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UNHCR Begins Winter Aid Drive Across Afghanistan

The relief items going out around the country include tents, blankets, plastic sheets, fuel, sleeping mats, lanterns, jerry cans, kitchen sets, soap and warm clothes.

(KABUL) - In the last week UNHCR has begun distribution of winter assistance to nearly quarter of a million people... 40,000 families.

It will go to remote and inaccessible areas of Afghanistan, as well as in Kabul.

Modern Day Child Prostitution in Kabul, Afghanistan:
Children are used as Sex Workers in Afghanistan to Serve Foreigners

12-year-old girl named Ara Atta says, “My father was killed by the Americans because he did not stop his car at a checkpoint

(KABUL) - When we hear about the news in Afghanistan, the mainstream media tells us stories of explosions and deaths of military personnel and civilians.

Taliban Leader Captured in S. Afghanistan: Coalition

Separately, a Taliban facilitator was arrested in Nangarhar province 120 km east of Kabul also Friday, the coalition statement said.

(KABUL Xinhua) - A local Taliban leader was arrested Friday by Afghan and NATO-led coalition troops in Kandahar in the latest crackdown against the militants.

"An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban leader in Kandahar province today," the coalition or International Security Assistance Force said in a statement providing daily operational updates.

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl Over 3 Years in Captivity in Afghanistan

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is a U.S. Army soldier that was captured in Afghanistan in June 2009.

(KABUL) - Speculation has been rumored though various news agencies how he came into the hands of the Taliban.

The Army maintains that Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, was discovered missing during a unit roll-call in Afghanistan.

Are the Afghans Security Forces Ready for Turnover of Security in 2014?

The US is committed to Afghanistan until 2014, when will the Afghan Security Forces be ever ready if we don’t wean them off the bottle?

(KABUL) - Americans in the United States are unaware of the daily security details that U.S. Forces have to endure in Afghanistan.

One such detail that U.S. Forces are doing in the capital city of Kabul is maintaining movement of traffic on Friday and Saturday due to the large majority of Afghan Police and Army are off for their weekend.

Review of a British Plan for Afghanistan: Will Afghanistan Disintegrate?

According to the British plan, the Taliban will take control of several regions.

(TEHRAN Iran Review) - The British politicians, who have a long record in breaking Eastern countries down into smaller entities, have offered their second plan in the past three years for disintegration of Afghanistan.

It was about one month ago when news was broken about a plan offered to divide Afghanistan into eight autonomous regions.

A Good Question about American Interests in the Middle East But What is the Answer?

The U.S. has always had two predominant interests in the Middle East.

(LONDON) - In an article for TomDispatch, Peter Van Buren (a U.S. Foreign Service Officer for many years) posed what he described as Six Critical Foreign Policy Questions That Won’t Be Raised in Presidential Debates.

The Maimed: On Eleven Years of War in Afghanistan

Chris Hedges gave this talk Sunday night in New York City at a protest denouncing the 11th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. The event, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, was led by Veterans for Peace.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Many of us who are here carry within us death. The smell of decayed and bloated corpses. The cries of the wounded. The shrieks of children.

The sound of gunfire. The deafening blasts. The fear. The stench of cordite. The humiliation that comes when you surrender to terror and beg for life. The loss of comrades and friends.

Iraqi `Video Camera Sniper` Credited With Killing 200+ Americans May Have Been Israeli?

Israeli Snipers Killing U.S. Troops in Iraq?

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Fewer things are more shocking than this report; that a voracious sniper in the Iraq War, on the Iraqi side, was actually an Israeli.

The information is filtering in, the allegation is that a sniper who came to be known as 'Juba' is actually a member of the Israeli Defence Forces.

Aaron M Kenefick: A Marine Who Knew Too Much

Retired General Mark Kimmitt in the U.S. State Dept. is going to have some answering to do.

(OCEANSIDE, CA) - The oath that Aaron Kenefick held so seriously went far beyond the things that lead similar people to greatness.

He had to uphold his values against the malicious intentions of members of his own government who far outranked him. It would lead him to a mission that he would not survive, because the elimination of Aaron Kenefick was the real objective of the ambush at Ganjgal in September 2009.