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Afghanistan Losing An Increasing Number Of Citizens To Asylum

10 years ago the United States began its invasion of Afghanistan and now according to a recent United Nations (UN) report the country is experiencing the highest number of political asylum requests of the last decade. According to ... continue

Private Danny Chen: 8 US Troops Charged in Death of Fellow GI

The U.S. Army says eight American soldiers have been charged in connection with the death of a fellow soldier in southern Afghanistan. Private Danny Chen, 19, was found dead in a guard tower with an apparent "self-inflicted" gunshot ... continue

Hamid Karzai Won’t Hold Peace Talks Until Clear Taliban Leader Comes Forward

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai says he won't meet with Taliban insurgents to discuss a peace treaty until a clear leader with authority to negotiate comes froward. During a Sunday interview with CNN Karzai said the September assassination of former ... continue

Rare Persian Leopard Caught on Film

Conservationists were not aware that the Persian Leopard still roamed the mountains of Afghanistan. But a series of a photographs taken from a camera trap give indisputable evidence that the large predator is still living in the ... continue

Suicide Bomber Attacks Shi’ite Shrine in Kabul, Killing 58

Officials say a suicide bomber killed at least 58 people and injured hundreds more in Kabul, the Afghan capital, on Tuesday after detonating explosives outside a packed Shiite mosque as hordes of worshippers observed a religious holiday. According ... continue

Bill O’Reilly’s book makes better kindling than reading in Afghanistan

Author's and publishers will go to great lengths to publicize their books, even to the point of shipping a box of them to soldiers in Afghanistan it seems, the problem is that sometimes those books aren't exactly what ... continue

Rare earth element deposits in Afghanistan could transform economy

According to a recent study released by the US Geological Survey, Afghanistan may be home to massive rare earth element deposits containing about 1.5 million metric tons worth of rare earth material. By the USGS's estimates, Afghanistan's rare ... continue

Cpl. Dakota Meyer Receives Medal of Honor For Saving 36

Cpl. Dakota Meyer was not supposed to drive repeatedly into a firefight with insurgents in Afghanistan on September 8th, 2009- but his high school football coach says the young man was always a kid who sought to ... continue

25 Navy SEALs Killed in NATO Helicopter Crash

In the single deadliest loss for U.S. troops since the Afghan war began in late 2001, 31 American service members died early Saturday when a NATO helicopter carrying them was shot down by Afghan insurgents as it ... continue

[Video] Marines in Afghanistan do video for Britney Spears’ ‘Hold It Against Me’

Adorable Marines in Afghanistan lip-sync to Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me," adorably. [via Fark] continue

Ever wonder what 25 tons of bombs do to a town?

The above image is of a normal town in Afghanistan called Tarok Kolache when it was seeing better days even though it was, according to American forces, overrun by Taliban insurgents. After they had failed in two previous attempts to ... continue

Osama Bin Laden isn’t the only cave dweller in Afghanistan

The original post of these photographs of a village made up of caves said they were located in Afghanistan but a quick search on Bing shows that it is actually a village in Iran called Kandovan. Regardless ... continue

EA chickens out: Playable Taliban dropped from new Medal of Honor

If you've read a story about Medal of Honor over the past few months, chances are it had something to do with the inclusion of playable Taliban fighters. The storm of controversy around this design decision has provided ... continue

UK politician demands Medal of Honor ban for “un-British” game

UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox has stated that stores should refuse to stock the forthcoming Medal of Honor (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) because the game allows players to kill British troops as the Taliban. The first-person shooter is ... continue

Medal of Honor Xbox 360 beta delayed

Medal of Honor multiplayer betas kicked off yesterday on the PlayStation 3 and PC, but those wanting to play it on Xbox 360 are, for reasons unknown, in for a wait. The game’s official blog announced a delay ... continue

[VIDEO] Medal of Honor gets release date, new trailer

EA's forthcoming blockbuster first-person shooter and BEARDFEST Medal of Honor will be on sale in the U.S. on October 12, with Europe getting the game on October 15. It's coming out on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC, ... continue

Medal of Honor looking nice, not totally unlike that other modern warfare game

The latest Medal of Honor game - which, let's face it, is EA's attempt to take on the all-conquering Modern Warfare 2 - is looking jolly tasty. Even more pleasingly, these new shots of the game contain ... continue

EA craves some of Modern Warfare’s pie, new Medal of Honor set in Afghanistan

Videogames set in World War II? They're so 2000 - 2008 (well, roughly speaking). All the cool kids are currently setting their first-person shooter games in the now. It's not hard to see why. The roaring success of ... continue

Seen on Fox News: Taliban should do us a favor and kill captured soldier

Professional jerk-off "military analyst" and retired Army colonel Ralph Peters, appearing on a Fox News show, tripped a collective WTF wire when he suggested the Taliban should just off captured US Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl and "save us a ... continue

Legal rape bought to you by the US backed Afghan Government

Is it possible that a Government could be worse than the Taliban who once ruled Afghanistan with a theocratic fist? Opponents of legislation that has passed in Afghanistan's say it is "worse than during the Taliban." US backed ... continue

Tackling the Afghan heroin problem one pomegranate at a time

It’s a well known fact that Afghanistan produces 90 per cent of the world’s opium which according to Tom Coghian of the Times Online generates almost all of the heroin consumed in Britain. However it seems that ... continue

Viagra – endorsed by the CIA

Over in Afghanistan one of the hardest this to get is reliable intel from the many elderly warlords that populate the countryside. Many things have been tried by the CIA in order to illicit reliable and accurate ... continue