The suggestion by Mr. Rasmussen that civilian organizations such as MSF should in any way collaborate, or provide 'soft power' to the NATO forces, endangers this understanding and makes the hospitals, patients and staff more likely to be targeted by the opposition forces. International medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières... » read this article

For weeks, the U.S. public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. That idea was a central element in the overall impression built up... » read this article

The list of universal truths should be expanded to include the fact of Afghanistan’s invincibility. Afghanistan has maintained its reputation as the ‘graveyard of the empires’. The question is, before the US invasion of Afghanistan, did the US Military command really think they can invade, occupy and control Afghanistan? The... » read this article

1 March 2010 A large majority of the German parliament voted Friday, February 26 to expand the country’s military operation in Afghanistan. In future, the number of soldiers deployed in the Hindu Kush will be increased from the current level of 4,500 to 5,350. In addition, significantly more police will... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Most readers are now aware of the new front that President Obama has opened in Pakistan for the U.S. war in Asia. Losing the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. has picked Pakistan as what they see as a softer target in the region. That decision may be another critical... » read this article

Editor's Note: The PKKH are on the front lines of the media war in Pakistan as the country heats up under the creeping occupation by the U.S. regular military and hired mercenaries. Our columnist, Talha Mujaddidi is one of the leaders in the PKKH and these reports come from on-the-ground... » read this article

The US is coming under increasing criticism over the rise in civilian casualties during the assault on the Afghan city of Marjah, one of the largest military offensives of the eight-year war. At least nineteen civilians have been killed so far, including six children who died when a missile struck... » read this article

6 February 2010 As US and British troops prepare to attack the town of Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, military commanders and the media are openly comparing the operation to the November 2004 siege of Fallujah, one of the bloodiest war crimes of the Iraq war. The operation in central... » read this article

With the American declaration of an exit from Afghanistan, Beijing and Islamabad are upbeat. This leaves India in the lurch as it is ill prepared to face the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalists and the Chinese Communists argues Bharat Verma. The creeping invasion by authoritarian regimes will engulf Asia by 2020 as... » read this article

A new investigation by journalist Anand Gopal reveals harrowing details about US secret prisons in Afghanistan, under both the Bush and Obama administrations. Gopal interviewed Afghans who were detained and abused at several disclosed and undisclosed sites at US and Afghan military bases across the country. He also reveals the... » read this article

Kabul’s Western allies want to pay Taliban fighters to quit the insurgency. Lots of luck. Representatives from nearly 70 countries showed up in London on Jan. 28 for a one-day conference on how to save Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai was there, gamely offering “peace and reconciliation” to all Afghans, “especially”... » read this article

One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above.  The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan's Helmand province, a missile blasted a home, killing 13 people.  Days later, the same increasingly familiar mechanical whine preceded a two-missile salvo that slammed into a compound in Degan village in the tribal North Waziristan district... » read this article

January 6, 2010 American military personnel are continuing to take their own lives in unprecedented numbers, as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq wars drag on. By late November, at least 334 members of the armed forces had committed suicide in 2009, more than the 319 who were killed in... » read this article

Two reports coming out of Afghanistan illustrate the depth of hypocrisy and subterfuge characterizing the US/NATO intervention in that country. One could cite a myriad of such examples, so immoral and wrong is the US war there. In the first report, a 2009 human rights assessment prepared by Canada's Foreign... » read this article

Editor's Comment: The corporate world media is having a difficult time employing their typical language with this report. "Suicide bombers, terrorists, insurgents" - none of them really seem to work that well, although they do manage to emphasize the civilians among the dead. The bottom line: this was another successful... » read this article

RT’s Anastasia Churkina sits down for an exclusive interview with journalist and film-maker Nir Rosen, who spends months ever year in the Middle East. Rosen talks about the truth behind Al Qaeda, Afghanistan and Iraq, and the real reasons for America’s military involvement there. Dandelion Salad YouTube  ... » read this article

The US must address Pakistan’s security concerns to leave behind a stable AfPak region January 16, Axis of Logic - Despite some ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ related to US withdrawal expressed by some US officials following President Obama’s speech laying out his new policy on Afghanistan, there is absolutely no doubt... » read this article

"This is the moral state of the American media: the murder of poverty-stricken children by missiles or bombs might, after all, be no more than an 'honest mistake'.” 14 January 2010 American television news becomes more and more unwatchable, especially in its reports on the expanding wars in the Middle... » read this article

14 January 2010 The Pak Institute of Peace Studies (PIPS) report published on January 10 makes clear that the carnage from the fighting between the Pakistani military and anti-government Islamist and tribal militants more than matches that taking place in neighbouring US-occupied Afghanistan. In 2009, the low-level civil war in... » read this article

Though not being reported in the mainstream American press, there is a very intense struggle going on between the U.S. and China to determine which nation will emerge as the dominant presence in Central Asia. These two economic giants, the U.S. declining and China rapidly growing, know full well that... » read this article