Presidential Day in Kabul

By: robertweller

      By Robert       Whatever you do, don’t leave your helmet or kevlar behind if you plan to attend today’s presidential hijinks in Afghanistan.       President Hamid Karzai will be sworn in (and sworn is the right word for many who oppose him).  It might remind Americ...

6 days ago

Obama's Afghan Conundrum

By: citizenjournal

As President Barack Obama simultaneously escalates and crafts a new strategy for the US and NATO led-counterinsurgency war and occupation in Afghanistan, critics say that the likely "surge" will send the country toward an 'unmitigated disaster', the brunt of which will be borne by the civilian population. During his presidential campaign, Obama ...

12 days ago

First Afghan died of Swine flu

By: ashrafuddin

KABUL: First case of swine flu pandemic in Afghanistan has appeared when an engineer died of it, health department said Wednesday.Farid Rahid, the health ministry spokesman said that the pried emgineer was the resident of Kabul working with a construction company. Sources said the man who was infected by swine flu died in a Kabul hospital on ...

27 days ago

Afghan seeks more international troops to fight Taliban

By: jonnalagadda3

Afghanistan defence minister has said that thousands of foreign fighters have entered the country to support the Taliban insurgency, seeking more international troops.General Abdul Rahim Wardak told country’s lawmakers in a speech yesterday that about 4,000 fighters, mostly from Pakistan, Chechnya and North Africa have joined the fighting ...

about 1 month ago