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  • UN plans six-day mission to Afghanistan Pakistan

    Beijing, May 24 (Xinhua-ANI): Humanitarian emergency directors from various UN agencies will travel on a six-day mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan, the United Nations said Thursday. During the visit from May 26 to June 1, the directors will see for themselves "the ongoing humanitarian operations in the countries and look into ways in which the humanitarian community can strengthen its ...

  • Taliban influence in Afghanistan to grow Russian agency

    The Taliban influence in Afghanistan may grow after international coalition forces pull out, while rising radicalism in Syria could lead to the country's disintegration, Russian military intelligence agency GRU has said. GRU chief Lt. Gen. Igor Sergun said the situation in Afghanistan poses a "serious challenge to international stability" and that the withdrawal of the International Security ...

  • Women on the Afghan frontlines to fight Taliban

    Kabul: The women of Afghanistan have the worst to fear from the return of the Taliban, but not everyone is waiting for someone else to write the script of their lives. On the outskirts of Kabul, at the special forces base, we meet Najla, one of the first and few female soldiers in Afghanistan. Najla has taken part in every operation of her unit and is getting ready to fight the extremists who ...

  • مردم می خواهند خلافت اسلامی

    مردم می خواهند خلافت اسلامی برای شغل برای تولید انرژی برای ...

  • Woolwich attack Drummer Lee Rigby feared for his girlfriend in Afghanistan MI5 had investigated suspects

    MURDERED soldier Lee Rigbys girlfriend was flying back to the UK from serving in the Afghanistan warzone, after the 25-year-old was hacked to death on the streets of London. The cruel twist between the military couple came as tributes poured in for dad Lee, 25, a Drummer who served in Helmand in 2009, The Sun reports. Two terror suspects shot by police in Woolwich were still under arrest in ...

  • Intelligence Analyst Obama Made A Promise He Cant Keep

    Anthony Cordesman is a former director of intelligence assessment for the U.S. secretary of defense’s office and a recipient of the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal. He now holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He gave RFE/RL Washington Bureau Chief Heather Maher his thoughts ...


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  • Pen pals reunited Reservists from Afghanistan meet the sixth-graders who wrote them letters

    Navy reservist Joes Boza does pushups with 6th graders (red shirt) Alex Garbee and (stripped shirt) Kaelan Joseph as their classmates from Pembroke Pines Charter Middle School watched Thursday morning during a visit. The school wrote letters to naval reservists on tour in Afghanistan. The soldiers recently made the trip home and offered to visit the students that wrote them every few weeks. The ...

  • Head of Afghanistan Turkish Industrialists Businessmens Association was kidnapped…

    KABUL - A Turkish businessman was kidnapped by armed assailants in Afghanistan late on Sunday.Sami Yavuz, head of Afghanistan Turkish Industrialists & Businessmen's Association, was kidnapped at around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday.Armed assailants forced 41-year-old Yavuz to get on a car, and kidnapped him in Kabul.Yavuz has been living in Kabul with his family for more than ten years.Afghan ...

  • Pizza delivery to U.S. service members in Afghanistan dubbed largest

    Mark Evans , a retired Air Force master sergeant and founder of nonprofit group Pizza 4 Patriots, said Guinness officials notified him that last summer's massive pizza delivery to U.S. service members in Kandahar, Bagram and Camp Bastion was officially the world's largest pizza delivery, ABC News reported Thursday. Evans said he is "completely pleased and overwhelmed" by the ...

  • Afghan Law on Elimination of Violence against Women is aimed at Importing More Western Liberal Values into Afghanistan through the Back Door

    On the 18th of May, the BBC, CBC, the UK Guardian and many news outlets worldwide reported that the debate in the Afghan Parliament regarding the Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women (LEVAW) was halted by some Afghan lawmakers who argued that some parts of it violate Islamic principles. The law took effect in 2009 by a decree by President Hamid Karzai but was not ratified by Parliament. ...

  • Soldier killed in Woolwich attack identified as veteran of Afghanistan

    Afghanistan . Army officials said Lee Rigby, 25, nicknamed Riggers, was married with a 2-year-old son, The Guardian reported. He enlisted in 2006 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009. Rigby, apparently targeted because he was wearing a T-shirt for the soldiers' charity Help for Heroes, was hacked to death Wednesday outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in the Woolwich district of ...

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