Hundreds of Pakistanis, joined by dozens of activists from the US, launched a motorcade “march” against US drone strikes that they hope will reach the Afghan border region.
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.
Officials from both the US and Afghanistan say that the US military will maintain control over foreign detainees at Bagram Air Base for the indefinite future
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.
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women urged Pakistan and Afghanistan to investigate the recent killings of women—including public officials, and a young wife publicly executed on suspicion of adultery.
