May 8, 2012
US Admits Killing Innocent Afghan Family in Airstrike The incident did not come to light until the governor in Helmand Province made a public accusation by John Glaser, May 07, 2012 Print This | Share This The U.S. military has claimed responsibility for an airstrike that killed six innocent members of a family in southwestern Afghanistan and pledged a [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Collective Punishment, Helmand Province, Mohammad Gulab Mangal, NATO, United States, United States Armed Forces, West Bank
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March 10, 2012
People lay floral tributes at the barracks of the 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment in Warminster, Wiltshire. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA Sometimes they have to lie. As the British death toll in Afghanistan rises past 400, every news item tells of reverses, mistakes and a desperation to withdraw. Someone has to hold the line. Those whose job is to fight and [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, David Richards, Helmand, Helmand Province, James Bucknall, Philip Hammond, Richard Dannatt Baron Dannatt, Yorkshire Regiment
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February 27, 2012
Afghan protesters shout anti-U.S. slogans during a demonstration in Kunduz province February 25, 2012.Protesters in Kabul interviewed on the road and in front of Parliament said that this was not the first time that Americans had violated Afghan cultural and religious traditions and that an apology was not enough. The Causes of the [...]
Tags: A Tragic Legacy, Afghanistan, Afghans, Glenn Greenwald, Helmand Province, Kabul, Kunduz Province, Parwan Province, Qur'an, Stanley McChrystal, United States
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January 19, 2012
Afghan Governor: NATO Kills Five Civilians in Northeast NATO ‘Aware’ of Operation by Jason Ditz, January 18, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Kunar Province Governor Sayed Fazelullah Wahidi is reporting that an overnight raid by NATO forces on Monday has killed at least five [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Chawkay District, Civilian, Hamid Karzai, Helmand Province, Monday, NATO, President of Afghanistan
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January 18, 2012
Two British soldiers have been arrested on allegations of child abuse, news that will harm the counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan. Photograph: Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images Military police have launched an investigation into claims that British soldiers abused two children during their tour of duty in Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defence confirmed an inquiry had begun into two [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, British Army, Helmand, Helmand Province, Ministry of Defence, Sun, Taliban, United States Marine Corps
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December 8, 2011
Soldiers at the Task Force Helmand base in Lashkar Gah. Up to 4,000 British troops could leave Afghanistan during 2013. Photograph: Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images Up to 4,000 British troops could leave Afghanistan before the end of 2013 under proposals being put before David Cameron at a meeting of the National Security Council next week. The Guardian [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, British Army, David Cameron, Helmand Province, International Security Assistance Force, Kabul, NATO, United States, White House
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October 18, 2011
US Deaths in Afghanistan: Obama Doubles Entire Bush-Era Total Figures Show Overwhelming Increase in Military Casualties by Jason Ditz, October 17, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A grim new milestone was reached in the US occupation of Afghanistan this week, as the death toll in less than three years under President Obama has [...]
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August 25, 2011
Afghan Veterans Against the War Go on Tour The Afghanistan Veterans Against the War (AVAW) speaking tour kicked off yesterday marking the beginning of a series of events around the country from August 22 -31. The first stop was hosted by the IVAW Bay Area chapter and tonight the tour will go to Coffee [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, Coffee Strong, Helmand Province, Illinois Army National Guard, Lashkar Gah, Nonviolence, Politics of Afghanistan
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August 16, 2011
British army soldiers play rugby at Camp Bastion, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/PA Archive/Press Association Images The planes tend to arrive at night, and if the sky is clear, the moon bathes the airport with an ethereal, ghostly light. A film of dust and sand covers the tarmac and shimmers silver in [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, British Army, Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Hesco Bastion, Hindu Kush, Improvised explosive device, Jimi Heselden, Pizza Hut, Royal Navy, United States
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August 8, 2011
Afghans remain sceptical that they will see peace in their time By Terri Judd in Lashkar Gah Sunday, 7 August 2011 “I was born into war. I sometimes curse my parents. Why did they have children in war?” asked Faiz, an earnest young man from Kabul working as an interpreter in Helmand. [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Helmand, Helmand Province, International Security Assistance Force, Lashkar Gah, Taliban, United States
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July 22, 2011
On Wednesday, NATO troops in the Afghan city of Lashkar Gah handed over control to local Afghan forces. The province of Bamiyan and the eastern town of Mehter Lam had already been handed over. Many see the handover of Lashkar Gah as a critical step in a transition of power before foreign troops end their [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Al Jazeera, Bamyan Afghanistan, British Army, Helmand Province, Lashkar Gah, NATO
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July 20, 2011
Outgoing Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson gives evidence to the home affairs select committee yesterday. Photograph: PA General Hakim Angar is the overall head of police in Helmand province. I haven’t met him, but I hope he has a sense of humour, or at least a sense of irony. It was barely three [...]
Tags: British Army, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Helmand Province, John Yates, Lashkar Gah, Scotland Yard, Sir Paul Stephenson, Taliban
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July 17, 2011
Jan Mohammad Khan, far left, was a former governor of Uruzgan province [EPA] A group of armed men have killed a senior adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and a member of the parliament in a daring attack in the capital, Kabul. Initial reports about the fate of Jan Mohammad Khan, the Karzai aide, and [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Al Jazeera, Hamid Karzai, Helmand Province, Mazar-i-Sharif, President of Afghanistan, Taliban
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July 16, 2011
A British patrol returns to camp in Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province last year. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian The five-year British military campaign in southern Afghanistan has been woefully under-resourced and hampered by inadequate equipment, according to a damning report by MPs. The Commons defence select committee, which has been analysing UK operations [...]
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July 6, 2011
British Drone Kills Four Afghan Civilians in Helmand Attack Is First Confirmed UK Drone Killing of Civilians by Jason Ditz, July 05, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A British Reaper drone has killed at least four civilians and wounded two others in an attack in the Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, the first time [...]
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July 3, 2011
KABUL, Afghanistan – Despite U.S. reports of progress on the battlefield, American troops were killed in the first half of this year at the same pace as in 2010 — an indication that the war’s toll on U.S. forces has not eased as the Obama administration moves to shift the burden to the Afghans. While [...]
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July 2, 2011
More U.S. troop deaths raise questions about strategy BY NANCY A. YOUSSEF MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS WASHINGTON – June was the deadliest month in nearly a year for U.S. service members in Afghanistan and Iraq even as the United States said that improved security in both countries allows it to reduce troops in those war zones. Sixty U.S. [...]
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June 20, 2011
By SOLOMON MOORE, Associated Press – Sat Jun 18, 4:32 pm ET NAWZAD, Afghanistan – There isn’t much left of this once-violent town center that the U.S. Marines recently pacified — a couple of dusty roads, closed shops with bare mud brick stalls, small boys herding goats through a jigsaw puzzle of ruined houses and dry irrigation canals. Just outside [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, British Army, Helmand Province, John Toolan, Lashkar Gah, Nawzad Afghanistan, United States Marine Corps
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June 8, 2011
For the sake of the 1,500 Australians in Afghanistan it appears that there will be no respite in the Australian lapdog subservience to the worries and concerns of Empire. First it was the British now it is the US. We just go where we are told. For politicians the answer to jump has always been “how high”. We are [...]
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May 30, 2011
Nato apologises for Afghan civilian deaths International forces in Afghanistan apologise for air strike that killed at least nine civilians Share20 Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Monday 30 May 2011 08.21 BST Article history Soldiers in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Photograph: Omar Sobhani/Reuters A Nato air strike targeting insurgents fighting from a residential compound in the volatile south-western [...]
Tags: Culture of Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Hamid Karzai, Helmand Province, Jay Carney, John Toolan, NATO, Nawzad District, President of Afghanistan
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April 12, 2011
The unmanned Reaper aircraft has impressed the RAF . Remember these wonderful killing machines! They are made by the Atomics Corporation. Thanks to total blindness and subservience from Garrett to the imperial project and capital they are using our uranium. Garrett as an environmental Minister was a disgrace and Wong was no better. No doubt both will take their subservience to [...]
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