-
+14 +1
Polio cases: WHO recommends travel restrictions on Pakistan
The WHO recommends Pakistanis traveling abroad should present a polio vaccination certificate.
-
+7 +1
"I'm PTSD — Paid Till Suicide or Death"
An Amtrak train is a terrible place to shoot dope. My seat mate tells me this after the train jerks, causing his syringe to slip from his vein. I take his word for it. Jarek Camac and I are on our way to Los Angeles. For Jarek, a decorated Army combat veteran, it’s a trip meant to both figuratively and literally deliver him from addiction to sobriety, from his old life of using in Delaware to a clean life in California.
-
+7 +1
Karzai refused to meet Obama at Bagram Air Base, says US official
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was offered a meeting with President Barack Obama at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul but declined, a US official said Sunday. The official said that Washington was not surprised that the meeting did not work out at short notice, after Obama arrived at the base on a surprise visit after night fell on Sunday.
-
+49 +1
American P.O.W. Is Freed in Trade With the Taliban
The lone American prisoner of war from the Afghan conflict, captured by insurgents nearly five years ago, has been released to American forces in exchange for five Taliban prisoners held at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility, Obama administration officials said Saturday.
-
+17 +1
Afghan woman sets husband on fire for failing to protect her from rapist
An Afghan woman set her husband on fire for failing to take action after she was raped in their rural community. The New York Times reports that the rape took place in the home of an Afghani woman named Zahra on Friday, May 23 while her husband, Najibullah, was away at work. The attacker was a neighbor.
-
+15 +1
From prayers to fury: The journey of Bowe Bergdahl
Bowe Bergdahl stands, hands at his sides, his loose-fitting Pashtun smock and pants bright white against the rocky landscape. The hillsides are dotted with armed Afghans, rifles ready.
-
+19 +1
Afghanistan goes to the polls in second round of presidential election
Afghans headed to the polls on Saturday morning to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai and seal the first ever democratic transfer of power in the country's history. The run-off election is the second voting day in less than three months after no candidate won more than 50% in the April poll.
-
+14 +1
Taliban target voters in Afghanistan, kill 50, mutilate 11
Election officials overseeing Afghanistan's first democratic transfer of power sifted through scores of fraud complaints on Sunday as they began a lengthy vote count, after insurgents killed at least 50 people on polling day.
-
+21 +1
Taliban slice off 11 people's fingers as punishment for voting
The barbaric attacks were in the western Herat province after Saturday’s vote, according to police. In violence marring the poll, another 47 people died in a series of rocket barrages and scattered attacks.
-
+15 +1
The Men Who Run Afghanistan
A mellowed academic, a ruthless general, a shadowy spy: Inside Hamid Karzai's inner circle
-
+17 +1
Taliban insurgents set oil tankers ablaze in Afghanistan
Taliban insurgents set fire on Saturday to about 200 oil tanker trucks supplying fuel for NATO forces in an attack just outside the Afghan capital Kabul, police said.Television footage
-
+19 +1
Gunmen attack airport in Afghan capital
Gunmen launched a pre-dawn attack on the Kabul International Airport in the Afghan capital on Thursday, raining down rockets, setting off a gunbattle with security forces and forcing the airport to close for hours, officials said.
-
+13 +1
Family considers killing 10-year-old daughter after mullah rapes her in Afghanistan mosque
The accused mullah claimed that it had been consensual sex, but the girl bled so profusely after the attack that she was at one point in danger of losing her life.
-
+22 +1
Death sentence given in AP photographer's killing
A Kabul court announced Wednesday that the Afghan police officer charged with killing Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus and wounding veteran AP correspondent Kathy Gannon has been convicted and sentenced to death.
-
+19 +1
The cave dwellers of Bamiyan
The sandstone cliffs of Afghanistan's Bamiyan province are most famous for the giant 6th century Buddha statues carved out of the rock and destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. The monks who created them also dug out numerous caves in the Bamiyan valley. Originally used for meditation and retreat, some of these caves are now home to around 700 Afghan families who have no land and can't afford conventional housing.
-
+16 +1
Hundreds of Taliban fighters battle Afghan forces near Kabul
As many as 700 heavily armed Taliban insurgents are battling Afghan security forces in Logar, a key province near the capital Kabul, local officials said on Tuesday.
-
+23 +1
$1 Trillion in Rare Minerals Found Under Afghanistan
Despite being one of the poorest nations in the world, Afghanistan may be sitting on one of the richest troves of minerals in the world, valued at nearly $1 trillion, according to U.S. scientists.
-
+22 +1
Tourism After the Taliban
Wedged between the Hindu Kush and Koh-i-Baba mountain ranges in the central highlands of Afghanistan, Bamiyan is a sleepy, unimposing town. In the afternoon, when the sun throws a golden glow on the cliffs, the men return from the fields to the whiff of kebab smoke on the main street. Boys riding cheap Iranian motorbikes kick up the dust that settles over roadside stalls, coating vegetables in grit.
-
+17 +1
Ghani sworn in as Afghan president
Ashraf Ghani has been sworn in as Afghanistan's new president, replacing Hamid Karzai in the country's first democratic transfer of power. The Kabul ceremony followed six months of deadlock amid a bitter dispute over electoral fraud and a recount of votes. Under a US-brokered unity deal Mr Ghani shares power with runner-up Abdullah Abdullah who becomes chief executive.
-
+19 +1
British PM Cameron arrives in Afghanistan to meet unity government
British Prime Minister David Cameron made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Friday to meet with the new unity government, the first major Western leader to visit since an election crisis was resolved, easing threats of armed conflict.
Submit a link
Start a discussion