Afghanistan
US soldier who murdered Afghan civilians released after just four years
A former US Army soldier who pleaded guilty to killing an unarmed Afghan teen was granted early release for good behavior. Andrew Holmes of Boise, Idaho had been sentenced to seven years at the Ft. Leavenworth military prison in 2011. Holmes was part of a “Kill Team,” a group of
US soldiers allowed the rape of minor boys at their bases in Afghanistan
In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.
Documentary - Living Beneath the Drones in Afghanistan
The devastating impact that war and living under the constant threat of drones has had on the people of Afghanistan.
American soldier who killed 16 Afghans says he was ‘consumed by war’
The US soldier who murdered 16 Afghan villagers in 2012 says he had lost compassion for Iraqis and Afghans over the course of his four combat deployments.
Doctors’ group says 1.3 million killed in US ‘War on Terror’
A group of international physicians’ organizations has published a study concluding US-led wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have killed more than 1.3 million people.
Muslimah battered to death in Afghanistan by mobs for doing Dawah
Hours after an angry mob in Kabul brutally murdered a 28-year-old Afghan woman named Farkhunda, her still-grieving family was forced to flee their home under the cover of night.
