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The world was waiting U.S President Barack Obama to outline his strategy for Afghanistan and now that he has given the go ahead for troop reinforcements to Afghanistan amounting to 30,000 U.S personnel, NATO and its member states have also come around and announced that, they will in all commit 5,000 NATO troops to carry on the military operations in [...]

The massacre at Fort Hood occurred at a time when US President Barack Obama is at the final stage of decision-making about what to do with the US war in Afghanistan. The Afghan war has been proving to be a failure in the US antiterrorism mobilization, as well as its counterinsurgency campaign. US troops in Afghanistan are said to be disillusioned, [...]

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has reportedly entered into a commercial contract with Russia, under which, Moscow will deliver and deploy Russian built helicopters into Afghanistan to be used by the NATO forces. In the last two to three years, the NATO forces currently stationed in Afghanistan have been facing logistical nightmare and [...]

In yet another incident highlighting the sympathetic behavior of the Afghanistan security forces towards Taliban, a rouge Afghan police officer shot and killed five soldiers of the British contingent of the coalition forces currently stationed in Afghanistan. Today’s incident has cast serious doubts over the allegiance of Afghan forces towards [...]

In the past one week NATO member countries such as, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have expressed their dissatisfaction towards the continuing NATO military operations in Afghanistan and have declared that, not further troops will be committed from these countries. However. Germany’s decision to hold back reinforcements into the region. [...]

‘Until I’m satisfied that we’ve got the right strategy I’m not gonna be sending some young man or woman over there — beyond what we already have,” said US President Barack Obama, explicitly warning US commanders that he is “skeptical” regarding the erstwhile strategy to combat the war in Afghanistan with more US soldiers. [...]

It’s been nearly a month since, the U.S armed forces launched a massive offensive against Taliban and Al-Qaeda factions in Afghanistan and the forces are already feeling the heat and the intensity of the battle. The overall contingent, that is mainly comprised of over 4,000 U.S Marine soldiers has been conducting operations in Afghanistan to root [...]

US soldiers who fought in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that manifests in various illnesses such as headaches, anxiety, sleeplessness, and chronic pain. Just as they heavily depended on their high-powered ammunition, so are they heavily dependent on prescription pills such as antidepressants, anti-anxiety [...]

A month ago, the International Commission of Jurists urged the White House to change the term ‘War on Terror’ because it “justifies the violations of humanitarian law and human rights.” Some sectors of the army had also requested a change of title because it gathers under a single name all the policies that deal with different enemies. George [...]

Suicide among US soldiers in active service is at record high. The number of soldiers who committed suicide in 2008 rose to about 143 from 115 the previous year. Experts attribute this fact to the attendant pressure in times of war. Army statistics released recently showed that 30 percent of those who committed suicide last year were deployed at the [...]