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Why Afghanistan's Mineral Deposits Won't Help

Afghan Police Detain A Dozen Pakistani Soldiers In Kunar Province Afghan border police have detained a dozen Pakistani soldiers in the country’s eastern Kunar province, bordering Pakistan, according to an Afghan news website.

5 U.S. Soldiers Up On Murder Charges In Afghan Civilian Killings

Alert Issued for 17 Afghan Military Members AWOL From U.S. Air Force Base

Paul Jay on RT - US knew Afghan bonanza in '07Did mineral deposits in Afghanistan affect President Obama's '09 decision to widen the scope of the war? 

New Tape Reveals Al Qaeda's Finance Worries

Kandahar campaign will be bloody US troops by day, Taliban by night Pt.2 - Junaid: Local people likely to suffer majority of casualties 

New Afghan commission is setting Taliban suspects free Afghanistan's controversial new commission formed to release suspected Taliban prisoners has set free 14 detainees already, primarily from U.S. custody, and over two dozen more releases are imminent, Afghan officials told McClatchy on Sunday. The commission was a concession to get the Taliban to join peace talks. » read more

Taliban attack Afghan airbase US attorney general visits Afghanistan as rebels strike a major base in Jalalabad.

AFGHANISTAN FUNDS BLOCKED
Citing Corruption, House Dems Cut Off $3.9 Billion In Reconstruction Money

Constitutional Referendum Passes in Kyrgyzstan Voters backed the creation of the first parliamentary democracy in Central Asia, according to results released on Monday.

After 100 deaths, UK troops to pull out of Sangin  US forces move in to Afghan district that has seen about a third of British casualti

Top McChrystal Aide Resigns In Wake Of Rolling Stone Piece

May 2009: Seymour Hersh - McChrystal Was Cheney's Chief Assassin; Camp Nama

Petraeus to Modify Afghanistan Rules of Engagement, Source Says A military source close to Gen. David Petraeus told Fox News that one of the first things the general will do when he takes over in Afghanistan is to modify the rules of engagement to make it easier for U.S. troops to engage in combat with the enemy, though a Petraeus spokesman pushed back on the claim. Troops on the ground and some military commanders have said the strict rules -- aimed at preventing civilian casualties -- have effectively forced the troops to fight with one hand tied behind their backs. 

Top Afghan Taliban commander killed while fleeing in woman's attire

Toxic Sand: Another Enemy in Afghanistan? In a presentation at a neurotoxicology conference in Portland, Ore., earlier this month, Palur G. Gunasekar, a senior scientist with the Navy Environmental Health Effects Laboratory, said that dust kicked up in sandstorms contains manganese and other metals. "The sand is a risk factor for inducing neurotoxicity,"

Taliban attacks Afghan aid office
Aid contractor's office targeted just hours before arrival of US forces commander in Kabul.

$30 Billion More For Afghanistan: War Funding Bill Passes House

NATO 'accidentally' kills Afghan troops

Wikileaks Founder Has Massacre Video Shenon Wikileaks Part 2 Julian Assange, whom Pentagon investigators fear may soon release State Dept. secrets, denies having them—but says he’s readying video of a deadly U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan

The US and Karzai's little brother US should embrace Kandahar 'strongman' Ahmed Wali Karzai, says Robert Grenier.

9 NATO troops killed in Afghan helicopter crash, bombings

UK Special Envoy To Afghanistan Who Called For Taliban Talks Quits

Health official, 2 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan

OBAMA OUSTS MCCHRYSTAL, SAYS HE UNDERMINED CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT President Obama will tap Gen. David Petraeus to take over for McChrystal. Petraeus already leads US forces in Iraq.

Army Staff Sergeant: 'We're F***ing Losing This Thing'

CIA head: 'No choice' but to use Blackwater

Official Blames US for Increased Drug Production in Afghanistan
An Iranian provincial security official took the US responsible for increased drug production and trafficking in Afghanistan, saying the Afghan drug problem has seriously deteriorated since the US invasion of the country.

Dem Senator backs longer war If Petraeus wants to prolong Afghan war, Feinstein would allow it.

Karzai 'holds talks' with HaqqanReports of meeting with anti-government commander fuels speculation about Pakistan's role. Haqqani, whose network is believed to be based across the border, is reported to have been accompanied to the meeting earlier in the week by Pakistan's army chief and the head of its intelligence services, according to Al Jazeera's sources.Karzai's office, however, denied on Sunday that any such meeting took pl

Taliban Warn Foreign Companies Against Signing Mining Contracts

Kucinich: ‘We are losing our nation to lies about the necessity of war

Top General Supports July 2011 Timetable For Afghanistan, Sends Signals On Strategy Change Suicide attack on US aid office in Afghanistan

French General: American Strategy In Afghanistan Not Working Vincent Desportes, head of France’s elite Inter-Forces Defense College, has said that the American strategy in Afghanistan is ‘‘not working’’ and that the situation there is at an all-time low, according to a Pakistani daily.

Your tax dollars carried in suitcases on planes to buy posh Dubai villas for rich Afghanis

Taliban Execute Seven Captives In Khost Province The Taliban have executed seven out of the 40 civilians seized by them on the charge of working for the Afghan government in southeastern Khost province, according to a Pashtu-language daily.

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz violence level 'alarming' Children being killed and civilians raped in ethnic unrest in country's south, UN says

Number dead during Kyrgyzstan violence '10 times higher than thought'

Kyrgyzstan Hunts for ‘Militants’ Behind Ethnic Clashes Kyrgyz forces staged raids Monday in the tense south, killing two people and wounding 23, to find those behind deadly ethnic clashes in the volatile Central Asian state, authorities said