NATO officials said they were targeting insurgents and would look into claims that children were killed by John Glaser A NATO airstrike killed three children in Afghanistan‘s Helmand province on Sunday, Afghan officials said Monday. “Two Taliban mine-planters were identified… Read More ›
More than 50,000 Americans have been combat-wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan since 2001, a grim measure of the cost of more than a decade of war. According to Defense Department accounting, the number of wounded reached 50,010 on Thursday. The… Read More ›
Officials Offer Few Details on Uruzgan Province Killings A man in an Afghan police uniform attacked and killed two US soldiers today in the Uruzgan Province in the latest apparent “green-on-blue” attack in Afghanistan. Officials have yet to confirm the attacker’s identity, and don’t… Read More ›
Reports say Washington is vying for an agreement with Kabul that would keep tens of thousands of troops there until 2024 by John Glaser The US has begun negotiations with the Kabul government over the extension of troop presence past… Read More ›
One man introduced indefinite detention and expanded the deadly global drone war. Another was the architect of the deliberate mass killing of civilian populations in Indochina. What do they have in common? Both are Nobel Peace laureates. Gandhi never got… Read More ›
A provocative ad which debuted last month in San Francisco is making its way to New York subways today. Starting from Monday, September 24, 2012, as the UN General Assembly picks up momentum in New York and heads of states… Read More ›
“Nobel Peace Prize nominee PFC Bradley Manning, a 24-year-old Army intelligence analyst, is accused of releasing the Collateral Murder video, that shows the killing of unarmed civilians and two Reuters journalists, by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq. He… Read More ›
by Alex Ellingboe On July 27, the website Buzzfeed.com released graphic photos of the gruesome conditions faced by wounded Afghan soldiers in the U.S. funded Dawood National Military Hospital in Kabul. The condition of soldiers at the nation’s premier military… Read More ›
Senior US military officers blew the whistle on horrific conditions at the National Military Hospital in Kabul. They revealed some graphic images, showing severely neglected, starving patients at the hospital, which the US military sponsors and helps oversee. Witnesses describe… Read More ›
By Natalie O’Brien New evidence has emerged that all Guantanamo Bay detainees, including David Hicks, were drugged involuntarily with a substance that has a long history as a truth serum. Recently declassified US documents revealing medical procedures have shown that… Read More ›
Two of the Marines alleged to have urinated on the corpses of Taliban fighters are now facing criminal charges and will be forced to face a court-martial over the incident. Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph W. Chamblin and Staff Sgt. Edward… Read More ›
KABUL: A total of 374 civilians were killed and 581 injured in August as a result of the war in Afghanistan, making it the second deadliest month for civilians since 2007, the United Nations said Friday. The UN’s special representative… Read More ›
The United States has stopped training Afghan forces due to rising incidents of the so-called insider attacks in Afghanistan The Washington Post reports that the commander of the US Special Forces has suspended training for all new Afghan recruits until… Read More ›
Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is more like a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit by Matt Kennard My journey into the dark underworld of the US military… Read More ›
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