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October 16, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BNO NEWS: The Taliban publicly executed an alleged murderer in front of a large crowd at a bazaar in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, according to a local news report on Saturday. The Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) agency reported that the public execution was carried out at the Sebaka bazaar in Chak district of Wardak Province. The man, identified as Omar from neighboring Saydabad district, was accused of killing a man in Chak district. Full news...
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October 16, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Green Left Weekly: On October 17, 2001, the Liberal/National Coalition government of John Howard deployed Australian troops to Afghanistan, just nine days after the US had begun bombing one of the most poverty-stricken and war-weary nations on Earth. The then newly-formed Socialist Alliance responded to this attack and its reputed catalyst, the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington... Full news...
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October 15, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: The Afghan War has now entered its 10th year. It has become the longest US war. As of 7 October 2010, the 9th Anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan, the human cost of the Afghan War has been estimated as about 4.9 million violent deaths or non-violent avoidable deaths from Occupier-imposed deprivation. Full news...
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October 15, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Prisoners are being abused at a “secret jail” in the main American military base in Afghanistan, according to a report from a US policy think tank. Ex-detainees said they were deprived of sleep and held in cold isolation cells in the site at Bagram, says New York-based Open Society Foundations. Full news...
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October 15, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
France 24: Afghanistan’s health authorities Friday appealed for international help in dealing with a parasitic disease that is believed to threaten millions in the impoverished country. Leishmaniasis, transmitted by a species of sandfly, threatened the health of 13 million Afghans, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a report on neglected tropical diseases. Full news...
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October 14, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Mustafa, aged nine, has to go home to relieve himself because the only toilet in Ilhaqya-e-Anwar Bismel primary school in Kabul has been closed for over three months. “We either go home or relieve ourselves wherever we can outside the school,” said Mustafa. “We had a toilet but it has been clogged for some time,” said Aisha, a teacher, adding that the children had to use toilets in a nearby school or go home. Full news...
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October 14, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Over 100,000 people have been forced out of their homes by clashes in different parts of Afghanistan over the past 12 months but by no means all of them have received aid, according to aid agencies and affected people. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says civilians are trapped in a difficult environment... Full news...
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October 13, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Cash from the US military and international donors destined for construction and welfare projects in restive parts of Afghanistan is ending up in the hands of insurgents, a contractor and village elders said. The alliance of largely Western nations who back President Hamid Karzai and have nearly 150,000 troops on Afghan soil have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on aid... Full news...
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October 13, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Casualties inflicted on ordinary people in northern Afghanistan over the past six months this year has doubled compared to the same period last year, a United Nations official said on Wednesday. The casualties increased by 55 percent among children and a six percent among women, Georgette Gagnon, Director of Human Rights for United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), told... Full news...
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October 13, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Last week marked the ninth anniversary of the United States's invasion of Afghanistan, and the beginning of the 10th year of the current international engagement there. In the coming months, the US, Nato and its international allies will take a hard look at the current military counterinsurgency strategy, and the prospects for peaceful reconciliation. Full news...
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October 13, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ABC News Radio: The number of U.S. and NATO air strikes over Afghanistan has spiked since General David Petraeus replaced General Stanley McCrystal as commander of the war effort in June. U.S. Air Force statistics show a 172 percent increase, with 700 separate missions flown in September. A total of 257 assault missions were flown in September, 2009. Full news...
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October 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A Taliban-fired rocket hit a vehicle in southwestern Paktika province on Tuesday, killing six civilians, the interior ministry said. The early morning incident happened in the Ghaibikhel area of Yahyakhel district, the ministry said in a statement. The dead included a woman, it said. However, a local named Gul Muhammad Katawazai, said the rocket was fired NATO-led forces after they were attacked by insurgents in the area. Full news...
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October 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Epoch Times: In Afghanistan, where warlords and their militias still play a large role in ruling the tribal lands, U.S. and NATO forces are faced with the challenge of stabilizing the country as a democracy while not overstepping their boundaries. Warlords and their militias have a lengthy history in Afghanistan, and the current war is just another phase in that history. Full news...
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October 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Straight Goods News: Those who feel it is good news that the Afghanistan government is secretly negotiating with the Taliban won't get any reassurance from Malalai Joya. A year after her last visit to Canada, the outspoken former member of Afghanistan's parliament risks her life every day by speaking out against the three threats to her people: warlords, the Taliban and outside occupiers. Full news...
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October 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Montreal Gazette: This month, more than four years after she became the first Canadian servicewoman to die in combat, Captain Nichola Goddard is back in the news. Goddard, who was deployed to Afghanistan in January 2006, was killed in a battle with the Taliban on May 17, 2006, two weeks after her 26th birthday. Before she died, she wrote to her husband about a culture of oppressive sexual harassment and assault at her camp in Afghanistan... Full news...
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October 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: War casualties in a Kandahar hospital are “hitting record highs,” figures that illustrate the “deteriorating security situation in southern Afghanistan, the International Committee for the Red Cross said on Tuesday. Mirwais Regional Hospital had nearly 1,000 new patients with weapon-related injuries. Full news...
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October 11, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Calgary Herald: An outspoken critic of NATO and the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, as well as that country's youngest woman elected to parliament, was in Calgary on the weekend, appealing for Canadians to open their minds and support democracy in the war-torn nation. Malalai Joya was invited to speak at the University of Calgary on Sunday by the Afghan Canadian Students’ Association. Full news...
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October 11, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Afghanistan’s election watchdog confirmed Sunday that more than 170 candidates who stood for parliament, including 25 current lawmakers, have been accused of electoral fraud. The Electoral Complaints Commission (EEC) said they have registered 4,149 complaints since polling day on September 18. More than half the complaints have been given top priority and if proven, could affect the final results. Full news...
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October 11, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIAN officers are training Afghan police who are corrupt, obtain money from the Afghan drug trade and are often sexually abused or sexual abusers, a new report says. The report, by the non-government organisation The Liaison Office in Afghanistan, comes as the Home Affairs Minister, Brendan O'Connor, and the Federal Police Commissioner, Tony Negus... Full news...
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October 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Over 60 percent of Afghans suffered from mental health problems and stress due to the decades of war, poverty, political vulnerability and poor health facilities, the health minister said on Sunday. Speaking at a ceremony marking the World Mental Health Day, Dr Suraya Dalil said 'major steps' had been taken to improve the health sector, but added those measures were still insufficient and there was a need for doing more. Full news...
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October 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
HeraldNet: U.S. military suicides have claimed more lives than combat-related deaths in Afghanistan. This week marks the start of our 10th year there. It’s long past time to ask, “Why are we sending troubled soldiers back into combat?” We didn’t bat an eye when Saddam Hussein was still spooking us. We didn’t care when the VA funding was cut at the same time we wanted to throw our youth into battle with our president’s enemy. Full news...
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October 8, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: The two Afghan warlords were referred to as “Mr White” and “Mr Pink”, the characters from Quentin Tarantino's movie Reservoir Dogs. They were well named, every bit as ruthless and bloody as their namesakes in the 1992 film. Their activities are documented at length in a US Senate committee report, published last night, that provides a rare glimpse into the world of private security companies operating in Afghanistan. Full news...
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October 8, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Heavy US reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban, a US Senate report says. The study by the Senate Armed Services Committee says this is because contractors often fail to vet local recruits and end up hiring warlords. The report demands "immediate and aggressive steps" to improve the vetting and oversight process. Full news...
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October 8, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PTI: Pakistan's ISI is pushing the Taliban to attack US troops and their allies based in Afghanistan, the media here has said, close on the heels of a White House report that slammed Islamabad for not doing enough to battle terrorists holed up near the Af-Pak border. Several similar charges against ISI have been made in the past but 'The Wall Street Journal' suggested that this one was the "strongest yet"... Full news...
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October 7, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Washington Square News: Peace activists held an anti-war press conference at the CUNY Graduate Center yesterday, marking the ninth anniversary of the U.S.-NATO invasion of Afghanistan. The group of veterans, community groups and global justice organizations said U.S. military presence in Afghanistan did not benefit anyone. Full news...
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October 7, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: The Afghan and US governments have recently made contact with insurgent group the Haqqani network, one of the most feared foes of NATO forces in Afghanistan, a British paper reported Thursday. The government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai took part in direct talks with senior members of the Haqqani group over the summer, said the Guardian daily, citing Pakistani and Arab sources. Full news...
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October 6, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Taliban representatives and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai have begun secret, high-level talks over a negotiated end to the war, according to Afghan and Arab sources. The talks follow inconclusive meetings, hosted by Saudi Arabia, that ended more than a year ago. While emphasizing the preliminary nature of the current discussions, the sources said... Full news...
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October 6, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Canadian Press: Malalai Joya, a rights activist and former Afghan MP, says U.S. President Barack Obama's policies in Afghanistan are as bad as those of his predecessor, George W. Bush. She says Obama's surge of troops into her country has made things worse for ordinary Afghans. Joya says Canada has been following the wrong policy for nine years, going along with what she calls American war crimes. Full news...
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October 6, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: Authorities in southwestern Afghanistan have seized 19 tons of explosive devices that had been transferred across the border from Iran, police said. Nimruz Police Chief Abdul Jabar Purdel said a suspect was detained. Nimruz province, in Afghanistan's southwestern corner, borders Iran and Pakistan. Full news...
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October 5, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: "Like the past decades, war once again forced me to leave everything behind and migrate to safer place in Kandahar city," Hamidullah, a 22-year- old from Arghandab district, whispered. Hamidullah, who like many Afghans used only one name is one of hundreds of war-weary villagers who left his home in Arghandab, southern Kandahar province... Full news...
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