Topic: Afghanistan
PHOENIX (Reuters) - The alma mater of football star turned soldier Pat Tillman, who was killed in Afghanistan while serving with the U.S. Army, honored him on Tuesday with a veterans' center in his name.Arizona State University's Pat Tillman Veterans Center provides ...
Fears of a withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan in 2014 are harming efforts to transfer security to locals, the head of the EU police training force EUPOL said on Wednesday."If you talk to a normal Afghan person, even an educated one, ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan Abdul Wahab swings a heavy sledgehammer down onto a red hot piece of metal to mold it into a truck part, sweat dripping down a face marked with grime and soot from the fire, and with a focus ...
Reading is the most important lesson for Afghan police and soldiers as NATO builds forcesWhen NATO troops train Afghan police, their most intensive class is not marksmanship, checkpoint procedure or riot control. It's reading and writing.Only 11 percent of enlisted personnel and ...
Khorshied Samad is the wife of Afghanistan's Ambassador to Canada and she is one of the driving forces behind the " This project is sponsored by a non-profit organization called Artists for Afghanistan Foundation (AFAF) and what they do is help women ...
What's going on with our education system, and why the slow progress over the last 30 years? However some students really feel that going to school is about the same as Marines fighting in Afghanistan.
This is the tradition in Afghanistan, a patriarcal society where men and women are not considered equal. And in most cases, women were denied of their basic and fundamental rights.Root of Inequality When the Talibans assumed power in Afghanistan in 1996, they ...
Afghanistan declared a health emergency ?to help the government prevent the rapid spread of H1N1, and ordered schools closed for three weeks as part of measures against the deadly virus. The government has also advised the public against gatherings such as weddings ...
VENUE World Heritage Bamiyan BuddhasLOCATION Bamiyan AfghanistanDATE 21 September 2009Our Journey to Smile in 2009 wishes to gather Afghan college students and Afghan youth from every ethnicity, as well as international volunteers from every country, to come together at the World Heritage ...
US troops who have died while serving in Afghanistan and the Horn of AfricaArmy Spc. Joshua A. HartonJosh Harton had a passion for zombie movies and English bulldogs. He also had a quick wit."He'd do a sideways joke and you'd catch up ...
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Loveland Soldier Welcomed Home From Afghanistan
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