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April 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Stars and Stripes: The U.S. war and occupation of Afghanistan was supposed to bring stability and democracy. Instead, Afghanistan remains a country on the brink of disaster – one that has clearly been exacerbated by the U.S. presence. More than 10 years after the U.S. war began, in spite of the presence of about 2,000 international aid groups, at least $3.5 billion in humanitarian funds and 58 billion USD in development assistance... Full news...
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March 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
MSNBC.com: Here are two versions of what happened the night of March 11, when 17 Afghan villagers were shot to death. First, the Army version: Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, troubled by marriage woes, drunkenly left Camp Belambai, 12 miles from Kandahar, with a pistol and an automatic rifle and killed six people as they slept. Bales then returned to the base and left again for another village, this time killing 11. Full news...
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March 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Residents of parts of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan have accused both government and NATO forces of taking over and occupying private houses without paying compensation to the owners. A resident of Musa Qala district, Shawali, said foreign troops had been using a property belonging to him for several years without any kind of reimbursement. Full news...
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March 26, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CBS News: Two weeks after an American soldier in Afghanistan allegedly went on a rampage killing 17 Afghan civilians, American confidence in the war is at an all-time low, a new CBS News/New York Times poll suggests. According to the survey, conducted among 986 adults from March 21-25, just 23 percent of Americans believe the U.S. is doing the right thing by fighting in Afghanistan. Full news...
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March 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: US army staff sergeant Robert Bales is accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan villagers, including nine children, and then burning some of the bodies. The massacre took place in two villages in the southern rural district of Panjwai. Though this horrific crime targeted Afghans on Afghan soil, Afghanistan will play no role in investigating the crime or bringing the perpetrator (or perpetrators) to justice. Full news...
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March 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ABC News: Lately, we have been asked to believe that quite a few events in Afghanistan are anomalies, and should not be taken as more broadly representative of anything. Accidents happen, and sometimes really bad things happen, but they don’t reflect anything deeper about our war that should trouble us. Full news...
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March 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: US soldiers were alleged to have sexually assaulted two female victims before they were killed in the Panjwai massacre in southern Kandahar last Sunday, a high-level Afghan probe team revealed. The Wolesi Jirga’s, or lower house of Parliament, delegation investigating the Kandahar shootings by US troops said besides killing 16 civilians, the soldiers sexually assaulted them. Full news...
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March 16, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Digital Journal: Up to 20 U.S. troops have been implicated in the massacre of 16 civilians in Kandahar on Sunday morning, the Afghan parliamentary investigation team reports. An Afghan parliamentary investigation team has spent 2 days collating reports from survivors, witnesses and other inhabitants in the villages where the massacre took place. 16 civilians were killed including 9 children. Full news...
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March 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: In Afghanistan, if NATO forces kill a member of your family, it is better in terms of money if they come from Germany or Italy than the United States or Britain. In the cold calculation of how much to pay for victims of the decade-old war, British forces have doled out as little as 210 USD, while German forces have paid as much as 25,000 USD, according to a study by the human rights NGO CIVIC. Full news...
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March 12, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Daily Mail: NATO troops in Afghanistan are on high alert after the Taliban vowed to avenge the deaths of 16 innocent civilians - including nine children and three women - who were shot and killed by a rogue U.S. soldier who opened fire after suffering a “mental breakdown” early Sunday morning. The Army staff sergeant, stationed at a U.S. base in Kandahar, entered three Afghan family’s homes at 3am and began the vicious killing spree. Full news...
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March 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: A US soldier in Afghanistan has killed 10 civilians and wounded five in Kandahar province after suffering a breakdown, officials say. He left his military base in the early hours of the morning and opened fire after entering local homes, the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville reports from Kabul. Full news...
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March 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Manoramaonline: Hundreds of angry protesters Saturday chanted anti-US slogans demanding prosecution of foreign troops at a rally in Afghanistan, Press TV reported. The rally was held in the northeastern town of Tagab in Kapisa province protesting the presence of US-led forces in the country. Full news...
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March 10, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AO/HJL: At least four civilians have been killed and two others injured in a US-led airstrike in the northeastern Kapisa province in Afghanistan, Press TV reports. US-led forces targeted the Ibrahim Khil region in the town of Tagab in the Kapisa province Saturday evening, Tagab governor Abdolhakim said. Full news...
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February 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: Keeping one American service member in Afghanistan costs between 850,000 USD and 1.4 million USD a year, depending on who you ask. But one matter is clear, that cost is going up. During a budget hearing today on Capitol Hill, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-North Dakota, asked Department of Defense leaders, “What is the cost per soldier, to maintain a soldier for a year in Afghanistan?” Full news...
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February 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PTI: Nine schoolgirls were injured in a NATO helicopter attack in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, an Afghan official alleged Wednesday. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it was looking into the allegation but had no immediate information. Full news...
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February 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Antiwar.com: At least eight Afghan children were killed today in Kapisa Province as the result of a NATO air strike against the Nejrab District. The attack was condemned by the Karzai government. NATO would only “confirm there has been a situation,” while promising to send a “joint NATO assessment team” to find out exactly what happened and how. Full news...
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February 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: I spent five years covering the Iraq war, and at the end of it I was not inclined to believe anything official spokesmen had to say about Iraq anymore. I heard denials an insurgency was erupting in 2003, watched President Bush’s “mission accomplished” moment after Saddam Hussein was captured, and was earnestly told Iraq’s insurgency was on its last legs in 2005. Full news...
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February 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: A record number of Afghan civilians were killed in the conflict here last year, the majority at the hands of the Taliban and other insurgent groups whose use of homemade bombs became more prevalent and whose suicide bombers killed more people each time, according to the annual United Nations report on civilian casualties. Full news...
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February 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Khaleej Times: With the stage set for secret talks in Qatar between the United States and the Taleban, US President Barack Obama’s strategy for a phased exit from war-ravaged Afghanistan is now being couched in nice-sounding terms that hide more than they reveal. In seeking a Faustian bargain with the Taleban, Obama risks repeating US policy mistakes that now haunt regional and international security. Full news...
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January 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Hundreds of people took to the streets in a town in northeastern Afghanistan Thursday in protest over a night raid by Afghan and NATO forces that allegedly killed six civilians, an official said. A woman and a child were among the dead in the air and ground raid on Dewa Gul Vally, a Taliban stronghold in the Chawki district of Kunar province, on Monday night, provincial governor Fazlullah Wahidi told AFP. Full news...
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January 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: The attack erupted in one of the best-protected parts of Afghanistan: the military-controlled portion of the Kabul airport. As two dozen people gathered for a routine morning meeting in a conference room, an overweight and aging Afghan helicopter pilot pulled a pistol out of his flight suit and began shooting U.S. Air Force officers in the backs of their heads. Full news...
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January 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Adelaide Now: Taxpayers will be hit with another 1 billion-plus USD bill to fund the war in Afghanistan next year as the Government struggles to conjure up a surplus in its May Budget. The cost of war hit 1.6 billion USD for last financial year or more than 1 million USD each for the 1550 Diggers on the ground. Full news...
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January 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: British military police have arrested two servicemen over allegations that they abused children in Afghanistan, the defence ministry said Wednesday, prompting a furious reaction from Kabul. The Sun newspaper reported that a sergeant and a private from the Mercian Battle Group have been arrested over claims that they abused an Afghan boy and a girl, both aged about 10, and filmed the incidents. Full news...
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January 13, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: Pentagon officials said Thursday they believed a video showing four Marines urinating on the corpses of Afghans was authentic, and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta promised to investigate the incident, calling it “utterly deplorable.” As outrage over the explicit video spread, the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan said the behavior was confined to “a small group of U.S. individuals”... Full news...
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January 8, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Digital Journal: As America works to hand over control of Afghan detention facilities to the Afghan authorities, a new report by an Afghan investigative commission says inmates at a Bagram prison claim they have been tortured. The prison in Bagram, Afghanistan is known as “the forgotten second Guantanamo” but worse than Guantanamo. Full news...
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January 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Ottawa Citizen: The shocking story of a 15-year-old Afghan child-bride tortured nearly to death after being sent back to her abusive husband and his family illustrates the sad truth that Afghanistan remains one of the worst countries in the world to be a woman, despite the stated intentions of countries like Canada to change things. Full news...
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December 31, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The International News Magazine: “In other words – and let’s say this plainly, clearly and soberly, so that no one can mistake the intention of Rumsfeld’s plan – the United States government is planning to use “cover and deception” and secret military operations to provoke murderous terrorist attacks on innocent people... Full news...
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December 30, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Examiner.com: Afghanistan will likely pay a steep price for its “partnership with a reckless superpower”, according to Afghan journalist Akmal Dawi, especially after NATO exits the region in 2014 and forces the Afghans to explain themselves to a host of unfriendly neighbors. U.S. meddling in Afghan affairs for the past forty years has put Kabul unduly at odds with many regional capitals from Tehran to Islamabad... Full news...
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December 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of a remote valley in eastern Kunar province on Monday protested against night-time searches of their homes by international troops and Afghan commandos. In front of the provincial council office in Asadabad, a large number of residents of the Shonkray valley in Sarkano district warned of joining opposition forces if the government failed to address their concerns. Full news...
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December 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: The 10-year-old war in Afghanistan remained just a blip on the American news media’s radar in 2011. Of all the news content in newspapers and on the Web, television and radio this year, Afghanistan accounted for about 2 percent of coverage, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, an arm of the Pew Research Center. Full news...
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