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Editor's Note: The Afghan growing resistance forces now controls over 72% of Afghanistan. Let us remember that while the western media has marginalised the resistance with the clever corruption of terms like "Taliban", "insurgency", "terrorists", etc. - they are in fact defending Afghanistan against an invading, occupying army. The imperial... » read this article
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Ben Farmer , RAWA News
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has been accused of completing a coalition of "gangsters and warlords" after rehabilitating a notoriously brutal strongman in a suspected election deal.
General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a powerful Uzbek militia leader, once boasted of pulverising thieving soldiers on his tank tracks, while his men were... » read this article
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Anna N. , Jezebel
Kids in Afghanistan — especially girls — have few opportunities to play sports. But Skateistan, "Afghanistan's first dedicated co-educational skateboarding school," hopes to change that.
In a country where a whopping 50% of the population is under 16, reaching youth can have a profound effect. Skateistan hopes to teach classes... » read this article
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NATO backs US escalation of war in Central Asia By Chris Marsden
6 April 2009
The NATO 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg, France, and Kehl, Germany, ended with a headline commitment for Europe to provide “up to” 5,000 additional troops for Afghanistan.
This was the smallest commitment the European... » read this article
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James Cogan , WSWS
20 January 2009
The first week of 2009 saw at least three incidents in which occupation forces stand accused of killing or injuring Afghan civilians during operations against the Taliban-led insurgency.
Officials representing the provincial government of Helmand alleged that on January 5, British troops killed five members of the... » read this article
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