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Said Musa Released From Jail: 5 Facts on the Afghan Christian
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsSaid Musa, the Afghan man who was imprisoned and sentenced to death for converting from Islam to Christianity, has been released from a Kabul jail, The Christian Post reports. Musa's case has been closely watched by human rights groups and religious leaders, many of whom worked to bring attention to his story. Earlier this month, Christian pastors and academics launched a Twitter campaign on Musa's behalf. According to The Christian Post, the 45-year-old Musa's whereabouts are not known at this time. Surge Desk has five facts on the man who became an international symbol of religious ...
Opinion: The Lost Year in the Afghan War
By Michael Cohen - AOL NewsOne year ago, President Barack Obama pledged to turn a new page in the war in Afghanistan. At the U.S. military academy at West Point, he unveiled a new strategy for the war based on three core elements: "a military effort to create the conditions for a transition (to Afghan control); a civilian surge that reinforces positive action; and an effective partnership with Pakistan." A year later, the lack of success in achieving these goals is striking. The U.S. is years away from transition to Afghan control. The much vaunted civilian surge hasn't materialized. And effective partnership with ...
NATO's Combat Role in Afghan War to End by 2014
By not in system - AOL News
LISBON, Portugal (Nov. 19) -- NATO will start drawing down its troops in Afghanistan next July and its combat role in the war-torn nation will end by 2014 or earlier so security can be turned over to the Afghans, a top alliance official said Friday. "We think that goal is realistic, and we have made plans to achieve it, but of course if circumstances agree, it could be sooner, absolutely," said Mark Sedwill, NATO's top civilian representative in Afghanistan. Sedwill said the troop withdrawal starting next year will be "shallow" and eventually accelerate but did not elaborate. The escalating ...
29 Women Break Afghan Army's Glass Ceiling
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Sept. 23) -- Twenty-nine former housewives graduated today from the Afghan National Army's officer candidacy school, becoming their country's first female military officers in a generation. Afghan women served in the military up until the 1980s but were sidelined from the army under the strict Islamic policies of the Taliban that followed the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. Today's new female officers won't be posted on the front lines of battles against Taliban fighters but will instead take up administrative jobs, helping to lead the Afghan military into a new era once U.S. forces begin ...
Rogue Afghan Soldier Kills 3 British Troops
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (July 13) -- A rogue Afghan soldier fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a NATO patrol today, killing three British troops in an incident likely to renew doubts about the reliability of the Afghan army. Four soldiers were wounded, according to a military spokesman. It is not known whether the renegade soldier was working for the Taliban or a local warlord or was simply taking revenge for an unknown grievance. A statement issued by NATO said the attack took place early in the morning at a joint NATO/Afghan army base in southern Afghanistan. Sky News reported that the dead soldiers are ...
In Afghanistan, Trust Is Hard to Come By
By David Wood - Politics DailyArmy Staff Sgt. Ronald J. Spino, a combat medic, was helping unload supplies at a remote base in Afghanistan last week when a dispute broke out between Afghan and western soldiers. At an increasing number of bases, Afghan and U.S. and other western troops are living together, an arrangement intended to accelerate the training and advising of Afghan security forces. Last week's confrontation erupted when an Afghan soldier was refused access to a landing apron where a helicopter was about to descend. Angry shouts were exchanged, and then the Afghan soldier raised his rifle and shot, wounding two ...
A Fragile Key to the Exit: Training Afghan Forces
By Carmen Gentile - AOL NewsPresident Barack Obama's plan to get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan in three years without yielding it to the Taliban hinges on training Afghan army and police forces. So far, after spending more than $6.2 billion on training the police and substantially more on the nascent Afghan National Army, the U.S. and its allies are still a long way from building an indigenous force that can hold up against a determined Taliban adversary. Both the hope and the discouragement that have accompanied training efforts so far were on display one recent chilly morning in a village in eastern Afghanistan's ...
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