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21 September 2010

Afghanistan: Election 2010 Started

Written by Jamshid Sultanzada · Elections

Despite all the security threats and anxiety, hundreds of Afghans lined up in every polling station all over the country to cast their ballots in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga Election 2010, which started September 18.

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13 September 2010

Afghanistan: Kabul Bank on the brink of collapse

Written by Fred Petrossian · Governance, Economics & Business

Financial crisis is not a luxury reserved for rich countries. Kabul Bank in Afghanistan, which is part-owned by the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, is on the edge of a $1 billion collapse.

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12 August 2010

Afghan photo bloggers, beyond war and Wikileaks

Written by Fred Petrossian · Arts & Culture, Governance

By publishing photos of different aspects of their country, Afghan photo bloggers display an Afghanistan beyond war and Wikileaks, of beauty as well as poverty.

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29 July 2010

Afghan Bloggers on Wikileaks War Logs

Written by Fred Petrossian · Ideas, Governance

Afghan bloggers writing in Dari appear to be relatively quiet in the aftermath of the leaked military reports posted on Wikileaks. Here are reactions from two Afghan bloggers.

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26 July 2010

Liveblog of global reactions to Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs

Written by Solana Larsen · Breaking News, War & Conflict

More than 90,000 classified U.S. military documents about the war in Afghanistan have been leaked. As an experiment, we are using Google Wave to live blog global blog and citizen media reactions to the war logs (#warlogs) made public today by Wikileaks, Der Spiegel, New York Times and The Guardian.

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24 June 2010

Australians Challenge Afghanistan War Commitment

Written by Kevin Rennie · War & Conflict

Even before Barack Obama sacked General McCrystal, Australia bloggers were questioning the commitment of troops to the Afghanistan war. This has intensified with the deaths of five soldiers in the last couple of weeks.

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20 January 2010

Afghanistan: Youth Find Outlets Amid Ongoing Violence

Written by Juhie Bhatia · Conversations for a Better World

Last year was the deadliest one for Afghanistan's civilians, including children, since the American-led war began in 2001. Despite the circumstances, efforts are being made nationwide by and for youth to maintain their health and education and to empower them.

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14 November 2009

Egypt: Nidal Hassan - Psychiatrist or Psychotic?

Written by Marwa Rakha · Breaking News, Disaster

Major Nidal Hassan is the US military psychiatrist of Arab origins who went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas, killing 13 people. He is now facing charges of premeditated murder. "Psychiatrist or Psychotic?", ask Egyptian bloggers.

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9 October 2009

Egypt: No Accolades for Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

Written by Tarek Amr · Breaking News, Freedom of Speech

Egyptian bloggers and Twitter users welcomed US President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize with shock and surprise: How can the president of a country waging wars against far away countries win a peace prize? Tarek Amr has more in this round up of reactions from Egypt.

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8 October 2009

Afghanistan: Reflecting on the Battle of Kamdesh

Written by Joshua Foust · War & Conflict

The large scale assault on a U.S. base in Nuristan over the weekend has caused many bloggers familiar with Afghanistan to reconsider how they feel about the conflict.

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Updates about Afghanistan

27 February 2012

English

Nick Fielding says more than 100,000 forced to leave their homes between January and June last year due to the spreading conflict in Afghanistan.

• Adil Nurmakov

23 February 2012

Updates

Goftman Roshnayi says[fa] “burning Quran has become another pretext to kill each other in Afghanistan…When Talibans explode bombs, kill people and burn Qurans, nobody cares.” Five killed as protests over Quran burning rage in Afghanistan.

• Fred Petrossian

12 February 2012

English

Nick Fielding reports that, according to figures from the United Nations - in contrast to the figures issued by the US military - the number of Afghan civilians killed and injured rose for the fifth consecutive year in a row.

• Adil Nurmakov

24 January 2012

English

Nick Fielding writes that coverage of Afghanistan in American newspapers fell in 2011 compared to the previous year, although overall coverage of international issues jumped by more than a third.

• Adil Nurmakov

English

basir ahang writes about 15 year old girl, who had been forced into marriage and later was imprisoned, tortured and violently beaten by the husband and his family because she refused to work and earn money as a prostitute.

• Adil Nurmakov

3 January 2012

Updates

A Facebook campaign has been launched to fight against wrong mentality about number 39 in Afghanistan. This number is associated to prostitution. Read more here.

• Fred Petrossian

13 December 2011

English

yahweh writes how situation with the rights of women and disabled persons has developed in Afghanistan since 2001, when the Afghan government and its international allies pledged to advance gender issues following the military intervention to oust the Taliban.

• Adil Nurmakov

14 November 2011

English

Nick Fielding reports that US civilian aid to Afghanistan will begin to decline as troop levels are reduced over the next three years, and it has already fallen from $4.1 billion in 2010 to $2.5 billion this year.

• Adil Nurmakov

15 October 2011

English

Kayhan Irani, an award-winning writer and “artivist” from New York, blogs about her experiences in Kabul, Afghanistan training theater groups in the theory and practice of theater for social change.

• Solana Larsen

10 October 2011

English

Nick Fielding writes that, according to a research paper published by the UK House of Commons, the nation's expenditure in Afghanistan totalled £3.774 billion in 2010-11.

• Adil Nurmakov