Afghanistan has long been racked with terror, corrupt governments and very unsafe lands. The Taliban emerged after The Soviet Union left northern Pakistan at the end of The Cold War. They quickly grew in 5 years to where, in 1995, they bombed Kabul, Afghanistan to try and take control of the country. They failed in this attempt and tried again… Read more »
Are zero prime ministers better than two? Sri Lanka is about to find out. After five weeks of dramatic political developments that resemble a dark political thriller, Colombo is currently embroiled in an unprecedented political crisis that has undermined its democracy and thrown the country into disarray. On October 26, President Maithripala Sirisena sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, a member of his own… Read more »
Poland – Climate change impacts in Eastern Europe and Central Asia currently cost billions of dollars in lost productivity and could keep mounting over the next few years, according to a new report released at the climate summit. “New risks from climate change threaten to derail (…) advances and challenge national efforts to reach targets outlined in the 2030 Agenda… Read more »
The death toll among Afghanistan’s security forces will not be sustainable, even with the stalemate in the fight against Taliban militants, according to the Pentagon’s pick to be the next head of US Central Command. “Their losses have been very high. They are fighting hard, but their losses are not going to be sustainable unless we correct this problem,” Lt Gen… Read more »
A car bomb exploded outside a security contractors’ compound in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, opening the way for gunmen who battled security forces only hours after President Ashraf Ghani outlined plans for peace in Afghanistan. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which hit a compound of the British security group G4S , near… Read more »
Earlier this month, the Russian government hosted a much-awaited peace conference on Afghanistan, which was attended by representatives from the Taliban. After the event, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was photographed posing next to members of the Taliban leadership, who, paradoxically, are still on Russia’s terror list. For keen observers of Russian foreign policy, it was clear that the conference was… Read more »
It seems like anytime news is heard out of Afghanistan, it is seems to always be about how another attack that has happened, a United States soldier has been killed, or terrorist organizations are still active in the area. The latest news is about how a hired bodyguard opened fire following a meeting at a Governor’s compound in southern afghanistan,… Read more »
Gen. Abdul Razeq, one of Afghanistan’s most powerful security officials, was killed on Thursday when a bodyguard opened fire following a meeting in the governor’s compound in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said. Gen. Scott Miller, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan who had been at the meeting with Razeq only moments earlier, was not injured in the attack…. Read more »
A daring attack that killed an leading anti-Taliban Afghan security official while sparing the top US commander in Afghanistan has sparked Afghan suspicions about the US as Afghans vote in Saturday’s parliamentary elections. Afghanistan votes once again amid familiar scenes of tightened security following yet another violent campaign season and Taliban warnings to the Afghan people to desist from exercising their democratic rights…. Read more »
One US soldier was killed and another wounded in an “apparent insider attack” in Kabul on Saturday, NATO said, in the latest such assault on international forces in Afghanistan. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the third so-called “green-on-blue” attack in less than three weeks that have rattled foreign troops tasked with training and assisting the war-torn country’s… Read more »