Afghanistan If Not The Taliban, Then Who Killed Rabbani?
Tag: Afghanistan
September 23, 2011
June 30, 2011
Putin speaks out against compulsory drug treatment
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke out against compulsory drug addiction and alcohol treatment on Thursday. “It is necessary to persuade a person, to bring up his inner motivation to overcome this ordeal,” Putin told a regional conference of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party in Yekaterinburg. The premier stressed the importance of the state’s role [...]
June 29, 2011
Washington: Russia Is ‘No Obstacle’ To U.S.-Armenian Military Ties
YEREVAN — A senior U.S. military official says close defense ties with Russia do not impede Armenia’s growing military cooperation with NATO and the United States in particular, RFE/RL’s Armenian Service reports. U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander called cooperation between Washington and Yerevan “very effective” as she ended a two-day visit [...]
June 29, 2011
Graft and Unrest Put Kyrgyz Gold Rush on Ice
The Kumtor mine. With 100 sizable gold fields mapped but never tapped, Kyrgyzstan is ripe for a mining boom. 1 of 2 BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The bus loaded with supporters of a planned $100 million mine had just left its remote Kyrgyz village when a mob on horseback blocked the road. What happened next was a warning to foreign mining companies who [...]
June 29, 2011
Afghan religious scholars urge Taliban to renounce violence
Religious scholars from across Afghanistan urged the Taliban to stop violence and join the peace process during a session in Kabul, the Pajhwok news agency reported on Wednesday. Hundreds of clerics from restive Afghan provinces, including Khost, Paktia, Paktika, Ghazni, Logar, Maidan Wardak and Kabul, gathered to discuss the role of religious scholars in the [...]
June 29, 2011
June 29, 2011
Taliban raid on Kabul hotel leaves 8 civilians, 2 policemen dead
At least eight civilians and two policemen were killed in a raid by a group of Taliban on a landmark hotel in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Tuesday night where senior provincial governors were staying, police say. At least eight militants, some of them suicide bombers, were involved in the attack on the heavily-guarded [...]
June 29, 2011
Afghanistan: Taliban take responsibility for besieged continental hotel
NATO helicopters fired rockets at gunmen on the rooftop of a besieged Kabul hotel early on Wednesday, ending a more than four-hour standoff between militants and police that left at least seven dead and eight others wounded, Afghan officials said.
June 28, 2011
OIC top diplomats to discuss new name and emblem of organization
Participants of a session of foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member states in Kazakhstan will discuss a new name and an emblem of the organization among the other issues. The top diplomats and other high-ranking officials are set to discuss policies and changes in the Middle East and Africa, the [...]
June 25, 2011
Main news of June 25
WORLD *Egyptian court extended for 15 days the custody of Ilan Grapel, a US-Israeli citizen suspected of espionage on behalf of Israel, Egyptian news agency MENA said on Saturday *French authorities have prohibited the sale of three types of sprouts from the British seed supplier, Thompson and Morgan, reportedly infected with E. Coli, France’s secretary [...]
June 25, 2011
At least six dead, 18 injured in terrorist attack in Afghanistan
At least six people were killed, with another 18 injured in a terrorist attack in northern Afghanistan, local police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussian said. The incident occurred in the Khan Abad district, Kunduz province. The bomb was placed in a bicycle and detonated by a remote control device. Police said that at least three children [...]
June 24, 2011
Russian Press at a Glance, Friday, June 24, 2011
POLITICS The presidents of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan will meet on Friday in the Volga city of Kazan in an attempt to move closer to a settlement of the two-decade conflict between Baku and Yerevan over Nagorny Karabakh. The summit could bring a long-awaited breakthrough as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is expected to present a [...]