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RFE Balkan Service Director Gordana Knezevic sat down with the "Q" program on the "CBC" to discuss propaganda during the Balkan War and the recent arrest of Ratko Mladic. More

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Bomb Kills 4 NATO Troops In Afghanistan

NATO says four members of its International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have been killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan. More

Mourners carry the coffin of journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, who was killed in Pakistan this week. The country was listed by the Committee to Protect Journalists as one of the worst offenders in its 2011 Impunity Index

Journalists 'Killed With Impunity'

The Committee to Protect Journalists has said in a new report that entrenched corruption in law enforcement worldwide has thwarted justice in the killings of reporters. More

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski (right) stands with governor of Ghazni Province Musa Khan Akbarzada (center) as he visited reconstruction work and Polish soldiers in Afghanistan in June 2010.

Polish Troops Cleared In Afghan Deaths

The trial was said to be the first trial for war crimes in Europe involving troops fighting the Taliban. More

Afghan President Hamid Karzai complained that NATO officials in Afghanistan sometimes behave as if they are occupiers rather than allies with the government in Kabul.

Karzai Warns NATO Over Air Strikes

President Hamid Karzai has warned the NATO-led force in Afghanistan that launching attacks on Afghan homes in pursuit of insurgents is "not allowed" and that patience with the tactic has run out after a spate of civilian casualties. More

2 Australians Killed In Afghanistan

Australia's Defense Department says two Australian soldiers have been killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan. More

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Slain Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad in a 2006 photo

Certainly Not the First, Unlikely To Be The Last

Though I’m not sure who abducted and killed Syed Saleem Shahzad, his kidnapping and murder reminds me of a situation in Peshawar in 2009, while I was working for “The News International.” More

The Story Of Neelum From Charbagh

Shaheen Buneri tells the story of Neelum, a widow from the town of Charbagh in Pakistan's Swat Valley. More

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Taliban militants lay down their arms in the Baghlan Province in May

Two Visions Of Talking To The Taliban

There are few things more divisive in Afghanistan today than the question of talking to the Taliban. More

Students recite Koranic verses at an Islamic madrasah on May 10, near Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden was killed on May 1-2.

Kids With Bombs: In Afghanistan And Pakistan, A Child With A Dream Can Be Deadly

There has been a spate of child suicide bombings in Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent weeks, perhaps due in part to the Taliban's latest push for fresh revenge attacks after the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces earlier this month. Afghan officials have accused the Taliban of training children for the attacks, although under closer inspection, the reasons why children become suicide bombers are more complex. More

A prisoner looks out from a fenced window at the Female Detention Center in Kabul.

Afghan Women's Prisons Seek To Make Life Behind Bars Less Horrific

Despite a handful of new women's prisons in Kabul and a few other big cities that seek to protect their rights, female inmates in many areas of Afghanistan are kept in separate rooms inside men's jails, watched over by male guards and not far from hundreds of convicted criminals. More

Global Index Charts Year Of Continued Setbacks To World Peace

The world became slightly less peaceful in the past year, punctuated by violent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, but also marked by successes in countries like Slovenia and Georgia. More

The shrine of Hazrat-e Ali, also called the Blue Mosque, in Mazar-e Sharif, in northern Afghanistan

The Timeless Beauty Of Afghanistan's Blue Mosque

Afghanistan once attracted thousands of tourists. At the Blue Mosque in Mazar-e Sharif, it is easy to see why. More

U.S. Representative Dan Burton: "If we are talking about organizations that are repressive like the Iranian regime, we need to do everything we can to support the people in making those positive changes."

Interview: U.S. Congressman On Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, And The Arab Uprisings

U.S. Representative Dan Burton, a Republican lawmaker from the state of Indiana, has been visiting RFE/RL's headquarters in Prague. He is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as a member of a subcommittee that deals with security, homeland defense, and foreign operations. RFE/RL correspondent Ron Synovitz spoke with Burton about Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Arab uprisings, and human rights in Iran. More

Some Taliban have heeded President Hamid Karzai

Reintegration In Afghanistan Hinges On Fate Of Turncoat Taliban

The fate of former Taliban members who recently signed on to the Afghan government's integration efforts is being closely watched by others considering defection. More

British human rights campaigner Moazzam Begg

Amnesty International Is Keeping Dubious Company

How many human rights groups do you know that fantasize over the murder of the president of the United States? Anyone thinking that no organization would be so egregious clearly did not reckon on Cageprisoners, the group run by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg. More

Tracking Down Mortenson's Schools In Pakistan

In the wake of the '60 Minutes' report in April alleging various wrongdoing and incompetence by 'Three Cups of Tea' author and school-builder Greg Mortenson, a correspondent travels to a remote valley of northern Pakistan to see what those efforts look like on the ground. More

Dead bodies laid out after Uzbek forces opened fire on protestors in the city of Andijon in 2005.

Did Donald Rumsfeld Whitewash Massacre In Uzbekistan?

In his door-stopper of a memoir, "Known And Unknown," former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld spends just three pages recounting what he calls "one of the most unfortunate, if unnoticed, foreign policy mistakes of our administration." More

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