bollywood soap operas are hugely popular on afghan tv, despite the taliban's expressed displeasure over their perceived pollution of the morals of the populace... watching the latest gyrations over the afghan presidential elections, i can't help but think of a bollywood serial - many actors, byzanti...

HAT TIP:  Al Jazeera English An investigation into a missile strike carried out by US-led forces in Afghanistan earlier this week has found that 13 civilians were among 16 people killed, the US military has said. The military made the admission on Saturday, after originally saying that 15 oppositio...

O.M.G...! Afghanistan will send a team to the US to take part in a major policy review of the region, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has announced. In a joint news conference with the new US envoy in the region, Richard Holbrooke, Mr Karzai said he was "very thankful" to be involved in the talks. In ...

Day By Day by Chris Muir Flap wonders how th OBOTS will handle the latest Flap, President Obama has already created in Afghanistan? Obama’s spokesman will not acknowledge there is a “War on Terror” yet the President authorized an air strike that involved the killing of Afghan civil...

no small part of the reason why the situation in afghanistan is headed south... Ramzan Bashardost drives a beat-up black 1991 Suzuki with a cracked windshield and often sleeps in a tent—habits hardly befitting a respected member of parliament. His relatives think he is crazy. But Bashardost, 46, n...

it ain't pretty... civilian casualties in two separate incidents... At least 13 Afghan police and civilians have died in two incidents involving international forces, officials say. Four Afghan police and five civilians died in an apparently mistaken air strike by international coalition forces in F...

B arbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, asked Vice President Cheney on Nov. 1 for documents on the White House's reported watering down of testimony by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about global warming's harmful effec......

Afghan- NATO war against Taliban and AlQaeda entrenched in Waziristan of Pakistan is going on endlessly. A NATO force have no respite and as the days pass elimination of these terrorists from Pakistan is getting more complex. In fact, Taliban and AlQaeda leaders and rank and file escaped into the in...

i know several folks who were there... Donors led by the United States pledged about $20 billion in aid to Afghanistan on Thursday but said Kabul must do far more to fight corruption. The lion's share of the assistance, $10.2 billion, was put forward by the United States at a Paris conference that e...

Everyone who's anyone is gathering in Paris these days for the big international donors conference on Afghanistan. Laura Bush was there for the opening yesterday. Her husband arrives late tonight. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior State Department officials, joined by delegates......