Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on the US to halt air strikes in his country, following an attack that reportedly killed scores of civilians.
Mr Karzai, who is in Washington, told CNN air strikes were “not acceptable”.
Afghan officials say more than 100 civilians died when US jets attacked targets in the western Farah province.
The incident [...]
May 9, 2009
Karzai urges US to stop strikes…
May 9, 2009
4 British troops killed in Afghanistan…
Four British soldiers have been killed in a single day while on patrol in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today.
It was the armed forces’ worst loss of life in one day since June 2008.
The four died in three incidents on Thursday in Helmand, one of the most violent areas in the country and [...]
May 9, 2009
Iraq: Stop Executing Prisoners…
(New York) – Iraq should institute an immediate moratorium on the death penalty in the aftermath of a large number of executions on May 3, 2009, Human Rights Watch said today.
According to United Nations officials in Baghdad, the Iraqi government hanged 12 people in Baghdad on May 3 who had been convicted of criminal offenses. [...]
May 9, 2009
U.S. drone attack kills at least five in Pakistan…
ISLAMABAD, May 9 (Reuters) – Missiles fired by suspected pilotless U.S. drone aircraft struck a compound in a Pakistani region on the Afghan border on Saturday, killing at least five militants, intelligence and Taliban officials said.
Four missiles fired by two drones hit a compound in Sarorogha village in the South Waziristan tribal region, a stronghold [...]
May 9, 2009
Desperation in Pakistani hospitals, refugee camps…
MINGORA, Pakistan – Civilians cowered in hospital beds on Saturday and refugees looted U.N. supplies — all of them desperate for relief from the fighting that has engulfed a northwestern valley as troops and warplanes try to drive out Taliban militants.
The prime minister, directing millions of dollars to help the residents of a region where [...]
May 9, 2009
A giant US military base emerges in Afghanistan…
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (AFP) – In the forbidding Afghan desert, US engineers are carving out a sprawling military camp as part of a dramatic American troop build-up designed to confront Taliban insurgents.
The desolate plain in southern Helmand province that Afghans call the “desert of death” has turned into a hive of frenetic activity, underscoring President [...]
May 9, 2009
Ex US-soldier found guilty of rape, murder of Iraqi girl…
PADUCAH, Kentucky (AFP) – A US federal jury has found former soldier Steven Dale Green guilty of raping an Iraqi teenager and then executing the girl and her family, court officials said Thursday.
Green, who was discharged from the army due to a “personality disorder” before his role in the atrocity came to light, was found [...]
May 9, 2009
Afghan suicide attack kills 21 Afghans, two Brits…
KABUL (AFP) – A suicide bomber blew himself up in southern Afghanistan, killing 21 Afghan civilians and two British soldiers in one of the deadliest such attacks in months, officials said Friday.
The attack on Thursday tore through a busy bazaar in Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold where British soldiers have had control of several provinces [...]
