French Aid Worker Released In Kabul
PARIS — A French aid worker kidnapped at gunpoint in the Afghan capital and later seen in an emotional hostage video was released by his captors...
PARIS — A French aid worker kidnapped at gunpoint in the Afghan capital and later seen in an emotional hostage video was released by his captors...
AP | Posted 12.03.2008 | World
PARIS — A French aid worker kidnapped at gunpoint in the Afghan capital and later seen in an emotional hostage video was released by his captors...
AP | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan police say a suicide car bomb has exploded about 200 yards (meters) outside the main entrance to the U.S. Embassy in...
AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 11.17.2008 | Home
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban militants rejected an offer of peace talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, saying Monday there would be no n...
Asma Nemati | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
November 4, 2008 Today I experienced probably the most exciting event in my life; elections. Voting in a presidential election for the first time in...
AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics
KABUL, Afghanistan — A security guard working for the international shipping company DHL opened fire Saturday, killing the company's country dir...
Asma Nemati | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics
About a week ago I was able to attend the Obama rally in Kabul, "Burgers and Brewskies for Barak in Kabul." Yes, that's right, an Obama rally smack in...
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 08.24.2008 | Home
KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents once derided as a ragtag rabble unable to match U.S. troops have transformed into a fighting force _ one...
AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 08.17.2008 | Politics
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan police ordered 7,000 officers onto the streets of Kabul to guard against attacks on senior leaders during Indepe...
The Real News | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
US intelligence agencies believe that members of Pakistan's spy service, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, helped plan the deadly July 7th bombing of India's embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home
The New York Times this morning reported that U.S. intelligence agencies have discovered, through intercepted communications, that Pakistan's spy serv...
AP | STEPHEN GRAHAM | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants attacked troops from the U.S.-led coalition patrolling south of the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing three of ...
Shoaib Harris | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Unlike McCain, who keeps recycling President Bush's bravado of catching "Bin Laden dead or alive," Obama, to his credit, has articulated his Afghanistan strategy more clearly.
San Francisco Chronicle | Nick Meo | Posted 06.16.2008 | Living
Concord resident Tareq Shawl Azim says he always knew he would one day return to his parents' country to make it a better place. Azim, whose parents ...
Mark Schneider | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
The costs of failing to increase resources and invest new energy into rebuilding Afghanistan would be unacceptably high: a return to civil war with factions divided along regional and ethnic lines.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
A lot of politicians, mostly Democrats are trying to set deadlines and time tables. It's wishful thinking. We've gotten ourselves in a mess with no easy way out, and maybe no out at all.
Zainab Salbi | Posted 10.17.2007 | Politics
As we work on building peace in different war torn regions, it is important that we understand the complexities of gender and recognize the struggles not only faced by women but by men as well.
New York Times | AVID M. HALBFINGER | Posted 10.04.2007 | Entertainment
The studio distributing "The Kite Runner," a tale of childhood betrayal, sexual predation and ethnic tension in Afghanistan, is delaying the film's r...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
this just in: Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
Last night, CNN's Campbell Brown criticized President-elect...
DALLAS — Of all the cajoling, snide remarks and...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
AP | Posted 12.03.2008 | World