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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is being depicted in the media as an obstinate spoiler who is sabotaging America’s plans for a decade or more of continued U.S. military occupation of Afghanistan by refusing to sign a status of forces agreement (SOFA) g
When I read this Washington Post article about the two-year-old child that U.S. forces just killed in Afghanistan, I wondered what the child’s name was.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry suggested on Tuesday that Afghanistan's defense minister or government, instead of a reluctant President Hamid Karzai, could sign a security pact enabling some U.S. troops to stay in the country after 2014.
Residents of a village in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province say a Sept. 7 attack killed 14 civilians, most of them their relatives. The U.S. says 11 were killed, mostly Taliban fighters.
After 12 years of occupation by U.S. military forces, Afghanistan set a record for growing opium poppies in 2013, according to newly released data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan on Friday vowed to investigate an airstrike that President Hamid Karzai said killed a two-year-old boy, as acrimony deepens over a deal to allow US troops to stay in the country after 2014.
Rice Warns Karzai: Waiting for Election 'Not Viable'
Karzai told National Security Advisor Rice the US must put an immediate end to military raids on Afghan homes and demonstrate its commitment to peace talks before he would sign..."Without a prompt signature, the US would have no choice
Early Friday Afghan President Hamid Karzai declined to sign a Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the United States before the end of year.
Afghanistan's president rebuffed American demands he sign a security pact allowing US forces to stay in the country for another decade, while the US defense secretary warns planning for a post-2014 military presence may be jeopardized
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Draft of post-2014 deal, published by Afghan foreign ministry, says US troops will be immune from Afghan prosecution.
Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Wednesday that the United States and Afghanistan had finalized the wording of a bilateral security agreement that would allow for a lasting American troop presence through 2024 and set the stage for billions
The US will maintain exclusive legal jurisdiction over American soldiers and contractors in Afghanistan after 2014 as part of a draft US-Afghan security pact, congressional aides said, providing details of an agreement that entails key concessions fo
Surge Marks Setback to International Efforts to Combat Drug Trade
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Last week, Matthieu Aikins at Rolling Stone shed light on evidence that U.S. forces committed war crimes against Afghans, including extra-judicial executions, torture, and disappearances of at least 17 men.
Since it was announced last month that Pakistan’s army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, would be retiring, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has kept the country dangling on his choice, creating a new parlor game for the chattering classes in the process.
A growing number of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside American troops are being denied U.S. visas allotted by Congress because the State Department says there is no serious threat against their lives. But the interpreters, many of whom serv
“People are already being detained, people are already being kept in internment camps, people are already involuntarily disappeared. The only thing they want to do with this is give even more special powers to security forces to detain.”
Recently, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced that they had agreed on key provisions of a security arrangement that could allow some American forces in Afghanistan to remain after the NATO combat mission end
"He sent some of his comrades on leave and paid others to go out sightseeing, and then escaped with up to 30 guns, night-vision goggles, binoculars and a Humvee," said the governor of Kunar.
Over the last week, I have had the opportunity to read two articles – "The Forgotten War" by Ann Jones and "Afghanistan War Must End Immediately" by Iraq veteran Jayel Aheram – that accurately describe the tragic waste of American lives and money in
Governor Was Delivering Speech at Key Logar Mosque
An Afghan man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot at US soldiers in Afghanistan, killing at least one serviceman. The so-called "insider attack" in Paktika province is the fourth in less than a month
A bomb killed four U.S. soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, American and Afghan officials said. They were the latest casualties in a 12-year conflict that shows no signs of slowing down despite a drawdown in foreign forces.
Afghanistan's NATO force has launched an investigation into an attack by a drone aircraft on an al Qaeda member which a senior Afghan official said killed eight women and children.
Taliban militants unleashed car bombs at the US Consulate in western Afghanistan, triggering a firefight with security forces in an attack that killed at least two Afghans. All US personnel were safe and US forces later secured the site.
Our personnel were left in harm’s way, even as the country’s president called us “demons”, our allies denied basic rights to woman and religious minorities, and polls showed intense anti-American sentiments. Hundreds of billions were spent to provide
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) Homeland Security Project (HSP) has released a new report reviewing the tactics of Al-Qaeda .....
