[AnNahar] On a good day, it takes Mohammad less than three hours to drive from Ghazni to Kabul. But preparations for the hair-raising journey through Taliban ...Arabic for students... -infested areas can take weeks.
Road trips are a dangerous, and often deadly, activity in Afghanistan.
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[KhaamaPress] The United States has exempted Chabahar Port development and import of petroleum by Afghanistan from the new sanctions imposed on Iran.
a State Department front man has told Rooters that the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has granted an exception to certain U.S. sanctions that will allow the India-led development of a port in Iran as part of a new transportation corridor designed to boost Afghanistan’s economy.
In addition, Afghanistan will be allowed to continue importing Iranian petroleum products, the front man said.
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Probably this is an interim step in a very long process of several appeals and retrials directed by higher courts, before the Elders of Islam at Al Ahzar university finally provide religious sanction for the final decision. All of this will take years.
[AlAhram] An Egyptian military court in Ismailia has sentenced to death in absentia eight members of the terrorist group ISIS for involvement in 2016 attacks on military personnel and checkpoints, personnel and equipment, which killed 14 military personnel.
The court also sentenced 32 defendants to life, two others to 15 years in prison and acquitted two in the same case.
The defendants were charged with attacking military personnel and checkpoints, murder of 14 military personnel, and the attempted murder of 16 military personnel.
The court said that those convicted have used firearms, explosives and projectiles to carry out their attacks.
In February 2018, the Egyptian army launched Operation Sinai 2018, involving land, naval and air forces, as well as the police and border guards, targeting "terrorist and criminal elements and organizations" in northern and central Sinai, as well as parts of the Nile Delta and the Western Desert.
[The Independent] Prejudice towards Muslims and foreigners is rising in Germany, a study has revealed.
More than 44 per cent of Germans believe Muslims should be banned from immigrating, compared to 36.5 per cent in 2014, the Competence Centre for Right-Wing Extremism and Democracy Research found.
The poll found more than one in two (55.8 per cent) said the number of Muslims made them feel like strangers in their own country, while 43 per cent gave the same answer four years ago, the Die Welt newspaper reported.
It also showed more than one in three Germans believe foreigners only come to the country to exploit the welfare state and 35.6 per cent feared Germany had already been "dangerously watered down" by foreigners.
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Islamophobia - taking someone at their word when they announce their intentions to cut your throat and rape your daughter and objecting strenuously to that idea.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
