Totalitarianism

NATO will increase troop numbers in Afghanistan to help train local forces facing a resurgent Taliban but will not return to a combat role, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on June 29.

The alliance ended its longest-ever military operation in 2014 when it handed over post-9/11 frontline duties to the Afghan military and took on an advice and training mission.

Imagine such a life: Almost all of your decisions are made by somebody else; there is no free area in your life. Your education, job, marriage, free time, books and newspapers to be read… All of these are decided for you, and you need only obey. 

To mark May 9, the day fascism was defeated in 1945, the Immortal Regiment event was organized in the Serbian capital for the second year.

Participants walked while holding portraits of their family members who died during the Second World War.

Russia on March 24 denied allegations by the commander of NATO that Moscow may be assisting the Taliban as the insurgents fight U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has condemned a terror attack in the northeastern Pakistani city of Lahore that killed at least 15 people. 

At least 15 people were killed late on Feb. 13, emergency official Ahmad Raza told Agence France-Presse, including six police officers, while up to 87 were injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vest at a busy protest. 

A large bomb blast ripped through a protest rally in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding nearly 60 in an attack claimed by a breakaway Taliban faction.

Niloofar Rhmani is the first woman pilot of the Afghan air force. Her courageous decision was applauded by the western world and she was awarded U.S. State Department’s International Women of Courage Award in 2015.

At least six people have been killed in a powerful Taliban truck bombing at the German consulate in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif city on Nov. 11, with more than 100 others wounded in a major militant assault.

A major Taliban suicide bomb and gun attack on a government security office in central Kabul during rush hour on April 19 killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 320, a week after the militant group announced a spring offensive. 

Child casualties have soared in Afghanistan this year as the Taliban stepped up attacks in urban areas, the United Nations said on April 17, branding the figures "appalling."

Between January and March, 161 children were killed and 449 others injured - a 29 percent increase from a year earlier - the U.N.'s mission in Afghanistan said in a report.