Pakistan tells US to leave ‘drone’ attack base
A Predator surveillance drone equipped with Hellfire missiles © AFP/General Atomics/File AFP ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistan told the United States to leave a remote desert…
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US ‘strongly condemns’ Kabul hotel attack
The Inter-Continental hotel in seen in the dark as tracer bullets are shot during an attack in Kabu © AFP Massoud Hossaini AFP WASHINGTON (AFP)…
Kabul Bombing: Intercontinental Hotel Attacked by Bomber, Gunmen; Attackers Killed
Editor’s Note: “One of the most significant attacks in Afghanistan in the past few years” and the Taliban takes responsibility for attacking one of the…
The Lie Behind the Afghan War
Afghanistan’s 29 Provinces – Wiki Image Robert Parry Consortium News In Official Washington, there’s one “fact” about the Afghan War that nearly everyone “knows”: In…
Can Obama say 9 Orwellian lies in 3 Afghanistan speech sentences? Yes, he can!
Dees Illustration Carl Herman, Contributing Writer Activist Post Upon US public critical mass recognition of the “emperor has no clothes” obvious facts that current US…
How About a Real “Drawdown?”
David S. D’Amato Center 4 a Stateless Society “President Barack Obama,” reports CNN, “is expected to announce this week that 30,000 U.S. ‘surge’ forces will…
Obama to announce Afghan troop drawdown Wednesday
US soldiers from Viper Company (Bravo), 1-26 Infantry © AFP/File Ted Aljibe AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama will lay out the size…
US confirms ‘outreach’ to Taliban
Afghan Taliban fighters pose for a picture © AFP/File Mohammad Yaqubi AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that US officials were involved…
US ‘holding talks with Taliban’: Karzai
Karzai says talks between US and Taliban are “going on well” © AFP Aamir Qureshi AFP KABUL (AFP) – The United States is holding talks…
Pentagon wants to ‘extend’ Afghanistan surge
© AFP/Getty Images/File John Moore AFP WASHINGTON – The US military is asking President Barack Obama to maintain its troop surge in Afghanistan until the…
US senators press Obama on Afghan withdrawal
A group of 25 US senators have urged President Barack Obama to reduce US forces in Afghanistan in July © AFP/File Patrick Baz AFP WASHINGTON…
Obama says sorry to Karzai for civilian deaths
Afghan Abdu Rahman, 7 © AFP/File Mauricio Lima AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed his “sorrow” in a video conference…
The Bravery of Targeting Unarmed Civilians
Dees Illustration Ahmad Barqawi Activist Post How easily the value of a human life diminishes when the victims are “merely” Afghan civilians? And how impetuously…
Dempsey urges response to Arab Spring
© AFP Carl Court AFP LONDON (AFP) – The man named by President Barack Obama to be the top US military officer said Wednesday that…