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February 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Time: Haji Abdul Hamid pulls out a satellite photograph featuring a cluster of mud-brick compounds engulfed by thick pomegranate orchards. It is labeled “Before.” “These were my houses,” says the 60-year-old Afghan farmer, outlining a row of buildings. From a bundle of papers he then produces a second image labeled “After” and nods in the direction of an American soldier standing nearby... Full news...
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February 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Press Association: A culture of drug-taking and “indiscipline” exists among Afghan nationals working with British troops in Afghanistan, a preliminary inquest hearing into the deaths of five British soldiers has been told. The UK troops were murdered by an Afghan policeman on November 3 2009. The soldiers were gunned down without warning by an officer Full news...
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February 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Last year was the worst year for civilian deaths in the war so far, and irregular armed groups backed by the U.S. and by the Afghan government are preying on the population while recruiting and abusing children. Go team. I'm almost numb from continually relaying reports like this, but every time I get an email update or a news alert from ISAF or the U.S. government, it contains claims of "progress,"... Full news...
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February 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Presse Agentur: A human rights group in Afghanistan highlighted the emergence of pro-government armed groups and their misdeeds in a report published Tuesday. “These groups have been deplored as criminal and predatory by many Afghans and been accused of severe human rights violations such as child recruitment and sexual abuse,” the report by Afghanistan Rights Monitor said. Full news...
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January 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: A former Afghan detainee testified to a Danish court Wednesday about his ordeal at the hands of US troops after Danish soldiers handed him over in 2002, describing it as a “nightmare.” “I blame Denmark a lot because it is responsible for the suffering that I went through during my four days of detention. It was a nightmare I can’t forget,” Ghousouallah Tarin testified in court on the second day of the case. Full news...
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January 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mail Online: The impact of coalition operations in Afghanistan is often bogged down in statistics and political manoeuvring. But these photos of a devastated village in the Arghandad River Valley show the horror of war in stark reality. Tarok Kolache, a small settlement in Kandahar, has been completely erased from the map after an offensive by the U.S. army. Full news...
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January 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Home Daily News: Human Rights Watch warned about the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, despite the presence of 150,000 foreign troops in the country. In its annual report for 2010, human rights groups say security has deteriorated in some areas of Afghanistan, irrespective of additional U.S. troops last year. Full news...
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January 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters Canada: Foreign military assertions that security in Afghanistan is improving are intended to sway Western public opinion ahead of a troop withdrawal and do not reflect the reality on the ground, a security advice group said. “Indisputable evidence” that conditions are deteriorating included a two-thirds rise in insurgent attacks in 2010 compared with the previous year... Full news...
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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Vancouver Sun: Despite all the evidence that continuing to stay in this benighted country is worse than pointless, despite the fact that the majority of Canadians want to get out sooner rather than later and despite the fact that even Stephen Harper recognizes that the Karzai regime is one of the most repugnant and corrupt Canadians have ever been asked to support we are unable as a nation to extricate ourselves from this deadly mess. Full news...
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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WSWS: The ACLU states that 25-30 of the 190 deaths that occurred under custody of the U.S. government at Guantanamo Bay were “unjustifiable homicides”. In our view, every single one of them qualify for this charge because their imprisonment and the war that brought them there was unjustified from the very beginning. - LMB Full news...
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January 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A woman lost her life when a vehicle of international forces overran her in western Herat province, an official said on Saturday. The accident happened in Guzara district at 8pm when the woman crossing the road was hit by a vehicle of NATO-led forces, police spokesman, Col. Noor Khan Nekzad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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January 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: New documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show “unjustified homicide” of detainees and concerns about the condition of confinement in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, according to the ACLU. Thousands of documents detailing the deaths of 190 U.S. detainees were released by the ACLU on Friday. Full news...
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January 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: The Obama administration’s effort to persist in carrying out a deadly war in Afghanistan outside the public’s eye has been succeeding. Three means are employed: tight control over news flowing out of Afghanistan; vastly greater reliance upon secretive night raids by U.S. Special Forces; and a stepped-up use of private contractors/mercenaries on the ground in Afghanistan. Full news...
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January 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: US public support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped to the lowest level since Barack Obama became president, a poll showed Tuesday. The survey by Quinnipiac University showed voters said by a 51 to 41 percent margin than the United States should not be involved in Afghanistan. Still, the respondents said by a 46 to 40 percent margin that they approved of Obama’s handling the situation in Afghanistan. Full news...
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January 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: NATO-led soldiers killed six members of a family during an airstrike in eastern Kunar province, a provincial council member alleged on Sunday. But the alliance rejected the allegation as baseless. The overnight bombardment took place in the Kodi area of Asmar district, bordering Pakistan, Haji Sultan Siddiqui told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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January 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
New Euorope: Back in 2002, the Indian writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly satirised the official excuses for the invasion of Afghanistan . “It’s being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas,” she said. “We are being asked to believe that the US marines are actually on a feminist mission.” Full news...
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January 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Spreading violence in Afghanistan is preventing aid organisations from providing help, with access to those in need at its worst level in three decades, the Red Cross said on Wednesday. “The proliferation of armed groups threatens the ability of humanitarian organisations to access those in need. Access for the ICRC has over the last 30 years never been as poor,” said Reto Stocker... Full news...
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January 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: For years, U.S. officials held up Kabul’s largest power plant project as a shining example of how American taxpayers’ dollars would pull Afghanistan out of grinding poverty and decades of demoralizing conflict. But behind the scenes, the same officials were voicing outrage over the slow pace of the project and its skyrocketing costs. The problems were so numerous that one company official told the U.S. government that he’d understand if the contract were canceled. Full news...
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January 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghan and foreign forces have caused more than $100 million damage to fruit crops and homes during security operations in southern Kandahar province, a government delegation said on Tuesday. Violence is at its worst since U.S.-backed Afghan forces overthrew the Islamist government in 2001 after it refused to hand over al Qaeda militants, including Osama bin Laden, after the September 11 attacks on the United States. Full news...
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January 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A Nato air raid in central Afghanistan may have killed three Afghan police officers and wounded three others, the third such incident in fewer than five weeks. Foreign troops on patrol in Daykundi province yesterday called in an air strike after seeing nine people setting up what appeared to be an ambush, the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said. It was later determined the raid may have targeted Afghan police, it said. Full news...
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January 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: If you are going to sign a deal with the devil, make it a good one. Australia recently formally agreed that its forces in Afghanistan would transfer prisoners detained in the country to the National Directorate of Security, or NDS, an agency known for torture and horrific detention conditions. It got “diplomatic assurances” from the Afghan government: promises that the NDS won’t torture, this time. Full news...
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January 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World Socialist Web Site: 2010 was the bloodiest year of the now nine-year conflict in Afghanistan and the tribal border regions of Pakistan. Under the command of Gen David Petraeus, a massively expanded US and Nato force is waging a campaign of extermination against various ethnic Pashtun and Taliban-linked movements that have not accepted the foreign invasion of their country. Full news...
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January 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: More than 10,000 people, about a fifth of them civilians, lost their lives in violence in Afghanistan last year, an AFP count based on official figures and an independent website tally showed Sunday. Afghanistan’s interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary revealed new figures for the number of civilians, police and militants killed in 2010 -- a total of 8,560 people. Full news...
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December 30, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNNN: More than six in ten Americans oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan, according to a new national poll. "The war has not always been unpopular - back in March, when a majority thought that the war was going well, the country was evenly divided. But by September, the number who said that things were going well for the U.S. in Afghanistan had dropped to 44 percent, and opposition to the war had grown to 58 percent," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. Full news...
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December 27, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Confidential UN maps show a clear deterioration in security in parts of Afghanistan this year, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, as its mission there acknowledged security in some parts had worsened. Two United Nations maps, one showing the situation at the start of this year’s fighting season in March and the other towards its end in October, highlight a particular decline in parts of the north and east, the paper said. Full news...
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December 27, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Fiscal Times: In its bid to win the hearts and minds of Afghanistan’s teeming population, the United States has spent more than $55 billion to rebuild and bolster the war-ravaged country. That money was meant to cover everything from the construction of government buildings and economic development projects to the salaries of U.S. government employees working closely with Afghans. Full news...
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December 24, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: NATO forces, acting on apparently faulty intelligence, killed two Afghan private security guards and wounded three others in a gun battle early Friday that could lead to renewed criticisms of foreign forces by President Hamid Karzai. Full news...
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December 22, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Rethink Afghanistan: It’s obscene how much money we’re spending on the Afghanistan War while millions of Americans are out of work. Case in point: We’re spending about $3,000,000.00 a pop on rocket launcher systems. Each HIMARS rocket launcher system costs $3,000,000.00. HIMARS systems were in the news earlier this year after U.S. forces killed more than a dozen civilians when a rocket landed in a compound in Marjah. Full news...
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December 21, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: The president’s review only confirmed what informed observers already know. U.S. troops can win nearly any firefight. But ultimately we are no more secure, and Afghanistan is no closer to becoming a stable and developing country. No matter how light or agile their “footprint,” U.S. and allied occupying forces end up generating as many enemies as they kill, not only in Afghanistan but in other Muslim lands. Full news...
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December 21, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Inter Press Service: The Barack Obama administration’s claim of “progress” in its war strategy is based on the military seizure of three rural districts outside Kandahar City in October. But those tactical gains came at the price of further exacerbating the basic US strategic weakness in Afghanistan - antagonism toward the foreign presence shared throughout the Pashtun south. Full news...
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