Afghanistan is the testing ground for the future of warfare: special forces and spies will be joined by pilotless armed drones and cyber warriors in a new arsenal of key weapons systems.

If you look only at Afghan “culture” to explain the lack of women's rights in Afghanistan, you miss the fact that US militarism has contributed to the crisis of Afghan women.

If we were to believe the stories coming out of the Bonn conference on Afghanistan, the occupying armies are the thin blue line protecting women there from something much worse.

The US media cheerleaders for the Afghanistan war can't admit that it isn't only "extremists" regularly killing civilians but also their own country's army.

Obama's message to boys with designs on his daughters: "I have two words for you . . . Predator drones - you will never see it coming", is no joke to 16-year-old Saadullah who lost both legs and his eyesight.

A world where drones are constantly buzzing overhead—waiting to zap those deemed threats under a cloaked and controversial process, risks being a world of lawlessness and chaos.

US-NATO knows the game is up in Afghanistan and all that's left to play for is to find a way of dressing up defeat as "success" and "progress" and declaring "victory" as they leave.

Whoever pushed the button and the US government officials who gave the orders to kill 175 children should be brought to trial: that is, the CIA's Stephen Preston and his boss, President Barack Obama.

What else is ten years of the United States extinguishing the lives of innocent men, women, teenagers and young children in Muslim countries but murder?

The UN report in July which said only 14% of civilians were killed by the US-led occupation forces and the rest by "insurgents" is a gross underestimate say independent observers.

Is the legalisation of rape in marriage, the death of one in 11 women in pregnancy or childbirth, and the malnourishment of 39% of Afghan children what liberation in Afghanistan is meant to look like?

The worse it gets for the occupation, the more they have to lie, which is why we're told that anyone killed or captured by the US-led occupation is a Taliban 'leader'.

Our politicians have lied and misled, our journalists have failed, but they remain 'our' journalists, 'our' politicians, 'our' laws, 'our' army, and 'our' planes. So what do we do?

A child's basic right to life and development is seriously compromised by growing up in the context of war and occupation in Afghanistan.

Jeremy Corbyn MP, who has recently been elected National Chair of Stop the War Coalition, reflects on ten years of the campaign to oppose government war policies.

The intensity of the ten-year-old war is growing and U.N. figures show the Afghan government and its Western allies are further than ever from a solid grip on security.