Ending the War in Afghanistan

08/31/2021

Finally!

The longest war in U.S. history has come to an end with the departure of the last American military flight out of Afghanistan almost 20 years after troops first arrived in the country.

04/30/2013

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/this-yemeni-man-loves-america-hates-al-qaeda-and-says-drone-strikes-make-them-stronger/275248/

He described the time a Hellfire missile hit his home village in testimony before a U.S. Senate committee.

04/29/2013

Millions of dollars have flowed from the Central Intelligence Agency to the office of President Hamid Karzai, but there’s little evidence that the payments bought the influence the agency sought.

04/23/2013

TALUQAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - As many as 74 schoolgirls in Afghanistan's far north fell sick after smelling gas and were being examined for possible poisoning, local officials said on Sunday.While

04/23/2013

This disgusts me.

The Army Has Issued Anti-Suicide Nasal Spray.
Aug. 18, 2012, 1:50 AM


The military su***de rate doubled in July. That's one of our troops, almost every day.
To come up with an answer, the Army recently gave 3 million dollars to a university of Indiana research center, and those researchers came back with this: Anti-Suicide Nasal Spray.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/su***de-rates-double-in-july-army-issues-nasal-spray-2012-8


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04/22/2013

An incident of Taliban forces killing six Afghan Local Police (ALP) has been chalked up to an insider attack according to officials, who say that one of the other ALP let the Taliban into the base as the others slept, then joined them.

04/16/2013

At least 30 members of an Afghan wedding party were killed and many more wounded when a U.S. plane bombed a village in the central province of Uruzgan today, Afghan officials and residents said

04/13/2013

Glenn Greenwald: The axiom that political officials abuse their power and lie to the public when operating in the dark is proven yet again

04/10/2013

KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO says two international service members have been killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan.

04/07/2013

A NATO airstrike has killed at least 10 children in the East of Afghanistan, report local officials.

04/07/2013

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three U.S. soldiers and a young diplomat, on Saturday, while an American civilian died in a separate attack in the east.The

04/06/2013

At age 13, Farzana Wahidy was beaten in the street for not wearing a burqa. To have carried a camera then would have been unthinkable. But she went on to become a pioneering photographer and, after working and studying abroad, returned to Afghanistan to "show the bigger image, not just show we have…