Afghanistan & Pakistan
For More Than Ten Years the Richest Country in the World Has Been "At War" With the Poorest Country in the World
Find out more about covert drone warfare and the unjust, immoral occupation of Afghanistan:
Obama and Petraeus: “Preparing the Battlefield” in Pakistan
- Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
By Chris Floyd
First, of course, there will be the usual push to make the Pakistani military kill massive amounts of their own people. This will, as always, inflame the situation, exacerbate extremism and violent reaction, thus nicely setting the stage for American troops to step in -- oh, as a last resort, of course! -- and take control of the "deteriorating situation."
Red Cross: Civilian Toll Soars in Southern Afghanistan
- Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
By Jason Ditz
U.S. in Pakistan: First Kill, then ‘Apologize’
- Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
By Jason Ditz
Uncertainty over US plans as war enters 10th year
- Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
AP Report on the anniversary of the longest war in US history:
It's make-or-break time in Afghanistan.
The war enters its 10th year Thursday, and this is no ordinary anniversary.
With extra American troops now in place, this is the critical juncture to determine if President Barack Obama's revised war stategy will work and reverse Taliban momentum.
Eight Germans Reported Killed in US Drone Strike
- Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
By Jason Ditz
Obama Unleashes Bombing Blitzkrieg on Pakistan’s Border
- Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
By Chris Floyd
While Barack Obama busies himself in public with hectoring his "base" for not appreciating the super-progressive wonderfulness of his administration, behind the scenes he is rapidly escalating America's war on its own ally, Pakistan, with a series of deadly incursions that seemed designed to provoke the Pakistanis into a violent response -- which could then be used to "justify" a further escalation.
US Helicopters Attack Pakistan, Killing More Than 50
- Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
by Jason Ditz
Murderers, Cowards, Morons and Thieves: Portrait of an Empire in a Political Season
- Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
By Chris Floyd
Jason Ditz at Antiwar.com continues his lonely vigil of documenting the carnage being inflicted upon civilians in Pakistan by the increasingly frenzied drone missile attacks ordered by the Peace Laureate in the White House.
US Drone Strikes Kill 15 in N. Waziristan
- Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
by Juan Cole
Children Among 24 Killed as US Drone Strikes Rock Pakistan
- Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
By Jason Ditz
Manhunters, Inc.: The Secret Killers
- Category: Afghanistan & Pakistan
Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373