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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 Fifty-nine percent of Americans think even more than the proposed one-third of U.S. troops in Afghanistan should be withdrawn.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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June 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Empirestrikesblack: A 11 June press statement from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan slates May 2011 as the deadliest month for Afghan civilians since at least 2007. However this big-hearted announcement conceals a grossly pernicious attempt to cover up US-NATO killings of civilians in occupied Afghanistan. Full news...
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June 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: Not a single Afghan police or army unit is capable of maintaining law and order in the war-torn country without the support of coalition forces, the Independent reveals. Almost a decade after international troops were sent in to overthrow the Taleban and help to establish a functioning democracy in Afghanistan, a combination of poor training, lack of numbers, corruption and illiteracy... Full news...
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June 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IPS: During his intensive initial round of media interviews as commander in Afghanistan in August 2010, Gen. David Petraeus released figures to the news media that claimed spectacular success for raids by Special Operations Forces: in a 90-day period from May through July, SOF units had captured 1,355 rank and file Taliban, killed another 1,031, and killed or captured 365 middle or high-ranking Taliban. Full news...
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June 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WSWS: Four German soldiers have been killed in the last two weeks in Afghanistan. Two were killed in a bomb attack on their patrol vehicle, and two more were victims of a bombing of a meeting of senior military and security forces in Taloqan, the capital of Takhar Province, in northern Afghanistan on May 28. Full news...
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June 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: Information in a new report suggests Afghanistan will collapse into chaos – or even more chaos – when America and her allies pull out in 2014. A huge proportion of the aid money being poured into the country now is going either to corruption or to prop up people and institutions who will not last five minutes once the foreign aid tap is turned off. Full news...
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June 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UPI: Just over half of U.S. adults favor pulling out of Afghanistan while one-third think U.S. troops should remain, a poll released Thursday indicated. The Harris poll for BBC World News America found 51 percent do not believe U.S. policies in Afghanistan are likely to succeed while 14 percent say they will. Full news...
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June 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Radio Cadena Agramonte: The war in Afghanistan costs US taxpayers two billion dollars a week, according to calculations made by the Department of Defense Monday. The information appeared in the digital edition of The New York Times, on a study of the US government to cut its military presence in Afghanistan. Full news...
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June 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Herald Sun: ALMOST 10 years after September 11, most Australians think the war on terror is endless and will not be worth the cost. A survey by the US Studies Centre in Sydney shows 63 per cent of Australians see no end in sight. Only one in five Australians thinks the war, including battles in Afghanistan and Iraq, is being won, compared with almost one in three Americans. Full news...
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June 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Globe and Mail: Smoke billows above coils of razor wire after an earth-shaking explosion kills one of Afghanistan’s most powerful generals. The next day, a young officer with a neatly trimmed beard accepts a new job during a brief ceremony in the wood-panelled office of a southern governor. A strongman dies and another rises. The bloody politics of Afghanistan travelled full circle with the... Full news...
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June 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: A new report warns that billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayers’ money may be wasted because of the inability of Iraq and Afghanistan to keep American-financed projects running. The report released Friday by the Commission on Wartime Contracting comes as the Obama administration is poised to withdraw militarily from Iraq by the end of the year and to begin its drawdown in Afghanistan this summer. Full news...
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May 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mail Online: Fourteen women and children have been killed after Nato warplanes bombed their homes in south-west Afghanistan. Six others were wounded in the attack, according to local reports, after the airstrike in Nawzad district, in the country’s volatile Helmand province. Two women, five girls and seven boys were among the dead, said Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial government. Full news...
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May 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: The brochures offering pampered life in state-of-the-art apartments could be selling dream properties in any Western capital. And the ornate towers and palm trees shown in artists’ impressions would look at home in the boulevards of a Gulf emirate. However the chic apartments they advertise will not be built in London, Dubai or New York, but in one of the world’s poorest countries, wracked by a violent insurgency. Full news...
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May 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: As many as 112 people were killed in an airstrike by NATO-led troops in the remote eastern province of Nuristan, a senior official said on Saturday. Twenty-two policemen, 20, civilians and 70 Taliban fighters were among the dead, Governor Jamaluddin Badr told Pajhwok Afghan News, quoting a probe into the incidents. Full news...
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May 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: In average, 10 incidents of armed conflicts and 39 consequent deaths were reported in three main South Asian states - Afghanistan, India and Pakistan - on every day of last month. Every fourth victim of violence was a civilian. Afghanistan continued to be worst hit state by violence in the region as about half of the incidents as well as resultant deaths were reported in the country. Full news...
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May 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: NATO-led troops shot dead three civilians in central Maidan Wardak province, an Afghan official said on Thursday. The deaths took place in Lala Khel area of the province, Shahidullah Shahid, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Spiegel Online: Germany’s military, the Bundeswehr, has released new and explosive details about a violent altercation between demonstrators and German soldiers in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday that left 12 dead and dozens wounded, including two German soldiers. In a statement posted on its website Friday morning, the military contradicted its earlier claims and admitted that German soldier had deliberately fired upon the demonstrators. Full news...
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May 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Hundreds of residents of Charkh district in central Logar province on Friday protested against NATO-led forces for arresting two sons of a prayer leader. Foreign troops on Thursday night detained the two sons of Maulvi Sahibzada, prayer leader of the district’s main mosque, in the Bazar area during an operation. Full news...
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May 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Foreign troops handed over to family the body of a 25-year-old man with his hand cut off six days after he was arrested on the charge of “links” with Taliban militants in central Logar province, officials said on Friday. Amir Mohammad, the victim, had been arrested by foreign troops during an operation six days ago in Sheikhi village of Charkh district for his alleged ties with the Taliban. Full news...
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May 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CounterPunch: Malalai Joya is an Afghan activist, author, and former politician. She served as an elected member of the 2003 Loya Jirga and was a parliamentary member of the National Assembly of Afghanistan, until she was expelled for denouncing other members as warlords and war criminals. She has been a vocal critic of both the US/NATO occupation and the Karzai government, as well as the Taliban and Islamic fundamentalists. Full news...
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May 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Five people were injured on a second day of a protest demonstration against foreign troops for what they said killing four civilians in an airstrike in northern Takhar province, officials said on Thursday. On Wednesday, more than a dozen people were killed and 85 others wounded when police opened fire at hundreds of protestors in Taloqan, the provincial capital, after a NATO airsrike killed four civilians... Full news...
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