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Saturday, September 29, 2007 : Bus split into two by the blast as dozens of army troops are killed....
Posted: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 9:03am PDT
Friday, September 28, 2007 :The Pakistan army may be kingmaker in politics but its realm is shrinking, writes Graham Usher in Rawalpindi The soldiers outside army headquarters cocked their rifles in a gesture decipherable to anyone who has spent time in Afghanistan or Iraq. You obey of course, though the location was neither Baghdad nor Kabul....
Posted: Fri, Sep 28, 2007 8:06am PDT
Thursday, September 27, 2007 : Territory seized by British troops in Afghanistan may fall back into Taleban hands, Nato's top commander warns....
Posted: Fri, Sep 28, 2007 7:51am PDT
From a Thursday, September 27, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Fri, Sep 28, 2007 7:47am PDT
Thursday, September 27, 2007 : Four employees of the international Red Cross are seized in southern Afghanistan, police say....
Posted: Thu, Sep 27, 2007 7:39am PDT
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 : Battles rage as Karzai prepares to discuss Afghan violence with the White House....
Posted: Wed, Sep 26, 2007 7:13am PDT
From a Tuesday, September 25, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Tue, Sep 25, 2007 10:29pm PDT
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 :“The Green meltdown in Göppingen” and “Severe blow for the executive committee” were among the headlines in the German press this week concerning the special congress held by the Green Party last weekend in the town of Göppingen. The congress had been called on the insistence of party members to discuss the Green Party’s attitude towards the deployment of the German army in Afghanistan....
Posted: Tue, Sep 25, 2007 7:09am PDT
Sunday, September 23, 2007 : Italian authorities say they have lost contact with two of their soldiers serving in western Afghanistan....
Posted: Sun, Sep 23, 2007 8:08am PDT
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Posted: Sat, Sep 22, 2007 5:22pm PDT
From a Saturday, September 22, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Sat, Sep 22, 2007 10:59am PDT
Friday, September 21, 2007 : One Nato soldier killed and at least seven civillians wounded in Kabul blast....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:39am PDT
From a Wednesday, September 19, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 6:47am PDT
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 : The Kite Runner has run into trouble. The film version of a best-selling book that has put Afghanistan on the literary map will not be screened in Kabul after controversy erupted over a pivotal rape scene....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 7:45am PDT
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 : A British soldier has been killed and another injured in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 7:39am PDT
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 : Four soldiers injured during clashes with tribal fighters in North Waziristan region....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 7:15am PDT
Thursday, September 13, 2007 :On September 15, the German Green Party will debate its attitude to next month’s parliamentary vote to extend the German Bundeswehr (Armed Forces) mission in Afghanistan. There is broad agreement in the Greens that the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mandate, under the auspices of the UN, should be extended....
Posted: Thu, Sep 13, 2007 10:15pm PDT
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 :The long-drawn out saga involving 23 South Korean missionaries held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan since July 19 finally ended late last month. But the political reverberations will continue. The episode has again provoked popular opposition to the South Korean government’s support for the US “war on terror” and its occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan....
Posted: Wed, Sep 12, 2007 7:29am PDT
Monday, September 10, 2007 : A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded square in southern Afghanistan just before evening prayers on Monday, killing at least two dozen people. Based on preliminary reports, some 26 people perished as a result of the explosion in the town of Gereshk in Helmand province....
Posted: Tue, Sep 11, 2007 7:08am PDT
From a Tuesday, September 11, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Tue, Sep 11, 2007 6:46am PDT