by Gareth Porter  U.S. Special Operations Forces have been increasingly aiming their night-time raids, which have been the primary cause of Afghan anger at the U.S. military presence, at civilian non- combatants…

By Debra Sweet It’s difficult to pick out the most disturbing feature of the Obama administration’s expanding use of unmanned drones in its continuing war on “terror” in at least 5 countries….

By Nima Shirazi On Saturday August 6, 2011, a U.S. military Chinook transport helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, killing 30 American soldiers, including 17 elite Navy SEALs, and eight Afghans. The…

By Kevin Gosztola   One year ago, WikiLeaks released the Afghanistan war logs. Around seventy-six thousand previously classified military reports were released in collaboration with the New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel. The contents…

By Chris Floyd   When I first saw the stories about the CIA’s super-cunning covert op – setting up a fake vaccination scheme to try to get DNA from Osama bin Laden’s children…

By Jason Ditz  NATO air strikes in the Khost Province district of Shamal this morning killed at least 14 civilians including eight children. It was the second strike in the province this…

I would like to see resolutions passed that say that we must end these wars because they are bankrupting us morally…that the cost of war is too high for our souls. By Leah Bolger…

By Debra Sweet Ten years ago, when the Taliban had mostly wrested control of Afghanistan from former fundamentalist warlord allies of the United States, the U.S. government turned a cold and deaf…

Drones, with their low cost and low risk, make targeted killing more convenient and more likely. By Doug Noble Ever since becoming involved with the protest activities at Hancock Field I have…

By Daphne Eviatar Twelve-year-old Nelofar was shot dead early Thursday morning outside her family’s home in Eastern Afghanistan because NATO troops mistakenly believed that her uncle was a Taliban leader. She was…