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KABUL, November 25 (RIA Novosti) - Human rights activists have noted a large-scale growth in violence toward Afghan women, hundreds of whom are beaten, intimidated or sexually assaulted by men daily. According to figures from...
The Afghan government and the U.S. military are pursuing an effort to lure low-level insurgents with job offers and other incentives, and split them from their Taliban leaders. In his second inaugural last week, President Hamid...
Brisbane Times US pours millions into anti-Taliban militias in Afghanistan guardian.co.uk A former Taliban fighter hands over his arms to join government troops in Herat. Photograph: Reza Shirmohammadi/AFP/Getty Images US...
Bomb blast kills five Afghan border policemen India Business Blog (blog) by DPA on November 22, 2009 Kandahar, Nov 16 (DPA) Dozens of Taliban fighters stormed a security post in southern Afghanistan and killed eight policemen,...
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...
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 (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...
The earlier attack in Farah province killed at least 16 and injured 20 A controversial former Afghan warlord has narrowly escaped an assassination attempt which killed at least five of his bodyguards, police say. Abdul Rasul...
