· May, 2008

Stories about Afghanistan from May, 2008

Afghanistan: Memorial Day Review

Joshua Foust reflects on the victims among American and Coalition soldiers who gave their lives in the fight for a free and stable Afghanistan, as well as on the victims...

26 May 2008

Afghanistan: Al-Qaida's rising figure

Peter Marton reviews the recent story in the CTC Sentinel journal on al-Qaida's rising figure, Abu Yahya al-Libbi, the Lybian who escaped from detention at Afghanistan's Bagram airbase in 2005.

23 May 2008

Afghanistan: A Case of the Judiciary

SunLeaf tells story of a Journalist student convicted of insulting Islam (the punishment for this crime is death), which vividly reflects the state of the Judiciary in Afghanistan.

21 May 2008

Afghanistan: Children's Beggary

SunLeaf tells a story of a kid, whose experience is an eye-opening yet bittersweet account of ‘what it takes’ to survive as a street working child in Afghanistan.

19 May 2008

Afghanistan: Killing with Impunity

SunLeaf reacts to the UN investigation into the disregard of for the fundamental rights of the Afghan citizens, which reads that civilian casualties in Afghanistan were intolerably high, and often...

19 May 2008

Afghanistan: Women in Afghanistan

Sanjar offers a video documentary, in which both intimate and broadly political view of the past thirty years of Afghanistan's history through the lives of three women is presented.

14 May 2008

Afghanistan: Glass Half Empty

SunLeaf reacts to the words of Afghanistan’s ambassador to Canada, who assured MPs that Canadian aid funds are not winding up in the “pockets or bank accounts” of corrupt officials.

8 May 2008

Afghanistan: Persian Games

Joshua Foust opines on the statement made by Richard Boucher, U.S. Assistant SecState for Central and South Asia, concerning the relations between Afghanistan and Iran.

7 May 2008