10 March 2010, 9:29 am
NEW YORK, USA, 9 March 2010 – More than eight years after the fall of the Taliban regime, the women of Afghanistan still face enormous challenges. Perhaps the greatest of these are the continuing violence and insecurity that disproportionately impede women's access to essential rights and services... Read More »
10 March 2010, 8:48 am
KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan The waiting room was a long line beside the road, there were no magazines and the patients did not seem thrilled with the promise of free health care.... Read More »
10 March 2010, 7:11 am
NEW DELHI - Three recent events vividly illustrate the dilemmas of today's Pakistan, which are in many ways the same challenges faced by the country's founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, over six decades ago.... Read More »
10 March 2010, 5:34 am
Doug Brooks, president of the International Peace Operations Association, was in Turkey recently, working on an event on Afghanistan reconstruction, when an idea struck: Why not organize a conference on rebuilding Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake?... Read More »
10 March 2010, 2:47 am
WASHINGTON — Fiery liberal Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich has succeeded in requiring a House floor debate on his resolution calling for the removal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan within 30d ays.... Read More »
9 March 2010, 4:29 pm
Veterans For Trees, a National Veteran Memorial Tree Planting Program, will conduct its first ceremony at the Cody Prosser National Veteran Memorial in the Frazier Community Park at 10 a.m. Saturday. Prosser, from Frazier Park, was one of the first soldiers who died in the war against terrorism in A... Read More »
9 March 2010, 8:42 am
A coroner examining the death of the first British woman to die in the war in Afghanistan said today that she had received inadequate training.... Read More »
8 March 2010, 3:21 pm
“Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi” is s unsettling and complex as the country it traverses.... Read More »
8 March 2010, 1:30 pm
In recognition of Women's History Month and in keeping with the program's unparalleled coverage of Afghanistan, "Dan Rather Reports" presents and in-depth and heartbreaking look at the lives of Afghan women. Â Rather and his team will demonstrate the small steps made in liberating women from the op... Read More »
8 March 2010, 5:07 am
Canadian Helicopters Income Fund , the largest helicopter transportation services company operating in Canada, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded additional work in Afghanistan by the the United States Transportation Command .... Read More »
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