NOVANEWS https://theintercept.com/2015/12/03/pentagon-task-force-spent-nearly-150m-on-villas… The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) is asking why a small Department of Defense task force charged with developing the Afghan economy spent nearly $150 million on private villas, security […]
NOVANEWS Jason Ditz AntiWar Darwar Khan prays over the graves of relatives who were killed during a night raid conducted by the CIA’s Khost Protection Force in the village of Gurbuz District, Khost province, on […]
NOVANEWS By Dave Lindorff “US forces would never intentionally strike a hospital.” — US Commander of NATO Forces in Afghanistan Gen. John Campbell After weeks of lies, the Obama administration and the Pentagon, unable to […]
NOVANEWS By Bill Van Auken Global Research “Patients burned in their beds, medical staff were decapitated and lost limbs, and others were shot by the circling AC-130 gunship while fleeing the burning building.” So reads the […]
NOVANEWS KABUL: A young Afghan woman who was married against her will has been stoned to death by extremists after she was caught eloping with another man, local officials told AFP Tuesday. The graphic video […]
NOVANEWS https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/manhunting-in-the-hindu-kush/ From 2011 to 2013, the most elite forces in the U.S. military, supported by the CIA and other elements of the intelligence community, set out to destroy the Taliban and al Qaeda forces […]
NOVANEWS http://www.ibtimes.com/some-military-families-president-obamas-decision-keep-troops… U.S. President Barack Obama’s pledge Thursday to keep American troops in Afghanistan through 2016 was the last thing Mary Hladky wanted to hear. “It’s what we were dreading,” said the mother of three, whose son […]
NOVANEWS by DAVE LINDORFF The Air Force’s top killing machine, the AC-130J, was sent to attack the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz. Evidence continues to mount that the US committed a monstrous war crime in […]
NOVANEWS by RALPH NADER The photographs in the New York Times told contrasting stories last week. One showed two Taliban soldiers in civilian clothes and sandals, with their rifles, standing in front of a captured U.N. vehicle. The […]
NOVANEWS by VIJAY PRASHAD The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) keeps as diligently careful records about violence in the country as is possible. Little attention is paid these days to Afghanistan, as the focus of […]