A checkpoint shooting in eastern Afghanistan’s Wardak province brought the US military’s death toll in the war past 2,000. About as many Afghan civilians are killed each year.
Both imperialism and political Islam see in the current crisis the opportunity to revive the dystopian dialectic of jihad-versus-GWOT—and reverse the gains of the Arab Spring.
Insurgents attacked Bagram Air Base outside Kabul—and a skateboarding program run by a nonprofit for Kabul youth, killing four kids.
Taliban militants attacked a family gathering where men and women were dancing together at a village in Afghanistan's Helmand province, beheading 17, including two women.
The Haqqani network and allied Taliban denied reports that top commander Badruddin Haqqani was killed in a US drone strike, saying a 13-year-old relative was the victim.
A jihadist attack on Pakistan’s Minhas Air Force Base coincides with a US Congressional report on threats to the “security” of Islamabad’s nuclear arsenal.
A Chinese proposal for a pipeline route across northern Afghanistan for Caspian Basin gas could sabotage the US-backed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) project.
Vladimir Putin called upon NATO to stay in Afghanistan until it has prevailed over the insurgency. He spoke at the inauguration of a new NATO transit hub at Ulyanovsk.
…is that it happened before he was repudiated by the American left. Cockburn spewed hateful Islamophobic racism to justify the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the ’80s—of precisely the kind we all decry in neocons today.
To grease the deal allowing NATO to resupply the Afghan operation through Pakistan, the US pledged Islamabad $1.2 billion in “counterterrorism” aid—even as Pakistan’s intelligence services are accused of aiding the Taliban.
Three people, including two children, were killed when a bomb planted in a donkey cart exploded at the Panj Peer shrine in Peshawar, as worshippers gathered for a weekly ritual honoring Sufi saints buried there.
The Pentagon is preparing to deploy a new generation of mini-drones with miniscule warheads that can allegedly be delivered with pinpoint accuracy. On a Pakistan visit, UN rights commissioner Navi Pillay questioned the legality of US drone strikes.
