Navy pilot earns degree in combat zone
Source: SF Gate
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-17 14:30:44 -0700 | political-news
The Navy lieutenant needed armed guards and an armored car to get to an exam site, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A deadly bomb attack also caused him to his miss classes transmitted live via the Internet but he persevered and earned...
Ultimate tribute to a selfless hero: Parents of British soldier killed while protecting his comrades ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-23 21:54:56 -0700 | political-news
21 May 2013 The mother of a 'supremely courageous and inspiring' British soldier who died protecting the lives of his comrades in a battle with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has spoken of her pride after accepting his posthumous Victoria Cross...
HE Minister of Culture meets Scottish Minister of Extern...
Source: Qatar English Daily
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-21 04:53:01 -0700 | political-news
HE Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage Dr. Hamad bin Abdul Aziz Al Kuwari met here on Tuesday with Scottish Minister of External Affairs and International Development Humza Yousaf, who is in Doha to attend the thirteenth Doha Forum. They...
Obama to nominate new US commander in Republic of Korea
Source: Zee News
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-18 00:58:02 -0700 | political-news
President Barack Obama intends to nominate Army Lt Gen Curtis Scaparrotti to succeed Army Gen. James Thurman as the commander of the US Forces in Korea, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced on Friday at a Pentagon press conference.
Canadian military gear stranded in Afghanistan
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 12:30:58 -0700 | political-news
ET Canadians soldiers load baggage at Kandahar airbase in 2011. Hundreds of shipping containers filled with military supplies remain stranded in Afghanistan. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press) A team of 15 Canadian soldiers has been dispatched to Kandahar on a month-long assignment...
Kabul looking for tripartite mechanism with India and Pakistan
Source: NewKerala
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-23 22:41:10 -0700 | political-news
Abdali has said his copuntry is keen on creating a tripartite mechanism with India and Pakistan that would enhance cooperation between the three nations in the short and long term. Speaking ahead of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit to India...
Flores was quiet soul: Teachers remember Guardsman
Source: Pacific Daily News
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-22 10:04:09 -0700 | political-news
But for some of his teachers, Flores was one of those outstanding students who left an unforgettable mark -- even with the passing of time. The 22-year-old Flores, an Army specialist, and 23-year-old Sgt. Eugene Aguon, both with the Guam...
The History That Birthed the Tsarnaev Boys
Source: Truthdig
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-17 14:19:06 -0700 | political-news
May 17, 2013 Chechen scholar Thomas Goltz gives a historical primer on the centuries old culture and struggle that shaped the Tsarnaev brothers, suspects in the bombings of the Boston Marathon. In an article published in the May 13 issue of The...
Afghan parliament drops law on elimination of violence against women
Source: Pak Tribune
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-21 02:36:10 -0700 | political-news
The law on elimination of violence against women got a negative response from a number of MPs and was dropped from its agenda. The law was to be put for voting in the Parliament but a number of parliamentarians raised...
US-India working on social programmes in developing nations
Source: The Economic Times
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-18 01:12:20 -0700 | political-news
The United States is increasingly working with India to jointly work towards development of social welfare programmes in developing and third-world countries, a top Obama Administration official has said. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific during a...
Guard remembers four fallen
Source: Pacific Daily News
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-24 10:57:48 -0700 | political-news
View Thumbs Written by Pacific Daily News Filed Under Members of the Guam National Guard -- as well as their friends and family -- yesterday gathered in Barrigada to remember four soldiers who were killed in recent years and whose...
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