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19.09.2008, 08:35
As the Taliban insurgency continues to gain momentum in Afghanistan, the country’s fragile infrastructure is increasingly at risk of attack. Freelance writer Lizette Potgieter spent time at a power plant outside Kabul, and sent RT this special report.
06.10.2008, 12:59
The outgoing commander of the British contingent in Afghanistan says a military victory over the Taleban was ‘neither feasible nor supportable’.
23.10.2008, 19:40
In a surge of national self-identity, the Pakistani Parliament took a belligerent stance against mounting US pressure and has called for independent foreign policy and reconciliation with the militants.
26.10.2008, 13:03
Afghanistan is still the largest supplier of the world’s heroin and its illicit drug trade poses the gravest threat to the country’s long-term security, development and effective governance, particularly since Taliban mi
31.10.2008, 09:17
Two women have been shot dead in a grisly incident in Russia’s Far East. A man killed the two officials in a fit of rage and later committed suicide.
10.11.2008, 15:32
The U.S. military says it’s killed 14 militants in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province – but the province authorities say those killed were construction workers. The shootout happened as gunmen opened fire after U.S. troops stopped their vehic
18.11.2008, 11:53
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The Taliban's alleged use of civilians as human shields during combat makes it difficult for coalition forces to prevent civilian casualties. NATO hopes that additional troops on the ground will reduce air strikes. Freel
Published: 22 October, 2008, 11:08
A spokesman for the Taliban has said that it ordered the killing of a British aid worker because she was “spreading Christianity”. He told RT that the murder of 34 year old Gayle Williams in Kabul was also justified as it was a response to the
