A number of the NGOs now working in Afghanistan, like Oxfam, Afghan Aid and the Agha Khan Foundation have been there for many years and show no sign of planning to leave when NATO troops withdraw. This article is written by a committee member of the Norwegian Afghanistan Committee, which ...
Why do Jamaicans leave Jamaica? Many young Jamaicans are ready to leave their country topursue better educational and job opportunities. In fact, they would leave Jamaica for any destination other than Afghanistan. ... Education and job opportunities are the chief reasons cited by the young peop...
Can you leave Gitmo? Not surprisingly, Guantanamo Bay presents some unique challenges as a duty station. Though close to the U.S. mainland, theonly way on or off baseis on one of about six military-contracted flights a month that stop in Jacksonville, Fla., and Norfolk, Va. ...
Hideously ugly, they did the job. But they also proved to be the perfect blank canvases. Enter Australian artist, Justin Andrew Hook. John and I had the good fortune of spending a day with Justin last month, hearing his story and getting to know this amazing human being. Justin, whose,...
Around the same time, personnel were discovered to have travelled for security work in Afghanistan, and one soldier was suspected of using his leave to fight with the Kurdish YPK militant group in Syria. All of this led to the introduction of a formal regul...
“I feel the trade has, let’s say, a wrong idea of quality. Colombian emerald has a certain historical notion, but at the very end, when we talk about quality, other sources can deliver the best quality. For example, sapphires from Madagascar can be super quality. These Afg...
The title comes from a Pakistani play. I think it was actually that moment that sent me on the journey to interview 300 people of Muslim heritage from nearly 30 countries, from Afghanistan to Mali, to find out how they fought fundamentalism peacefully like my father did...
1920s Afghanistan was a progressive and rapidly-modernizing country in large part to the most powerful, empathic, and maligned queen it had ever seen. Amanirenas: The One-Eyed Queen Who Fought Rome Tooth and Nail When Rome set its eyes on her country, this one-eyed queen fought them tooth...
Now for Biden, it was utter foolishness to evacuate the army before the thousands of Americans and people of Afghanistan. Who even thought of that!? It was utter foolishness to leave 80 billion of dollars worth of weapons for the terrorists (Blackhawk helicopters, 600,000 guns, etc.). Whose...
What did the President George W. Bush say when the US invaded Afghanistan? The invasion, led by US forces with help from NATO allies, was framed specifically as a step in a war on terrorism. “These carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist ...