NATO's War

Radio Free Europe is saying that eight children have died overnight in northern Afghanistan due to fighting around the elections, an update on the six previously reported by other sources.

A drone strike has killed five people overnight in Afghanistan.

RAWA is noting that forty people were also injured at the elections.

Al Jazeera's Afghanistan correspondent Sue Turton explains the security situation in Kabul.

This article illuminates the reality on the ground during the election process in Afghanistan, and demystifies the stories emerging in the press. An extremely worthwhile read.

Seven people were just killed in eastern Afghanistan by NATO forces, according to CNN.

Eighty insurgents were killed by NATO elsewhere in the last twenty-four hours, and one family has had one person killed and eight members wounded in Southern Afghanistan.

NDTV has shared the news that a Sikh woman is running in the Afghan elections.

There has been a new delivery of aircraft to Afghan forces, reports Robert Leese of the ISAF mission.

One reporter that is embedded with a force in the Kunar mountains reports that they have killed over 200 insurgents during his tenure in the last while.

Politico's Laura Rozen updates us that ISAF has denied an Iranian report that seven ISAF soldiers crossed the Iranian border with Afghanistan and were detained in Iranian territory.

Over 1,100 people have been killed in non-Afghan drone attacks since 2008, write Zee news, including four people who were killed in a strike in Pakistan last night, according to a report by Agence France Presse.

The Hindustan Times documents that the number of total people killed as a result of the Afghan elections was eighty-nine.

The Canadian government is boosting aid for soldiers wounded in the Afghan war.


Marjorie Cohn editorializes about Bradley Manning, the Wikileaks whistleblower, who is currently being held in an American military prison.

A Japanese reporter adventures to cover stories and take pictures in Afghanistan, after previously having done the same in Iraq.

Georgia are debating their role in Afghanistan, sources in eastern Europe report.

116 people are dead and 180 are wounded in a conflict over water in rural Pakistan, says CNN.


NATO has updated its numbers to twenty-two people killed in election violence, and the bodies of three kidnapped election workers have been found in Afghanistan.

CTV reports that Canada's Security Intelligence Service, CSIS, interrogated fifty Afghans in the latter's own country, but has not admitted to mistreating them.