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Afghanistan Click HERE for more recently-added articles on Afghanistan (third newest page) Click HERE for the new second-page of recently-added articles on Afghanistan (Updated May 26, 2007) Click HERE for the latest page of recently-added articles on Afghanistan (Updated July 4, 2007) Malalai Joya's speech - Afghan female MP's speech to the New Democratic Party Convention in 2006 Top soldier quits as blundering campaign turns into 'pointless' war “Having a big old fight is pointless and just making things worse,” said Captain Leo Docherty, of the Scots Guards, who became so disillusioned that he quit the army last month." “The CIA recruited and trained the jihadists” Afghan civilian injured by Canadian soldiers Afghans vent anger at Canadians Death of boy, 10, stirs support for bombers: Witness Malalai Joya Breaks the Fear Barrier in Ottawa Local vets critical of Afghan intervention After the Taliban, women still suffer Kidnappings and wife beatings go on, three years after the liberation of Afghans from the Taliban regime The Taliban Aren't Gone, Women Haven't Been Liberated - Afghanistan Reconsidered Rough justice and blooming poppies Afghan women seek death by fire Increasing numbers of Afghan women are committing suicide by setting fire to themselves to escape difficult lives, according to NGOs based in the country. Afghan 'civilian shooting' probed An investigation has been held into allegations that British troops opened fire indiscriminately in Afghanistan after a suicide car bomb. Beaten Afghan's Body 'Falling Apart' An Afghan detainee who died in military custody was injured so severely that his leg muscles were split apart, an Air Force medical examiner testified Tuesday in the trial of a soldier accused in the beating. Canadian Soldiers risk war-crimes charges, report warns Poppies Rising - Afghanistan's Drug Catastrophe CANADA, KANDAHAR AND THE CASPIAN Canadian Peace Alliance Brief Kola Odetola: Islam, Sex And The Western Left While differing in their responses to the west’s war on terror, read non compliant Muslim nations, right wingers, liberals and a lot of silent leftists share in varying degrees a unity in support of one its most vociferously avowed aims – the liberation of the Islamic world’s women. UK defends strike on Afghan town British forces in Afghanistan have defended their decision to call in US planes to drop 500lb bombs on Taleban fighters in a town in Helmand province. Death by burning: the only escape for desperate Afghan women James Astill in Kabul finds a disturbing rise in suicides despite the fall of the misogynist Taliban Official:
NATO killed too many civilians in Afghanistan in '06
NATO acknowledged Wednesday that
the number of civilians killed by its forces in Afghanistan last year
was too high, but said the Western alliance was working to change that
in 2007. NATO Occupation Forces Kill Afghan Civilians, Police Say Afghanistan As A 'Role Model' Of US Foreign Policy Hamid Karzai has appealed for more Nato troops to maintain security during the Afghan elections. His plea reminds the West that removing a regime does not solve everything Cost of Afghan mission keeps rising in federal tally Taliban "Ferocity" Stuns UK Troops UK troops had faulty ammunition Bad communications to blame for Afghan deaths: NATO About 60 civilians, many of them women and children, were killed by NATO planes during fighting in the southern province of Kandahar during Eid al-Fitr, a major Muslim holiday, last year, according to local leaders. Doing the Wrong Thing in Afghanistan Depleted Uranium: The Definitive Moral Paradox By Michael Clarke NATO troops kill 2 Afghan civilians in speeding van NATO troops shot at a speeding van on Wednesday in southern Afghanistan, killing two Afghan civilians and injuring a child, NATO officials said Thursday. Afghan politician says NATO mission has not brought more peace to the region Inside America's Concentration Camp - Tortured at Guantanamo Bay Afghanistan: Operation Backfire "Canadians are making refugees of those they are supposed to be helping." Opposition to Afghan mission rises in latest poll Support for sending troops hits new low; Harper's Mideast policy also under fire Afghan children fall prey to killers who trade human organs Pentagon Endangers Aid Workers With False Info Bush's Other War Unravels - Despair and Disappointment in Afghanistan The Elections in Afghanistan - A Test for Bush Not Afghans Afghanistan still not better Dust in the Eyes of the World Feminists debate occupation of Agfhanistan Sending troops into danger well worth debating Guantanamo Detainee Says Beating Injured Spine - This is barbarism Kabul troops 'fired in defence' The US military says its troops fired in self-defence after a traffic accident sparked mass rioting in Afghan capital Kabul on Monday. March of Folly - Canada Should Pull Its Troops Out of Afghanistan 'We are just watching things get worse' When Britain and America went into Afghanistan in 2001, they claimed that the liberation of the country's burka-shrouded women was one of their top priorities. So did they deliver? Five years on, Natasha Walter visits Kabul - and is shocked by what she discovers Media blind to Afghan civilian deaths Western
projects are bleeding Afghanistan dry, says minister
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