Afghanistan

Local citizens fill out questionnaires in Afghanistan. Photo courtesy of ABC News. ABC News, BBC and ARD have just published poll results showing a dramatic decrease in Afghans’ support for US [...]

Blackwater Chief Executive Officer Erik Prince defends his company’s performance in Iraq before the House oversight committee in 2007. (Associated Press.) In the same room where the famous [...]

Wounded Afghan woman Safia (C), 27, lies on a bed at a hospital in the western Afghan city of Herat, on August 25, 2008 after she was allegedly injured in US-led air strikes in Azizabad village [...]

AP – Pakistani tribesmen stand beside coffins of the victims of a suspected U.S. missile strike in Zharki Pakistani reaction to US drone attacks in Pakistan grew this week with the [...]

President Obama made his first personal foray into world diplomacy this week and he didn’t even have to leave the White House. On Monday he gave his first formal interview since being sworn in to [...]

On September 20th, 2001, in a speech to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush declared the beginning of a “Global War on Terror.” The speech was followed by the invasion of [...]

A letter to President-Elect Obama From Orzala Ashraf Orzala Ashraf Nemat is currently a Yale World Fellow. She began her career in helping journalists and foreign aid visitors to refugee during [...]

Those who died in Iraq from Dec 21 to 27: Cpl Robert Johnson  21  Central Point OR Cpl Thomas Reilly Jr 19  London KY Spc Stephen Zapasnik  19  Broken Arrow OK Spc Stephen Okray  21  St Clair [...]

Those who died in Iraq from Nov 23 to 29: Ltn William Jernigan  35  Doraville GA Sgt Anthony Davis 43  Triangle VA Cap Frank Warren 26  Cincinnati OH 13 wounded were returned to occupation. 165 [...]

By:  Peter Deccy The politicians and pundits agree! Let’s move the quagmire from Iraq to Afghanistan! After all, Afghanistan is the good war, right? Not the one we were led into with lies [...]