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'Children die' in Afghan bombing Friday, June 15, 2007 : At least six children are killed and four injured in a suicide bombing on a Nato convoy in Afghanistan, police say....
Posted: Fri, Jun 15, 2007 6:56am PDT
Critic of warlords murdered in Afghanistan Thursday, June 14, 2007 :The callous murder of Afghan journalist Zakia Zaki on June 6—shot seven times as she lay beside her infant son—epitomises the absence of anything resembling genuine democracy in the country after more than five years of US occupation....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 10:47pm PDT
Steele: Afghanistan: The west has to accept that there is no military solution Thursday, June 14, 2007 : by Jonathan Steele June 15, 2007 The Guardian...
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 6:10pm PDT
Fatal Shooting Outside Afghan Girls' School Thursday, June 14, 2007 : Two gunmen killed two girls and wounded six others, including a teacher, outside a girls' school in Logar Province, Afghanistan on Tuesday. The gunmen, who were on a motorbike and have not been identified, attacked the school at midday as students were leaving....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 3:43pm PDT
Afghans Free US 'Bounty Hunter' Thursday, June 14, 2007 : A former US soldier jailed for running a private prison in Kabul and torturing Afghans has been freed, officials say....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 8:54am PDT
What the Crisis in Pakistan Means for the U.S. Monday, June 11, 2007 : Talk of the Nation , June 11, 2007 · Pakistan's president and military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf is in crisis as angry demonstrators demand that he step down. Guests talk about why Pakistan's political crisis poses a dilemma for the United States and why Americans should care about the country's future....
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 9:09am PDT
US forces 'kill Afghan police' Seven Afghan police officers were killed and four wounded when they apparently came under attack from a US convoy supported by helicopters in Nangarhar province, Afghan government officials said....
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 8:39am PDT
Pakistan Judicial Crisis Escalates ISLAMABAD — A lingering judicial crisis that has gripped Pakistan for months seems to be only heading downwards with the government threatening to press more charges against the suspended independent-minded chief justice....
Posted: Mon, Jun 11, 2007 6:29pm PDT
Afghan Firebrand Gets Burned Monday, June 11, 2007 : The young parliamentarian is unrepentant after her suspension for insulting her colleagues, and vows to continue her struggle. By Wahidullah Amani in Kabul Afghanistan (ARR No. 256, 11-June-07) “I will never apologise!” said Malalai Joya, bitter and defiant over her suspension from Afghanistan’s parliament....
Posted: Mon, Jun 11, 2007 6:33am PDT
Afghan Midwives Target High Infant Mortality Sunday, June 10, 2007 :Afghanistan's youngest citizens are the ones in the most peril. The war-ravaged country has one of the highest infant-mortality rates in the world. That's because nearly nine out of ten Afghan women give birth without medical help....
Posted: Sun, Jun 10, 2007 3:38pm PDT
Unrest simmers in Pakistan province Pakistan's sprawling Baluchistan region is one of the world's most remote areas and its hot, mostly barren, land encompasses the borders of three countries: Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan....
Posted: Sun, Jun 10, 2007 9:12am PDT
Karzai unhurt in Taleban attack Afghan President Hamid Karzai has escaped unhurt after the Taleban fired rockets at a meeting he was addressing in the province of Ghazni....
Posted: Sun, Jun 10, 2007 9:10am PDT
Guantanamo Detainees Protest Against US Torture of a Mentally-Disturbed Algerian Sunday, June 10, 2007 : Several detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have protested against the torture by American soldiers of a mentally- ill Algerian detainee called Abderrahmane Hamlili, said a lawyer on Saturday....
Posted: Sun, Jun 10, 2007 8:57am PDT
Playing with Fire in Afghanistan's North Recent protests in Jowzjan may signal attempts to chip away at central government....
Posted: Sat, Jun 9, 2007 7:02am PDT
When Myopia Becomes a Crime: Canada in Afghanistan For many Canadian partisans of The Mission in Afghanistan, Canada is just fighting the good fight. Their attitudes are curiously anachronistic, as if our boys have gone off to stick it to Jerry. There are yellow-ribbon support-our-troops stickers on many cars; there's home town pride. Embedded correspondents produce little more than a stream of human interest pieces, as if Afghanistan was some enormous Katrina aftermath. You'd probably find something similar in Norway, Finland, and other Nice...
Posted: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 6:47am PDT
Bloodshed is spreading across Afghanistan, warn aid workers Bloodshed is spreading to previously stable provinces of Afghanistan, threatening aid efforts as humanitarian workers contend with growing numbers of attacks from insurgents and criminals....
Posted: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 6:44am PDT
Weak Karzai Dependent on West: Aide KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a weak leader in a lose-lose situation, whose political survival counts on the presence of foreign troops in the country, a senior security advisor to Karzai said Sunday, June 3....
Posted: Sun, Jun 3, 2007 1:58pm PDT
Taleban 'downed Nato helicopter' Nato says one of its helicopters that crashed in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Wednesday may have been shot down by the Taleban....
Posted: Thu, May 31, 2007 9:43am PDT
More civilians killed by US/NATO forces as fighting intensifies in Afghanistan American and NATO coalition forces in Afghanistan are killing and maiming dozens of civilians as they attempt to suppress a growing anti-occupation insurgency by loyalists of the former Taliban fundamentalist regime. In case after case, the deaths are the result of indiscriminate bombing by US/NATO aircraft in retaliation for attacks on coalition troops....
Posted: Wed, May 30, 2007 6:14am PDT
Afghanistan: war crimes amnesty prepares further atrocities The US-backed political elite in Kabul have recently made a series of judicial rulings with grave implications for democratic rights that has received little comment in the international media....
Posted: Wed, May 30, 2007 6:14am PDT
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