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France committed to political solution in Syria: Hollande
French President Francois Hollande said France was committed to finding a political solution to the Syrian conflict as he paid tribute Saturday to the 88th French soldier killed in Afghanistan. He noted that France had deployed a field hospital in Jordan “as close as possible to the border with Syria…
Report: U.S. military covered up ‘Auschwitz-like’ hospital conditions
A set of shocking images released by Buzzfeed Tuesday (Warning: graphic pictures) detail in horrifying fashion allegations that the head of the U.S. military’s training program in Afghanistan covered up “Auschwitz-like” conditions at the Afghan National Military Hospital. The report compiles more than 70 pictures and 120 documents submitted as…
Afghan museum regains looted treasures
Hundreds of archaeological treasures looted from Afghanistan were returned to the war-torn country’s National Museum on Sunday after being recovered with the help of the British Museum. Many of the 843 artefacts were seized as they were being smuggled into Britain after some 70 percent of the museum’s contents were…
Five dead as Kabul suicide attack foiled
Afghan officials said Thursday that five insurgents linked to the Haqqani network were killed in a pre-dawn gunbattle, claiming to have foiled a major attack on an area of Kabul home to Western embassies. A spokesman for Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security intelligence agency told AFP that three vehicles loaded…
U.S. risks wasting billions in Afghan reconstruction: watchdog
WASHINGTON — Millions of dollars in US funds have been lost due to poor planning and workmanship in projects to help rebuild Afghanistan and billions more could be at risk, according to a US watchdog. The report by the special inspector general for Afghanistan, John Sopko, warned that handing over…
‘Kabul I love you’ brings Afghan woes to the big screen
KABUL — A decade after the fall of the cinema-hating Taliban, a group of Afghan directors have created a film love letter to their capital, rooted in the grim reality of everyday life in the war-torn city. Forced marriage, people smuggling, illegal land grabs, land mines and ethnic conflict —…
General allegedly blocked probe of ‘Auschwitz-like’ Kabul hospital
The American general who led a Nato training mission in Afghanistan opposed an investigation into corruption and “Auschwitz-like” conditions at a US-funded hospital in Kabul for political reasons, US military officers told Congress on Tuesday. One active-duty officer testified that the three-star general, Lieutenant General William Caldwell, who headed the…
Obama names new Afghan and Pakistan envoys
President Barack Obama on Tuesday named veteran diplomats to be the US ambassadors to Afghanistan and Pakistan, tasking them with shaping highly sensitive relationships after US troops pull out. Two month after the incumbents resigned, Obama named Richard Olson, a former ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, to serve in…
Canadian man begins hazardous 5,000-mile road trip in rickshaw
A Canadian man and his German girlfriend are braving the Taliban to take a rickshaw on one of the world’s most dangerous road trips to bring the circus to children in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. Adnan Khan, 41, and his anthropologist sweetheart have embarked on the punishing 8,000-kilometre (5,000-mile) trip…
Ex-US commander McChrystal calls for reviving draft
WASHINGTON — The former US commander in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, has urged that the draft be reinstated to spread the burden of fighting and to instill a sense of shared civic duty among young Americans. The country’s all-volunteer force has performed with great skill but after more than a decade…
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