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October 24, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
USA TODAY: The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could total $2.4 trillion through the next decade, or nearly $8,000 per man, woman and child in the country, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate scheduled for release today. Full news...
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October 24, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: President George Bush will have spent more than $1 trillion on military adventures by the time he leaves office at the end of next year, more than the entire amount spent on the Korean and Vietnam wars combined. Full news...
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October 23, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuter: Eleven members of an Afghan family have been killed in an air strike by Western forces near Kabul, the head of a provincial council said on Tuesday. Full news...
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October 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pink News: Young boys are being sexually abused in Afghanistan in line with a tradition where they are bought by older men to dance at parties. The practice of "bacha baazi", meaning "boy-play", is enjoying a resurgence in the North of Afghanistan where ownership is seen as a status symbol by militia leaders according to Afghan news site, e-Ariana. Full news...
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October 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Canadian Press: After the Taliban toppled from power, Qahir packed up his family and all they could take with them and crossed the border back into his Afghan homeland. Qahir, 57, had spent 19 years in Pakistan, most of them in a sprawling refugee camp. But six years later, he says he is "hopeless and disappointed." Full news...
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October 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World Politics Review: KABUL, Afghanistan -- It's a daily ritual for 8-year-old Bismillah. Every morning, five grimy plastic cans slung over his tiny shoulder, he descends a rugged hillside, negotiating the steep pitches of scree and gravel with goat-like agility. Full news...
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October 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Panicked residents of Faryab province say a local warlord is exacting tribute and abusing civilians while the government does nothing to stop him. Shahabudin fled when life became intolerable for him in his native district of Pashtun Kot, in the northern Afghan province of Faryab. He claims that a former militia commander has taken over Pashtun Kot and is ruling virtually unchallenged. Full news...
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October 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The West Georgian: It is hard to fathom that in the year 2007 there are women who are being thrown into prison for violating the mere freedoms that are taken for granted by so many. However, it is a very real situation that is occurring every day in Afghanistan. When a woman is safer in prison, there is something very wrong with her society. Full news...
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October 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reporters Without Borders: Out of 169 countries in the World Press Freedom Index, released by Reporters Without Borders, Afghanistan is put low on the list in the 142th. Afghanistan falling steadily in the index for the past three years due to pressure on the media from the government and the Taliban. Full news...
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October 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Fifteen-year-old Razia (not her real name) has been imprisoned in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, for escaping from her husband's house and eloping with another man. Full news...
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October 14, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: When asked about her engagement party this summer, little Sunam glanced blankly at her family, then fiddled with her gold-sequined engagement outfit — a speechless response not out of shyness, but because she does not yet talk much. Sunam is 3. Full news...
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October 10, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Some members of the Afghanistan parliament say that high ranking officials have prepared the opportunity for escape of Timor who was among supposed to be executed in Pul-Charkhi prison in Kabul along with 15 others. Full news...
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October 10, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Helmand, with a population of 1.4 million and an area roughly the size of Switzerland, is among the largest of Afghanistan's southwestern provinces. Its vast expanse of desert and arid mountains border Pakistan and stretch to within 100 kilometers of Iran. At the heart of the battle for Afghanistan's future, Helmand also is inarguably the country's most troubled province. Full news...
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October 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Bloomberg: The execution of 15 prisoners in Afghanistan, the second confirmed use of the death penalty since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, is a concern, the United Nations envoy in the country said. Full news...
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October 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: The US-led "war on terror" has been a "disaster" and Washington and its allies must change their policy in Iraq and Afghanistan to defeat Al-Qaeda, an independent global security think tank said. Full news...
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October 6, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Thousands in the eastern Kunar province took to the streets to demand removal of military bases from residential areas in face of mounting civilian casualties in attacks and clashes between militants and Afghan and foreign troops. Full news...
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October 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: A woman and child were among the civilians killed in a raid by a US-led coalition force against a Taliban hideout in Afghanistan, officials say. The coalition said its forces responded to an attack by destroying the building in which militants were hiding. Full news...
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October 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Dawn: A US congressional panel was warned on Thursday that the Bush administration's Afghan policy had totally failed and Afghanistan was on its way to be lost forever. Full news...
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October 4, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Relief operations in insecure parts of Afghanistan are highly vulnerable to waste and corruption, local officials, residents, aid officials and analysts say. "The spending imperative, the weakness of the Afghan government, and insecurity have contributed to a high risk of corruption in 'postwar' Afghanistan," stated a July 2007 report by humanitarian think-tank Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Full news...
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October 4, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Epoch Times: Thirteen-year-old Mohammad Bahari swings the long-end of a grain broom in a quite street in uptown Tehran in the early hours of morning. His boyish face and small figure resemble a child of no more than 10, making it difficult to believe he's a contractor employee with the city. Full news...
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October 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP via CNN: Violence in Afghanistan has surged this year with suicide bombings inflicting an especially high toll on civilians, a new United Nations report says. The report said Afghanistan is averaging 550 violent incidents a month, up from an average of 425 last year. It said three-fourths of suicide bombings are targeting international and Afghan security forces, but suicide bombers also killed 143 civilians through August. Full news...
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October 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has condemned the hanging of a teenager boy by Taliban insurgents in Sangin District of volatile Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. Full news...
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September 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The International Herald Tribune: A suicide bomber wearing an Afghan military uniform detonated his explosive belt near a bus full of Afghan soldiers on their way to work here in the capital Saturday, killing at least 30 people, including two civilians, officials said. The bombing was among the deadliest in Afghanistan this year. Full news...
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September 27, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IPS-Inter Press Service: Against the backdrop of an escalating military conflict, Afghanistan is facing a rash of new problems, including increased poverty, widespread corruption, a breakdown in the rule of law and a paralysed judiciary, according to a new report released here. Full news...
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September 27, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: The burgeoning drug commerce would be hard to rein in if high-ranking government officials involved in narcotics smuggling were not prosecuted, a senior official warned on Thursday. First Vice-President Ahmad Zia Masood, addressing a ceremony that marked the opening of a Counter-Narcotics Police complex, said: We should admit that some top-ranking government officials are unfortunately linked to the smuggling of drugs. Full news...
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September 26, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ReliefWeb: In Afghanistan, "the justice system must be rebuilt in a way that bridges modern and traditional justice institutions, protects citizens' rights and strengthens rule of law, a pivotal step in Afghanistan's march to successful political transition and development." This is a key recommendation of the Afghanistan National Human Development Report 2007, unveiled here today. Full news...
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September 26, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Canadian Press: Afghan President Hamid Karzai's speech to Parliament last year was written by the Canadian military as part of an "elaborately staged political stunt," the NDP is charging. Full news...
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September 26, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CanWest News Service: Afghans shouting "Death to Canada" and other slogans blocked a main road in the hotly disputed Zhari District of Kandahar during a protest Wednesday against the rule of President Hamid Karzai and a house-to-house search operation by foreign forces that the demonstrators said had resulted in the death of two brothers who were mullahs. Full news...
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September 26, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Fatima (not her real name) lives with her mother and a younger brother in Pul-e Charkhi prison, in the eastern outskirts of Kabul. The 12-year-old was first brought to the prison four years ago, after a court sentenced her mother to 11 years for murdering her husband. "There are six women and seven children living with us in a single cell," complained Fatima, who added that she finds it annoying living with "those naughty kids". Full news...
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September 26, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost at least $190 billion in 2008, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, making it the most expensive year in the conflicts since they were launched by President George W. Bush. Full news...
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