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Syrian War Daily (blog)
January 22, 2018
The two sides also reportedly agreed on the name of the judge that will handle the case. Syrian Arab Army's Al-Firqat al-Tasea (9th ... Afghan National Security Forces killed 16 and wounded nine elements of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Archi (Dasht-e Archi) district. Furthermore, Afghan NationalÃÂ ...
Pakistan Today
January 22, 2018
“People should know who the judges are, they have to decide matters of life and death, matters worth billions of rupees, they have to make historic judgements; if a weak individual is appointed a judge then the repercussions have to be borne,” the prime minister said while speaking to a delegation ofÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
January 21, 2018
As a Vietnam veteran, I'm alarmed by our continued involvement in Afghanistan. We're told if we weren't there, Islamic extremists would overrun one country after another. This is the same domino theory that kept us tied down in Vietnam. Yet when South Vietnam finally fell, the rest of southeast Asia wasn'tÃÂ ...
The Daily Herald
January 15, 2018
EVERETT — Port of Everett CEO Les Reardanz has been called to active duty with the Navy for an eight-month deployment mostly in Afghanistan. ... “I was going out to the various provinces working with the cops, courts and prison systems and working with the Afghan prosecutors, judges and prisonÃÂ ...
The Nation
January 8, 2018
OTTAWA - A Canadian man held captive for years in Afghanistan and charged in his home country with 15 offences remained in detention on Monday awaiting a bail hearing delayed to next week. The judge granted lawyers for Joshua Boyle, 34, more time to prepare for his possible release on bail andÃÂ ...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
January 6, 2018
In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, she said currently fives cases of violence were being dealt with tribal elders. Some cases have also been sent to ... The issue was then sent to the appellate court, where judge issued a verdict in favour of Alina's husband. Asked why such cases are notÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 5, 2018
“The only area the impact could be huge, but it's a bit too early to judge, is the field of air force. The Pakistani ... Some Afghan officials and analysts feared that Mr. Trump's pressure on Pakistan might escalate the violence across Afghanistan before it brings any change in Pakistani cooperation. AlreadyÃÂ ...
Ottawa Citizen
January 2, 2018
Joshua Boyle, rescued along with his family in October after five years in captivity in Afghanistan, is now in an Ottawa jail on charges of sexual assault, ... The son of an Ottawa tax court judge, Boyle had previously been in the public spotlight because of his brief marriage to Omar Khadr's older sister and theÃÂ ...
Gandhara
January 2, 2018
Speaking to Radio Free Afghanistan, Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani, police chief in northern Jawzjan Province, said unmanned aircraft targeted militant ... It is not clear how Afghan authorities established the identities of the fighters within hours of an airstrike in a region largely controlled by IS for more than twoÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 26, 2017
Both Sahar, now 14, and Lina, now 43, managed to flee to the emergency women's shelter my organisation runs in Kabul and are both recovering along with nearly 200 others. GettyImages-630083514 Afghan girls in a refugee camp in Kabul on December 16, 2016. NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP/Getty.
Herald-Whig
December 11, 2017
HOUSTON (AP) — Mohammed Younus Yousafzoy last month walked off Lufthansa Flight 440, bleary-eyed and dizzy from the two-day trip from Kabul. The Houston Chronicle reports then the 24-year-old Afghan spotted his old boss, Mike Hudson, waiting for him, and smiled with surprise and happiness.
The National Interest Online
December 8, 2017
A new report on pervasive child sexual abuse among Afghan security personnel, prepared by the independent Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), is being suppressed by Pentagon officials. In its place, the Defense Department has issued a highly technical report, whichÃÂ ...
WTHR
December 4, 2017
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says a motorcycle bomb in eastern Nangarhar province killed at least five people. Attahullah ... Judge Mohammed Afif said the four confessed to receiving monthly payments from IS in exchange for information on Jordan's military positions on the border.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
November 28, 2017
In return for the bribe, the American offered the Afghan his assistance in obtaining subcontracts on US government contracts, the Department of Justice said in a statement on Tuesday. Nebraska McAlpine of Georgia was sentenced in Atlanta by Judge Mark H. Cohen of the Northern District of Georgia.
CBC.ca
November 27, 2017
Former MP to ask International Criminal Court to investigate Canada's Afghan war conduct ... Last week, Bensouda announced that an investigation into possible war crimes in Afghanistan would take place and confirmed for the first time the United States would be implicated in the probe. The probe wouldÃÂ ...
Stars and Stripes
November 25, 2017
Army Maj. Gen. Robin Fontes, commander of Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, speaks with Afghan troops at the Afghanistan Central Supply Depot in Kabul on Aug. ... A few seconds later, her smile faded and she said: “I don't want people to judge me on that.” Fontes would ratherÃÂ ...
New York Times
November 20, 2017
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor took an important step on Monday in pursuing a war-crimes case related to Afghanistan, requesting ... If a panel of judges in the court, which is based in The Hague, grants her request, it will be the first possible prosecution of Americans at the court,ÃÂ ...
Borneo Bulletin Online
November 12, 2017
KABUL (AFP) – A series of deadly attacks on Afghan anti-corruption ... the ACJC we don't feel safe,” Chief Judge Anisa Rasooli told AFP at her office ... Rasooli is one of two chief judges driven in armoured vehicles that have ...
The Guardian
November 5, 2017
Nearly 40 years of war and insecurity have taken their toll on Afghan women, and ... There, Hamid Karzai was chosen to head Afghanistan's interim ... well as doctors, judges and educators working alongside men,” Wali said.
New York Times
November 5, 2017
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — Airstrikes carried out by the American military killed at least ... The airstrikes took place in the Chardara district, where Afghan .... when the judge sentenced the bodyguards to three years in prison for ...
The Express Tribune
November 4, 2017
The issues and problems between Pakistan and Afghanistan cannot be ... The US now judges Pakistan's counterterrorism efforts on the basis of their ... to judge how far Pakistan is taking action against the Afghan Taliban ...
New York Times
November 3, 2017
Ms. Bensouda said she would ask the judges in the court, which is based in ... U.S. Forces May Have Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan, ...
Christian Science Monitor
November 2, 2017
Afghan girls' education: islands of progress in a sea of adversity ... But as the Taliban advance in still deeply conservative Afghanistan, concerns .... in the 1990s, going from being a judge in a small court in Kandahar to doing ...
Voice of America
October 24, 2017
Afghanistan, the world's largest producer of opium, has harvested a ... to bribe police, judges and customs officials, feeding Afghanistan's ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
October 24, 2017
Sentencing Delayed In U.S. Afghan Deserter Case As Judge ... post in Afghanistan in 2009, has been delayed as a military judge weighed the ...
The Guardian
September 18, 2017
Judges said four times it was wrong to remove Samin Bigzad from Britain to Afghanistan. ... an order made by a high court judge not to send him to Kabul. ... company with links to US companies and the Afghan government.
Borneo Bulletin Online
September 17, 2017
KABUL (dpa) – Ramping up its fight against endemic corruption, ... Weapons are surrendered in anterooms, as they're not allowed in judges' chambers. ... officials were taken down Judge Anisa Rassuli sits at her desk at theÃÂ ...
Metro
September 17, 2017
An asylum seeker deported to Afghanistan was due back in the UK ... Samim Bigzad was flown to Kabul despite a judge ruling this should notÃÂ ...
The Independent
September 16, 2017
An asylum seeker who was deported to Afghanistan despite being ... from another High Court judge, who threw out Home Office attempts toÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 15, 2017
A second high court judge has ruled that the home secretary, Amber Rudd, is in ... Three judges have now told the Home Office it was wrong to deport an asylum seeker back to Afghanistan – where he says ... for the Taliban because he worked in construction for the Afghan government and US companies.
Metro
September 15, 2017
A high court judge has signed an order saying that Amber Rudd is in ... He believes he will be killed if he is deported to Kabul, which he fled in 2015 to join his ... The young Afghan man Samim Bigzad, whose deportation wasÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
August 30, 2017
Despite seemingly stalled peace talks between Afghanistan's ... While Afghan officials said neither side was ready to agree to public peace talks, the ... including defense and the judiciary, and they could serve as judges at allÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 21, 2017
Part of the plan is to deploy more American troops to Afghanistan to continue to train Afghan forces there, with the goal of convincing theÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
An asylum seeker is holed up in a hotel room in Kabul in fear for his life after the ... worked in construction for the Afghan government and American companies ... Two high court judges have made separate orders calling for Bigzad ... Judge condemns Amber Rudd for ignoring orders to release torture victim.
The Independent
December 31, 1999
A High Court judge has ordered the Home Office to bring an asylum seeker who was deported to Afghanistan back to the UK, saying the .... company that had contracts with the Afghan government and American military.
The Republic
March 24, 2017
Disputes over access to top secret information have led a federal judge in Washington state to push back the civil trial of two psychologists who developed harsh interrogation methods in the government's war on terror.
Metro
March 24, 2017
The plea for clemency was made by Blackman's QC in front of five judges at the Court Martial Appeal Court. They were due to sentence him for diminished responsibility manslaughter following a decision by the court to overturn his murder conviction for ...
New York Times
March 23, 2017
More British and later American Marines died in Sangin than in any of Afghanistan's roughly 400 other districts, until the international military coalition began turning it over to Afghan military forces in 2013. Since then, hundreds of Afghan soldiers ...
WAOW
March 22, 2017
(AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini). In this Sunday, March 19, 2017 photo, children play in their home in Kabul, Afghanistan. An aid group said Wednesday, March 22, 2017 that nearly a third of all children in war-torn Afghanistan are unable to attend school, .
World Socialist Web Site
March 22, 2017
The footage, inadvertently filmed from another marine's helmet-mounted camera, showed the callous killing of an Afghan fighter on September 15, 2011 in a cornfield in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Blackman was filmed shooting the Afghani in the chest ...
The New Indian Express
March 22, 2017
KABUL: Music fans in conservative Afghanistan Wednesday hailed the groundbreaking finale of a popular television singing competition, in which the first woman to reach the last round lost to another avant-garde competitor.
Hindustan Times
March 21, 2017
Afghanistan's Rashid Khan grabbed headlines when he was picked by Sunrisers Hyderabad for the 10th Indian Premier league (IPL).
Bendigo Advertiser
March 20, 2017
An 18-year old female novice singer and a 23-year old barber-turned-rapper are the unlikely finalists of a televised talent contest providing Afghans a welcome distraction from the daily bloodshed in their country. See your ad here ... Afghan Star, now ...
KSWO
March 20, 2017
CHICAGO, IL (KFOR) -- An Army veteran from Chicago, who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan, is facing an order by an immigration judge to be deported. "Miguel is basically an American in every sense of the word," said lawyer Chris Bergin ...
Geo News, Pakistan
March 20, 2017
18-year-old Afghan girl to face off against 23-year-old rapper in Afghan Star finale.
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2017
Director James B. Comey confirmed for the first time Monday that the FBI is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian authorities during the 2016 election campaign.
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2017
The Hawaii judge who brought a national halt to President Trump's new travel ban last week has rejected the government's request to limit his ruling.
Los Angeles Times
March 19, 2017
Three American service members were wounded Sunday afternoon when an Afghan soldier opened fire on them at a base in the country's southern Helmand province, U.S.
The National
March 18, 2017
Kabul // Zulala Hashemi has already gone farther than any other woman on Afghan Star: on Monday, the 18-year-old faces off against a rapper in the final of the popular television music talent show.
Los Angeles Times
March 17, 2017
Mexico-based Cemex, one of the world's largest suppliers of building materials, says it will not participate in the construction of President Trump's border wall.
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