Afghanistan World News

The lush valley reveals an area of austere beauty, a place being transformed into an enviable example of ‘green’ energy production, and a model for not only a hopeful nation but perhaps the world. Soldiers, government officials and journalists descended on Panjshir province, Afghanistan, Nov. 13...  

December, Drumheller  

the United States has rejected the new treaty and therefore may legally continue to deploy its vast cluster-bomb arsenal. Russia, China, India, Pakistan and most Middle Eastern states have also refused to give up their weapons despite the lethal danger they pose to civilians. As one of the...  

IDIOT bushie ALLOWED Al Qaida/Taliban leadership ROOM TO MANEUVER after US conquest in Afghanistan... when bushie, cheney, wolfowitz, feith, perle, lieberman, rumsfeld (et al, ad naseum) had their HARD ON to INVADE IRAQ KNOWING that THE CAPTURE/death of bin Laden would UNDERMINE the...  

"James Jones, President-elect Barack Obama's new national security adviser, said a U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan will work only if other changes take hold there, including a strengthening of the judiciary and national police force."  

article on afghanistan governance  

Main dilemma of NATO at the moment is not Eastern Europe. Afghanistan is threatening to grow into the worlds main armed conflict. (RIA Novosti Russian News Agency)  

Bernt Glatzer  

2008/09 - Development and Peace Foundation (SEF), Policy Paper No. 29, Author: Jochen Hippler  

Rebuilding Afghanistan  

Next to the two world wars, the rise and the breakdown of the Soviet Union are probably the most important political events of this century. This breakdown is often attributed to systemic and/or leadership factors. The Afghanistan war, as a key factor for the breakdown, is not emphasized.  

Five leading foreign-policy experts offer their recommendations on dealing with some of the world's most difficult and pressing challenges.  

Only one American serviceman died in Afghanistan in November, a dramatic drop from earlier months that the U.S. military attributed to a campaign targeting insurgent leaders, an improvement in Afghan security forces and the onset of winter.  

Only 1 U.S. death in Afghanistan in Nov. KABUL, Afghanistan — The number of American troops killed in Afghanistan dropped dramatically in November, to one U.S. death.  

Afghan police say a suicide bomber killed 10 civilians during an attack on a police convoy in southern Afghanistan. Local police official Police Chief Assadullah Shairzad says another 27 people, including two policemen, were wounded in Monday's attack.