Tag: Transition

A second wave of Afghanistan’s transition from NATO to local control officially started Thursday as international forces handed over most of a peaceful province....

The second wave of transition from NATO to local control in Afghanistan will include six provinces, seven cities and dozens of districts, a statement...

The conventional banks in Pakistan are switching towards ever-flourishing Islamic banking which, most of the industry managers agree, has a bright future in this...

A mortar attack on Tuesday marred the transition of responsibility from NATO to Afghan officials in Mehtar Lam, the second of seven areas due...

Afghanistan began the long-publicised transition to control of its own security amid secrecy, not fanfare, on Sunday, a reminder of how volatile the country...

At least one former Taliban stronghold in southern Helmand province has seen a big enough improvement in security to make it a likely candidate...

Egypt’s ruling military council insisted on Tuesday that it will not cede control over the transition from ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s regime amid mounting...

Taliban insurgents are trying to sabotage a security handover in the capital of Afghanistan's violent southern Helmand province, but Afghan police and troops can...

The Taliban are trying to disrupt plans for the start of a security transfer in Afghanistan, from foreign troops to the national army and...

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh was due to sign a Gulf-brokered pact on Sunday that would make him the third Arab leader ousted by...

A senior Pakistani official has said that a deal had been struck under former president Pervez Musharraf and renewed by the army during the...

Yemen’s president was to sign an agreement on Saturday to quit power in a month’s time in exchange for immunity in a deal that,...

SANAA - At least one anti-regime protester was killed and dozens shot in the cities of Taez and Sanaa, as Yemen's worried Gulf neighbours prepared to meet in Riyadh on Sunday to work out a transition plan.
Three other people were killed, including an intelligence officer and a soldier, in Abyan province, an Al-Qaeda stronghold in southern Yemen. The protester died of a gunshot wound after security forces using live fire hit dozens of demonstrators in overnight clashes in Sanaa

WASHINGTON The United States welcomed an announcement by Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that Afghan forces will begin taking responsibility for security in several provinces this summer. "As we have long said, the Afghans themselves must take responsibility for their own future - for providing security, for strengthening governance, and for reaching a political solution to the conflict," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. Karzai said Afghan forces will take

CAIRO - Egypt's ruling military council will announce a constitutional decree within the next two days that will chart the path towards elections and civilian rule, a security source said on Tuesday. The decree will set a timeframe for parliamentary elections, expected in September of this year, and the presidential polls that will follow them, the source said. "The constitutional decree will set a roadmap for the steps ahead with a timetable for elections and the laws to be passed to

KABUL - Afghanistan's leader announced on Tuesday seven areas would be included in the first phase of a gradual transition of security from NATO troops to Afghan forces in July, including volatile cities in the south and north. The announcement was the first tentative step in a long process that will end with the withdrawal of all foreign combat troops from Afghanistan by 2014, a process agreed by US and NATO leaders last year. "Transition is the right of the Afghan people and,

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia, a close ally of Hosni Mubarak, on Saturday welcomed the "peaceful transition of power" in Egypt, an official quoted by the state SPA news agency said. The conservative kingdom "welcomes the peaceful transition of power" and hopes "the efforts of Egypt's armed forces will bring peace and stability," he said a day after president Hosni Mubarak's ouster.
Riyadh will support efforts to forge a "unity government that would achieve the hopes and aspirations of