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Yvonne Ridley, a British Journalist and author of In The Hands of the Taliban, boldly asserts in counterpunch that the huge military offensive codenamed Operation Moshtarak that caused the evacuation of residents in the town of Marjah in Afghanistan is ethnic cleansing. The purported ISAF pacification offensive grandly launched in what is described [...]

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today issued perhaps one of the most stern warnings to the government of Afghanistan, stating that, Mr. Hamid Karzai, the reelected President of Afghanistan needs to curb corruption in the country and bring in reforms that are expected from him or Afghanistan stands to lose support from the United Kingdom, including [...]

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 [...]