Afghanistan

With Trump’s backing, Pakistan wages “open war” on Afghanistan

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:10:17 GMT

Military clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan continued for a fifth day Tuesday, in a conflict with potentially major implications for South Asian and world geopolitics.

UK inquiry told special forces had “deliberate policy” to “kill fighting-aged males” in Afghanistan

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:04:24 GMT

N1466 is the highest-ranking former special forces officer to provide evidence of war crimes. He was the assistant chief of staff for operations in UKSF headquarters.

Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to shaky truce after week of clashes

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 01:21:09 GMT

Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to a shaky truce last weekend in talks mediated by Qatar and Turkey after more than a week of military clashes, in which scores and likely hundreds died.

My Dead Friend Zoe: “Imperial Storm Troopers tricked into modern colonialism” and their fate

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:41:54 GMT

This type of “support” for the rank-and-file soldiers can’t be walled off from confronting the concrete social role and vast, world-historic crimes of the American military.

Sordid scandal erupts in the UK over cover-up of military leak of Afghan names

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:58:02 GMT

Unacknowledged by all is the fact that any harm which might have come from the leak would have been just the latest blood spilled in a war jointly pursued by Labour and Tory governments, at the cost of up to 250,000 lives lost directly as result of the fighting, and countless more indirectly.

The Tony Blair Institute’s filthy role in planning the ethnic cleansing and “reconstruction” of Gaza

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:52:39 GMT

Today, as grotesque as is Blair’s involvement in the filthy work of drawing up plans for a post-genocide Gaza, it is more than matched by his disciple Starmer.

Ottawa suppresses report exposing Canadian military's role in Afghan war crimes

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:22:17 GMT

The Liberal government, first under Justin Trudeau and now Mark Carney, has sat for more than a year on a 1,000-page report detailing the Canadian military’s role in the torture and murder of persons detained, often falsely, as Taliban fighters.

UK special forces rejected 2,000 Afghan asylum claims to conceal war crimes

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:00:19 GMT

It was first revealed last year by the BBC’s Panorama documentary series that UK Special Forces command had been given veto power over the resettlement applications of Afghan commandos and exercised it to deny them asylum in Britain.

Further evidence of UK special forces war crimes in Afghanistan, Libya and Syria

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:00:48 GMT

Only the inquiry team and representatives from the Ministry of Defence have been allowed to attend the closed hearings, preventing the lawyers for the bereaved families, the general public, and the press from observing the proceedings.

Grounded, a contemporary opera with an anti-war theme, premieres at the Metropolitan Opera

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 01:32:30 GMT

The subject of long-distance war crimes makes this an opera of vital importance.

Starmer’s filthy Chagos Islands deal preserves Diego Garcia as key US-UK military base

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:07:31 GMT

Strategically located between East Africa and Southeast Asia, Diego Garcia serves as a surveillance centre for the Middle East. It was critical to air operations during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Pakistan uses “anti-terrorism” law to ban Pashtun group protesting military’s manifold crimes

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:58:14 GMT

For more than two decades, the security forces of the Pakistani state and their US allies have run amok in the name of suppressing the Pakistan Taliban, levelling entire villages and wantonly violating human rights.

At least 60 dead, 145 wounded, in Moscow terrorist attack

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 05:11:47 GMT

Regardless of the immediate culprit of Friday's terrorist attack, it is clear that it took place in a context of an expanding and escalating war against Russia by the imperialist powers.

Defend David McBride! Australian government proceeding with trial of Afghan war crimes whistleblower

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:59:33 GMT

The first person facing trial over Australia’s confirmed war crimes in Afghanistan is one of the individuals who exposed them.

Pakistan mounting campaign of state harassment and intimidation to expel 1.7 million Afghan refugees

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 02:28:27 GMT

Even before the passing of the official deadline to “voluntarily” leave Pakistan, Afghans who sought refuge in Pakistan from the social catastrophe caused by decades of imperialist-fomented war and neocolonial occupation have been the target of a vicious campaign of state harassment and intimidation.

Inquiry hears evidence of war crimes by UK Special Forces in Afghanistan

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:43:23 GMT

The inquiry is focussing on 54 alleged killings of Afghan civilians during night operations by UK special forces between 2010 and 2013

Ministry of Defence confirms war crimes inquiry into UK Special Forces deployed to Afghanistan

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 19:20:42 GMT

The inquiry follows years of reporting of alleged unlawful killings in Afghanistan by the SAS.

Guantánamo Diary Revisited: Mohamedou Slahi seeks out his torturers

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 02:37:56 GMT

In the film’s opening, John Goetz argues that “it’s a David and Goliath story … the whole weight and power of the American government focused against one individual.”

US wars since 2001 have killed 4.5 million people

Fri, 19 May 2023 02:20:05 GMT

A succession of US presidents, Democratic and Republican, share responsibility for the worst crimes of the 21st century.

Inquiry into “unlawful killings” by UK soldiers in Afghanistan announced

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 19:11:31 GMT

The government has made clear the inquiry’s aim is to protect the guilty, not to bring them to justice.

Britain uses “aid” to Afghanistan as a cover for imperialist domination

Sun, 04 Dec 2022 19:15:09 GMT

Far from providing humanitarian aid and relief in the aftermath of the NATO-led war and occupation, these financial flows served the imperialist powers’ geostrategic and military agenda.

Causeway: Hardly a hint left of antiwar sentiment

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 01:45:17 GMT

The film follows a wounded Afghanistan war veteran who returns home to her native New Orleans in order to recuperate.

One year since the US military's withdrawal from Afghanistan

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:34:43 GMT

The Afghan withdrawal represented a debacle for US imperialism, which based its policy throughout thirty years of uninterrupted wars, beginning with the first Gulf War in 1990-91, on the conviction that military force could overcome Washington’s precipitous economic decline.

Biden orders drone assassination of al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 04:27:24 GMT

Biden made it clear that the assassination of al-Zawahiri was a warning to anyone deemed an enemy by the US government, saying, “the United States will find you and take you out.”

BBC’s Panorama exposes British war crimes in Afghanistan

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:27:15 GMT

The airing of SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime? comes at a sensitive time amid furious claims by Britain that Russia’s armed forces have committed multiple war crimes in Ukraine.

Afghanistan earthquake exposes disaster caused by decades of US occupation

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 04:20:31 GMT

The appalling social conditions exposed by the earthquake are the direct result of the US-led invasion and 20-year-long occupation of the country..

A record 86 million people forcibly displaced worldwide

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 17:06:12 GMT

The equivalent of the population of Germany, or more than one percent of the world’s 7.9 billion population, have been driven from their homes

Flee: The animated portrait of an Afghan refugee

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:38:21 GMT

Flee, from Danish-French filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen, is an evocative film focused on Amin Nawabi (a pseudonym), who fled Afghanistan as a teenager in the 1990s.

US steals billions in Afghan bank funds

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 05:17:56 GMT

The decision to seize $7 billion in central bank funds will further undermine the economy of Afghanistan under conditions of mass starvation.

Afghans protest Washington’s starvation strategy

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 04:46:24 GMT

With its draconian sanctions and illegal seizure of financial assets, Washington threatens to kill more Afghans by hunger in the coming months than were slaughtered in 20 years of war.

US-trained Afghan intelligence agents, elite troops reported joining ISIS

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 02:28:12 GMT

In the final analysis, ISIS is itself a product of the interventions by Washington and its allies in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Washington strangles Afghanistan’s economy as millions face starvation

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 01:10:16 GMT

In an act of raw revenge for the debacle of its 20-year war, the US is denying Afghanistan access to its own financial reserves, threatening an economic and social collapse.

What price an Afghan life? Report lists hundreds of civilians killed by UK in Afghanistan

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:30:37 GMT

The British government frequently reports that 457 British soldiers lost their lives and 616 soldiers suffered serious or very serious injuries but has failed to estimate of the overall harm caused by British operations in its largest deployment since World War II.

Twenty years of the “war on terrorism” in Australia: War crimes and police-state measures

Fri, 24 Sep 2021 02:32:42 GMT

The Australian government was the first in the world to offer unconditional support to the Bush administration’s plans to exploit the 9/11 attack to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.

Turning Point: 9/11 And The War On Terror—An account of the terror attacks and their aftermath

Fri, 24 Sep 2021 02:26:28 GMT

9/11 has become the subject for numerous novels, films and television series. A number have effectively described the character of the events and their psychological impact, few have shed much light on their source and larger implications.

Pentagon admits Kabul drone strike targeted innocent civilians

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 02:52:14 GMT

General Frank McKenzie admitted in a US Department of Defense press conference on Friday that the deadly drone strike in Kabul on August 29 had killed “10 civilians including up to seven children.”

IYSSE (Sri Lanka) meeting discusses US debacle in Afghanistan

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 04:44:46 GMT

Students from almost all of Sri Lanka’s universities participated in the event, indicating that young people are seeking a serious analysis of crucial international developments.

September 11, the “war on terror” and the criminalization of American politics

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 04:40:04 GMT

The White House and media have rolled out the red carpet for the war criminals of the Bush administration, showing that the criminality of the “war on terror” has permanently entered the bloodstream of American politics.

Kabul drone strike was CIA-military murder

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 03:01:45 GMT

A New York Times report demonstrates the reality, not merely of the August 29 drone strike in the Afghan capital, but of thousands of such strikes over the past 15 years.

Afghanistan debacle sends shockwaves through Australian ruling circles

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:57:46 GMT

The ignominious end of the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan is provoking anxiety in the Australian capitalist elite about its dependence on US imperialism.

In wake of Afghan defeat, UK pseudo-lefts help Tory government prepare its contingency plans

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:31:17 GMT

In line with the Stop the War Coalition’s entreaties, Corbyn was aiding the Tories craft contingency plans to preserve the credibility of British imperialism.

Canadian imperialism shaken by US debacle in Afghanistan

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 05:00:27 GMT

Outside Washington and Wall Street, the collapse of the Kabul regime has arguably dealt no imperialist ruling elite a bigger blow than Canada’s.

After the Afghanistan debacle, Berlin and Brussels pursue independent European war policy

Sat, 04 Sep 2021 03:13:35 GMT

At an informal meeting in Kranj, Slovenia, EU defence ministers on Thursday discussed the establishment of a rapid reaction force that could also act independently of the US military.

EU plans detention camps for Afghan refugees across Central Asia

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 05:19:06 GMT

While posturing as concerned for Afghans’ human rights, the EU is spending vast sums to keep them from traveling to Europe and instead housing them in prison camps.

After two decades of imperialist occupation, Afghanistan faces a “humanitarian catastrophe”

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 22:15:08 GMT

In all the saturation coverage by the mainstream media of the evacuation of foreign nationals and Afghans associated with the US and its allies, little has been said about the economic and social devastation wrought on the country itself.

Biden’s speech on Afghanistan: An admission of a shattering defeat

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 04:24:09 GMT

Biden’s speech included statements never before heard from the White House, acknowledging the devastating costs of a war that ended in a humiliating debacle.

US pulls last of its troops from Afghanistan after chaotic evacuation

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 04:42:28 GMT

The withdrawal was preceded by the drone massacre of an entire Afghan family, the last in a long series of atrocities carried out by the US military in its 20-year neocolonial war.

US evacuation from Afghanistan nears its end

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 02:50:33 GMT

The bulk of those remaining to be evacuated are the American soldiers who were dispatched to the Kabul airport by President Biden two weeks ago.

Death toll in Kabul airport terrorist attack rises to 170, as US military continues evacuations

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 05:00:15 GMT

The extent to which Washington is dependent on coordinating and cooperating with the Taliban in the final stages of its withdrawal underscores the scale of the debacle suffered by US imperialism with the collapse of its puppet regime in Kabul.

Germany’s Left Party approves military mission in Afghanistan

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:03:23 GMT

One month before the federal elections, the Left Party is swinging towards open support for imperialist military operations by the Bundeswehr (Armed Forces). The party is responding to the growing opposition to German militarism in light of the debacle in Afghanistan.