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A Look Inside a Hospital on the Front Lines in Afghanistan - Health - GOOD
The Guardian put together a photo essay that provides an interesting look into a hospital run by the Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan and aided by Doctors Without Borders .
Globe and Mail wins Emmy for online series Behind the Veil - The Globe and Mail
For the second year in a row, The Globe and Mail's in-depth multimedia work has won an Emmy award. Behind the Veil, a project that used articles, videos and photographs to tell the personal stories of women in war-torn Afghanistan, won in the new approaches to news and documentary programming category at the awards ceremony in New York Monday night. “It’s an incredible feeling that I've done something that started out as experimental and transformed into a noteworthy series of documentaries," said Globe and Mail reporter Jessica Leeder, moments after accepting the award. On hand to accept the award with Ms.
View Is Bleaker Than Official Portrayal of War in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
A six-year archive of classified military documents made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal. The secret documents, released on the Internet by an organization called WikiLeaks, are a daily diary of an American-led force often starved for resources and attention as it struggled against an insurgency that grew larger, better coordinated and more deadly each year.
Since the terroristic attack on the World Trade Center on september 11th, 2001 and the following invasion by the Allied forces in Afghanistan in order to fight the Taliban regime and Al-Quaida, the Western countries are involved in an ongoing conflict which seems to have no end. After nine years of war the situation still remains unstable. The set up afghan government turns out to be corrupt and more and more people are dying on both sides.
The Afghan Conflict - A Map of Possible Scenarios
I n an exclusive interview with RFE/RL, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that he expected concrete results from this week's London conference on Afghanistan. Speaking to RFE/RL correspondent Abubakar Siddique, Rasmussen also said that the NATO mission in Afghanistan was not an "occupation force." "We will stay as long as it takes to finish our job, but our ultimate goal is to hand over responsibility to the Afghan people," he said. RFE/RL: The Afghan government is expected to present a detailed plan for reconciliation with the Taliban in London. Previous plans have failed to win international backing due to a lack of resources and political backing. Is there any reason to believe the situation is any different today?
Interview: NATO Chief Discusses Afghan Mission, London Conference - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2010
Little is known about the large-billed reed warbler, but researchers have found a thriving flock of the birds in a remote corner of Afghanistan. Mr Timmins says one of the reasons why so little is known about these birds is that they are often mistaken for other types of warblers and they are a very private species. "Reed warblers are very good at hiding and they don't like to be seen. They usually like to skulk in thick vegetation", he said.