Over the past several days, protests in Afghanistan reportedly stemming from threats to burn copies of the Koran in the US have…
Coverage of Afghanistan’s burgeoning anti-war movement is sadly quite scarce, though we have seen in this space some of the more interesting…
Longtime readers of this blog may remember that a couple of years ago, I was regularly running long compilations of civilian deaths…
On Monday, as most readers are probably aware, WikiLeaks released an enormous trove of US military reports from Afghanistan. First, the local…
With Obama’s troop surge now half a year old, we can begin to see its effects on the Afghan Taliban. A couple…
One American soldier based out of Fort Lewis in Washington state has been arrested while others are under investigation for the alleged…
One of the frequently recurring themes of this blog has been the unreported current of Afghan public opinion which sees the NATO/US…
As the nearly nine-year war in Afghanistan has progressed, it has undergone a sometimes shifting development. In previous years, we saw a…
The New York Times’ Dexter Filkins relates a glimpse of the sanitized butchery in the State-side control rooms for the drone war.…
The recent Taliban-claimed attack in Kabul that claimed the life of a Canadian Forces colonel, and which the National Post says marks…
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