Afghanistan

KABUL – With the Taliban geared for their biggest push of the year to take control of southern Afghanistan, district by district, coupled with suicide attacks in the cities, Western intelligence believes that the killing of Mullah Dadullah was a big mistake.

As of Tuesday, June 19, 2007, at least 337 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures June 19, 2007.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Goodwill toward foreign forces is eroding across Afghanistan because airstrikes and botched raids by U.S. and NATO troops have killed at least 230 civilians this year, an umbrella group for aid agencies said Tuesday.

Investigate Abuses at Three Detention Centers (London, June 19, 2007) – Iran should immediately halt the mass deportations of Afghan nationals and investigate allegations that its authorities have abused numerous deportees, Human Rights Watch said today.

The conduct of secret nuclear wars since 1991, through the use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States and Great Britain with their allies, has taken place in the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan2 and Lebanon.3 It has been carried out for the express purpose of destroying the …

At least seven Afghan children have been killed in a US air strike in eastern Afghanistan in the latest civilian deaths from the invaders’ troops. “Early reporting has that seven children at the madrassah died as a result of the strike,” the US occupants and invaders said.

Khaled Hosseini focuses on Afghan women’s struggles in Kite Runner follow-up.For a painfully shy fiction writer who insists he has no political agenda, Khaled Hosseini learned the power of international celebrity — and his own voice — in a hurry. Just before he became a best-selling author, the San Jose-area …

The queues of refugees start to pour over the border from first thing in the morning – as they have been doing for the last month.

KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S.-led coalition jets bombed a compound suspected of housing al-Qaida militants in eastern Afghanistan, killing seven children and several militants, a coalition statement said Monday.

KABUL, Afghanistan – NATO has an image problem in Afghanistan — and a U.S. soldier who fired a Humvee’s machine gun into a crowd of civilians after a deadly suicide bombing Saturday shows why.