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US official backs Marines' request to classify photos of forces urinating on...
A still from a 2011 video posted online that showed Marines urinating on dead bodies. [Reuters]"In an apparent expansion of the government’s secrecy powers, the top official in charge of the...
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UK military slang from Afghanistan
"ALLY Term for a battlefield fashionista - desirables include having a beard, using a different rifle, carrying vast amounts of ammunition, being dusty and having obscene amounts of tattoos and hair....
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Obama apologizes to aid group for bombing hospital. MSF: Thanks, but we want...
Doctors Without Borders received an apology from President Barack Obama today for the deadly U.S. bombing of its hospital in northern Afghanistan. The international medical aid organization released a...
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That hospital we bombed in Afghanistan in 2015? Not a war crime, says Pentagon
U.S. forces bombed a Doctors Without Borders-run hospital in Afghanistan last year, destroying it and killing and injuring scores of medical personnel and patients. But the air strike didn't amount to...
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United Nations reminds members including U.S. to not bomb hospitals and kill...
The United Nations Security Council recently passed a resolution reminding members that intentional attacks on medical facilities are war crimes. (more…)
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Obama says US drones strikes have killed up to 116 civilians, watchdogs say...
The Obama administration today “partially lifted the secrecy that has cloaked one of the United States’s most contentious tactics for fighting terrorists,” as the New York Times puts it, and revealed...
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America has spent more rebuilding Afghanistan than it spent rebuilding Europe...
After WWII, the US launched the Marshall Plan to help Europe rebuild, spending about $120B in inflation-adjusted dollars on the project, which lifted the war-stricken European nations out of disaster...
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Photographers captured shots of mortar exploding in the instant before their...
A mortar shell exploded during a training exercise in Afghanistan in July 2013, killing four Afghan soldiers and a U.S. Army photographer, Specialist Hilda Clayton. Clayton was training one of them in...
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SecDef Mattis upset at Pentagon wasting $28 million on Afghan uniforms with...
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis criticized officials at the Pentagon for spending $28 million on forest camouflage-patterned uniforms for Afghan National Army soldiers. Only 2.1% of Afghanistan is...
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Blackwater founder and DeVos war-criminal sibling Trump should install...
Erik Prince is the creepy-rich war criminal/ex-CIA agent who founded Blackwater and put John Ashcroft in charge of its ethics department (no, seriously), whose rap-sheet includes reckless, corrupt,...
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Trump Afghanistan plan? More air strikes likely, and training Afghan air force
President Donald Trump's speech on military policy in Afghanistan didn't provide much in the way of specifics about troop numbers or other measures of force commitment or our long-term goals. All that...
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U.S. Army war dogs deserve better than to be neglected or put down after...
A war hero who saved American lives under fire deserves the best care our government can muster. It's the very least they deserve for bravely serving overseas. Unfortunately, not all soldiers returning...
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The US gave its client states hundreds of millions for anti-terrorism, then...
Defense Secretary James Mattis has announced a criminal investigation into the misuse of $458,000,000 that the US government gave to Iraq and Afghanistan to build out mass-scale domestic surveillance...
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Student blocks deportation of Afghan asylum-seeker by refusing to sit down...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSJ7du-EC9w Elin Ersson is a 21 year old Swedish social work student who boarded a plane at Gothenburg airport yesterday and refused to sit down until an Afghan...
View ArticleTrump wants to kill the International Criminal Court to protect US war...
Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton on how the administration views the International Criminal Court in the Hague, where genocides, crimes against humanity and war crimes are prosecuted: "We...
View ArticleTrump would wipe Afghanistan 'off the face of the earth' but 'don't want to...
Illegitimate popular-vote-losing United States President Donald Trump, folks. “If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth, it would be over literally in 10 days,"...
View ArticleAfghanistan: U.S. drone kills 30 farm workers sitting around a campfire after...
Lest you forget, we are still at war in Afghanistan. And we are still messing it up. A U.S. drone strike that was intended to strike an Islamic State hideout killed “at least 30 civilians,” mostly...
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Solar power is revolutionizing life for opium farmers
There's a lot to unpack and think about from this BBC article about the impact of solar panels on the heroin industry. The first report of an Afghan farmer using solar power came back in 2013.The...
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Ten years ago, The Onion predicted west's Irish Goodbye from Afghanistan
In July 2011, The Onion published a facetious story titled U.S. Quietly Slips out of Afghanistan In Dead Of Night. In July 2021, the Associated Press reported that the U.S. had quietly slipped out of...
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Taliban 25 miles from Kabul
Two days ago, U.S. intelligence sources let it be known that that Afghanistan's government might fall in as soon as 90 days. Today the Taliban are already reportedly nearing the outskirts of Kabul,...
View Article10 girls on Afghanistan's robotics team safely evacuated to Qatar
Ten members of the Afghan Girls Robotic Team have been rescued and are now in Qatar. Some of the team members remain in Afghanistan and efforts are being made to get them out of the country, which has...
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Watch: The last 4 US presidents really nailed it on Afghanistan
As president, George W. Bush was proud of his brave victory in just about banishing the Taliban from Afghanistan. "…Thanks to our military, our allies, and the brave fighters of Afghanistan, the...
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60 killed in bombing outside Kabul airport; ISIS blamed for attack
At least 60 people were killed and 140 injured today in a suicide bombing outside a gate into Kabul airport, reports Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health. 12 of those killed were U.S....
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Instagrammer who raised $7M to evacuate Afghans struggles to use funds...
Giving money to strangers on the internet certainly has its risks. A Washington Post investigation into a viral fundraiser from Instagram user @quentin.quarantino has raised red flags. In August,...
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Male journalists in Afghanistan cover their faces on TV in solidarity with...
Last Thursday, the Taliban in Afghanistan ordered women reporters to cover their faces while presenting the news on television. And to show solidarity, their male colleagues are choosing to do the...
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The Taliban bans the video game PUBG for being "too violent"
When someone is oblivious, it can manifest as either a cute character defect or an annoying one. We're all capable of missing the forest for the trees now and then, but if the end result is harmless,...
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20th Century Men brilliantly flips the Cold War on its head, with superheroes
20th Century Men is a sprawling new alternate history comic book series from Deniz Camp and S. Morian. The official synopsis gives you a vague idea of what you're in for: At the end of the 20th...
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Watch the Oscan-winning short documentary "Learning To Skate In A War Zone...
In 2020, Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl), about skateboarding in Afghanistan and produced by Elena Andreicheva and Carol Dysinger, won the Oscar and British Academy of Film and...
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Taliban orders Afghanistan's hair salons to shut
The Taliban noticed that woman have third places too, and have ordered them to shut. Hair salons in Afghanistan must close their doors, reports the BBC, in just the latest restriction imposed by the...
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Top British general illegally concealed report that its special forces...
SAS soldiers claimed to have executed handcuffed detainees in Afghanistan and this was reported to General Gwyn Jenkins, now the second-most senior officer in the British Armed Forces. Jenkins, instead...
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