With just over two months left in office, President Bush is hoping to add his voice to the calls for a military surge in Afghanistan, and will reportedly endorse General David McKiernan's call for an increase in the number of troops in Afghanistan. Of course, only two...
The Independent is reporting tonight that British military commanders are privately condemning plans to use Helmand Province, the embattled province in which the bulk of the British military force operates, into a launching pad for a broad NATO war against drug...
The Afghan government has issued an official report on the US air strike earlier this week that hit a wedding party in Kandahar Province. Initial indications from the scene said 40 civilians were killed, and the final report says that 37 civilians were killed, in...
Just a day after reports emerged that a US air strike against a wedding party in Kandahar earlier in the week killed at least 40 civilians, another US strike in Badghis Province killed at least another 20 people, with at least seven of them reportedly civilians....
As violence in Afghanistan spirals even further out of control, the United States military is relying more and more on air power in combat situations. The number of air missions launched by the US is up 31% over last year, and these missions are taking an increasing...
Afghan officials and local residents say that a US air strike struck an Afghan wedding party on Monday, killing at least 40 civilians and wounding 28 others (including the bride). The strike occurred in the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar Province. Reporters on the...
Today's presidential election has been decided, and Democratic Senator Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States of America. And though President-elect Obama is unlikely to make any wholesale changes to America's foreign policy when he takes office...
The New York Times is reporting that the Bush Administration held a secret meeting two weeks ago to brief advisers from the campaigns of both Republican Presidential nominee John McCain and his Democratic Party counterpart Barack Obama on the ever-deteriorating...
The reports of the Afghan government seeking some kind of rapprochement with the Taliban seem stronger than ever, and in a move which General David Petraeus said he supports earlier this month the United States may be considering not just backing the talks but being...
US General David McKiernan, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, is sick and tired of seeing headlines reporting how badly the war in Afghanistan is going. Sure, civilian deaths may be soaring, troop death may be at their highest level since the 2001 invasion, and...
