Pressure from the international community, NGOs and civil society led to the acquittal recently of five alleged coup plotters imprisoned in Burundi in August this year. The men…

Unthinkable only four years ago under the fundamentalist Islamic rule of the ousted Taliban regime that banned music and television, <i>Afghan Star</i> — a spin-off of the West’s…

An enormous cheer rises into the Bagram sky. In a pink bikini top, miniskirt and red Father Christmas hat, the voluptuous Lilian Garcia has appeared to give thousands of GIs an…