In October of 2001, the United States invaded Afghanistan and replaced the Taliban government. Since its overthrow, the Taliban has pieced together and waged an insurgency to retake Afghanistan, and that insurgency has gained momentum and grown in strength while the United States/North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) effort shrank in size to about 55,000 troops in 2007. A wide range of fact...

Afghanistan has a unique and indeed, an immense significance in the strategic calculus of People’s Republic of China. The geopolitics of this Chinese neighbourhood has four glaring peculiarities, which include; political, strategic, geographical, and economic. In the rapidly changing global security environment, these aspects demands a deeper cooperation not only between China and Afghanistan b...

An investigation is made into applying SAT solving techniques to the cryptanalysis of the AES block cipher. AES was intended to be translated into a generalised set of clauses and then a boolean CNF obtained through analysis of the components of the cipher, hopefully resulting in novel insight into the construction of AES and further cryptanalysis.

BACKGROUND Differences in the characteristics and mental health needs of female veterans of the Iraq/Afghanistan war compared with those of veterans of other wars may have useful implications for VA program and treatment planning. METHODS Female veterans reporting service in the Iraq/Afghanistan war were compared with women reporting service in the Persian Gulf and Vietnam wars and to men rep...

Concerns about the mental health of military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan has led to a new generation of research. This review is an examination of the UK literature on the mental health consequences of deployment of armed forces personnel to Iraq and Afghanistan. As yet, deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan has not been associated with a general increase in mental health problems fo...

This study assessed the need and readiness of health care institutions in Kabul and Bamyan, Afghanistan for successful implementation of information and communication technology in health care (eHealth). A mixed methods design was adopted at 2 institutions in the Aga Khan Development Network in Afghanistan: the French Medical Institute for Children in Kabul and Bamyan Provincial Hospital, Bamya...

This article explains the history of relations between India- Afghanistan and prospects for any future engagement with Islamic Emirate Afghanistan, considering recent developments in Afghanistan. It investigates how two countries can find common grounds economic, political, social cooperation what role India could take helping stabilize ultimately region. The paper also elaborates on potential ...

we conducted this study to obtain a comprehensive picture of molecular epidemiology of hiv-1 in three neighboring countries, i.e. afghanistan, iran, and pakistan as a basis for discussing possible hypothesis regarding between-country virus transmission. our results showed that subtype composition differs between these countries with more variation in pakistan than iran and afghanistan. the crf3...