Aram Roston, The Nation. November 13, 2009. The U.S. government is funding the very forces its troops are fighting -- funds that add up to a huge amount of money for the Taliban.
Kim Sengupta, Independent UK. November 2, 2009. The much-anticipated runoff vote in Afghanistan has become a one-horse race for President Hamid Karzai.
Ann Jones, The Nation. October 28, 2009. What happens to women in Afghanistan is not merely a "women's issue." It is the central issue of stability, development and durable peace.
Ashfaq Yusufzai, IPS News. October 27, 2009. Between 2007 and 2009 alone, a total 188 schools for girls and 97 for boys were destroyed by the Taliban in Swat, displacing some 500,000 students.
Stephen Collinson, Agence France Presse. October 20, 2009. Washington spent several days pressuring Afghan President Hamid Karzai to enter a second round of voting following his fraud-tainted election win.
Jim Lobe, IPS News. October 6, 2009. Late last week, Congress cleared legislation that would raise the level of U.S. non-military aid to Islamabad over the next five years to an annual rate of 1.5 billion dollars.
Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times. September 28, 2009. It will be difficult and dangerous to take on the Taliban and al-Qaeda inside Pakistan in a struggle in which there are no guarantees of success.
ZP Heller, Brave New Foundation AlterNet: Video. September 24, 2009. The United States added troops in Afghanistan in each of these years. ICOS's maps show that none of these troop increases arrested the growth of the insurgency.
Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. September 14, 2009. It's almost as if there is something about that hard-edged Central Asian country that deranges its occupiers.
Nir Rosen, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. September 1, 2009. "A public affairs officer told me it was the most alarming report about a journalist that he had ever seen."
Institute for War and Peace ReportingAugust 27, 2009. Cases of alleged fraud in Afghanistan's elections on August 20th are now so numerous and varied that they may take weeks or even months to deal with.
Institute for War and Peace ReportingAugust 21, 2009. In many areas of Afghanistan, polling stations remained firmly closed because of insurgent intimidation and violence.
Malalai Joya, AlterNet. August 20, 2009. We Afghans know this election will change nothing. It is merely a show of democracy put on by and for the West, to legitimize its future puppet in Afghanistan.
Derrick Crowe, August 19, 2009. "Rethink Afghanistan, Part Six: Security" includes CIA officers, regional experts, and Afghan leaders who explain how U.S. war policies in Afghanistan undermine American security.
Mohammad Ishaq Quraishi, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. August 19, 2009. For many women in Afghanistan, participating in the coming presidential election is something they must to do in secret, or not at all.
Danielle Kurtzleben, IPS News. August 13, 2009. The Obama Administration is touting a new, broad approach to winning the fight against insurgent groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. August 8, 2009. General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani may be providing assistance to Taliban insurgents, yet the U.S. government continues to fund the Pakistan military.
Agence France Presse August 5, 2009. A roadside bomb killed 21 Afghan wedding guests, the latest in a wave of violent attacks ahead of key elections, as the NATO chief Thursday assessed efforts to quell the insurgency.
Jodie Evans, AlterNet. July 31, 2009. Biden should quit his war talk and call for diplomacy, development, and accountability Afghanistan and Iraq that the US supports.
Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. July 31, 2009. Abdul Rashid Dostum is responsible for one of the deadliest massacres of Taliban prisoners. He is also an ally of both the U.S. and Hamid Karzai.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. July 29, 2009. The police in Helmand province, who are linked to the local warlord, have committed horrific abuses against pre-teen boys.
Agence France Presse July 20, 2009. The Taliban released a video over the weekend of a visibly-shaken captive U.S. soldier who was snatched by the Islamist militants in Afghanistan late last month.
