AFGHANISTAN

Source: www.usatoday.com --- 9 hours ago
AFGHANISTAN's president has ordered an investigation into allegations that missiles from U.S. helicopters struck civilians, though ... ...

Source: www.salon.com --- 13 hours ago
AFGHANISTAN's Ministry of Defense says more than 20 militants have been killed and wounded during a battle with NATO-backed Afghan forces. The ministry says the militants were traveling in two vehicles when they were attacked by Afghan troops aided by NATO airstrikes on Friday in northeas... ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 8 hours ago
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — AFGHANISTAN's president has ordered an investigation into allegations that missiles from U.S. helicopters struck civilians, though the Ministry of Defense said Sunday that the attack killed or wounded 20 militants. President Hamid Karzai ordered the defense and interior ministries, as well as local government officials, to investigate Friday's attack in eastern AFGHANISTAN. The issue of civilians casualties has caused friction between the Afghan government and U.S. and NATO troops in the past, and it has weakened the standing of the Western-backed Karzai in the eyes of the population. Karzai has repeatedly called for better coordination between Afghan and foreign troops in pursuing militants through populated areas, and he has pleaded for international troops to cut down on civilian casualties. Deaths of ordinary Afghans caused a huge outcry in summer of 2007, but there have been fewer accusations of such killings in recent months. Karzai's statement quoted allegations from Gov. Tamin Nuristani, the governor of Nuristan province, as saying that 15 civilians were killed and seven wounded. However, the Ministry of Defense on Sunday said up to 20 militants were killed and wounded in an air attack in Kunar province Friday. The area of the attack is on the border between Kunar and Nuristan, and both statements referred to the same incident. The U.S.-led coalition insists those killed were militants who had previousl ...

Source: www.newsday.com --- 8 hours ago
A New York City police lieutenant serving as a National Guardsman has died in AFGHANISTAN, police said yesterday. ...

Source: www.newsday.com --- 8 hours ago
A New York City police lieutenant serving as a national guardsman has died in AFGHANISTAN, police said Saturday. ...

Source: www.gmanews.tv --- 9 hours ago
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - AFGHANISTAN's president has ordered an investigation into allegations that missiles from U.S. helicopters struck civilians, though the Ministry of Defense said Sunday that the attack killed or wounded 20 militants. ...

Source: www.chinaview.cn --- 11 hours ago
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Source: aftenbladet.no --- 14 hours ago
Amerikanskledede styrker gjennomførte flere luftangrep mot opprørere i fjellområdene i AFGHANISTAN ved grensen til Pakistan søndag. Mange opprørere skal være drept. ...

Source: www.missionandjustice.org --- 10 hours ago
Phillip Adams; 5/7/08 Pour enough blood, tears and testosterone (or oil) into the dry and dusty dunes of the Greater Middle East and you create the quicksand that’s been swallowing mighty armies for millennia. The glorious Greeks came to grief there, as did the roaming Romans and the Christian Crusaders. More recent importers of military might [...] ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 10 hours ago
Simon Tisdall: Sean Murphy's photographs are the perfect illustration of a bleak situation. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 10 hours ago
KABUL: The US-led troops backed by warplanes battled militants and killed 28, including several Taliban leaders in south western AFGHANISTAN, an Afghan official said on Monday. ...

Source: www.theagitator.com --- 11 hours ago
June was the bloodiest month for U.S. troops since the start of the war in AFGHANISTAN. The Taliban (remember them?) is regrouping, and apparently gaining the capacity to conduct new terror attacks. And guess what? There’s nothing we can do about it. Because we’re over-committed to the debacle in Iraq. [...] ...

Source: easterncampaign.wordpress.com --- 8 hours ago
Is the Western model of the state inappropriate for AFGHANISTAN? Here lies the root of our postcolonial misery: not in our inability to think out new forms of the modern community, but in our surrender to the old forms of the modern state. - Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments, 1993. Nazif Shahrani, an Afghan-American anthropologist [...] ...

Source: savebabygorilla.com --- 12 hours ago
Stern’s Sirius radio show producer Gary Dell’Abate, show regular Artie Lange and comedians Nick DiPaolo, Jim Florentine and Dave Attell had just finished a comedy show for troops in Kandahar when the base came under attack. “Everything was going fine until the end,” a friend of the comics, who heard from them by cell phone, tells [...] ...

Source: www.foxnews.com --- 13 hours ago
Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern AFGHANISTAN assassinated an Afghan lawmaker, while a roadside bomb militants were planting detonated prematurely, killing 10 Taliban, officials said Saturday. ...

Source: easterncampaign.wordpress.com --- 8 hours ago
Alright, another awesome 10-minute mini-documentary by John D McHugh on Charlie Company in Khost. (H/T Kotare). The elementary school principal routine at 3:55 is kind of funny: “Insurgency is bad, m’kay?” Anyways, the report is excellent. I highly recommend you watch it. But what really bothered me was the chainsaws. That’s right, the chainsaws. [...] ...

Source: www.insideworld.com --- 12 hours ago
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Source: news.esearchnet.com --- 10 hours ago
The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in AFGHANISTAN, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time. ...

Source: samah007.wordpress.com --- 11 hours ago
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