem with my writing about it. I don’t understand why. I value my privacy and therefore, it is an anonymous blog. But why are these women acting like my mother? She is the only one allowed to approve or disapprove my ...

El comerciante afgano Nasratullah Niazai ha construido un nuevo y pujante negocio en el último año. Por US$2 por vez, carga en los móviles de los clientes una colección de canciones y timbres talibanes.

Sen. Joe Lieberman is calling on Twitter to block accounts affiliated with the Taliban and accounts that support the organization. The ch…

KABUL (AFP) - The Afghan government on Saturday denied making a deal with the Taliban agreeing a more conservative curriculum and more mullahs as teachers in return for an end to attacks on schools.Responding to a report released by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN), the Afghan ministry of education said it would not cut any deal which could jeopardise the school system. The AAN report, pu...

LAHORE – Recently, the carefully planted rumours in the international media that Pakistan is engaged in talks with the Taliban have been denied not only by Pakistan but also by the Taliban. Defence and security experts believe the irony is that while the US pursues Pakistan to hunt down Taliban leaders allegedly hiding in Pakistan, Washington wants to talk to them. The US is prepared to offer m...

Our Staff ReporterKARACHI - The widow of deceased operative of Punjabi Taliban Qari Shahid confessed to have facilitated different terrorist outfits involved in different acts of terrorism.Sources privy to the matter disclosed that Sabiha, wife of Qari Shahid was picked up following the shootout in which three operatives of Punjabi Taliban were killed.She was picked up from her in Gulshan-e-Had...

Zubaida Akbar lebt gefährlich: Sie kämpft in Afghanistan gegen Belästigungen, Dreck und Elend, die Taliban. Ihre Religion schützt sie dabei - noch. Von I. Müller, Kabul

“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood”, is a quote from the first Afghan novel to be written in English—Kite Runner, which depicts a heartbreaking story, against the backdrop of tumultuous events involving the fall of the Afghan monarchy, the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the USA, as well as the rise and fall of the Taliban regime after...

Apart from passing acquaintances at school and work, I didn’t actually know any real Republicans until I married into a conservative Catholic family. Holiday conversations shifted from the familiar (meditation, magic and global warming), to the unfamiliar (guns, the evil legacy of Jimmy Carter, and the importance of building a better fence along the U.S.-Mexico border).My parents raised me to s...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Herman Cain suggested Friday that the Taliban were playing a role in Libya's new government. The comment initially was seen as another foreign policy misstep from the Republican presidential candidate, but aides later pointed to a one-time Libyan rebel leader who fought in Afghanistan to back up Cain's claims....

Soldaten, Burkas, Taliban: Unser Bild von Afghanistan ist oft einseitig. Der Filmemacher Lukas Augustin hat einen famosen Kurzfilm gedreht, der eine andere Seite zeigt.