Afghanistan Blog Posts

A top US commander in Afghanistan, General Joseph Dunford, rejected the allegations made by afghan president's claim that US and the Taliban are working together to spread fear among Afghans as "categorically false," CBS News reports. Karzai said in...

Article first published as Book Review: Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell & John Bruning on Blogcritics. About: Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan  by Sean Parnell and John Bruning is a non-fict...

The 2013 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier will be played in October 2013 in the UAE and is a part of ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier series. This edition of the qualifier for the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 is an expanded version comprising ten qualifie...

Scotland and Afghanistan are set to lock horns in the first of the crucial fifth round fixtures of the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League (WCL) Championship, which resumes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 6 March after a five-month break.In a fixture...

Red Army conscript Bakhretdin Khakimov who was wounded in 1980 during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and presumed dead by his comrades has been found ALIVE after 33 years. Khakimov 33 years ago [left] - Sheikh Abdullah 33 years later now [ri...

Pakistan since its inception remained in chaos including internal and external contradictions that made it unstable and insecure both at national and international level. Regrettably, the dynamical consequences of international War on Terror (WOT) an...

by Irene Nayebare   His loving grandparents – who were proud to spent most of their lives within the walls of Kibeho Parish – were burned alive while they knelt in front of the altar hailing the Virgin Mary, but this time for their survival.

N’DJAMENA, Chad:...

AFC Challenge Cup Qualifier is second Tier competition of Asia Continent. Twenty Nations from Asia are Grouped in Five Group and winner of each Group will Automatically Qualify for the Final Round that is scheduled for Next Year in Maldives. Maldiv...

Prince Harry makes all the wrong moves. But it's his advisers who are mostly to blame.

GHAZNI, Afghanistan: The...

Maryland Higher Education Commission is offering Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship Program US armed forces personnel who served in the.. [Read Full Scholarship Detail]...

Afghanistan coach Yusef Kargar has announced their preliminary squad for the upcoming AFC Challenge Cup 2014. 35 players have been called up, 14 domestic and 21 abroad players for the upcoming camp in Dubai.  Players from all corners of Afghanistan,...

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  A lot of what we are learning about the Afghan war and the amount of American money spent in NATO countries is all good and well but,  since 2001 there has been no real victory over the Taliban. The great news is  NATO troops will pull out of...

  A lot of what we are learning about the Afghan war and the amount of American money spent in NATO countries is all good and well but,  since 2001 there has been no real victory over the Taliban. The great news is  NATO troops will pull out of...

Elimination of opium economy is a long a complex challenge in Afghanistan. The Khaama Press report on continued opium production in Afghanistan and West’s investment underhand is “the ugly truth behind the international opium policy”. Now that...

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Travel to Afghanistan Oxus River  - Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a part of South Asia. is a part of South Asia. Travel to Afghanistan must be a trip full consideration. The country is seemingly never esca...

As the U.S. withdrawal continues, fewer American troops are dying. But analysts caution that that doesn’t necessarily mean the U.S. and its allies are winning the war. By Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times February 14, 2013, 4:37 p.m. KABUL, A...