Tag Archives: Afghanistan
Rafe MAIR The US. and to a lesser degree Canada, have little to teach, let alone preach about democracy. I know something of this from personal experience because I sat in the British Columbia Legislature and in its cabinet for … read more »
Washington – In what United States officials described as major blow to al-Qaeda, the group’s second-ranking leader, a militant known as Abu Yahya al-Libi, was killed in a strike by a missile fired from a US-operated drone, an official confirmed … read more »
When compared with the plans and pledges of recent summits, NATO’s goals for its upcoming summit in Chicagoseem small, even trivial. Let’s start with this year’s summit agenda. The over-arching theme is NATO’s new “Smart Defense” program. NATO describes Smart Defense … read more »
Najmuddin A. SHAIKH As I was writing this last instalment of my analysis of the Afghan situation we heard of President Obama’s secret visit to Kabul to sign the Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement with President Karzai and to make a … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Afghanistan, afria travel, Al-Qaeda, BarackObama, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, map africa, map of africa, news, obama, Osama bin Laden, Qatar, South Africa, Taliban, travel to africa, United States
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By Doyle McManus When Obama wants to commemorate an act of military valour, he should keep America’s presidential poll politics out of the mix An ABC News-Washington Post poll found that 66 per cent of adults say the war has … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, afria travel, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, Joe Biden, map africa, Mitt Romney, news, obama, Osama bin Laden, Republicans, South Africa, travel to africa
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A year after a fearless, anonymous team of Navy SEALs sent Osama bin Laden to wherever mass-murderers go when they die, the commander-in-chief continued his yearlong victory lap with a stop in Afghanistan to sign a framework agreement with Afghan … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, afria travel, Al-Qaeda, BarackObama, hamidkarzai, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, NATO, news, obama, Osama bin Laden, South Africa, travel to africa, United States
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US President Barack Obama has arrived in Afghanistan on a previously unannounced visit. He is to sign an agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai charting future relations with the country. The agreement will outline the US role in Afghanistan after … read more »
Leonid SAVIN It became clear after the Seoul nuclear summit that the USA sticks to the old policy that goes back to 1945 – to monopolize the right to use nuclear weapons by making their non-proliferation part of international law … read more »
Posted in America, Asia, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, Africa news, African news, Air Force Global Strike Command, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Russia, Soviet Union, Tactical nuclear weapon, United States, World Trade Center
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The United States has agreed to give control of most special operations to the Afghan army, including the controversial “night-time raids” that have strained relations between the two countries for years. Many observers agree that the night raids have been … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Abdul Rahim Wardak, Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Africa news, African news, Hamid Karzai, IndepthAfrica, Ministry of Defense (Afghanistan), NATO, Politics of Afghanistan, United States
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By Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba The question “is ICC for Africans only” is legitimate question to be asked and answered. The question has been asked, but I doubt that any answers could be expected especially from those who are best qualified … read more »
Posted in Article, Pan African News
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Tagged Afghanistan, africa african news, African, indepthafrica africa news, International Criminal Court, Ivory Coast, London, Nelson Mandela, Oji River, Paris
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France is reeling from a national tragedy on Monday following a horrific attackon an orthodox Jewish school in the southwestern city of Toulouse that left four people dead, among them a young rabbi and three children, and authorities in search … read more »
Posted in Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, africa african news, Antisemitism, France, indepthafrica africa news, Israel, Jews, Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris, Toulouse
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Dmitriy SEDOV Nobody will know what Defense Secretary Leon Panetta felt after getting a report that a terrorist attack had been timed to his arrival at UK Camp Bastion air base situated in the South of Afghanistan. An Afghan translator, … read more »
Posted in Asia, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, africa african news, indepthafrica africa news, Kandagar, Leon Panetta, NATO, Panetta, President of Afghanistan, Taliban, United States
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Dmitriy SEDOV The Russian Ministry of Defense plans to sign an agreement with the USA to establish a return “trans-shipment point” in Ulyanovsk for goods going from Afghanistan has attracted public attention. A discussion on financial, political and military aspects … read more »
The alleged attack on Afghans by an American soldier in Kandahar, where 91 soldiers were murdered last year alone, is already receiving the full outrage treatment. Any outrage over the deaths of those 91 soldiers in the province will be … read more »
Posted in Asia, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, africa african news, indepthafrica africa news, Kabul, Kandahar, obama, Panjwaye District, Taliban, United States, United States armed forces
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The “Lone Gunman” story being peddled by the USA explaining how another dozen or two Afghan civilians got wasted during just another night raid in the AF-PAK war has several witness accounts saying is was a group of American soldiers … read more »
Posted in Asia, Global Issues, Middle East, News
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Tagged Afghanistan, africa african news, Horn of Africa, indepthafrica africa news, Night Raid, Pakistan, Pentagon, Qur'an, Taliban, United States
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An American soldier has committed a heinous crime in Afghanistan, entering the homes of Afghan civilians, murdering at least 16 people, and wounding five. Barack Obama immediately called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to offer his condolences, said that he was … read more »
Posted in America, Asia, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, Africa news, African, African news, Bagram Airfield, Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, Indepth Soccer, obama, Qur'an, Sharia, united state
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Aleksandr SHUSTOV This month Washington whose commitment to fighting drug production in the US occupied Afghanistan is widely called into question rolled out a new plan of coordinating the activities of Central Asian republic’s anti-narcotic agencies. The initiative was, however, … read more »
Posted in Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, Africa news, African, African news, CACI, Central Asia, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, Indepth Soccer, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, United States, Washington
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The United States embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is on lockdown and violent protests are spreading throughout the nation. The impetus for the unrest was the burning of Muslim holy books at a NATO military base on Monday. The books, including … read more »
Posted in America, Asia, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, Africa news, African news, Allen, Bagram Airfield, Barack Obama, Demography of Afghanistan, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, International Security Assistance Force, Kabul, United States
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Andrei AKULOV US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he hoped U.S. troops in Afghanistan would be able to move into a training and support role during the second half of next year. The U.S. proposal to stop combat operations in … read more »
Posted in America, Andrei AKULOV, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Leon Panetta, NATO, Taliban, United States, United States Secretary of Defense, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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Floating a trial balloon for the White House, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced last week that the Obama administration is planning to speed up its withdrawal timetable in Afghanistan. “By mid- to the latter part of 2013, we’ll be able … read more »
Apparently the Taliban are softening, even allowing girls to get an education. Clearly this heralds an opening to the West, a heady indication that their most repressive days are past them, and that soon they will take their place … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Naomi Wolf, Taliban, United States, Wall Street Journal, Yaroslav Trofimov
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The Obama administration is redefining the War on Terrorism as a war on Al-Qaeda, with Vice President Biden going so far as to say that the “Taliban, per se, is not our enemy.” In June, Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Abdul Haq Wasiq, Afghanistan, AlQaeda, Ibrahim Haqqani, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Louie Gohmert, obama, Qatar, Taliban
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It was, shall we say, an interesting week in Norway. On Tuesday, January 17, a video was posted on YouTube that called for Norwegian soldiers to be withdrawn from Afghanistan. Over images of Norwegian soldiers and of Norway’s prime minister, … read more »
Posted in Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, Facebook, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Norway, Norwegian, Oslo, Taliban, Youtube
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Two recent news stories about Afghanistan reveal the delusional mentality of those conducting our foreign policy. The first is about some Marines who urinated on the corpses of Taliban fighters. Such behavior, of course, is mild compared to the sort … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, Allah, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islam, New York Times, Taliban, United States
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Wayne MADSEN (USA) President Obama’s recent decision to re-focus U.S. military power away from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Asia-Pacific region and, to a lesser extent, Africa, means that China and certain rebel groups in Africa have replaced the old … read more »
In December 2011, Sahar Gul, a 15-year-old Afghan girl and underage bride, was freed by Afghan police after having been severely tortured for six months by her in-laws in an attempt to force her into prostitution. During her captivity, Sahar … read more »
Posted in Asia, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghan Girl, Afghan government, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Karzai, Politics of Afghanistan, President of Afghanistan, Taliban
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Anyone interested in seeing the future of Afghanistan need only take a short plane trip from Italy across Libya and Sudan to what is the most dysfunctional territory in Africa. Somalia can’t be properly called a state, more of a … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Somali
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Tagged Afghanistan, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamic Courts Union, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Sharia, Somalia, Transitional Federal Government, Yusuf al-Qaradawi
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A teenage Afghan girl was brutally tortured, beaten and locked in a toilet by her husband’s family for five months after she refused to become a prostitute, it has emerged. Sahar Gul, 15, was in critical condition when she was … read more »
Posted in Abuse, Children & Youth, Miscellaneous
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Tagged Afghan Girl, Afghanistan, Badakhshan Province, Baghlan, Baghlan Province, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kabul, Law, Sahar Gul
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Kabul – An Afghan woman cut off her father-in-law’s penis with a knife after he tried to have sex with her, a doctor in eastern Afghanistan’s Ghazni province said Saturday. “One day when the husband was away from home he … read more »
Posted in Miscellaneous, Odd News
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Tagged Afghanistan, Father-in-law, Forced marriage, Ghazni, Ghazni Province, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kabul, Law, Oxfam
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Based on its recent string of failures, most notably those that have occurred under America’s top general-turned-spymaster David Petraeus, the CIA has become a third-tier intelligence agency that is trying to prop around the world up a failing, financially bankrupt, … read more »
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