Ongoing Civilian casualties have become an important consideration when looking at and considering the use and legitimacy of drones in South Asia. In a belated admission last month the U.S. had admitted to 26 civilian deaths in a series of drone attacks that took place in May but was not... » read this article

Obama's Undeclared War Against Pakistan Continues, Despite His Attempts to Downplay it In a new interview, Obama said he has “no intention” of sending US troops into Pakistan. But US troops are already in the country and US drones attack Pakistan regularly. Three days after his inauguration, on January 23,... » read this article

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

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

Confirmed Wednesday as President Barack Obama’s new commander for the widening war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, General  Stanley McChrystal has been given extraordinary powers to assemble his own staff. According to press reports published Thursday, in forming a permanent war council-dubbed the Afghanistan-Pakistan Coordination Cell-McChrystal is drawing heavily from a... » read this article

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

The UN Human Rights Council has issued a report blasting the US for killing civilians, violating human rights and creating a “zone of impunity” for unaccountable private contractors to fight its wars. The UN group also criticized the US use of drones to attack Pakistan. The report, released this week... » read this article

US President Barack Obama took the podium in a White House press conference and stood with an all-embellished confidence that  often accompanies new presidents. He was flanked by two leaders whose apparent grandeur barely reflected their embattled  situations on the ground: Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali... » read this article

May 2009 “The Deltas are psychos…You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force…”, a US Army colonel from Fort Bragg once told me back in the 1980’s. Now President Obama has elevated the most notorious of the psychopaths, General Stanley McChrystal, to head the US and... » read this article

(2 reports) Australian Labor government escalates military involvement in Afghanistan By James Cogan 2 May 2009 The Rudd Labor government announced on Wednesday a significant expansion of Australia’s military commitment to the US-led occupation of Afghanistan. The number of Australian troops operating in the southern province of Uruzgan, alongside Dutch... » read this article

Editor's Note: As in all of his analyses of the battle for Pakistan, Talha Mujaddidi provides a rare look into the internal struggle of the Pakistan people and the interference in their domestic affairs by the United States, India and other foreign elements. For those who are unfamiliar with the... » read this article

April 20, 2009 In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate The American newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, quoting sources in the Pentagon, wrote the day before yesterday that those Internet sites and radio stations that according to them belong to or are attributed to the Taliban or are... » read this article

The activist filmmaker Robert Greenwald has tried for years to speed up the production process for his documentaries. Now, he says, he is creating one he can release almost immediately, in stages. Mr. Greenwald is showing “Rethink Afghanistan,” a skeptical view of America’s war strategies, in five parts on the... » read this article

Anyone who has ever seen George Galloway in action knows why he had to be stopped at the border. He definitely poses a threat — although not the security one alleged by the Harper government. Rather, Galloway, a five-times elected member of the British Parliament, poses a threat to Stephen... » read this article

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

Another four Canadian military personnel have been killed in Afghanistan. It is well past due that Canadian forces be brought home from this senseless war before more die for a poorly defined cause.   At the moment there are few if any arguments that stand up as justification for remaining... » read this article

On February 27, 2009, President Barack Obama announced a plan to withdraw U.S. troops occupying Iraq by September of 2010. However, Obama’s withdrawal is nothing short of a colonial Occupation of Iraq, and a betrayal of Mr. Obama’s promise to end the U.S. war on the Iraqi people.   During... » read this article

Editor's Note: We think it is important for readers to know the personal and political history of Obama's new envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke. In whatever deal Obama made with the devil to become the first African-American President of the United States, it's obvious that as part of... » read this article

Editor's note: This article was originally published by The Independent (UK) and republished in the Tehran Times, an English daily located in Teheran. Hamid Karzai appears to be on his way out as Washington's puppet in Afghanistan. The Independent credits Obama's "winds of change" for the ousting of Karzai. Indeed,... » read this article

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