Afghanistan

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Order Targeting Lawyers Supporting ICC Afghan War Crimes Probe

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda during a trip to Sudan on October 18, 2020. (Photo: Mahmoud Hjaj/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)

Number of Journalists Murdered in Retaliation for Their Work More Than Doubled in 2020: Report

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

"The fact that murder is on the rise and the number of journalists imprisoned around the world hit a record is a clear demonstration that press freedom is under unprecedented assault."

Report Blames Trump Admin for 330% Rise in Afghan Civilian Casualties

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Civilian casualties have soared in Afghanistan during the tenure of President Donald Trump. (Photo: Noorullah Shirzada/AFP via Getty Images)

"In 2019 airstrikes killed 700 civilians—more civilians than in any other year...

Because She Was Wrong About Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, Daniel Ellsberg Joins Campaign Against Flournoy

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Daniel Ellsberg speaks at the "Cinema for Peace Gala" in the Westhafen Event and Convention Center on February 11, 2019.

Declaring that "we do not need a hawk with relationships with the weapons...

47 Groups Back Rep. Joaquin Castro for House Committee Chair Post to 'Build a More Restrained and Progressive Foreign Policy'

10 Years After Iraq War Logs, It's Impunity for War Criminals, War on Whistleblowers

'Full Frontal Attack on Rule of Law': Trump Sanctions Top ICC Officials Probing US War Crimes in Afghanistan

'The Last Straw': As Pandemic Rages, Oxfam Warns 12,000 Could Die Per Day From Hunger

Why Are House Democrats Siding With Liz Cheney to Prolong Endless War in Afghanistan?

Here Are the 16 Democrats Who Voted With GOP to Kill Amendment to Withdraw All US Troops, End Afghan War

'Unimaginable Double Emergency': Record High of Nearly 80 Million People Forcibly Displaced Worldwide Amid Pandemic

'They Came to Kill the Mothers': MSF Mourns After Sinister Attack on Maternity Ward in Kabul

Critics Charge Pentagon 'Still Undercounting' Civilians Killed by US Military Overseas

US-Backed Forces Killed Twice as Many Children as Taliban and ISIS Did During 1st Quarter of 2020

'Total Win!': Human Rights Groups Welcome ICC Probe of US Torture and War Crimes in Afghanistan

"So-Called ‪'Peace Deal' Is Anything But": Critics Warn US-Taliban Deal Exposes Fallacies of Endless War Paradigm

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Our Almost Perfect Crimes

Little noted by a mainstream media willfully blind to America's ongoing human rights abuses, Mohamedou Ould Slahi's "endless world tour" of detention and torture over 14 harrowing years at Guantánamo may come to a close after being cleared Wednesday for release. The author of the searing Guantánamo Diary and reportedly Gitmo's most tortured prisoner, Slahi - it is vital we remember this - was never charged with a crime.