WASHINGTON, DC: In June, at the latest loya jirga (a grand assembly comprised of tribal leaders) meeting in Kabul, 1,600 local Afghan leaders endorsed a social reintegration program for low-level Taliban insurgents willing to renounce violence, (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: In June, at the latest loya jirga (a grand assembly comprised of tribal leaders) meeting in Kabul, 1,600 local Afghan leaders endorsed a social reintegration program for low-level Taliban insurgents willing to renounce violence, (...)
Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai recently came out swinging at the West again, this time on the topic of opium eradication. Responding to the latest UN report showing an opium production increase of 17 percent in 2007, Karzai accused the (...)
