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March 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Hundreds of Afghan protesters poured into the streets of the northeastern provincial capital Assad-Abad on March 2 over the death of nine civilians killed in a NATO air strike, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reports. NATO officially apologized on March 2 for what it called an “accident.” It said in a statement that "[the NATO-led] International Security Assistance Force apologizes... Full news...
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March 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The chief of police in eastern Kunar province on Wednesday confirmed that nine children had been killed in a NATO-led airstrike the previous day. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it would investigate the claims. Residents of Manogi district on Tuesday said the airstrike killed as many as 10 children as they collected firewood in Nangalam valley. Full news...
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March 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New Yorker: Ten boys went out to gather firewood in a valley in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Only one came home; his name is Hemad, and this is what he had to say, as quoted in the Times: ...he helicopters hovered over us, scanned us and we saw a green flash from the helicopters. Then they flew back high up, and in a second round they hovered over us and started shooting. They fired a rocket which landed on a tree. Full news...
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February 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: The chairmen of the bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting decried on Monday a federal system that has allowed contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan to commit fraud -- then get hired again and again.“For the 200,000 people employed by contractors to provide support and capability in Iraq and Afghanistan, accountability is too often absent, diluted, delayed, or avoided,”... Full news...
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February 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: More than 200 Afghans were killed in attacks and military operations during the past two weeks, Afghan officials said Saturday, calling it the deadliest period for civilians since the war began. Two attacks on Saturday added to that toll and fueled fears that violence will climb as winter, typically a slow fighting season in Afghanistan, gives way to spring. Full news...
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February 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters/BBC: Afghan government investigators say about 65 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed in a NATO operation last week. But NATO insists there was not a single civilian casualty during its offensive in Kunar province. No video or photographs have yet emerged, either of the operation or of any bodies. Full news...
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February 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Corruption and waste has cost the US government billions of reconstruction dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an official study on wartime contracting released on Thursday. The report found that “criminal behavior and blatant corruption” were responsible for much of the waste related to the nearly 200 billion USD spent since 2002 on US reconstruction and other projects in the two countries. Full news...
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February 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: The growing use of “night raids” by NATO-led and Afghan forces to kill or capture insurgents is one of the most controversial strategies in the Afghan war. Here are some accounts by Afghan civilians of night raids they experienced, which left them injured or bereaved. Full news...
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February 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Presse Agentur: Fire from a NATO helicopter allegedly killed five civilians including two children in north-eastern Afghanistan Thursday after mistaking them for militants, a local official said. The pre-dawn strike happened as the civilians were climbing a mountain for bird-hunting in Ala Sai district of Kapisa province, Mullah Mohammad Omari, the district chief, said. Full news...
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February 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: The security situation in Afghanistan has worsened to its lowest point since the toppling of the Taliban a decade ago and attacks on aid workers are at unprecedented levels, a UN envoy said Wednesday. “From the humanitarian perspective, security is on everyone’s minds,” said Robert Watkins, the outgoing UN deputy special representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan. Full news...
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February 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Foreign forces detained three journalists who visited the site of a coalition airstrike that killed 64 people in the Ghaziabad district of eastern Kunar province, police said on Wednesday. However, the two Al Jazeera and one Afghan TV reporters were freed after more than 24 hours of detention and handed over to local officials on Tuesday night, provincial police chief, Khalilullah Ziayee, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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February 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
FDL: In a meeting Sunday at the presidential palace in Kabul to investigate reports of multiple civilian deaths in a US operation in Konar province, General David Petraeus deeply offended those present when he suggested that Afghan civilians had deliberately burned their children in an effort to blame US attacks for their injuries. Full news...
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February 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An airstrike by NATO-led forces killed an Afghan army soldier along with five family members in the Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province, officials and relatives said on Monday. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has acknowledged the strike killed and wounded civilians and said it would look into the incident. Full news...
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February 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Afghan government officials alleged that a U.S. military operation in the remote mountains of northeastern Afghanistan killed 64 innocent people, including 22 women and more than 30 children, the most serious civilian casualty allegation in months. "According to locals in the area, American helicopters have been constantly bombing the village and have caused tremendous civilian casualties," The governor of Kunar province, Fazlullah Wahidi, said in an interview. Full news...
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February 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Rethink Afghanistan: Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker is using phony budget projections to manufacture a staged “fiscal emergency” in his state so that he can whack programs and political opponents, but even his fake “emergency” pales in comparison to the cost of the Afghanistan War to his state. Full news...
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February 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Americans of all ideological persuasions are fed up with the Afghanistan War. We’re fed up with a 5.7 US$ billion-per-month military campaign that’s gone nowhere over the past 12 months. We’re fed up with being told we’ll have to do without vital public services because of the sorry state of our national finances, while at the same time our politicians are spending 2 billion USD a year to police a dusty Afghan town called Marjah. Full news...
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February 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: Schoolteacher Abdul Rahman drops his voice to a whisper as he watches U.S. troops guard a street where insurgents attacked a police headquarters a day earlier in this capital of the province that was the birthplace of the Taliban. “The foreign forces are everywhere, but they are not helping us,” Rahman said as he sat in a cracked plastic lawn chair with his friends outside a photo shop. Full news...
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February 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFI (Translated by RAWA): In 2012, the budget of external operations will reach 117.8 billion US dollars. This is 40 billion lesser than last year meaning this budget of 2012 will be 26% lesser than the year before. US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said this decrease in budget is due to the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Full news...
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February 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Ekklesia: The British government faces new pressure for the immediate withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan and a negotiated settlement which guarantees self-determination, security and human rights for the Afghan people. It comes amid mounting evidence that Afghans are paying a terrible price for the ongoing occupation of their country. Full news...
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February 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
New Statesman: As the US-led occupation of Afghanistan enters its tenth year, casualties have risen among Afghan civilians and NATO forces alike, making the last 12 months the bloodiest of the conflict to date. US and British forces are engaged in a dirty war in Afghanistan, using aerial bombing, drone attacks, torture prisons and corporate mercenaries against the Afghan people, all of which are fuelling further insecurity and fostering human rights abuse. Full news...
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February 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: A U.S. contractor who’s continued to receive government contracts despite criticism of its work in Afghanistan got low ratings for its performance on two more high-profile projects in the war-torn country than had been disclosed previously. McClatchy Newspapers has learned that the U.S. government criticized Black & Veatch for poor oversight and delays on a Kabul power plant project... Full news...
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February 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Air Force Times: American planes drastically escalated the intensity of the air war over Afghanistan in January. U.S. jets — most of them Air Force — last month attacked insurgents with guns, bombs and missiles 293 times, which is three times more than in December and two times more than in January 2010. Full news...
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February 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters Canada: An average of two children per day were killed in Afghanistan last year, with areas of the once peaceful north now among the most dangerous, an independent Afghan rights watchdog said on Wednesday. The Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) said in a report that, of the 2,421 civilians the group registered as killed in conflict-related security incidents in 2010, some 739 were under the age of 18. Full news...
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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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