A US military aid program that favors Afghan vendors is being used by the Taliban as an extortion racket to the tune of a projected $80 million in the last year. By Jean MacKenzie - GlobalPost KABUL -- It seemed like such a good...
A top scientist's claim that India's 1998 nuclear test was a failure poses a big threat to Obama's nonproliferation plans. By Jason Overdorf - GlobalPost NEW DELHI, India -- Days before President Barack Obama told the United Nations that he hoped to push through...
Violence is spreading so rapidly in Afghanistan that there may soon be little difference between the Taliban-controlled south and the formerly peaceful north By Jean MacKenzie - GlobalPost MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- The people of Mazar-e-Sharif are a breed apart. Free-thinking and free-wheeling, they were...
Aid groups have decried a government air strike that reportedly killed more than 80 civilians in a conflict that may pose a direct threat to the U.S.. By Laura Kasinof, Globalpost SANAA, Yemen -- The international reaction to government air strikes that reportedly killed scores...
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By Jean MacKenzie - GlobalPost KABUL -- It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to hide. In Afghanistan, one of the richest sources of Taliban funding is the foreign assistance coming into the country. Virtually...
"We totally missed the boat." By C.M. Sennott - GlobalPost KABUL -- We were heading for the U.S. military's counterinsurgency training camp where field officers study how to avoid repeating the fate of so many other empires in Afghanistan. Along the way, we drove past...
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By Terri Shultz BRUSSELS -- NATO's new secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen took over Saturday with this last-minute legacy from the outgoing administration: July 2009 was the deadliest month ever for international troops in Afghanistan. In a wide-ranging news conference held on his first day in...
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