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August 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: After examining hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, the U.S military estimates 360 million USD in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led coalition has spent nearly a decade battling: the Taliban, criminals and power brokers with ties to both. Full news...
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August 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Frontier Post: A clash between Taliban and foreign forces and a rocket attack left 16 civilians wounded last night in eastern Kunar province, officials said Tuesday. Taliban attacked a base of combined force in Ghondi village of Narang district, sparking a clash, Said Fazlullah Wahidi, governor of Kunar province, told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP). He said 12 civilians were wounded in exchange of fire. Full news...
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August 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Age: Australia’s most vital local ally in Afghanistan, controversial warlord Matiullah Khan, has become chief of police in Oruzgan province, after years of receiving money for his fighters to work alongside Australian special forces. Matiullah Khan and the local governor were targeted last month in one of the most serious Taliban attacks this year... Full news...
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August 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Foreign troops have allegedly been detaining and harassing civilians after 31 US Special Force members were killed in a Chinook helicopter crash in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province. Naimatullah, a resident of the Joyee Zarin area, told Pajhwok Afghan News US forces had besieged the Tangi Valley and have been searching people’s houses. Full news...
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August 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A NATO helicopter crashed in Afghanistan's east on Monday but there were no apparent casualties, officials said, another stark reminder of the dangers of the war after 38 people were killed in an air incident, the largest single loss for foreign forces in 10 years. A worrying surge of military deaths is being matched by record casualties among civilians... Full news...
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August 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: In his sprawling office in Kandahar’s gubernatorial palace, Tooryali Wesa spends much of his day behind an imposing hand-carved wooden desk. Stately chairs and couches line the wood-paneled walls, topped with the type of high-vaulted ceiling found in a cathedral or classically designed mosque. Full news...
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August 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Afghan civilians may have been caught up in a NATO air strike against suspected Taliban insurgents, a foreign military spokesman said Saturday, amid claims up to eight civilians died. A local official said that an imam, his wife and their six children were killed by an air strike in Nad Ali district in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province Friday. Full news...
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August 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Baltimore Sun: I used to think of Vice President Joseph Biden as a nice guy. Good old Joe. Down-to-earth, nice sense of humor, great family man. But last year I read the Bob Woodward book on “Obama’s Wars.” His account of Mr. Biden’s meeting with Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai in January 2009, was a shocker. Mr. Biden was rude and arrogant, humiliating the Afghan leader before his own cabinet ministers. Full news...
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August 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of southeastern Paktia province protested against Afghan and foreign security forces on Thursday, a day after a civilian was killed by a mortar shell during a firefight between militants and coalition troops. Angered by the civilian death in the Zazai Aryub district, some 300 men blocked the Zazai Aryub-Gardez highway as a mark of protest. Full news...
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July 31, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: Civilians are bearing the brunt of the international forces’ onslaught against the Taliban as the coalition rushes to pacify Afghanistan before pulling out its troops, it was claimed last night. Human rights groups warned that civilians are paying an increasingly high price for “reckless” coalition attacks, particularly aerial ones. Full news...
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July 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Zee News: The cost of British military operations in Afghanistan was on Thursday officially estimated at over GBP 18 billion (around USD 29 billion), The Guardian reported. The figures released by the House of Commons defence committee also show the cost of imposing a UN-backed no-fly zone in Libya as well as the cost of bombing targets at GBP 260 million (around USD 424 million). Full news...
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July 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: French soldiers serving with Nato forces in Afghanistan have shot dead three civilians, officials say. The victims - a man, a pregnant woman and a child - were travelling in a car that failed to stop at a checkpoint in northern Kapisa province. The French ambassador has apologised, but President Karzai said no apology could bring back the dead and he called on Nato to protect civilians. Full news...
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July 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three civilians, including two students, were killed and six others wounded late on Monday in a clash between foreign troops and Taliban in eastern Kunar province, officials said on Tuesday. Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi told Pajhwok Afghan News that Taliban attacked an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) base in the Watapur district. Full news...
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July 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: This month, as the Pentagon and the CIA countenance a changing of the guard – welcoming Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and CIA Director David Petraeus, respectively – it is worth pressing pause on national security strategy before our modus operandi becomes any more politically disconcerting, morally disheartening and financially devastating. Full news...
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July 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Five Afghan children were injured in a strike carried out by a British Apache attack helicopter, the Ministry of Defence has said. They were working in a field in the Nahr-e-Saraj area of Helmand Province on Saturday as UK forces targeted an insurgent riding a motorcycle nearby. Full news...
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July 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Wall Street Journal: The U.S. has wasted or misspent 34 billion USD contracting for services in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a draft report by a bipartisan congressional panel, the most comprehensive effort so far to tally the overall cost of a decade of battlefield contracting in America’s two big wars. Full news...
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July 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: NATO-led troops killed a lady doctor along with two family members in the Syedabad district of central Wardak province, the Ghazni Civil Hospital director alleged on Saturday. Dr. Ismayeel Ibrahimzai told Pajhwok Afghan News that Dr. Aqila Hekmat, in charge of the maternity ward, her 18-year-old son and nephew were killed late on Friday, when ISAF soldiers fired at their vehicle. Full news...
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July 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: Government officials in eastern Afghanistan accused NATO troops on Thursday of killing six civilians in an overnight raid, and more than 1,000 people poured into the streets in anger. The military alliance said the joint patrol with Afghan forces in Khost province killed six fighters from a militant group allied with the Taliban known as the Haqqani network and injured one civilian. Full news...
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July 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: The U.N. says the number of Afghan civilians killed in bombings and other attacks is up 15 percent from the same period last year. The figures reflect concern that Afghan civilians are increasingly being caught up in violence in the conflict-ridden country. Full news...
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July 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A NATO airstrike killed at least 13 civilians, mostly women and children, in the Doa Manda district of southeastern Khost province, an official said on Thursday. The early morning airstrike on Wednesday was carried out in Kamalkhel village of Syedkhel area at around 4am, the district police chief, Lf. Hameedullah, told Pajhwok Afghan News. He said all the dead were civilians and belonged to the same family. Full news...
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July 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: ISAF has launched a joint investigation with the Afghan Interior and Defence Ministries into reports of civilian casualties resulting from a coalition airstrike in Ghazni province Tuesday night, according to a statement delivered to Pajhwok Afghan News Thursday. Full news...
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June 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA: A new report issued by Brown University says the cost of America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - and operations in Pakistan - will cost the country nearly 4 trillion USD. The report’s total is more than three times higher than U.S. President Barack Obama’s estimate in a recent speech. Full news...
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June 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CBS News: About four in 5 Americans approve of President Obama’s plan to bring troops home from Afghanistan and more than half would approve an even bigger withdrawal, a new CBS News/New York Times Poll finds. In fact, most Americans do not think Mr. Obama’s proposed troop withdrawal goes far enough. Fifty-nine percent of Americans think even more than the proposed one-third of U.S. troops in Afghanistan should be withdrawn. Full news...
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June 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: At least five civilians were killed and nine others wounded in a NATO airstrike in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province on Wednesday, witnesses said. The air raid was carried out in Salar village of the district in the afternoon, Haji Arif, the owner of a private security firm, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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June 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: More than 250,000 people have been displaced in the last two years of fighting in Afghanistan, and “local police” programmes sponsored by NATO have exacerbated the problem by arming militias, according to a new report from Refugees International. Most of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) fled “international and Afghan military forces’ operations against the Taliban,” the report found. Full news...
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June 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: International forces killed two civilians during an operation in the eastern province of Laghman, an official said on Wednesday. Soldiers arrived by helicopter in Wat Jabarkhel village of Alingar district around 12 am and raided the house of a farmer in the village, Alingar District Chief Syed Mohammad Sharif, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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June 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mehr News Agency: The president launched an attack against the U.S.-NATO forces occupying his country on Saturday, saying the motives behind their presence were suspect and complained that their weaponry was polluting his country, The New York Times reported. “Every time when their planes fly it makes smoke, when they drop bombs they have chemical materials in them, our people get killed but also our environment is damaged,” Karzai said. Full news...
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June 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Age: ON A HOT Afghan morning, The Saturday Age steps past a child’s upturned tricycle, and around a dilapidated armoured vehicle. A vulture carefully watches as we head inside to speak with the man some call the King of Oruzgan. As Western faith in President Hamid Karzai’s capacity to deliver government fades, and with NATO increasingly relying on sometimes brutal allies to fight the insurgency... Full news...
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June 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
International Affairs Review: When the score is tight at the end of a baseball game, a team’s manager calls in his closer, a relief pitcher reserved for throwing the final outs. In April, President Barack Obama called in his closer for Afghanistan, Ryan C. Crocker, the former ambassador to post-war Iraq. Full news...
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June 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Payam-e-Zan: This time, the American invader forces that have no other mission rather than killing and massacre of our innocent compatriots through bombardment and blind firings, turned Takhar province, north of Afghanistan, into slaughter ground. On May 27, 2011, around 11 o’clock in the night, four helicopters landed in Gomali Village of Taliqan, capital city of Takhar, and started house search. Full news...
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