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July 12, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Chicago Tribune: If Charles Dickens were writing “A Tale of Two Cities” about today’s Afghanistan, his opening line would be abbreviated: “It was the worst of times.” “Sunday was a particularly deadly day in Afghanistan,” reported The Associated Press this week. Roadside bombs and militant attacks killed seven American soldiers, 19 Afghan civilians and seven Afghan policemen. Full news...
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July 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: Part of what is so shocking about the public execution of an Afghan woman for alleged adultery is where it took place. The close-up shooting took place in Parwan Province before a crowd of 150 onlookers who cheered the killers as “mujahideen” as the woman was shot nine times. The Afghan government says the incident, captured on video, was the work of the Taliban; a Taliban spokesman denies this. Full news...
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July 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
MailOnline: It is the horrific moment an Afghan man is blown apart by a US missile. But in a moment of twisted inspiration an American helicopter pilot decided to give it a impromptu soundtrack - by singing “Bye, bye Miss American pie.” He belted out the most famous line of the Don McLean classic at the moment of impact when a fireball consumed at least one man. Full news...
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July 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: An Afghan provincial official says a NATO airstrike has killed three civilians in the east of the country. A spokesman for the coalition says initial reports of the strike do not suggest any civilian deaths. Logar province spokesman Din Mohammad Darwesh says NATO forces were on a foot patrol in Charkh district Monday morning when they came under fire from insurgents. Full news...
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June 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Common Dreams: Here in Afghanistan, the United States is spending 2 billion US dollars a week on war under the guise of improving Afghanistan. In Chicago at the NATO summit, Hillary Clinton, Madeline Albright and several influential female leaders came together and publicly claimed an American and NATO troop presence in Afghanistan was warranted in order to continue to improve the security of women. Full news...
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June 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Three suicide attackers blew themselves up in the largest city in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50 others in a dusty marketplace that was turned into a gruesome scene of blood and bodies. In the east, Afghan officials and residents said a pre-dawn NATO airstrike targeting militants killed civilians celebrating a wedding, including women and children... Full news...
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June 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Nato planes have carried out an air strike in the Afghan province of Logar, south of the capital Kabul, with several civilians reported dead. Afghan officials said 18 civilians died, including women and children. Nato said the air strike followed Afghan and foreign troops coming under fire, but added in a statement that it would investigate the incident. Full news...
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May 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UN News Center: The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan in the first four months of 2012 is 21 per cent lower than during the same period last year, the top United Nations envoy in the country reported today, while adding that deaths continued to occur at “unacceptable” levels. A study conducted by the human rights section of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) found there were 579 civilian casualties and 1,216... Full news...
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May 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Voice of Russia: In Eastern Afghanistan on Saturday night NATO was involved in another “incident”, as NATO calls them, involving the deaths of large numbers of civilians. This time NATO forces killed a family of eight people, including six children, in the Paktia province. Many experts say the “incident” threatens to further strain the already tense relationship between President Hamid Karzai and his Western backers. Full news...
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May 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera and agencies: Afghan authorities say that at least eight members of a family have been killed after an airstrike by the US-led NATO coalition in the eastern province of Paktia. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) coalition said it was aware of the allegation and was investigating the incident, which happened late on Saturday night. Full news...
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May 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: US troops arrested four civilians during an overnight operation in northwestern Faryab province, where one policeman and two militants were injured during a clash, officials said on Sunday. The US Special Forces from the Bagram airfield in central Parwan province carried out the operation on the house of a local resident named Makhdoom Habibullah in the Deh Naw village of Sabz Posh district, Abdullah Masoomi, the district chief... Full news...
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May 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CMJ: On Sunday, May 20th, veterans of the Iraq, Afghanistan and the “Global War on Terror”, led by the Iraq Veterans Against the War, returned their war medals to NATO’s generals, denouncing and calling an end to these senseless wars. This past weekend, President Barack Obama hosted the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit in his hometown of Chicago. Full news...
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May 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Students staged a protest against foreign forces for detaining their schoolmates and teachers in northeastern Badakhashn province on Thursday. Two university lecturers, two schoolteachers and as many studetns were detained during a joint operation by Afghan and Internatioal Security Assistance Force (ISAF) personnel in the Gul Dara area on the outskirts of Faizabad, the provincial captial. Full news...
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May 21, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: In the shadow of the Nato summit, under the watchful eyes of a phalanx of full-black-clad riot police, dozens of former servicemen and women in uniform, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, threw away their medals, with apologies. It was one of the most moving experiences many of us had witnessed in our lives. It is hard to describe in words. Full news...
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May 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Msnbc.com: Members of the Afghan army are forging secret alliances with the Taliban, threatening to undermine the ability of Afghan authorities to maintain control just as NATO troops prepare to hand over power to the country’s security forces, Britain's Sunday Times reported. In Ghazni province an hour from capital Kabul, Afghan army lieutenant Mohammad Wali admitted to the newspaper that he and a local Taliban commander were working together. Full news...
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May 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Two civilians were killed and three others injured by an ISAF convoy guards on the Kandahar-Kabul highway in southern Zabul province on Thursday, an official said. The men, residents of Shah Joi district, came under fire from the private security guards at 1pm east of Qalat, the provincial capital, the town’s administrative head told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: A delegation of the Afghan officials who were assigned to probe NATO air raid in eastern Kunar province on Wednesday said at least 5 Afghan civilians were killed following the airstrike in this province. Mawlawi Shahzada Shahid Afghan lawmaker representing eastern Kunar province and a member of the delegation who visited the area said at least 5 Afghan civilians were killed and 2 others were injured at Watapur district. Full news...
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May 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
SocialistWorker.org: MORE THAN 800 activists from the U.S., Europe and the Middle East gathered in Chicago for the People's Summit over the May 12-13 weekend to kick off a week of action before the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) planned for May 20-21.During the summit, government leaders will review their plans for maintaining control of war-torn Afghanistan, Africa and Kosovo... Full news...
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May 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for Policy Studies: It shouldn’t surprise anyone, but support for the longest U.S. war is dropping further and faster than ever. The latest national U.S. poll, released on May 9, shows 66 percent of Americans are against the war in Afghanistan – with 40 percent “strongly opposed.” We can expect to hear the usual spin, claims that it’s a hard slog but Afghans are still better off and we have to finish what we started. Full news...
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May 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Crienglish.com: Fourteen civilians were killed and six others injured as warplanes of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) raided the suspected Taliban hideouts in Badghis province 555 km northwest of capital Kabul on Monday, local officials said Tuesday. “The aircraft of NATO-led forces raided the suspected hideouts of Taliban militants in Balamirghab district in the wee hours of Monday but it mistakenly struck residential houses as a result 14 civilians including women and children were martyred... Full news...
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May 3, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Bay Area Indymedia: Replicating post-WW II occupations is planned. Sixty-seven years after war’s end, US troops still occupy Germany, Japan and Korea. They're part of America’s growing empire of bases. Status of forces (SOFA) agreements establish the framework under which US forces operate abroad. Full news...
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May 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Hundreds of protesters carrying the bodies of two people killed in a NATO-Afghan raid blocked a key road in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday. The demonstrators say the dead were villagers while the coalition says they were Taliban insurgents. The protest was one of the first since a recent U.S.-Afghan deal on night raids mandated that Afghans were supposed to take the lead in such operations with U.S. forces taking a back seat. Full news...
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April 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Socialist Alternative: In January 2012, a video published on websites such as Youtube revealed four U.S. Marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters. On February 20, U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan incinerated several Qur’ans, leading to weeks of protest that left six U.S. military personnel and 30 Afghans dead. Three weeks later, U.S. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales went on an unprovoked killing spree that left 17 Afghan civilians dead, mostly children. Full news...
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April 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home. With a digital camera, glimpses and sounds of their experiences were captured, as warfare erupted three blocks away. The fighting has subdued, but the video gives us a glimpse into chronic anxieties among civilians throughout Afghanistan. Full news...
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April 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: I remember once I had a meeting with Hamza Khan, an old Afghan refugee, residing somewhere at a refugee camp in Peshawar. He told me that he had been in Pakistan for the last twenty years. His son Shahzeb Gul was ten years old when the family had to migrate to Pakistan; now that ten years boy is a grownup man of thirty with a family of four children and their mother. Full news...
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April 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ABC News: Our leaders have been conning the Australian public for years about the realities of international efforts in Afghanistan. The small army of activists, writers, independent journalists, academics, historians and retired diggers and diplomats who for years have been exposing their untruths usually are ignored, dismissed or ridiculed, including by mainstream media. Full news...
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April 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Los Angeles Times: The paratroopers had their assignment: Check out reports that Afghan police had recovered the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide bomber. Try to get iris scans and fingerprints for identification. The 82nd Airborne Division soldiers arrived at the police station in Afghanistan’s Zabol province in February 2010. They inspected the body parts. Full news...
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April 16, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: For months after the allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, there were no Taliban attacks in Kabul. Now, as the weekend’s gun, rocket and suicide attacks demonstrate, they are frequent and fatally effective. This is one measure of the progress of the war, more than 10 years on. There are many others. According to a devastating account from a senior US army officer, the Taliban now range freely across much of the country. Full news...
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April 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: “I am – how do you say it? – persona non grata,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Davis, as he sat sipping a coffee and eating a chocolate sundae in a shopping mall, just a subway stop from the Pentagon. The career soldier is now a black sheep at the giant defence department building where he still works. Full news...
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April 13, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three protestors were killed and another 33, including eight policemen injured, during a clash in northern Faryab province, officials said on Friday. More than 1,000 people took to the streets on Thursday in Maimana, the provincial capital, against the operation that resulted in the death of madraasa teacher Qayamuddin in Arab Khan area. Full news...
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