Civilian casualty in the US war in Afghanistan hardly gets much press. In the pursuit of victory in the highly-controversial war on terror, Afghan lives are simply collateral damage. When US safety is concerned, ‘media isn’t about to focus real attention on the particular form of barbarity involved — the American air war over Afghanistan [...]

The US war on the Taliban is founded on something deeper, but actually more obvious, than waging a war against militant insurgency and/or ideology. ‘The short answer is that today, as has been the case since 1979, neither a specific ‘militant’ nor ‘ideology’ is ‘being fought.’ Rather, the target of operations, for which more troops [...]

The Afghanistan presidential elections, that are slated to begin on November 7th this year have been strongly boycotted by the Taliban and other radical Islamist groups. To show their discontentment, these terror outfits have begun a new campaign of terror in the country. Today, seven people, including three U.N officials were gunned down in a [...]