British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that the UK is sending 500 additional troops to Afghanistanâas the Taliban are rapidly seizing control in large areas of the countryside.
Streams of civilians jammed into cars and trucks to flee South Waziristan as Pakistan’s air force pounded the area with air-strikes ahead of an expected ground offensive against the Taliban.
Anti-war activists held a White House protest to oppose the escalation in Afghanistanâas Code Pink ponders the implications of a US withdrawal for women’s rights.
Four suspected militants were killed when a presumed US drone fired at two vehicles in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area. It was the third suspected drone strike in 24 hours.
Tribal elders said that eight peopleâat least five of them civiliansâwere killed in a US airstrike on a village in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
Human rights activists reacted to disclosures that the US government is planning to introduce measures to give inmates at Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram prison the chance to challenge their detention.
The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan accused US troops of storming through the charity’s hospital in Wardak province, breaking down doors and tying up staff.
A new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime warns of growing links between drug lords and the Taliban insurgency.
Like their counterparts in Pakistan, Afghanistan’s Taliban demonstrate once again that they aren’t above blowing up their cannon fodder at mosquesâduring Ramadanâto enforce their supposedly purist version of Islam. Now didn’t we hear somewhere, “Do not fight them at the Holy… Read moreTaliban don’t read Koran, do they?
Supposedly temporary restrictions on freedom of expression in the run-up to Afghanistan’s presidential vote are drawing protests from country’s press.
A bomb blast killed at least seven in the Pakistani town of Charsadda. The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying the victims belonged to a tribe that had raised an anti-Taliban militia.
US Marines and Afghan forces destroyed hundreds of tons of opium and heroin in Helmand, in raids that officials say are part of a shift in counter-narcotics strategy.
