Afghanistan View front page articles all submitted articles All articles are submitted by smart activists like you. Go here to contribute:  07-30-2010 Saturday August 13, 2005 Comments UNICEF declares a state of 'acute emergency' for women and children in Afghanistan due to high maternal and child mortality rates. Maybe after Halloween they can send over a whole bunch of change. Afghanistan | Feminist Majority Foundation [0] Wednesday August 10, 2005 Comments It hard to run for office when there's a price on your head. Afghanistan | Feminist Majority Foundation [0] Friday July 29, 2005 Comments The Taliban are still around, very powerful, and talkin' shit. Afghanistan | Los Angeles Times [0] Wednesday July 6, 2005 Comments Russia, China, and the Central Asian states want to know when US-led troops are leaving military bases in Central Asia that were set up to support operations in Afghanistan in 2001. Afghanistan | Khaleej Times [0] Tuesday July 5, 2005 Comments US endures deadliest year in Afghanistan since the invasion. Afghanistan | Boston Globe [0] Sunday June 26, 2005 Comments Good news: with the Taliban gone, girls are once again allowed to get an education. Bad news: "over 40 girls schools have been bombed, set on fire, or violently attacked in Afghanistan since 2001." Afghanistan | Feminist Majority Foundation [0] Tuesday June 21, 2005 Comments Departing Afghanistan envoy pledges to use same approach in Iraq. Oh, Great. Afghanistan | New Standard [0] Wednesday May 25, 2005 Comments The deal with Afghanistan Afghanistan | Power and Interest News Report [0] Tuesday May 24, 2005 Comments Sorry Karzai, but Afghanistan still belongs to the U.S. Afghanistan | Kansas City Star [0] Monday May 23, 2005 Comments Media reports blamed Newsweek alone for violent Muslim demonstrations; Joint Chiefs chairman disagrees Afghanistan | Media Matters for America [0] Friday May 20, 2005 Comments Before they died (supposedly of "natural causes"), two Afghan men were horrifically beaten. One's legs were beaten so badly that a coroner said they "had basically been pulpified". Afghanistan | USA Today [0] Saturday May 14, 2005 Comments Anti-American protests spread to 10 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces and into Pakistan. Afghanistan | New York Times [0] Wednesday April 27, 2005 Comments Criticize the American human rights record in Afghanistan and you will be fired. Afghanistan | Independent [0] Wednesday March 30, 2005 Comments Pentagon to start aggressive antidrug effort in Afghanistan. To make sure that farmers have some economic alternatives they plan to DO NOTHING. Afghanistan | New York Times [0] Sunday March 13, 2005 Comments Afhanistan's first female governor blazes trail for women Afghanistan | China Daily [0] Thursday March 3, 2005 Comments Notorious, human rights abusin', Afghan warlord given responsibility for the country's armed forces. Go democracy! Afghanistan | Guardian Unlimited [0] Tuesday February 22, 2005 Comments Afghanistan remains one of the world's least-developed countries and could soon fall into chaos. Afghanistan | MyrtleBeachOnline.com [0] Saturday February 19, 2005 Comments New documents show that the U.S. used interrogation methods in Afghanistan as harsh as those employed at Abu Ghraib. Afghanistan | Salon.com [0] Wednesday February 2, 2005 Comments Aid organisations call on the US to fight the drug war in Afghanistan by arresting drug traffickers and creating economic alternatives for farmers rather than eradicating opium poppies. Afghanistan | Financial Times [0] Thursday January 20, 2005 Comments Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is expanding so rapidly that it's affecting food production. Someone should tell the puppet government they need to give farmers some real alternatives. Afghanistan | ReliefWeb [0] Tuesday December 7, 2004 Comments A quarter million landmine victims in Afghanistan struggle to make a life Afghanistan | ReliefWeb [0] Monday November 22, 2004 Comments I guess the War on Terrorism is overshadowing the War on Drugs: Afghanistan is producing 87 percent of the world's opium, making up 60% of it's economic output. Afghanistan | Kerala News, India [0] Monday October 18, 2004 Comments Within less than a month after 9/11 the Taliban had agreed to extradite Bin Laden but, "the US consistently brushed aside such opportunities for a nonviolent solution." Choosing instead to go to war. Afghanistan | Z Communications [0] Tuesday October 12, 2004 Comments UN will try to figure out what happened in the Afghanistan elections that made 15 of the 16 candidates pull out claiming election fraud. Afghanistan | DeepikaGlobal.com [0] Sunday October 10, 2004 Comments Half way through the presidential election in Afghanistan all 15 rivals of former(/current?) CIA man Karzai said they were boycotting the poll because it was an "illegal election". Afghanistan | Reuters AlertNet [0] Friday October 8, 2004 Comments Drug smugglers attempt an assassination of Afghan vice presidential candidate Afghanistan | ABC News [0] Wednesday October 6, 2004 Comments The Afghanistan warlords did learn something from the US, "How... could the 'positive' qualities of Gen Abdul Rashid Dostum, a warlord accused of massacring thousands during the country's civil war, best be brought out?" Afghanistan | Telegraph [0] Friday October 1, 2004 Comments In the run-up to the October 9 presidential election in Afghanistan, warlord factions continue to threaten voters, candidates and political organizers, jeopardizing the integrity of the country’s first national election. Afghanistan | Human Rights Watch [0] Tuesday September 14, 2004 Comments Government of Afghanistan removes governor of Herat causing hundreds of demonstrators to ransack and burn UN offices, killing 7 and injuring 60 -- including 15 US soldiers. Afghanistan | PakTribune [0] Tuesday August 31, 2004 Comments Taliban bombs US "security" contractor. Afghanistan | Channel NewsAsia [0]