BBC News Farmers caught in the poppy trade Much of Afghanistan's Helmand Province is dependent on the poppy harvest - which locks ordinary people into a criminal economy and ends up funding Taleban insurgents, corrupt officials and drug traffi... (photo: WN)
The Columbus Dispatch Afghanistan war grows hotter than Iraq | Without our quite knowing it, is it possible that the war in Afghanistan has moved southward and that Pakistan is now a part of the struggle? | This new and dangerous part of the conflict began open... (photo: U.S. Marine Corps / Staff Sgt. Robert Piper )
The Australian Assault on innocence | THE girl in Sierra Leone's Freetown spends all her time caring for her baby, a child born of violent rape. The adolescent in southern Afghanistan has finally begun to learn to read, but she is terri... (photo: US Navy photo) GirlGlobalPhotosSexViolenceWar
Gulf News An absence of exit strategy in Afghanistan | Both the US and the UK leaders have promised to send more troops to Afghanistan by next year. There are currently over 60,000 troops in Afghanistan, about 33,000 Americ... (photo: US Army / Spc. Micah E. Clare) AfghanistanMilitaryPhotosUKUS
Asia Times A new world under one Heaven | By Francesco Sisci | Part 1: | BEIJING - Globalization in the West started with the Greeks - with the Anabasis told by Xenophon, a disciple of Socrates. Then, 10,000 Gr... (photo: AP/Ng Han Guan / ) ChinaCultureGlobalizationPhotosPolitics
Asia Times India blows up a monsoon | By M K Bhadrakumar | It cuts both ways when an unelected politician heads the government in a democratic country. On the one hand, he may not be adept at the politickin... (photo: PIB ) AsiaIndiaNuclearPhotosPolitics
Asia Times Big Oil's 'secret' out of Iraq's closet By Pepe Escobar | NEW YORK - It is not about the "war on terror". It is not about weapons of mass destruction. It is not about "freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people"... (photo: US Navy file / PM1 Michael Larson) AfghanistanIraqOilPhotosUSWar
San Diego Afghan developments FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan - Following are security developments in Afghanistan reported until 1200 GMT on Thursday: | LOGAR - Five Afghan soldiers were... (photo: U.S. Army/SSG Leopold Medina Jr.) AfghanistanNATOPhotosSecurityTerrorism
The Times Record oil prices: Iran and the Strait of Hormuz | The price of oil soared over $145 today, fuelled by concerns of an attack on Iran by Israel or the US. | Investors are worried that continuing tension could push Iran t... (photo: AP Photo / U.S. Navy, Christopher Mobley, FILE) ArabIranOilPhotosPricesStrait
