Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that he personally held peace talks with the insurgent faction Hizb-i-Islami, in a move that both asserted his involvement in his own country’s negotiations and reminded important players that there are other insurgent factions other than the Taliban.
While President Barack Obama has stated that negotiations with the insurgents ought [...]
The Afghan Taliban said on Saturday they had recruited the Afghan soldier who shot dead four French soldiers a day earlier, seeming to confirm fears that insurgent groups have been infiltrating the NATO-trained Afghan army.
Afghan soldiers have been using their weapons on U.S. and NATO troops with growing frequency. The Wall Street Journal, reporting in [...]
Word has spread in among Taliban fighters and Afghan civilians about the video depicting U.S. Marines urinating on dead Afghans, despite the lack of electricity and internet connections in most of the country.
Taliban fighters are enraged by the video, which President Hamid Karzai called “disgusting,” but did nothing about.
“Our leaders overlooked this degrading and inhumane [...]
The Pentagon is directing more military aid to Eastern Europe, even as the U.S. has talked about reducing the empire’s resources in Europe to focus more on Asia.
The U.S. has been relying more on Eastern European NATO allies in its efforts in Afghanistan, and so is sending as much as $100 million, 33 percent more [...]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that he was suspending training operations in Afghanistan after an Afghan soldier killed four French soldiers and wounded a dozen more in a shoot out.
Sarkozy also said the shooting raises serious doubts about the efficacy of NATO’s training mission in Afghanistan and could possibly lead France to withdraw its 3,600 [...]
Helicopter Downed in Afghanistan, Six US Marines Killed | Second helicopter crash this week
Anti-US Protests in Afghanistan Over Civilian Killings | Kunar Governor insists no role in night raid
The U.S. and NATO originally planned to build up Afghanistan’s security forces to 352,000, but the failure of the training mission and some hard truths on affordability might shrink the goal down to 250,000.
The initial goal of 352,000 Afghan security forces “will go far beyond what is possible to finance by the Afghan government so we [...]
Two British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan were arrested on charges of sexually abusing two Afghan children as young as ten years old and filming the abuse.
The films, which were showed off to comrades, reportedly depict the two soldiers as they encouraged a young Afghan boy and girl to touch them through their clothing. The British army would [...]
Afghan Governor: NATO Kills Five Civilians in Kunar Province | NATO ‘aware’ of operation
