The German magazine Der Spiegel has obtained classified documents in which NATO top commander and US General John Craddock, a long time advocate of steering the international forces in Afghanistan toward fighting the drug export industry, issues a "guidance" advising...
NATO spokesman James Appathurai told reporters today that the international forces were responsible for killing 97 Afghan civilians in 2008 based on what he referred to as their "new tracking system." The number is just the latest in an ongoing trend of dramatic...
"If we set ourselves the objective of creating some sort of central Asian Valhalla over there, we will lose, because nobody in the world has that kind of time, patience and money, to be honest." While speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Secretary of...
As the Obama Administration looks to escalate the war in Afghanistan by doubling the number of American forces on the ground, Vice President Joe Biden concedes that Americans should expect a higher death toll this year than in years past. "I hate to say it, but yes, I...
Thousands of Afghan villagers across Laghman Province rallied to protest against the latest incident of US troops killing innocent civilians. Protesters condemned both the US forces and President Hamid Karzai's government, demanding that troops end a military...
"The time is right for Marines to leave Iraq," US Marine Corps Commandant General James Conway told reporters today, complaining that the situation in Iraq is "a nation-building kind of environment" and "that is not what we do." Instead Conway believes the roughly...
Yesterday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told lawmakers that his government had sent a draft agreement to NATO headquarters, designed to give him more control over future NATO deployments. Among other things, the agreement would bar NATO forces from searching Afghan...
The Khyber Pass closed briefly again yesterday after a grenade attack on a Pakistani army camp, just the latest in a long string of closings which have threatened NATO's ability to use the route, through which roughly three quarters of all supplies for the war in...
More than seven years into the US-led invasion, the situation in Afghanistan is no better, and in many ways is dramatically worse. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is increasingly impatient with the floundering nation-building effort, but according to NATO's Secretary...
As the situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate, many are holding out hope that President-elect Barack Obama's long promised surge will somehow magically turn the floundering seven year long war around. But both at home and abroad the Obama plan is meeting...
