May 7, 2012 2:16 AM (AP) ISLAMABAD - A 70-year-old American aid worker kidnapped nine months ago in Pakistan said in a video released by al Qaeda that he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands. The video posted on militant websites Sunday followed one issued ... Read More

The United States and Afghanistan have signed an agreement to extend the US presence in the war-torn country to another decade beyond 2014. Shortly after arriving in Afghanistan under cover late on Tuesday night, US President Barack Obama signed a deal with his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai to provide aid, ... Read More

This video is about the money that are sprayed black at the US at the treasury and sent to Afghanistan where it is sprayed clean to be used for various illegal operations by the US armed forces. That is why they do not want to end this war because the ... Read More

The wife of a Beaumont Army Medical Center nurse who died Monday in Afghanistan said the incident took place while she was talking with her husband through Skype's video chat. Army officials have not released the cause of death for Capt. Bruce Kevin Clark, 43, of Spencerport, N.Y. A statement from ... Read More

(CNSNews.com) - Although President Obama has only served 39 months in office, 69 percent of the U.S. military fatalities in the more than 10-year-old war in Afghanistan have occurred on his watch. 1,275 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghan war since president inaugurated... ... Read More

Most Americans realize that today marks the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of courageous Navy SEALs. Yet many of the same citizens, conditioned by a national media that pays scant attention to the military's daily sacrifices, probably don't realize that 2012's bloodiest month of fighting ... Read More

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has investigated 56 soldiers in Afghanistan on suspicion of using or distributing heroin, morphine or other opiates during 2010 and 2011, newly obtained data shows. Eight soldiers died of drug overdoses during that time. 56 US Troops Investigated For Drug Use In Afghanistan ... Read More

A prominent analyst tells Press TV that Afghan people wholeheartedly oppose the Status of Forces Agreement agreement between US and Afghanistan, calling it a "national treachery." Interview with author and Afghanistan expert, Mohammad Daud Miraki. ... Read More

By Stephen Lendman March 25, 2012 Murder anywhere is bad enough. Nuremberg chief prosecutor Robert Jackson called preemptive aggressive war killing “the supreme international crime against peace.” Convicted Nazi war criminals were hanged. American ones keep killing with impunity. On March 11, up to 20 US Special Forces (trained killers) murdered 16 Afghan civilians, ... Read More

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed in the shooting spree attributed to a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said Sunday. The families of the dead received the money Saturday at the governor's office, said ... Read More

(Reuters) - Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai called for NATO troops to leave Afghan villages and confine themselves to major bases after the slaughter of 16 civilians by a U.S. soldier, underscoring fury over the massacre and clouding U.S. exit plans. U.S. moves massacre soldier to Kuwait; Afghans furious... ... Read More

(Reuters) - U.S. helicopters fired flares to disperse hundreds of angry Afghans who massed outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday after hearing staff there had burned copies of the Koran. Afghans protest over Koran desecration at US base... ... Read More

The CIA’s RQ-170 “Sentinel” drone captured by the Iranians last week may have gone down in Afghanistan and then transported to Iran by friendly forces on the ground, a former officer in the elite Quds Force branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards told The Daily Caller. The United States has never acknowledged ... Read More

Disturbing footage of Apache attack helicopters killing people in Afghanistan is being shown to frontline British soldiers in "Kill TV nights" designed to boost morale, a television documentary will reveal. The discovery of the practice comes in the wake of the damning verdict of the Baha Mousa inquiry into the conduct ... Read More

Whether or not Obama wants to talk about it during his ongoing, indulgent pleas for Congress to pass his American Jobs Act, the US is looking towards spending upwards of $100 million on the construction of a prison in the city of Bagran, Afghanistan. A call-for-work posted on a federal ... Read More

U.S. troops are losing confidence in the military's long-term chances of success in Afghanistan, a new poll has revealed. The Military Times survey found less than half of serving soldiers believe the U.S. is 'very likely' or 'somewhat likely' to succeed in Afghanistan. The number is down from 2007, when more than ... Read More

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Afghan journalist was mistakenly killed by U.S. soldier, NATO investigation concludes. NATO has acknowledged that an Afghan journalist working for the BBCwas accidentally killed by a U.S. soldier who mistook him for a suicide bomber. In a statement released Thursday, NATO said the reporter was killed in a “case of mistaken identity” ... Read More

NATO's war on Libya is to drive the Chinese out of North Africa according to Paul Craig Roberts (ex Reagan official). Pakistan is already desperate to leave US influence, after Raymond Davis and more drones. Pakistan can offer China a land route to Iran and the Gulf - to secure ... Read More

A series of bombings have signaled the beginning of a spring offensive by the Afghan resistance forces, while inflicting the greatest single-day casualties on US-led occupation forces in nearly a year. Two separate attacks last Saturday claimed the lives of eight NATO soldiers, the deadliest day for the occupation since June ... Read More

Pak-US relations that apparently ran smoothly from September 2001 till 2005 developed hiccups in 2006 and ever since the relations have been uneasy. Award of civil nuclear deal together with inking of several defence contracts with India and its efforts to make India a key player in Afghanistan exposed US ... Read More

Last week Admiral Michael Mullen made rather blunt remarks in Islamabad that ISI’s continued links with the Haqqani network were at the core of Pakistan’s problematic relations with the United States. “The ISI has a rich history of how they operated in this part of the world, to protect their ... Read More

By Paul Craig Roberts 3-29-11 What does the world think? Obama has been using air strikes and drones against civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and probably Somalia. In his March 28 speech, Obama justified his air strikes against Libya on the grounds that the embattled ruler, Gadhafi, was using ... Read More

The clip presented here is excerpted from 'Motorcycle Kill,' a video collected and shared by members of the “kill team” of U.S. soldiers who murdered civilians in Afghanistan and mutilated the corpses. The jumpy, 30-minute video – shot by soldiers believed to be with another battalion in the 5th Stryker ... Read More

Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a momentous decision: It was finally time to kill a haji. NEW 'KILL TEAM' PHOTOS RELEASED... ... Read More

KABUL, Afghanistan – International bankers have pushed Afghan officials to sell Kabul Bank, but the nation's top banker said Sunday that no decision has been made about whether to dissolve the nation's largest financial institution, which nearly collapsed last year from mismanagement and questionable lending. IMF To Take Over Afghanistan Bank? ... Read More

By Stephen Lendman 3-26-11 In 1999, Nobel laureate Harold Pinter called America's bombing and dismemberment of Yugoslavia "barbaric (and despicable), another blatant and brutal assertion of US power using NATO as its missile (to consolidate) American domination of Europe." Against Iraq and Afghanistan it's to dominate Eurasia, and against Libya for greater regional ... Read More

Smiling as he leaned over the young man's body, and using one hand to present his bloodied face to the camera, Corporal Jeremy Morlock celebrated the murder of an innocent Afghan civilian as if he had just bagged a magisterial moose from the wilds of his native Alaska. 'I Lost ... Read More

Jeremy Morlock "The plan was to kill people, sir," he told an army judge in Fort Lea, near Seattle, after his plea. US 'kill team' soldier who murdered unarmed Afghans escapes life sentence ... Read More

KABUL, Afghanistan — Nine boys collecting firewood to heat their homes in the eastern Afghanistan mountains were killed by NATO helicopter gunners who mistook them for insurgents, according to a statement on Wednesday by NATO, which apologized for the mistake. Petraeus Apologizes for Deaths of 9 Afghan Boys... ... Read More

By Saeed Shah | McClatchy Newspapers CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — The U.S. military is applying an ancient Chinese healing technique to the top modern battlefield injury for American soldiers, with results that doctors here say are "off the charts." "Battlefield acupuncture," developed by Air Force physician Col. Richard Niemtzow, is helping heal ... Read More

ONEONTA, N.Y. -- A producer of a documentary alleging conspiracy theories behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been arrested on drug charges in upstate New York. Oneonta police tell the Daily Star of Oneonta that 27-year-old Korey Rowe and a 19-year-old Bronx man were arrested after selling packets of heroin ... Read More

By Brig Asif Haroon Raja War on terror has entered tenth year but the US is still clueless when and how it will terminate the war. One of the reasons for its lack of progress is that in its given set of priorities, Afghanistan was accorded lower priority since it was ... Read More

The package arrived at Cindy Lohman’s home in Great Mills, Maryland, just two weeks after she learned that her son, Ryan, a 24-year-old Army sergeant, had been killed by a bomb in Afghanistan. It was a thick, 9-inch-by- 12-inch envelope from Prudential Financial Inc., which handles life insurance for the ... Read More

Fifty years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned United States citizens against the military industrial complex but it seems that warning was not taken to heart. Author Russ Baker says fifty years later, it is much worse than what Eisenhower warned against, it keeps us in a state of low ... Read More

India, a rising power, almost had one (but the Tajiks said no).  China, which last year became the world’s second largest economy as well as the planet’s leading energy consumer, and is expanding abroad like mad (largely via trade and the power of the purse), still has none.  The Russians have a few (in ... Read More

By Andrew Buncombe in Washington Sunday, 25 September 2005 US forces have fired so many bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan - an estimated 250,000 for every insurgent killed - that American ammunition-makers cannot keep up with demand. As a result the US is having to import supplies from Israel. A government report says ... Read More

By C. J. CHIVERS Published: January 7, 2011 KHAKREZ DISTRICT, Afghanistan — Intensified fighting and a larger troop presence in Afghanistan in 2010 led to the highest American combat casualties yet in the war, as the number of troops wounded by bullets, shrapnel and bombs approached that of the bloodiest periods of ... Read More

By Air Commodore® Khalid Iqbal It is not an active fighting season in Afghanistan. Holiday season and the cold weather have brought some compulsory rest for the field combatants. Now the fighting would pickup to its tempo somewhere in the spring. From then on, there won’t be much time for the ... Read More

U.S. and Afghan soldiers prepared for patrol in Kandahar province on Wednesday. WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decided to send an additional 1,400 Marine combat forces to Afghanistan, officials said, in a surprise move ahead of the spring fighting season to try to cement tentative security gains before White House-mandated troop ... Read More

This past weekend, the whistle blowing website WikiLeaks released thousands more Department of Defense confidential articles that could damage US foreign relations. However, Israel benefited from the release because many of the Arab nations said they view Iran as a threat. ... Read More

At the close of World War II, the U.S. was home to 50% of the world's productive power. That economic strength assured America's dominant financial position for at least two decades. That strength included the ability to issue the world's top-rated bonds. Look at us now. The financial cost to the U.S. ... Read More

By: Sara A. Carter 12/06/10 More than 500 suspected Taliban fighters detained by U.S. forces have been released from custody at the urging of Afghan government officials, angering both American troops and some Afghans who oppose the policy on the grounds that many ... Read More

By General Mirza Aslam Beg The Wikileaks revelations confirm the obvious, more than what it informs us about the darker corners of ‘US diplomacy, cloaked in securitocracy.’ In fact, it is Cyber War, in the new game of psy-warfare, targeting individuals and countries, to cover-up the shame of defeat of war ... Read More

These men are over there dying for nothing.  They over there getting all fucked up over a bunch of LIES. It's insane because EVERYBODY knows they are there based on lies. Damn. When I say shĭt-iz-tōt’l-ē-fŭkd-up........... A gunman in an Afghan police uniform has killed six US service members in ... Read More

When I say shĭt-iz-tōt’l-ē-fŭkd-up........... The always-loquacious vice president had a colorful message for the Afghans regarding the timeline for transferring security by 2014, a plan that will be outlined here at the NATO summit in Lisbon. “Daddy is going to start to take the training wheels off in October -- I ... Read More

When I say shĭt-iz-tōt’l-ē-fŭkd-up........... As a stray on the war-ravaged streets of Afghanistan, she had been shot by the Taliban and blasted by explosives. In fact, the plucky German Shepherd mix cheated death so often that U.S. soldiers named her Target. She had even become a life-saving hero by sniffing out ... Read More

When I say shĭt-iz-tōt’l-ē-fŭkd-up............. WASHINGTON -- Today is Veterans Day. Do you know where your president is? With his feeble flame of "hope" thoroughly doused here in the United States by last week's elections, President Obama has set out around the globe in search of throngs still enthralled by his flowery rhetoric. He ... Read More

When I say shĭt-iz-tōt’l-ē-fŭkd-up..... U.S. Commander: U.S. Will Be Fighting in Afghanistan in 2014 (CNSNews.com) – U.S. Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, the commander of the NATO training mission in Afghanistan, indicated Tuesday that U.S. forces will still be fighting in Afghanistan in 2014. He said current plans aim to have "Afghan security forces in ... Read More

US to spend 500 million dollars on embassy in Afghanistan --Embassy expansion contract worth 511 million dollars awarded to US company, Caddell Construction Inc. 03 Nov 2010 The United States is bolstering its presence in Afghanistan with a 500 million dollar expansion of its Kabul embassy and the construction of ... Read More

Troops chafe at restrictive rules of engagement, talks with Taliban By: Sara A. Carter National Security Correspondent October 19, 2010 KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN -- To the U.S. Army soldiers and Marines serving here, some things seem so obviously true that they are beyond debate. Among those perceived ... Read More

Press TV Oct 18, 2010 As the whistleblower website WikiLeaks plans to release 400,000 more classified documents on the US war in Iraq, an activist says Washington fears that the truth may eventually see the light of day. The Pentagon has set up a 120-person taskforce to go through the documents and determine ... Read More

The War On Terror By Paul Craig Roberts 10-15-10 Does anyone remember the "cakewalk war" that would last six weeks, cost $50-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil revenues? Does anyone remember that White House economist Lawrence Lindsey was fired by Dubya because Lindsey estimated that the Iraq war could cost ... Read More

THE Taliban have ''overwhelmed'' foreign troops and cannot be defeated by military means, one of Australia's top combat soldiers has warned. Brigadier Mark Smethurst says securing Afghanistan could take decades, but success is uncertain without a fundamental change in strategy. His critical assessment comes in a report that contrasts sharply with federal ... Read More

By ROBERT KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer KABUL, Afghanistan – An outbreak of a tropical disease caused by sand fly bites that leaves disfiguring skin sores has hit Afghanistan, with tens of thousands of people infected, health officials said Friday. Cutaneous leishmanisis is a parasitic disease transmitted by the female phlebotomine sand fly ... Read More

Tragic: Aid worker Linda Norgrove had worked in South America and the Far East before Afghanistan Soldier faces disciplinary action after failing to reveal grenade was used Troops did not spot hostage even though they had night-vision goggles U.S. commanders watched the horror unfold on big screens at mission HQ Miss Norgrove's body arrives ... Read More

Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan and the American strategy for Eurasia and the world ... Read More

Not content with a Jewish State in Palestine. Most Zionists have ignored that every Arab country would accept an Israel within the 1967 borders, and a shared Jerusalem. Instead Zionists have become a war apparatus with their eyes on the whole world. This video concentrates on the devastation in Iraq, ... Read More

The U.S. armed services are issuing internal messages to all personnel barring them from visiting the WikiLeaks website, which recently posted 77,000 classified diplomatic and military messages on the long war in Afghanistan. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman confirmed Thursday for The Washington Times that all four services "have put out such ... Read More

By Terrell E. Arnold 8-6-10 The arrival of General David Petraeus in command of forces in Afghanistan was accompanied by a fundamental change in strategy. The counterinsurgency, COIN for short, is now passé. Instead of trying to counter what the insurgents do and get them to change their habits, our goal is ... Read More

The Obama administration has awarded $220m (£146m) in new contracts to the military contractor formerly known as Blackwater to provide security in Afghanistan. This is despite accusations against the company of murder and indiscriminate killings of civilians in Iraq and investigations into alleged corruption and sanctions busting. The contracts have drawn ... Read More

“McCHRYSTAL AND OBAMA FAILED FROM THE START to connect,” reports Rolling Stone’s interview with the Afghan military chief, “The Runaway General.” McChrystal first encountered Obama a week after he took office in 2008 when the president met with senior military officials in a room at the Pentagon known as ... Read More

The elusive founder of WikiLeaks, who is at the centre of a potential US national security sensation, has surfaced from almost a month in hiding to tell the Guardian he does not fear for his safety but is on permanent alert. Julian Assange, a renowned Australian hacker who founded the electronic ... Read More

One by one, Congress takes its shots at BP Boss, its just some side show drama but while theyre at it they should also stick on the stand the 'buck stops here' man with the plan Obama EU set to approve new sanctions on Iran as Jobless claims for the second week ... Read More

The U.S. mission in Afghanistan centers around swaying locals to its side. And there’s no better persuasion tool than an invisible pain ray that makes people feel like they’re on fire. OK, OK. Maybe that isn’t precisely the logic being employed by those segments of the American military who would like ... Read More

Julian Assange, who the Feds fear may release State Dept. secrets, denies having them—but he’s readying video of a deadly U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan. After several days underground, the founder of the secretive website WikiLeaks has gone public to disclose that he is preparing to release a classified Pentagon video of ... Read More

By Stephanie Nebehay Stephanie Nebehay – Wed Jun 2 GENEVA (Reuters) – A United Nations investigator called Wednesday for a halt to CIA-directed drone strikes on suspected Islamic militants, warning that killings ordered far from the battlefield could lead to ... Read More

WARS: US Prepares for Largest Battle in Afghanistan NKorea bracing, severing all ties with South New Chinese aggression Israel drill raises tensions ... Read More

American forces in Afghanistan have surpassed those in Iraq for the first time since Saddam Hussein was ousted as the struggle against the Taliban-led insurgency intensifies. Ben Farmer in Kabul 25 May 2010 Troops are continuing to flood into Afghanistan as part of Barack Obama's ... Read More

Cash, not casualties, could be the factor that finally forces a scaling down of military commitment By Jonathan Owen British soldiers in Afghanistan are "horribly over-extended" and being killed for "no good reason", a senior military figure admitted last night. He said talks are now under way with US commanders that would ... Read More

Thu May 20 KABUL (Reuters) – The United States has launched an investigation into allegations that a number of American soldiers were responsible for the "unlawful deaths" of at least three Afghan civilians, the U.S. military said on Thursday. "There are also allegations of illegal drug use, assault and conspiracy," the military said in ... Read More

By JAMES DAO and ANDREW W. LEHREN Published: May 18, 2010 He was an irreverent teenager with a pregnant girlfriend when the idea first crossed his mind: Join the Army, raise a family. She had an abortion, but the idea remained. Patrick S. Fitzgibbon, Saint Paddy to his friends, became Private Fitzgibbon. ... Read More

By MARK MAZZETTI Published: May 15, 2010 // Gen. David D. McKiernan was replaced last May as the top commander in Afghanistan. Earlier this year, government officials admitted that the military had sent a group of former Central Intelligence Agency officers and retired Special Operations troops into the region to collect information — ... Read More