WASHINGTON -- The U.S. soldier who allegedly attacked and killed 16 Afghan civilians Sunday may have experienced a relatively rare state of mental der...
AP | HEIDI VOGT and MIRWAIS KHAN | Posted 05.12.2012
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, most of them children, and burning their bodies was trained as a sni...
The New Yorker | Amy Davidson | Posted 05.25.2011
Ten boys went out to gather firewood in a valley in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Only one came home; his name is Hemad, and this is what he had to say, as ...
The Wall Street Journal | DION NISSENBAUM | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL--U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, the coalition's commander in Afghanistan, issued a rare apology Wednesday for a helicopter strike that killed nine ch...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- At least 2,421 civilians were killed in Afghanistan last year, a record high since the U.S. invasion in 2001, according to a new report....
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011
It's a valuable lesson we're being taught by the administration: 15-year-olds may be treated as adults when they misbehave if those pretending to be adults believe that is appropriate punishment.
AP | GEORGE TIBBITS | Posted 05.25.2011
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Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011
"Afghan lawmaker says relative killed after U.S. soldiers raided her home." After nine years in which such headlines have appeared with unceasing regularity, I could have written the rest of it myself while on vacation.
Sarah Holewinski | Posted 05.25.2011
No matter his diplomatic wrongs, there is one piece of him we need to keep in Afghanistan: his emphasis on civilian protection.
rethinkafghanistan.com | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. and allied forces storm an Afghan family's home. They kill civilians. They lie about it. The public affairs officer denies it. Outraged community...
Erica Gaston | Posted 05.25.2011
A UN report concludes that insurgents killed three times as many Afghanis as the international forces did in 2009. Yet protesters in Jalalabad last week chanted "Death to America," not "Death to the Taliban." Why?
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL — Civilian deaths in the escalating Afghan war soared by 24 percent during the first half of 2009 compared with the same period last year,...
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — American troops made substantial errors and did not strictly follow rules for avoiding casualties during an air assault on Taliban ...
Quqnoos | Posted 05.25.2011
At least six civilians were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a civilian vehicle in Bagram on Tuesday, officials said. The civilians, including t...
AP | AMIR SHAH and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL — Human Rights Watch accused the U.S. military of not doing enough to reduce civilian casualties during battles in Afghanistan and called ...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
A government commission concluded that 140 civilians died, more than twice the figure cited by the United States....
Associated Press | Fisnik Abrashi | Posted 05.25.2011
By Fisnik Abrashi, Associated Press The US military says reports that as many as 147 civilians died in fighting involving American forces and the Tal...
AP | RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL — Sobbing relatives showed U.S. and Afghan investigators the demolished buildings and graves in two western villages where a local officia...
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL — Villagers dug dirt graves Wednesday to bury what the international Red Cross said were dozens of Afghans _ including women and children ...
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration took on high-stakes diplomacy with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan Wednesday, seeking more coopera...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Flanked by the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, President Barack Obama expressed deep U.S. regret Wednesday for civilian casual...
GlobalPost.com | Jean MacKenzie | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL -- One week after the world hailed his inauguration, Barack Obama has undertaken an unprecedented charm offensive towards the Muslim world. B...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 03.12.2012