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Barbaric thermobaric attacks in Afghanistan

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | July - August 2009

RAF pilots in Afghanistan are firing an increasing number of brutal “enhanced blast” thermobaric weapons, the Ministry of Defence admitted in May. ...

A Taliban peace plan

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | July - August 2009

Opinion polls in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the last few months have reinforced the message that the people of the region want a negotiated solution to the conflicts currently raging. ...

One war

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | June 2009

On 3 May, more than 100 Afghan civilians were killed during airstrikes on the villages of Gerani, Gangabad and Koujaha in Farah province, western Afghanistan. ...

Karzai partners Afghan warlord

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | June 2009

Hamid Karzai has selected Mohammad Qasim Fahim – “one of the most notorious warlords in [Afghanistan], with the blood of many Afghans on his hands from the civil war” (according to Human R ...

Afghan women see things differently

by Milan Rai | Feature | May 2009

Western attention has focused once again on the plight of women in Afghanistan, as the result of the Shia Family Law, passed by Afghan president Hamid Karzai in March. ...

Obama's escalation

by Gabriel Carlyle | Feature | May 2009

British commentators have been greatly impressed by Obama’s “new” strategy for the wars in Afghanistan/Pakistan (unveiled on 27 March, after PN2508 went to press), with the Independent’s l ...

Afghan women rise

| Feature | April 2009

In 2008, a small group of women in Kandahar, Afghanistan, decided to gather in a public square to pray for peace with justice in Afghanistan on International Women's Day. ...

Obama escalates two wars

by Gabriel Carlyle | News | April 2009

US president Barack Obama came to power promising both to talk to his enemies and to “finish the job” in Afghanistan (a phrase he used while visiting Kabul in July 2008). ...

Chris Johnson and Jolyon Leslie, 'Afghanistan: The Mirage of Peace (updated edition)'

by Kate Page | Review | April 2009

Zed, 2008; ISBN 978-1842779569; 272pp; £14.99

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by Gabriel Carlyle | Feature | April 2009

Obama’s Guantanamo ...