Just days after General David McKiernan announced his "revised tactical order" designed to reduce the number of civilians killed in NATO raids, Australian special forces surrounded a house in the Afghan province of Oruzgan and opened fire, killing district governor...
Much has been said in the past week about Admiral Michael Mullen's talk of a "new, more comprehensive" strategy in Afghanistan before the House Armed Services Committee, and while the focus of this strategy has been the US escalation in Pakistan, The Independent has...
United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has issued his "sincere condolences and personal regrets" for the large number of Afghan civilians recently killed by the US and its allies in air strikes. Gates pledged that NATO forces would do more in the future to...
Afghan police arrested three people and accused them of providing the false tip that led to last month's disastrous US air strike in Herat Province which a UN investigation determined killed at least 90 civilians and strained ties between NATO forces and the Afghan...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, while very supportive of a change in US strategy which would involve increased strikes on militants in Pakistan, a strategy he says he has pushed for years, said today that he opposes a long-term presence of foreign troops within...
In testimony today before the House Armed Services Committee Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral Michael Mullen said that he believes the present strategy in Afghanistan is not working, adding "I'm not convinced we're winning it in Afghanistan". This is just the...
Besides provoking a series of anti-US protests, last month's Herat airstrike brought harsh condemnation from Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Not long after, Karzai blamed the British government for the upsurge in Taliban activity in Helmand Province. These were just...
Last Updated 9/8 3:05 PM EST This morning two US Predator Drones attacked a small village two miles north of Miramshah in Pakistan's North Waziristan Agency, killing at least 23 and wounding 20 others. Ten of those killed were said by officials to be militants,...
Updated 9/7 9:35 PM EST On August 22, the US military reported that an airstrike in Herat province killed 30 militants and no civilians. It didn't take long for locals and Afghan officials to dispute this report, claiming that the toll included scores of civilians....
Updated 9/7 9:15 AM EST Earlier in the week the British press was trumpeting the "triumph" of 100-plus British military vehicles managing to transport a turbine across a little over 100 miles of Helmand Province road from Kandahar to Kajaki in a five day trek they...
