Photo: Google Images Iran’s officially recognized “spiritual leader” today may be Ayatollah Khamenei, but for hundreds of years before the current establishment of mullahs and ayatollahs, Iranians of all creeds […]
A former US assassination drone pilot says he quit the force after feeling “numb” about seeing a child and other civilians blown away in his remote bombing of targets in […]
By Atia Abawi and Fazal Ahad, NBC News KABUL, Afghanistan — Six Americans were killed when a suicide bomber targeted a convoy carrying foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, according to a NATO source. The victims included two soldiers and four civilian contractors, the source added. Officials said at least […]
Source:The Local Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere have arrived in Afghanistan for a surprise visit, a German government spokesman said early Friday. More:
Reuters, London – Alarabiya.net Three men who worked as interpreters for British forces in Afghanistan began a legal challenge on Friday to win the right to live in Britain, arguing […]
Afghan President Hamid Karzai Source: BBC The Afghan president has admitted his office received secret payments from the US, but says the amounts were small and used legitimately. Hamid Karzai was […]
Source: TOI KABUL: The Taliban in Afghanistan vowed on Saturday to start a new campaign of mass suicide attacks on foreign military bases and diplomatic areas, as well as damaging “insider attacks”, as part of a new spring offensive this year. The offensive was announced via emails from Taliban spokesmen. […]
Source: The daily beast. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s diplomatic initiative to host talks between Afghan and Pakistani leaders in Brussels this week was a timely step meant to reset tense relations between the two South Asian neighbors, and revive stalled talks with the Taliban as the 2014 deadline […]
Source: NY Times: KABUL — A civilian helicopter made a forced landing because of bad weather in an insurgent-held area of eastern Afghanistan late Sunday and the three crew members and their passengers may have been abducted, said local officials and the helicopter company that operated the aircraft. More:
Source: Daily Beast: As the spring weather warms and the snow melts off the high mountain passes separating Pakistan and Afghanistan, hundreds of Taliban fighters who spent the winter in Afghan refugee camps and other safe havens inside Pakistan are preparing to return to battle. But this year some insurgents […]
Source: Huff Post by Sunil Sharan via Wasim Srroya The Afghan endgame is nigh, but India and Pakistan, instead of calming the region, are playing cat and mouse. As America cuts and runs from Afghanistan, Pakistan exults, having defeated a superpower for the second time in a quarter century. In […]
Source: A times: By M K Bhadrakumar Writing in the Los Angeles Times a year ago, predicting with extraordinary prescience how exasperating the American efforts to negotiate an Afghan settlement would turn out to be when the crunch time comes, Peter Tomsen who was president Ronald Reagan’s special envoy to […]
(CNN) — From Masoud Popalzai A policeman sacrificed his life for the sake of others, embracing a suicide bomber in southeast Afghanistan on Saturday morning to dull the blast as […]
Last year’s massacre in Kandahar by a US soldier is far from forgotten. The families of the victims continue to demand justice and observers fear there could be an uprising. Samiullah cannot forget how the members of his family lay there in a pool of blood. The images continue to […]
Reuters | Mar 07, 2013 | 22:32 JORDAN TIMES MOSCOW — A Soviet war veteran reported missing in action during fighting in Afghanistan 33 years ago has been found living […]
Mar 7, 2013 – 18:42 By Mark Hosenball and Daniel Trotta WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors unsealed an indictment against a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden on Thursday that charged him with conspiracy to kill Americans, after U.S. government sources said he was arrested overseas and brought to New […]
Source: Asia Times. By Derek Henry Flood In his February 12 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama outlined the beginning of the end of American participation in Afghanistan’s now decades long civil war. The US would endure a phased troop withdrawal meant to halve the presence of American […]
In these days of Sunni – Shiah tension we should all study a bit more both the historical and present day reasons for the Sunni – Shiah ‘split’. I have therefore taken the liberty to draw your attention to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi’a%E2%80%93Sunni_relations and encourage all readers of The Muslim Times to study […]