A Compendium of reports on the current War on Islam
- By PressTV Local officials in Afghanistan say a young Afghan man has stabbed an American soldier to death in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Press TV reports. Haji Zalmai Khan, governor of the Ghani Khel District, said the 14-year-old assailant had fled the scene after approaching the solider and stabbing him. He added that […]
The Afghan ‘green-on-blue’ attacker seen as a hero (BBC) – By BBC An Afghan border policeman who killed two US soldiers in a so-called “green-on-blue” attack in 2011 has been venerated after his death by many in his community. His family have given the BBC’s Firuz Rahimi and Johannes Dell a rare insight into what […]
- By Alice K Ross, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism The Pakistani government estimates at least 400 civilians have been killed in drone strikes – a figure close to the Bureau’s own findings. In evidence to Ben Emmerson QC, UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism, the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that CIA drones have killed at […]
NATO’s ‘unwinnable’ Afghan campaign leaves Kabul unviable (RT) – By RT NATO troops in Afghanistan have unsuccessfully tried to impose a foreign ideology in a war unwinnable by military means, the UK military has said. The planned 2014 pullout is expected to leave Kabul unable to survive the Taliban onslaught. The Afghan mission of the […]
- By Associated Press MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan — An Afghan policeman gunned down two U.S. special forces on Monday in Wardak province, less than 24 hours after President Hamid Karzai’s deadline expired for them to leave the area where residents have grown increasingly hostile toward the Americans. Despite Karzai’s orders, the American special operations forces remain […]
- By Victoria Brittain, TomDispatch Once, as a reporter, I covered wars, conflicts, civil wars, and even a genocide in places like Vietnam, Angola, Eritrea, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, keeping away from official briefings and listening to the people who were living the war. In the years since the Bush administration launched its […]
- By Hakim & The Afghan Peace Volunteers Two young Afghan boys herding cattle in Uruzgan Province of Afghanistan were mistakenly killed by NATO forces yesterday. They were seven and eight years old. Our globe, approving of ‘necessary or just war’, thinks, “We expect this to happen occasionally.” Some say, “We’re sorry.” Therefore today, with […]
- By Khilafah.com The 3rd of March is a date that is etched into the history of the Muslim Ummah as one of its darkest days ever. It was on this date in the fateful year of 1924 CE that the last vestige of legitimate Islamic rule was ended. The office of Khilifah was abolished […]
- By Bilal Khan, Revolution Observer At the request of the governments of China, Pakistan and Russia, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (UNHCR) will investigate allegations of civilian deaths resulting from U.S (as well as British and Israeli) drone strikes. Drawing on a sample of 25 drone strikes in […]
