August 01, 2008 The Huffington Post
	Stopping Military Build-up In Afghanistan Key to Real "Change" and "Hope" -- Recent debates around a possible and likely military build-up in Afghanistan have created some divisions and tensions within the movement to stop the war in Iraq. Though it is urgent and necessary to debate the pros and cons of exposing the Afghan people to more U.S. militarism, we should, with increasing urgency, worry about exposing ourselves to the effects of continued and increased militarism: budgets broken by war, spikes in global hatred of the U.S. and the possibility of raising children in a future dominated by the anti-democratic dual dictates of perpetual war and "national security."
July 07, 2008 The Washington Post
	Bomb at Indian Embassy kills 41 in Afghanistan -- KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb hit the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing 41 people and wounding 139, in an attack Afghan authorities said was coordinated with foreign agents in the region, a likely reference to Pakistan.
July 03, 2008 abc News
	Afghan children 'forgotten victims' of war: UN -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says children in Afghanistan suffer more than in any other country in the world from violence, war and poverty.
June 12, 2008 BBC News
	Major Guantanamo setback for Bush -- In a major legal setback for the Bush administration, the court overturned by five to four a ruling upholding a 2006 law which removed such rights.
April 10, 2008 Telegraph
	US envoy may challenge for Afghan presidency -- The Afghan-born US Ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, has signalled that he will run for the presidency of Afghanistan in elections next year.
April 10, 2008 The New York Times
	Afghans Hold Secret Trials for Men That U.S. Detained -- Dozens of Afghan men who were previously held by the United States at Bagram Air Base and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are now being tried here in secretive Afghan criminal proceedings based mainly on allegations forwarded by the American military.
February 29, 2008 The Guardian
	Afghanistan mission close to failing - US -- After six years of US-led military support and billions of pounds in aid, security in Afghanistan is "deteriorating" and President Hamid Karzai's government controls less than a third of the country, America's top intelligence official has admitted.
February 22, 2008 TIME
	Iran Raises the Heat in Afghanistan -- Afghanistan is in a tough spot. The country is reliant on the U.S. and NATO for its security and, at the same time, shares its longest land border with Iran.
February 21, 2008 The Star
	Economy a key to Afghan peace -- Building Afghanistan's economy and promoting "national reconciliation" have a greater chance of achieving a lasting peace than the use of military force, according to a military study of the parallels between the NATO mission and the Soviet invasion of the 1980s.
February 18, 2008 International Herald Tribune
	140 killed in 2 days of bombings, Afghanistan's deadliest span since 2001 -- The back-to-back bombings in Kandahar province could serve as a warning that insurgents have turned to collateral civilian deaths to further weaken the Kabul government.
February 17, 2008 Reuters
	AFGHANISTAN: Mass deportation from Iran may cause crisis, official warns -- The Afghan government has once again called upon the Iranian government to suspend its deportation of thousands of Afghans living in Iran illegally until after winter to avoid a humanitarian crisis.
February 13, 2008 Reuters
	Defeat a "real possibility" in Afghanistan: Ashdown -- NATO is in disarray and the West faces defeat in Afghanistan unless it overhauls its counter-insurgency and reconstruction strategy, Britain's Paddy Ashdown wrote in an article published on Wednesday.