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

A mother holds her malnourished child to be weighed as he receives treatment at Al-Jumhori hospital in Saada province, March 19, 2020.

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

Jake Johnson, staff writer

A small "left-right anti-war coalition," warns The Intercept 's Glenn Greenwald, remains "no match for the war machine composed of the establishment wings of both parties."

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

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"After nearly 19 years, over 147,000 casualties and total costs over a trillion...

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

The United Nations announced Thursday that at least 75.9 million people were forcibly displaced as of the end of last year. (Photo: Houssam Hariri/UNHCR)

"These numbers should serve as a wake-up call to the international community on...

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The attack on the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan on May 12, 2020 lasted for hours—described as a "four hours of hell"—and while some doctors, staff, and patients were able to find shelter in safe rooms, many were helpless in the face of the assailants. (Photo: Frederic Bonnot/MSF)

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

A 2019 coalition study found that U.S.-led forces in Iraq and Syria killed 1,302 people, but Amnesty International disputed that number as too low.

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

A volunteer carries an injured youth to a hospital following a bomb blast in Haska Mina district of Nangarhar Province on October 18, 2019.

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

Afghan children look on as a U.S. soldier from the Provincial Reconstruction team (PRT) Steel Warriors patrols in the mountains of Nuristan Province on Dec. 19, 2009.

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

US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar sign a peace agreement during a ceremony in the Qatari capital Doha on February 29, 2020. - The United States signed a landmark deal with the Taliban, laying out a timetable for a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan within 14 months as it seeks an exit from its longest-ever war. Pompeo called on the Taliban to honour its commitments to sever ties with jihadist groups as Washington s

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

An F-15E Strike Eagle from Bagram Air Base deploys flares over Afghanistan Nov. 12, 2008.

'An Admission of Colossal Failure': US Dropped Record Number of Bombs on Afghanistan in 2019

In 2001, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) was the only member of the U.S. House of Representatives to rise in opposition to the rushed decision to invade Afghanistan following the attacks of September 11. (Photo: Archive/C-SPAN)

'I Was Wrong': Bernie Sanders Admits Barbara Lee Only Member of Congress in 2001 Who Had it Right on Afghan War

Rep. Ro Khanna

'Let's Bring Rumsfeld In': Khanna Calls for Hearings on US Officials Who Lied to American People About Afghan War

"The metrics were always manipulated for the duration of the war"

'Read Every Word of This': WaPo Investigation Reveals US Officials' Public Deception Campaign on Afghan War

A U.S. Army soldier fires an M4 carbine rifle

US 'War on Terror' Has Killed Over 801,000 People at Cost of $6.4 Trillion

CIA-backed death squads in Afghanistan are allegedly behind mass atrocities in the country.

'Terrorizing the Populace': Report Finds CIA-Backed Death Squads in Afghanistan Committing War Crimes, Atrocities

A volunteer carries an injured youth to a hospital following a bomb blast in Haska Mina district of Nangarhar Province on October 18, 2019.

Blasts in Afghan Mosque Kill 62 as UN Says Violence Across Country Causing 'Unprecedented' Level of Civilian Casualties

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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.

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Peace Action

The Senate Failed to End the Afghanistan War, Again

ACLU

ACLU Comment on Trump ICC Sanctions Order

Doctors Without Borders

Afghanistan: Pregnant Women and Babies Attacked in Kabul Hospital

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Afghanistan: CIA-Backed Forces Commit Atrocities

Amnesty International - USA

Taliban Bombings in Afghanistan Chillingly Disregard Human Life

Reprieve

Victims of Afghanistan War Crimes Appeal ICC Decision Not to Prosecute

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Nikola Mikovic

What Do Russian Analysts Make of the Charge Moscow Offered Taliban Bounties on US Troops?

Joshua Cho

NYT Erases US Occupation's Role in Prolonging Taliban Insurgency

George A. Lopez

Targeting the ICC: Misguided Sanctions Imposed Yet Again

Juan Cole

From Fallujah to Minneapolis: Trump Brings the US Military 'Battlespace' Home

Erik Edstrom

Celebrated to Death: Memorial Day Is Killing Us

Kevin Martin

Social Distancing? Peace and Social Justice Demand More Coming Together, Not More Distancing

Eric Margolis

End Bush's Stupid War Today

Jesse Jackson

No, President Trump, the Never-ending War in Afghanistan Is Not Ending

Ralph Nader

Three Major News Stories That Need To Be Exposed

Nicolas J.S. Davies

Afghan Troops Say Taliban are Brothers and War is "Not Really Our Fight"