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AFGHANISTAN: Mansions Amid Poverty
Almost seven years after dozens of poor families were evicted from the suburb of Shirpur in central Kabul where they had lived for decades, they have still not got justice, and the new mansions which have taken their place underline the yawning gap between...
Afghanistan Plane Crash Kills 43
An Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman has said that an Afghan Pamir Airways plane with 43 people on board including five crew members crashed on Monday morning north of Kabul. The An-24 aircraft disappeared from radar screens en route from northern Afghan...
AFGHANISTAN: Call for Return to Basic Aid Principles
When Antonio Donini was head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Kabul in the late 1990s, large parts of the Afghanistan were controlled – as is the case now – by anti-government insurgents. But there was...
RAF Showcases Its Tornado Force
The Tornado Force based at RAF Marham has showcased its state-of-the-art technology being used to support ground forces in the Counter Insurgency and Counter Improvised Explosive Device (IED) campaigns. This top class intelligence and surveillance capability,...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai to Submit New Cabinet Nominees
Afghan President Hamid Karzai “will submit new nominees for his new cabinet within the next few days,” a presidential spokesman, Ahmad Ziya Siyamak, said hours after the parliament rejected most of Karzai’s candidates. In secret voting that...
Rocket Hits Near International Luxury Hotel in Kabul
Afghan officials have said a rocket hit near a luxury hotel in the capital Kabul late Saturday, injuring four people. Earlier, police in northeastern Afghanistan said two back-to-back roadside bombs killed two teenagers and wounded two others. Afghan...
Afghan Rights Activist Sima Samar, Tipped To Win Nobel Peace Prize
Speculation is rife in the Afghan capital that Sima Samar, the head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, will win the Nobel Peace Prize this year. Commission spokesman Nader Nadiri told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan that Samar is...
First Modernized G.222 Aircraft Delivered to the US Air Force for Afghan National Army Air Corps
Alenia North America, a subsidiary of Alenia Aeronautica and part of the Finmeccanica Group, has delivered the first modernized and refurbished G.222/C-27 aircraft to the United States Air Force this week.
