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In World War II we had no people taking pictures of what was happening like we do in Afghanistan. I think these reporters that are doing this against the U.S. just to make a name for themselves are just sick. They are sick. Here we are making all these people that are fighting to save the country look b...
The U.S. should slow down the Afghan withdrawal process to allow U.S. and NATO commanders on the ground more time to consolidate gains ... and to ensure that Afghan forces are sufficiently ready to take control of the nation's security ... A precipitous U.S. withdrawal could lead to civil war or the Tal...
Ansar al Sharia is pulling in allied Islamist groups and sympathetic tribes into its orbit, and seeks to implement an Islamic State much like the Taliban did in Afghanistan and al Qaeda attempted in Iraq
Stories of Faith and Courage from the War in Iraq and Afghanistan
The people of Afghanistan will not accept this kind of thing and it will create more distance between NATO and the Afghan people
If Amnesty International had any intellectual honesty, it would give President Bush a medal to honor him for liberating so many oppressed Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan and for assisting millions of AIDS victims in Africa
a former employee and a current contractor working with the U.S. government in its aid program to Pakistan, which aims to fight the jihad in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and just like the Americans arrest any suspect linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban, even if they were far related.
The point of ... Bonn is to send message to Taliban and anybody else that actually international engagement and investment in Afghanistan is not over.
The collaboration between Sesame Workshop and Kaboora will open up the avenues of early learning in Afghanistan, just as Sesame Street has done globally for over 42 years
There is ample evidence of exchange of communication between our side and ISAF (International Security Assistance Force - Afghanistan) as soon as we heard of the attack getting underway
We understand transactions better than any general value-added services infrastructure vendor and apply this knowledge to forward-thinking operators such at Etisalat Afghanistan ... Etisalat is responding to the needs of its customers, and is delivering a best-in-class mobile money solution that will ex...
Teachers here in Afghanistan will discover that Sesame Street can help children start school well prepared
For the past five years, GML consultants have worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Horn of Africa providing procurement and acquisition management expertise to prime contractors supporting Department of Defense and Department of State mission needs for the United States Government (USD)
only great artistic tradition with a potent strand of iconoclasm, expressed most recently in 2001 when the celebrated Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan were destroyed by Taliban decree.
full supply-chain management to ensure the smooth transit of(European Union) government cargo from various Ports of Entry including Riga, Latvia; Poti, Georgia; Mersin, Turkey and Bandar Abbas, Iran, through to multiple NATO/ ISAF camps in North and South Afghanistan
Our American forces have successfully pursued the two main goals set when we went to Afghanistan: stamping out the al Qaeda training camps and hunting down and bringing to justice those responsible for 9/11
All of the lives lost in Afghanistan including the engagement in 9/11 and the creation of Osama bin Laden as al-Qaida can be laid at the door of failed geopolitical strategies of militarism - a Department of Peace could have prevented all of that.
That combat power that’s on the ground today in Afghanistan, putting the hurt on the Taliban, is there because of a logistics system that is capable of putting it into a landlocked country. And [it’s capable of] sustaining it there and doing likewise in another war
This includes continued negotiations with Pakistan, and Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) Agency, regarding the recent closure of Pakistan’s border crossing points with Afghanistan, including the Khyber Pass, which has prevented NATO convoys from re-supplying ISAF and American soldiers in Afgh...
Security issues in Afghanistan remain serious, however, and more should be done by the United Nations and the international community to help ensure a smooth transition of control to Afghanistan’s National Army and security forces
Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, Persian: جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان), is a landlocked country located at the heart of Asia. Generally considered part of Southern Asia, it is sometimes ascribed to a regional bloc in either Central Asia or the Middle East, as it has religious,... Full Article
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (L) and his counterpart from Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, chat during a joint news conference with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (unseen) in the President House in Islamabad February 17, 2012. Ahmadinejad said on Friday foreign interference...
View Photo »Illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq leave a police office in Bantul district in Indonesia's central Java province February 17, 2012. Indonesian police arrested about 34 illegal immigrants attempting to flee to Australia via Indonesian waters, local television reported.
View Photo »Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari (C) speak during a joint press conference with Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) at the Presidential Palace in Islamabad on February 17, 2012. Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for action rather...
View Photo »Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (L) and Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari (C) look as Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) speaks during a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Islamabad on February 17, 2012. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed...
View Photo »Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (L), Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari (C) and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad join hands after a news conference in Islamabad February 17, 2012. Ahmadinejad, accused by the West of pursuing a nuclear weapons programme, said in Pakistan on...
View Photo »Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he arrives with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari (unseen) for a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Islamabad on February 17, 2012. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
View Photo »Presidents from Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai (L), Pakistan's Asif Ali Zardari (C) and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad join hands as they pose for pictures after a news conference in the President House in Islamabad February 17, 2012. Ahmadinejad said on Friday foreign interference was the...
View Photo »Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (L), Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari (C) and Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) join hands after a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Islamabad on February 17, 2012. President Asif Ali Zardari denied that Pakistan's...
View Photo »Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (L), Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari (C) and Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) join hands after a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Islamabad on February 17, 2012. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out...
View Photo »An Afghan man shovels snow into a wheelbarrow as he clears his fire wood shop during a snowstorm in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012.
View Photo »An Afghan man, his head covered with his scarf, walks down the street during a snowstorm in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012.
View Photo »Afghans warm their hands over a fire during a snowstorm in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012.
View Photo »An Afghan fire wood seller hangs a plastic sheet over his fire wood during a snowstorm in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012.
View Photo »An Afghan boy selling packed peas, waits for customers on a cold and snow covered street during a snowstorm in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012.
View Photo »Afghan boys stand around a fire during a snowstorm in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012.
View Photo »ARLINGTON, VA - FEBRUARY 16: U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (L) and German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere (R) speak to the media during a news briefing at the Pentagon February 16, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. De Maiziere is on a five-day visit to the U.S. and Canada and...
View Photo »Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Andrey Avetisyan speaks during an interview in Kabul February 16, 2012. Russia hopes to embark on a series of ambitious construction projects in Afghanistan aimed at reinforcing fragile stability in the country where Soviet troops fought a disastrous,...
View Photo »(From L) Afghanistan's Minister of Counter Narcotics Zarar Ahmad Moqbel Osmani, Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger, the executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Director General of the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV) Yury Fedotov...
View Photo »Afghanistan's Minister of Counter Narcotics Zarar Ahmad Moqbel Osmani is pictured on February 16, 2012 during a UN meeting on drugs in Afghanistan, with some 55 countries participating, at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna. The UN chief urged Afghanistan to make fighting drug trafficking a...
View Photo »Amrullah Saleh, Afghanistan's former intelligence chief, speaks during an interview in Kabul February 15, 2012. Afghanistan's government must not retreat from hard-won freedoms or return to strict religious curbs to reach a peace deal with the Taliban, the country's former spy chief...
View Photo »Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani (R) shows Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai the way to a photo opportunity before their meeting at the prime minister's residence in Islamabad February 16, 2012.
View Photo »Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (2nd L) and Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani (R) take part in a meeting with their delegations at the prime minister's residence in Islamabad February 16, 2012.
View Photo »Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (L) talks with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani at the prime minister's residence in Islamabad February 16, 2012.
View Photo »Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani (R) and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai shake hands for photographers before their meeting at the prime minister's residence in Islamabad February 16, 2012. Pictured in the background is a picture of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
View Photo »Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (R) chat at the Prime Minister's House in Islamabad on February 16, 2012. Pakistan on February 16 welcomed the leaders of Afghanistan and Iran for a regional summit at a key juncture in peace efforts...
View Photo »Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (L) and his counterpart from Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, chat during a joint news conference with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (unseen) in the President House in Islamabad February 17, 2012. Ahmadinejad said on Friday foreign interference...
View Photo »In World War II we had no people taking pictures of what was happening like we do in Afghanistan. I think these reporters that are doing this against the U.S. just to make a name for themselves are just sick. They are sick. Here we are making all these people that are fighting to save the country look b...
The U.S. should slow down the Afghan withdrawal process to allow U.S. and NATO commanders on the ground more time to consolidate gains ... and to ensure that Afghan forces are sufficiently ready to take control of the nation's security ... A precipitous U.S. withdrawal could lead to civil war or the Tal...
Ansar al Sharia is pulling in allied Islamist groups and sympathetic tribes into its orbit, and seeks to implement an Islamic State much like the Taliban did in Afghanistan and al Qaeda attempted in Iraq
Stories of Faith and Courage from the War in Iraq and Afghanistan
The people of Afghanistan will not accept this kind of thing and it will create more distance between NATO and the Afghan people
If Amnesty International had any intellectual honesty, it would give President Bush a medal to honor him for liberating so many oppressed Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan and for assisting millions of AIDS victims in Africa
a former employee and a current contractor working with the U.S. government in its aid program to Pakistan, which aims to fight the jihad in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and just like the Americans arrest any suspect linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban, even if they were far related.
The point of ... Bonn is to send message to Taliban and anybody else that actually international engagement and investment in Afghanistan is not over.
The collaboration between Sesame Workshop and Kaboora will open up the avenues of early learning in Afghanistan, just as Sesame Street has done globally for over 42 years
There is ample evidence of exchange of communication between our side and ISAF (International Security Assistance Force - Afghanistan) as soon as we heard of the attack getting underway
We understand transactions better than any general value-added services infrastructure vendor and apply this knowledge to forward-thinking operators such at Etisalat Afghanistan ... Etisalat is responding to the needs of its customers, and is delivering a best-in-class mobile money solution that will ex...
Teachers here in Afghanistan will discover that Sesame Street can help children start school well prepared
For the past five years, GML consultants have worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Horn of Africa providing procurement and acquisition management expertise to prime contractors supporting Department of Defense and Department of State mission needs for the United States Government (USD)
only great artistic tradition with a potent strand of iconoclasm, expressed most recently in 2001 when the celebrated Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan were destroyed by Taliban decree.
full supply-chain management to ensure the smooth transit of(European Union) government cargo from various Ports of Entry including Riga, Latvia; Poti, Georgia; Mersin, Turkey and Bandar Abbas, Iran, through to multiple NATO/ ISAF camps in North and South Afghanistan
Our American forces have successfully pursued the two main goals set when we went to Afghanistan: stamping out the al Qaeda training camps and hunting down and bringing to justice those responsible for 9/11
All of the lives lost in Afghanistan including the engagement in 9/11 and the creation of Osama bin Laden as al-Qaida can be laid at the door of failed geopolitical strategies of militarism - a Department of Peace could have prevented all of that.
That combat power that’s on the ground today in Afghanistan, putting the hurt on the Taliban, is there because of a logistics system that is capable of putting it into a landlocked country. And [it’s capable of] sustaining it there and doing likewise in another war
This includes continued negotiations with Pakistan, and Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) Agency, regarding the recent closure of Pakistan’s border crossing points with Afghanistan, including the Khyber Pass, which has prevented NATO convoys from re-supplying ISAF and American soldiers in Afgh...
Security issues in Afghanistan remain serious, however, and more should be done by the United Nations and the international community to help ensure a smooth transition of control to Afghanistan’s National Army and security forces
The slated withdrawal of about one-third of American and NATO’s ISAF force troops in Afghanistan by the end of 2012 represents a milestone in the draw-down of international security forces and an important progression in the assumption of key combat responsibilities by the Afghan National Army and polic...
Many in the Obama Administration and the U.S. Congress, including many of the long-time friends of Afghanistan in Washington, D.C., support a measured draw-down, and orderly withdrawal, of U.S. soldiers and NATO/ISAF forces from Afghanistan in consultation with our Afghan and international allies.
President Hamid Karzai and other senior Afghan leaders have repeatedly stressed the importance of Afghanistan’s self-sufficiency and national sovereignty.
I'm proud of the work that Task Force Canuck has completed over ten years of engagement in Afghanistan and I thank all of the men and women in uniform for representing the Canadian Forces, and Canadians, so professionally throughout your commitment to this UN-mandated, NATO-led mission to Afghanistan .....
The participation of Pakistan was important in the Bonn Conference because the countries who are involved in the conference wanted to talk to Pakistan about negotiations and peace in Afghanistan ... Since Pakistan is not there now, there won’t be that much progress with the negotiations with the Taliban...
