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Britain: Brown assures Bush more troops for Afghanistan, no Iraq withdrawal Monday, June 16, 2008 :At a joint press conference with US President George Bush yesterday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that more troops would be sent to Afghanistan, taking the UKs contingent in the country to its highest level....
Posted: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 10:23pm PDT
Taliban seize Afghan villages Monday, June 16, 2008 : Group of about 500 fighters threaten to march towards Kandahar in new offensive....
Posted: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 8:02am PDT
Kabul's raid threat angers Pakistan Monday, June 16, 2008 : Islamabad warns Hamid Karzai after threat of cross-border raids to target Taliban....
Posted: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 8:01am PDT
Amidst mounting crisis, Pakistan's new government slashes food and fuel subsidies Monday, June 16, 2008 :Pakistans new coalition government has delivered a big business budget that slashes subsidies for food, fuel oil, electricity, and fertilizer by more than one-quarter112.2 billion Pakistani Rupees, or US $1.6 billion. The Pakistan Peoples Party-led government has also pledged to gradually do away with all price subsidies, except possibly on food....
Posted: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 7:58am PDT
Afghanistan: Mass prison break underscores crisis of US-backed regime Sunday, June 15, 2008 :Large numbers of US-led NATO troops together with Afghan puppet forces continued a largely fruitless search over the weekend for more than 1,000 prisoners who escaped from a fortress-like jail in the southern city of Kandahar....
Posted: Sun, Jun 15, 2008 9:26pm PDT
Taleban jail raid frees hundreds Saturday, June 14, 2008 : Afghan security forces hunt for hundreds of prisoners who escaped from a jail after Taleban fighters blew up the main gate....
Posted: Sat, Jun 14, 2008 10:32am PDT
Massive Guerrilla attack in Afghanistan; 4 Marines Killed From a Saturday, June 14, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Sat, Jun 14, 2008 10:00am PDT
Another grim milestone of UK fatalities in Afghanistan Saturday, June 14, 2008 :On June 8, the number of UK fatalities in Afghanistan reached a grim milestone with news of the death of three British soldiers in a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan....
Posted: Sat, Jun 14, 2008 9:58am PDT
Trip Illuminates Life on Bases Across Afghan Desert Friday, June 13, 2008 : On a four-day journey across a network of bases in southern Afghanistan, NPR's Ivan Watson and David Gilkey experience what life is like for troops in the war-torn country. It's a life of largely primitive conditions, interminable dust and scorching heat....
Posted: Fri, Jun 13, 2008 7:57am PDT
Pakistan march nears Islamabad Friday, June 13, 2008 : Lawyers demanding reinstatement of judges joined by former PM Nawaz Sharif....
Posted: Fri, Jun 13, 2008 7:54am PDT
US continues to defend air strike on Pakistani military post Thursday, June 12, 2008 :The US government and military have rebuffed Pakistani government protests over Tuesday nights aerial bombardment of a Pakistani security checkpoint in the Mohmand region in the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA). Ostensibly aimed at pro-Taliban insurgents, the US attack, which was carried out by two F-15s and a B-1 bomber, killed 11 Pakistani Frontier Corps troops, including a major, and injured 10, including 3 civilians....
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 10:28pm PDT
Aid Misspending Dispirits Afghans KABUL — Living in crumbling mud-brick homes with a dearth of electricity, clean water and proper sanitation, many Afghans are not moved by billions of dollars donated to their country in a conference thousands of miles away....
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 7:25pm PDT
US-led raid kills Afghan civilians Wednesday, June 11, 2008 : Children and women among dead following US air raid in eastern Afghanistan....
Posted: Wed, Jun 11, 2008 8:06am PDT
'US strike deaths' anger Pakistan Pakistan's military has condemned what it says was an air strike by US-led forces that killed 11 Pakistani troops as a "cowardly attack"....
Posted: Wed, Jun 11, 2008 7:49am PDT
"Descent Into Chaos": Ahmed Rashid on How the US Aid to "War on Terror" Ally Pakistan is Aiding the Taliban Tuesday, June 10, 2008 :Veteran Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid explains how the US ally Pakistan has armed and financed the Taliban after the US invasion of Afghanistan; how the CIA pays Pakistan to arrest al-Qaeda operatives, but Pakistan uses the money to fund the Taliban resurgence in northwest Pakistan; and how the US and NATO?s failure to deal with Afghan civil society has led directly to the huge rise of the opium trade that funds the Taliban....
Posted: Tue, Jun 10, 2008 7:34am PDT
Funeral for BBC Afghan reporter Monday, June 9, 2008 : Abdul Samad Rohani, a BBC reporter in Afghanistan's Helmand province, is buried a day after he was found shot dead....
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 7:35am PDT
Doubts cloud Pakistan Taliban truce Monday, June 9, 2008 : Interior minister denies reports that talks with the Taliban have broken down....
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 7:34am PDT
Suicide bomb takes British death toll in Afghanistan to 100 Sunday, June 8, 2008 : The grim milestone was expected but poignant, nevertheless, and raised fresh questions about a seemingly unending war with a rising toll of lives. Three soldiers were killed yesterday in Afghanistan bringing the number of British fatalities to 100....
Posted: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 7:53pm PDT
Promoting Perfume, Not Poppies, in Afghanistan Wednesday, June 4, 2008 : In recent years, poppy production has skyrocketed in Afghanistan. A group of businessmen has been trying to offer an alternative, by urging farmers to grow flowers for perfume instead of for drugs. It has been a frustrating and costly project....
Posted: Wed, Jun 4, 2008 7:47am PDT
US offensive displaces thousands of civilians in Afghanistan Tuesday, June 3, 2008 :A major US offensive targeting alleged Taliban guerillas around the city of Garmser in the southern province of Helmand has displaced over 4,000 families, according to the provincial governor Gulab Mangal. He told UN relief agencies that most are living in squalid conditions on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Lashkargah, and had not received any food or non-food assistance....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2008 6:17am PDT
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