Afghan war unwinnable quagmire, ex-CIA man says
27 Sep 2010: THE war in Afghanistan is an unwinnable quagmire and poor US intelligence is leading to the deaths of Australian soldiers, a visiting former CIA officer says. Robert Baer, a decorated CIA field officer of two decades experience who had spent years in theFour injured in rocket attack in Afghan capital
21 Nov 2009: A rocket attack near the luxury Serena Hotel in Kabul has injured four people, including two members of the Afghan security forces, a spokesman for Afghanistan's health ministry said Saturday. One rocket hit the wall of the five-star hotel in downtownThe role of foreign troops in drug trafficking in Afghanistan
03 Nov 2009: US goofs the Afghan election By M K Bhadrakumar Abdullah Abdullah's refusal to take part in the Afghan presidential election runoff on November 7 is a watershed event. From his point of view, the former foreign minister did the sensible thing, havingHamid Karzai declared Afghan President by default
02 Nov 2009: Afghanistan's election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country's tumultuous ballot today, cancelling a planned runoff and ending a political crisis that began with a fraud-marred first round two and a half months ago. TheAfghan poll fraud to go to run-off vote
23 Oct 2009: Afghanistan will hold a run-off election to decide its new leader, after President Hamid Karzai agreed to face a second round of voting. Mr Karzai said he accepted the findings by a United Nations-led fraud panel, which threw out thousands of votes,US mulling Chaosistan plan for Afghanistan
14 Oct 2009: Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan, has said that he has received a recommendation advocating a plan called Chaosistan for the war-tron Central Asian nation. He made the remarks in a speech in London earlier this month in which heYoung girl is killed by RAF leaflet drop in Afghanistan
30 Sep 2009: A young Afghan girl suffered fatal injuries after a box of public information leaflets, dropped from an RAF transport aircraft over Helmand province, landed on top of her. The accident, which the Ministry of Defence said yesterday was “highlyUS troops raid Afghan Swedish charity hospital
08 Sep 2009: KABUL: A Swedish charity accused American troops Monday of storming through a hospital in central Afghanistan, breaking down doors and tying up staff in a search for militants. The US military said it was investigating. The Swedish Committee forSuicide bomber kills 22 people and intelligence deputy in Laghman's provincial capital Mihtarlam
03 Sep 2009: AFGHANISTAN - A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing the deputy head of Afghan intelligence and more than 20 other people, officials said. High-ranking officials were killed and dozens ofFour NATO troops killed in Afghanistan
01 Sep 2009: Bombs killed four NATO troops Monday — two Americans and two Britons — ending the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces as the top NATO commander called for a new strategy to confront the Taliban. The U.S. military said the two Americans wereAfghans Turn to Taliban ‘Government’
31 Aug 2009: CANBERRA — As the Afghan government is failing to maintain a rapport with local people, the Afghans are turning to the Taliban, which are running courts and hospitals, to fill in the gap. "A government that is losing to a counter-insurgency isn't beingAfghan Democracy - Bare Skin, Dancing
05 Aug 2009: KABUL — Eight years after the US invasion that promised progress and liberation, Afghans see Western democracy as synonymous of indecency and fornication. "I see signs of democracy among customers with bare arms and necks," Mansoor Aslami, 21, aOne French, 3 US soldiers killed in Afghan attacks
02 Aug 2009: KABUL - A French soldier and three US troops were killed in insurgent attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, the military said, after deaths in July reportedly reached 75, the highest since 2001. More than 100,000 international troops are deployed inPowerful bomb blast near Afghan capital kills 25 people
09 Jul 2009: KABUL - Twenty-one civilians and four police officers were killed Thursday in a car bombing in the central Afghan province of Logar, while two NATO soldiers and 15 militants were killed in the southern region, officials said. ‘Twenty-one localPentagon 'rewrites' Afghanistan Farah province airstrike atrocity
27 Jun 2009: WASHINGTON - The version of the official military investigation into the disastrous May 4 airstrike in Farah province made public last week by the Central Command was carefully edited to save the United States command in Afghanistan the embarrassment ofslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
