Provides the latest RSS feeds for Afghanistan News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Herald Globe.com http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/cat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/ en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 10:43:48 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:43:48 -0400 30 A three -day Afghan film festival was inaugurated here by the Afghan Ambassador to India Shaida Mohammand Abdali. Speaking on the occasion, theAfghan Ambassador appreciated the work of some . Bollywood actors of the fifties and sixties and expressed the need to revive old camaraderie with India. An Afghan filmmaker, Siddiq Barmak threw light on the difficulties, which they faced while ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600764/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 08:30:03 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600764/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c The coming provincial government was ready to hold talks with the outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) senior leader has said. Pervez Khattak, who is soon-to-be Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said that they have no enmity with the Taliban. The PTI central Secretary General said the Taliban were also Pakistanis and requested the ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214598015/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 02:40:03 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214598015/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua-ANI): At least nine people were killed and more than 55 others wounded Friday evening when two back-to-back explosions rocked Kandahar city, capital of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a provincial government spokesman said. "The initial reports said that three police officers and six civilians had died and over 55 wounded in two explosions which took place in ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214596880/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 01:20:03 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214596880/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Moscow is counting on the UN to develop proposals regarding the international presence in Afghanistan after 2014, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. "We consider it important to start discussing in advance what forms of (international) presence there will be in Afghanistan after 2014; we will count on the proposals that the (UN) secretary general is planning to prepare together ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214594986/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 22:10:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214594986/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c At least nine people were killed and over 55 injured Friday evening when two blasts rocked Afghanistan's Kandahar city, a government official said. "The initial reports said three police officers and six civilians died and over 55 wounded in two explosions which took place in Hyno area of the city Friday evening," reported Xinhua citing a provincial spokesperson. The blasts occurred as ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214589015/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:40:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214589015/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c An Afghan MP has accused her conservative opponents of blocking a law to protect women's rights saying parts of it violate Islamic principles.The law was enacted in 2009 by presidential decree but Fawzia Koofi wanted to cement it with a parliamentary vote to prevent its future reversal.The law bans child marriage and the practice of selling and buying women to settle disputes. Kofi said the ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214601366/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 09:19:20 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214601366/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL, Afghanistan – Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked a law on Saturday that aims to protect women's freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage. The failure highlights how tenuous women's rights remain a dozen years after the ouster of the hard-line Taliban regime, whose strict ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214601429/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 09:19:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214601429/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A law banning violence against women, considered a major step forward in women's rights in Afghanistan, failed to pass parliament. The law would have also created shelters for abused women, and limited the number of wives permitted to ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214601430/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 09:08:45 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214601430/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c LAWMAKERS in Afghanistan have blocked a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage. The move highlights how tenuous women's rights remain a dozen years after the ouster of the Taliban, whose strict interpretation of Islam kept Afghan women virtual prisoners in their ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214601428/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 08:41:14 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214601428/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Lawmakers in the Afghan parliament have halted a debate on a law aimed at preventing violence against women. Just minutes into the debate on May 18, the parliament’s speaker ended proceedings amid strong opposition from legislators who called the law un-Islamic. The Law on the Elimination of Violence against Women is an effort to protect women from rape, forced marriage, and the ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600952/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 08:39:26 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600952/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c free tours, open to the public , twice a month.We made the trip, cameras in hand and notebooks at the ready, to learn more about the simulated battlefields in which imaginary conflicts loop, day after day, without ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600954/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 08:17:05 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600954/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled over a decade ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600797/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 08:16:47 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600797/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Expressing surprise over S&P's threat to downgrade India's credit rating, India Inc termed the agency's affirming its negative outlook on the country as unfortunate and ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600955/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 08:13:02 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600955/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Afghanistan expects to begin the first commercial oil production in its history in a little under two months. The country's mining minister, Wahidullah Shahrani, has told the ABC processing will start at the Amu Darya basin in Afghanistan's north in July. The project is operated by the China National Petroleum Corporation and is expected to eventually supply Afghanistan with its ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600956/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 08:11:39 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600956/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Two people died and at least 13 were injured Saturday in two separate roadside bomb explosions in Afghanistan, police said. An explosion in Khost city killed an Afghan border police guard and injured three others, as well as six civilians, provincial security chief Mohammad Yaqoub said. One person died in another explosion in eastern Paktika province in the Yahya Khel district when a tractor ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600957/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 08:08:37 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214600957/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c An Afghan worker helps excavate part of the mountaintop copper works above the ancient city at Mes Aynak in February. Afghanistan is believed to be sitting on massive mineral and metal deposits. But many obstacles have prevented large-scale mining from getting ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214599534/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 05:30:30 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214599534/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Officials say Police Chief Abdul Ghani was near his home late Friday when gunmen shot him. No one has been detained in the case. The Associated Press quotes a local official as saying Ghani had led a crackdown on insurgents in his district of Khaki Safad that resulted in the killing and capture of several Taliban leaders. The spokesman said that made him a target for Taliban ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214598853/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:34:24 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214598853/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c An Afghan police chief has been killed after two militants riding on motorcycles opened fire on his vehicle in western Afghanistan. Abdul Ghani, police chief of Khak-e Safid district in Farah Province, was killed instantly outside his home late on May 17. Provincial spokesman Abdul Rahman Zhawandai said that Ghani was rushed to hospital but was declared dead upon arrival. Ghani had led ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214598854/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:29:39 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214598854/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Afghanistan Australia could help Afghanistan develop its fledgling mining industry and tap into mineral and energy reserves estimated to be worth trillions of dollars. The country is eager to find a new source of revenue when international aid starts to decline and foreign forces withdraw next year. Afghan mining minister Wahidullah Shahrani, has already met with various Australian Government ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214598878/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 04:18:46 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214598878/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL, Afghanistan -; An official says motorcycle-riding gunmen have shot dead a police chief who led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan in front of his ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214598291/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 03:26:42 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214598291/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c May 17, 2013: Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach, of Madison, Wisc., gets a kiss from Casey, a four-year-old yellow labrador that he worked with while deployed in Afghanistan, as the two are reunited during a surprise ceremony at the Statehouse in Des Moines, ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214598429/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 03:01:49 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214598429/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Raza Haider in Karachi was part of a plan hatched by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other banned outfits to destabilise the country. Haider was gunned down in the financial capital along with his security guard by unidentified gunmen inside Jamia Masjid on Monday. Malik said outlawed ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214597058/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 01:04:39 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214597058/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c It was his first deployment, and Army Specialist Mitchell Daehling, 24 and just married, was thrilled to be shipping out to Afghanistan, following in the footsteps of his beloved maternal grandfather, a Purple Heart recipient. And Daehling had big plans for his return: He and his bride were going to throw a wedding party to celebrate after their intimate June ceremony, then go on a ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214597174/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 00:50:48 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214597174/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Pakistan on Thursday summoned Afghan Charge d'Affaires and lodged protest over unprovoked firing on a border check post, the Foreign Ministry said. The Foreign Ministry said that two soldiers were injured in firing by Afghan troops late Wednesday. "The Afghan Charge d'Affaires was summoned to the Foreign Office today for conveying protest of the Government of Pakistan on an ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214597046/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Sat, 18 May 2013 00:37:57 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214597046/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Afghan mining minister, Wahidullah Shahrani, says his country has launched an aggressive program to develop a strong base for the governance of the mining ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214596168/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 23:59:06 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214596168/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214595585/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 22:42:35 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214595585/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A soldier from Liberty drowned Wednesday in Kandahar, Afghanistan, while attempting to cross a body of water during combat operations, the defense department announced ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214594957/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 21:51:40 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214594957/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c FORT THOMAS, Ky. - A Kentucky veteran who was working as a civilian contractor in Afghanistan has died in an explosion in Kabul that killed at least 15 people including six Americans.The father of Michael Robert Bradford, 26, of Fort Thomas and Augusta, Ga., said his son was smart, good in different sports and about to become a father.Gary "Moose" Bradford, also of Fort Thomas, told The ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214594132/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 20:43:40 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214594132/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c the Associated Press reported . There were two vehicle IEDs (improvised explosive devices)," Javed Faisal, spokesman for the Kandahar provincial ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214593134/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 19:31:19 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214593134/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Battalion, 8th Marines, patrolled hard in the mountainous, heavily disputed Kajaki Dam area of Helmand province.Between missions, they broke their remote firebase down to the nails and plywood. They were going home. Derstine’s commanders explained that this was not your usual "RIP" or swap-out with a follow-on unit. (In the military RIP stands for "Relief in Place" ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214591979/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 17:56:32 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214591979/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c DALTON - A Dalton man is mourning the death of his soldier son who was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.Officials at Fort Bliss, Texas, said 24-year-old Army Spc. Mitchell Kirk Daehling is among three soldiers killed in the Tuesday attack.Kirk Daehling said Friday he remembers his son as someone who "just loved life ... He always had a smile ... He was proud to serve ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214590763/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:52:44 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214590763/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c WASHINGTON - An Army general who served as a top official on U.S. joint military staffs in Afghanistan and at the Pentagon is the choice to command U.S. troops in South Korea. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel announced the promotion of Lt. Gen. Curtis "Mike" Scaparrotti at a Pentagon news conference Friday. The moves comes at a tense time on the Korean Peninsula. The North has stepped up ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214590680/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:51:53 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214590680/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c The Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport announced it will deliver 12 military transport helicopters to the Afghan army by the end of the year. The Mi-17V5 helicopters are part of a $367.5 million deal between the U.S. military and Rosoboronexport in 2011, an agreement that could be worth up to $900 million when spare parts and equipment servicing are included, the Afghan online newspaper ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214590764/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:44:44 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214590764/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Hosseini weaves a complex pattern of interlinked lives like a finely knotted carpet. This is a tale of separations, and of people searching for what they sense is missing. Parents get separated from their children. Brothers get separated from their sisters. Neighbours get separated from their friends. And at its heart, though much of the book takes place in Europe and the United ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214589545/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 16:10:09 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214589545/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c At least nine people were killed and more than 70 were injured in Kandahar city Two vehicles detonated simultaneously when an Afghan police car was passing There was no claim of responsibility, the incident comes amid Taliban's spring ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214589546/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:50:53 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214589546/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A young injured Afghan boy is carried by his father into the emergency room at the hospital in Kandahar on Friday after a car bomb exploded inside an elite gated community linked to the family of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. (Allauddin Khan/Associated ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214589547/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:50:45 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214589547/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Bombs at two mosques in the Malakand area of Pakistan exploded after Friday prayers, killing 15 and injuring 100, a government official confirmed. "The explosive was a timed device planted apparently among the pillows and sheets of worshippers inside the mosque," Amjad Ali, the deputy commissioner of Malakand, said of one of the blasts. The explosions shook the Bar Kalley and Jamia ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214589517/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 15:33:05 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214589517/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Afghan officials say at least nine people were killed and dozens injured after twin car bombs exploded inside a barricaded housing complex in the country's restive south. Kandahar provincial spokesman Jawid Faisal said the blasts occurred inside Aino Mina, a housing complex that was developed in part by Mahmood Karzai, President Hamid Karzai's brother, on May 17. Faisal said at ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214588193/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 14:55:28 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214588193/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say a car bomb has exploded inside an elite gated community linked to the family of President Hamid Karzai near the southern city of Kandahar. At least nine people are dead and more than 70 wounded.Kandahar government spokesman Javeed Faisal says the Friday evening blast happened inside Aino Mina, a housing complex on the northern outskirts of the ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214586776/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:46:58 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214586776/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A top Taliban leader was seized during a military operation in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province Friday, officials said. The operation was carried out jointly by Afghan and coalition security forces, Khaama Press reported. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, in a statement about the operation, said: "An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a senior ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214586777/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 13:01:06 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214586777/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c A US soldier secures the area where a suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday. Next year will mark the end of NATO's combat mission in Afghanistan. By December 2014 the US and other foreign troops still here will be ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214586778/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 12:58:09 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214586778/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Alesha Tackett, a graduating senior at Space Coast Junior/Senior High School, is surprised by her stepfather, Eric Besvold, who returned home after a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan with the U.S. Navy - Friday, May 17, 2013. (VIDEO STILL/Jerry Hume, ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214585060/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 12:09:29 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214585060/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c SOCHI, May 17 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow is counting on the UN to develop proposals regarding the international presence in Afghanistan after 2014, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. "We consider it important to start discussing in advance what forms of [international] presence there will be in Afghanistan after 2014; we will count on the proposals that the [UN] ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214583390/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 10:44:29 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214583390/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c KABUL, Afghanistan A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing two U.S. troops and four American civilian contractors, U.S. and NATO officials confirmed. Eight Afghans civilians also died in the explosion and more than 30 were wounded, according to a senior Afghan police official. Cmdr. Bill Speaks, a spokesman for the U.S. Defense Secretary, confirmed ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214583295/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 10:31:01 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214583295/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c - While global attention is fixed on the scheduled pullout of U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan in 2014, women here have a much more immediate concern: how will they survive another day at ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214582016/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 09:39:19 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214582016/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, May 17, 2013 – A combined Afghan and coalition security force arrested a senior Taliban leader in the Baghlan-e Jadid district of Afghanistan's Baghlan province today, military officials reported. The senior leader oversees insurgent cells responsible for attacks against Afghan and coalition ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214582017/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 09:35:54 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214582017/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Soldiers walk away from the firing line to reload their weapons and magazines. Task Force 2-13 live ammunition weapons training at the CFB Edmonton Range. In all 700 soldiers from Land Force Western Area will deploy to Kabul, Afghanistan as part of Operation ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214582018/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 09:26:47 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214582018/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c MOSCOW, May 17 (Itar-Tass) - Member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will offer all possible help to Tajikistan to ensure security at its borders after the withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from Afghanistan, CSTO secretary general Nikolai Bordyuzha told journalists on ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214579575/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 07:17:08 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214579575/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c In your new book, ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214587640/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 07:00:02 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214587640/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty broadcasts in 28 languages. 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If you are having problems listening to programs on the internet, please read ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214578742/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 06:13:08 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214578742/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c By Amie Ferris-RotmanKABUL (Reuters) - Russia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year, is considering deploying border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border, Moscow's envoy to Kabul told Reuters in an interview.Moscow, still sore from its disastrous, decade-long war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, is increasingly concerned by what it describes ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214577752/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 05:08:29 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214577752/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Lahore, May 17 : Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran (TMQ) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has said that a "Taliban supported government" has come into power after "strange elections" where both the winners and losers have staged protests against ... http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214577628/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c Fri, 17 May 2013 05:03:06 -0400 http://www.heraldglobe.com/index.php/sid/214577628/scat/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c