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WSWS : News & Analysis : Asia
 
Afghanistan

     

26 June 2008
US/NATO crisis in Afghanistan generates greater pressure on Pakistan

17 June 2008
Afghan president threatens Pakistan: Warnings of a wider war

16 June 2008
Afghanistan: Mass prison break underscores crisis of US-backed regime

14 June 2008
Another grim milestone of UK fatalities in Afghanistan

3 June 2008
US offensive displaces thousands of civilians in Afghanistan

20 May 2008
The New York Times and Washington's new prison in Afghanistan

Over 500 juveniles held by US in Iraq and Afghanistan

19 May 2008
CIA death squads killing with "impunity" in Afghanistan

7 May 2008
Fighting intensifies across Afghanistan

29 April 2008
Anti-Karzai attack in Kabul shakes US puppet government

18 April 2008
"Big Boy" Canada demands changes in Afghan government

15 March 2008
After severe winter, floods threaten Afghanistan and Central Asia

14 March 2008
Afghan medical workers' strike called off

12 March 2008
France considers sending more troops to Afghanistan

6 March 2008
Canada: Liberals and Conservatives join forces to extend intervention in Afghan war

23 February 2008
Attacks announce insurgent "spring offensive" in Afghanistan

13 February 2008
NATO security conference: US demands more European troops in Afghanistan

9 February 2008
Rice and Miliband visit Afghanistan as US demands more European troops

6 February 2008
Joschka Fischer demands German combat troops be sent to southern Afghanistan

5 February 2008
Ahead of NATO meeting: New US reports warn of failure in Afghanistan

29 January 2008
British plans to arm Afghan militias reignite tensions with US

24 January 2008
PSG candidate demands immediate withdrawal of German army from Afghanistan

19 January 2008
Bush orders "mini-surge" of US troops to Afghanistan

9 January 2008
US illegally detains more Afghans than ever at Bagram military base

2 January 2008
French President Sarkozy visits Afghanistan

28 December 2007
The reality behind Britain's claims of military success in Iraq and Afghanistan

27 December 2007
US prepares to increase occupation forces in Afghanistan

19 December 2007
Reports document deepening social catastrophe in Afghanistan

13 December 2007
Recapture of Afghan town highlights crisis of US, NATO occupation

1 December 2007
Labor expected to send more troops as Australian casualties grow in Afghanistan

30 November 2007
UN report into worst Afghan atrocity implicates security forces

29 November 2007
US bombing kills 14 construction workers in Afghanistan

8 October 2007
Afghanistan: reports of record year for opium yield

20 September 2007
Report shows Afghanistan mired in corruption

29 August 2007
Britain acquires thermobaric weapons for Afghanistan

27 August 2007
Three British soldiers killed by US friendly fire in Afghanistan

25 August 2007
British Army facing worsening situation in Afghanistan

22 August 2007
New York Times calls for escalation of the "good war" in Afghanistan

14 August 2007
Afghanistan: mounting attacks on US/NATO troops

10 July 2007
Reports indicate over 150 civilians killed in Afghanistan during past week

6 July 2007
Six more Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan

4 July 2007
The "Canadian Ministers" of Hamid Karzai's Afghan government

3 July 2007
US airstrike leaves over 100 dead in Afghanistan

23 June 2007
At least 25 Afghan civilians killed in US bomb attack

19 June 2007
US missile strike kills seven children in Afghanistan

15 June 2007
Critic of warlords murdered in Afghanistan

30 May 2007
Afghanistan: war crimes amnesty prepares further atrocities

More civilians killed by US/NATO forces as fighting intensifies in Afghanistan

24 May 2007
Three German soldiers killed in Afghanistan Grand coalition pushes ahead with military deployment

19 May 2007
US demands lead to border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan

11 May 2007
Afghanistan: 40 civilians killed in US strike

5 May 2007
US massacres of civilians spark protests in Afghanistan

1 May 2007
NATO troops launch new offensives in Afghanistan

27 April 2007
Reports confirm Canada's complicity in Afghan state torture

19 April 2007
Australia dispatches more troops for phoney "war on terror" in Afghanistan

23 March 2007
Canadian abuse of Afghan POWs
Harper smears his critics as pro-Taliban

15 March 2007
Germany to deploy Tornado jet fighters to Afghanistan

5 March 2007
Highway massacre sparks anti-US protests in Afghanistan

1 March 2007
Cheney huddles with Musharraf and Karzai
US faces mounting crisis in Afghanistan

16 February 2007
Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment--Part three

Canada's Afghan intervention—three probes launched into prisoner abuse

15 February 2007
Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment--Part two

14 February 2007
Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment--Part one

19 November 2006
UK troops rampage through Kandahar

14 November 2006
The quagmire deepens in Afghanistan

1 November 2006
NATO forces carry out massacre of Afghan civilians

31 October 2006
The bitter price of militarism: US casualties mount in Iraq and Afghanistan

20 October 2006
NATO continues slaughter of civilians in Afghanistan

16 October 2006
NATO warns Pakistan's Musharraf to end covert support for Taliban

30 September 2006
Behind the rift between the Afghan and Pakistani presidents

26 September 2006
British military in crisis as NATO mission in Afghanistan unravels

16 September 2006
Mounting casualties compel Canada to send Afghanistan reinforcements

15 September 2006
European powers refuse to send more troops to Afghanistan

11 September 2006
NATO in disarray over military crisis in Afghanistan

30 August 2006
Alarm in Washington over deepening disaster in Afghanistan

8 August 2006
Death toll rises as NATO expands operations in Afghanistan

18 July 2006
UK sends more troops to southern Afghanistan as fighting escalates

3 July 2006
US-led offensive in southern Afghanistan kills hundreds

31 May 2006
Mass rioting reveals depth of Afghan opposition to US occupation

25 May 2006
US military massacres 80 villagers in Afghanistan

13 May 2006
NATO troops deploy to suppress growing resistance in Afghanistan

10 February 2006
Afghanistan: anti-Muslim cartoons provide focus for hostility to US-led occupation

16 January 2006
US bombing in northern Pakistan: an act of imperialist recklessness

22 October 2005
US soldiers caught on film desecrating bodies of Afghans

20 September 2005
Afghanistan election: a mockery of democracy

15 September 2005
Germany expands army presence in Afghanistan

29 August 2005
US pushes military build-up in Afghanistan as armed resistance escalates

30 July 2005
Russia and China call for closure of US bases in Central Asia

28 July 2005
Afghans besiege US base to protest arrests

23 July 2005
US military exonerated torturers of John Walker Lindh

19 July 2005
Australian government sends troops back to Afghanistan

8 July 2005
US military reprisal in Afghanistan kills 17 civilians

4 July 2005
Helicopter downing highlights upsurge in Afghan armed resistance

23 June 2005
Increasing attacks on US and allies in Afghanistan

3 June 2005
New evidence confirms killing of Afghan villagers by Australian soldiers

24 May 2005
Afghan president feigns outrage over latest US torture revelations

15 April 2005
Rumsfeld pushes for permanent US bases in Afghanistan

2 March 2005
Report documents poverty and social misery in Afghanistan

9 December 2004
US war criminals hail new puppet regime in Afghanistan

12 October 2004
Afghanistan election descends into farce

2 October 2004
Afghanistan's presidential election: a mockery of democracy

28 August 2004
US torturers in Afghanistan were redeployed to Iraq

4 August 2004
The US prepares another democratic charade in Afghanistan

26 May 2004
Furore over torture in Iraq prompts new revelations of US abuse in Afghanistan

7 May 2004
Following closed door trial:
Karzai orders first state execution in Afghanistan

12 April 2004
An attempt to portray the Afghanistan disaster as a success

23 March 2004
US-backed military offensive in Pakistan costs scores of lives

10 March 2004
Report details abuse, torture of prisoners by US forces in Afghanistan

1 March 2004
US launches huge military operation to capture bin Laden

31 January 2004
Rising death toll undermines the White House's rosy picture of Afghanistan

20 January 2004
US forces kill 11 more civilians in Afghanistan

8 January 2004
US-imposed "democracy" in Afghanistan
Loya jirga rubber-stamps autocratic regime

18 December 2003
Afghanistan's loya jirga convened to rubber-stamp an anti-democratic constitution

13 December 2003
US military kills six Afghan children in new atrocity

10 December 2003
Rumsfeld in Mazar-i-Sharif
A war criminal visits the scene of the crime

8 December 2003
US air strike kills nine children in Afghanistan

27 November 2003
Afghanistan: escalating opposition to the US occupation

4 September 2003
German government sends more troops to Afghanistan

30 August 2003
Canada takes leading role in Afghan occupation

29 August 2003
US launches military offensive to crush growing Afghan opposition

2 August 2003
Afghanistan: Report documents violence and repression by US-backed warlords

2 July 2003
Another detainee dies in US custody in Afghanistan

25 June 2003
WSWS interview: Father protests indefinite detention of son at Guantanamo Bay

19 June 2003
Four German soldiers killed in Kabul attack
Victims of Social Democratic/Green government policies

8 May 2003
Anti-US protest reveals depth of Afghanistan's social and political crisis

12 April 2003
US military kills 11 civilians in ongoing war in Afghanistan

19 March 2003
Continuing civilian deaths in US operations in Afghanistan

17 March 2003
In German TV documentary:
Afghan officials confirm US role in massacre of Taliban prisoners

10 March 2003
US tortures two detainees to death in Afghanistan

8 March 2003
Afghan President Karzai back in Washington--and few take notice

12 February 2003
Afghan Massacre--Convoy of Death available on video
Film exposing Pentagon war crimes premieres in US

31 January 2003
Signs of growing opposition:
US launches large military operation in southern Afghanistan

3 January 2003
New revelations about Guantanamo Bay prisoners

30 December 2002
New account of US torture of Afghan and Arab prisoners

21 December 2002
German TV airs documentary charging American war crimes in Afghanistan
US State Department denounces broadcast

11 December 2002
Detainee dies during US interrogation in Afghanistan

30 November 2002
A year after the fall of Kabul
Afghanistan mired in poverty, insecurity and despotic rule

14 November 2002
Afghan police shoot student protesters

21 September 2002
Oil and "conspiracy theories": a reply to a liberal apologist for the US war in Afghanistan
Part two

20 September 2002
Oil and "conspiracy theories": a reply to a liberal apologist for the US war in Afghanistan
Part one

18 September 2002
US military scapegoats pilots over "friendly fire" deaths in Afghanistan

12 September 2002
A blatant cover-up: US releases report on Afghan massacre

7 September 2002
Afghan puppet government shaken by twin attacks

4 September 2002
Newsweek exposé of war crimes in Afghanistan whitewashes US role

17 August 2002
CNN documentary on Mazar-i-Sharif prison revolt: film footage documents US war crimes

2 August 2002
Washington relies on a network of paid warlords in Afghanistan

1 August 2002
Evidence points to US cover-up of Afghan massacre

26 July 2002
Persecution of ethnic Pashtuns continues in northern Afghanistan

25 July 2002
Washington provides troops to protect its political puppet in Afghanistan

22 July 2002
Mounting anger over US atrocities in Afghanistan

9 July 2002
Another murky political intrigue
Afghan vice-president murdered in broad daylight

6 July 2002
Anti-US protest in Kabul: a sign of wider anger in Afghanistan

3 July 2002
US warplanes massacre villagers in central Afghanistan

1 July 2002
An unstable new administration undemocratically installed in Afghanistan

29 June 2002
Further evidence of a massacre of Taliban prisoners

24 June 2002
Afghanistan's loya jirga fails to provide even the illusion of democracy

17 June 2002
Afghan war documentary charges US with mass killings of POWs
Showings in Europe spark demands for war crimes probe

Interview with Jamie Doran, director of Massacre at Mazar

15 June 2002
US bullying and threats at Afghanistan's loya jirga

6 June 2002
Central Asia gas deal underscores the real reasons for the Afghan war

28 May 2002
More questions about who Australian troops are killing in Afghanistan

27 May 2002
Prisoners of war held in horrific conditions in Afghan jails

22 May 2002
The war in Afghanistan, world politics and the perspective for socialism

20 May 2002
Two more cases of coldblooded murder in Afghanistan

15 May 2002
Afghanistan's loya jirga: a cynical exercise in neo-colonialism

11 May 2002
The CIA attempts political assassination in Afghanistan

8 May 2002
More evidence of warnings to Washington of September 11 attacks

1 May 2002
Is the US torturing Abu Zubaida?

6 April 2002
Kabul police raids aimed at intimidating political opposition

29 March 2002
Washington presides over a political and social disaster in Afghanistan

22 March 2002
The makings of a protracted colonial war in Afghanistan

26 February 2002
The "fog of war"
How the US media covers up civilian deaths in Afghanistan

19 February 2002
Murder of an Afghan minister reveals a weak, divided government

28 January 2002
International aid pledges fall far short of Afghanistan's basic needs

22 December 2001
Washington's man to be installed as Afghan prime minister

7 December 2001
The Geneva Convention and the US massacre of POWs in Afghanistan

As major powers jockey over aid
Millions of Afghanis lack food, shelter and medicine

29 November 2001
Major powers pull the strings at Bonn talks on Afghanistan

20 November 2001
US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11

19 November 2001
US exploits chaos to push its own political agenda in Afghanistan

15 November 2001
Fall of Kabul sets stage for further political conflict in Afghanistan

12 November 2001
The killing fields of Afghanistan

2 November 2001
The CIA, the American oligarchy and the war in Afghanistan
A commentary on the Abdul Haq debacle

24 October 2001
The Taliban, the US and the resources of Central Asia

23 October 2001
Afghan death toll mounts as US warplanes hit civilian targets

19 October 2001
Civilian death toll mounts in Afghanistan

13 October 2001
Civilian casualties mount in Afghanistan

12 October 2001
US food drops: a cynical propaganda exercise

9 October 2001
Why we oppose the war in Afghanistan

25 September 2001
A humanitarian catastrophe in the making in Afghanistan

7 March 2001
Taliban regime sets out to obliterate Afghanistan's cultural heritage

15 February 2001
US and Russia pressure the Taliban
New UN sanctions worsen plight of Afghanistan's people

11 May 2000
A man-made crisis
Severe drought hits tens of millions across India, Pakistan and Afghanistan

3 March 2000
Britain refuses asylum to hijacked Afghanis

11 February 2000
After the hijacking: British government, media demand deportation of Afghanis

9 February 2000
Afghan hijacking in fourth day at London's Stansted airport

22 November 1999
US intrigues and the imposition of United Nations sanctions on Afghanistan

13 November 1999
Rocket, bomb attacks boost US-Afghan tensions

14 September 1999
US and India discuss joint strategy against Afghanistan's Taliban regime

18 August 1999
A focus for imperialist intrigue
Civil war erupts again in Afghanistan

26 September 1998
A new chapter in the war-torn history of Afghanistan

22 August 1998
The Sudan-Afghanistan attack: Clinton uses cruise missiles to placate political opponents

 

Featured Articles

14 February 2007
Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment
Part one
Part two

20 September 2005
Afghanistan election: a mockery of democracy

1 March 2004
US launches huge military operation to capture bin Laden

30 December 2002
New account of US torture of Afghan and Arab prisoners

20 September 2002
Oil and "conspiracy theories": a reply to a liberal apologist for the US war in Afghanistan

20 November 2001
US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11

24 October 2001
The Taliban, the US and the resources of Central Asia

22 November 1999
US intrigues and the imposition of United Nations sanctions on Afghanistan

 

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