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  • 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 ...

  • Talks with Taliban prerogative of Pak govt. says envoy Olson

    US ambassador to Pakistan, Richard Olson has said that holding talks with the Taliban is a prerogative of the Pakistani government. Olson said any reservations regarding these proposed talks will depend on terms and conditions of the dialogue with Taliban, reports the Daily Times. Olson termed the recent general elections as great success of the nation in which democratic forces emerged as ...

  • 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 ...

  • مردم می خواهند خلافت اسلامی

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

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...


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  • 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 ...

  • Terror slay soldier IDd as Lee Rigby - survived Afghan war only be killed by extremist at home

    The solider brutally slaughter on the streets of London was identified today as an Afghan war veteran and loving father of a 2-year-old boy, British military officials said.Lee "Riggers" Rigby, a 25-year-old Manchester native, survived the war in Afghanistan only to be brutally hacked to death in broad daylight in the south central London neighborhood of Woolwich yesterday. His fellow ...

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