By Gareth Porter The strategy of the major U.S. and British military offensive in Afghanistan’s Helmand province aimed at wresting it from the Taliban is based on bringing back Afghan army and…
Category: Iraq
Operation Enduring Occupation: U.S. “Withdrawal” from Iraq
By Dahr Jamail "If the Iraqi forces require further training and further support, we shall examine this then at that time, based on the needs of Iraq," Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki…
Obama Administration Cooks Up New Legal Argument for Detaining Guantanamo Prisoner
by Jason Leopold Faced with impending defeat in a US District Court habeas corpus case, the Obama administration devised a new strategy for continuing the detention of Mohammed Jawad, an…
Pentagon ‘Reconsidering’ Promise to Make Afghanistan Civilian Killings Probe Public
by Jason Ditz, June 15, 2009 In early May, a series of US air strikes in multiple villages in the Farah Province of Afghanistan killed 140 civilians, by far the single…
Thousand of Afghanis Protest U.S. Atrocities
by Patrick Cockburn Shouting "Death to America" and "Death to the Government", thousands of Afghan villagers hurled stones at police yesterday as they vented their fury at American air strikes that local…
Call it a Massacre
by Yifat Susskind On May 6, as many as 150 people were killed by US warplanes while they were huddled in their houses in Farah, Afghanistan. A day later, as Afghan…
Obama ’s Trip to Iraq – Continuing War and Occupation
By Kenneth J. Theisen On Tuesday, April 7th President Barack Obama made an unannounced four-hour trip to Baghdad to promote the continuing war there, while pretending to end it. (This is reminiscent…
Blackwater Massacres in Iraq Result in Civil Law Suits
By Kenneth J. Theisen In civil lawsuits filed last week, injured civilians and families of Iraqis killed in two massacres in Baghdad by Blackwater mercenaries sued the company and founder Erik…
War of Terror Expanded into Pakistan; Obama Considers 10,000 More Troops for Afghanistan
By Kenneth J. Theisen The Obama administration continues to escalate its undeclared war in Pakistan, while contemplating further escalation in Afghanistan. On April 1st, the U.S. launched two missiles that struck…