The US Marines call their project the “Yellow School for its colour scheme – a zesty lemon that leaps out of Marjah’s drab vista of farmsteads, irrigation canals and scrub.The classrooms are occupied by young men: heavily armed Americans who have turned the compound into a fortress.Gun-emplacements squat on the corrugated iron roofs.A few days ago, shots hit the walls.
Herat, Afghanistan – For three springs now Zobair Ahrar has watched helplessly as annual flooding washed away 1,500 square meters of his land – about five percent of his property.A former dam designer turned farmer, Mr.Ahrar estimates it would cost $1 million to build a dam that could control the floods eroding the land in his and a hundred other villages. Mr.Ahrar approached the provincial
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan – U.S troops and their Afghan and NATO allies are planning their biggest joint offensive since the start of the Afghan war, targeting a town in the volatile south that is believed to be the biggest Taliban stronghold and a hub of the militants' lucrative opium trade, officers said Wednesday.No date for the start of the offensive has been released due to securi