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 […]
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 The Bureau of Investigative Journalism Of more than 2,500 people so far thought to have been killed in the CIA’s Pakistan drone campaign, we’ve identified the names of perhaps 20%. Identifying the names of those killed can dramatically change our understanding of particular strikes, and bring more transparency to the debate on drones. Here are a […]
If confirmed as Nato action, deaths of 10 civilians, including five children, likely to renew tensions between Karzai and Nato – By Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian A Nato air strike in eastern Afghanistan has killed 10 civilians, five of them children, and wounded five other children, Afghan officials said. Civilian deaths in air strikes have been one of the most […]
Malik invokes Islam in offer to Taliban ISLAMABAD: Like his other colleagues who spoke in the National Assembly on Saturday, the usually tough-talking interior minister, Rehman Malik, took the role of a preacher to make a holy, though ambiguous, offer to Taliban militants: “Return to the fold of Islam” to end bloodshed. – By Raja […]
- By Bismillah Sahar The spring of change needs blood to rain down, It requires the irrigation of the gardens with blood. Valuing the blood of the people of the past Requires the price of human blood. Each drop of it has become a Nile of the dawn’s blood; The Pharaohs want to fill the […]
As the Pentagon’s former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as finite, the US moves in the opposite direction – By Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian Last month, outgoing pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson gave a speech at the Oxford Union and said that the War on Terror must, at some point, come to an end: […]
