Tag Archives: President of Afghanistan

Afghan Woman Forced to Marry Her Rapist

February 7, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

A year after she was pardoned from prison on the condition she agree to marry her rapist, a young Afghan woman, faced with distressingly few options, has now reluctantly wed her attacker. In 2009, Gulnaz, then 16 years old, gained … read more »

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Panetta and Afghanistan

March 19, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

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 »

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Prisoners in Their Own Country

January 6, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

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 »

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A String of Political Assassinations and the US Military Presence

December 20, 2011 by IndepthAfrica

By Viktor KORGUN In March, 2009, US President B. Obama announced a plan to withdraw the US forces from Afghanistan in 2011-2014. In the meantime, though, the US troops in the country grew in size to reach 100,000 by the … read more »

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