Afghanistan

The U.S. seizure of Afghan government funds after the Taliban took power has put millions at risk of starvation.

The 20-year conflict will not be fully resolved until the issue of prisoners of war has been justly settled.

Federal investigators still refuse to release audio or a full transcript of Omar Mateen's conversations with the police during the Orlando attack.

American punishment meted out for 42 dead: counseling, letters of reprimand, and training courses.

MSF's general director said yesterday: "A mistake is quite hard to understand and believe at this stage." But U.S. journalists — who knew nothing about what happened — long ago insisted this was impossible.

Two weeks before Raytheon’s blimp escaped, a British military helicopter coming in for a landing at NATO headquarters hit a similar blimp’s tether. Five people, including two U.S. Air Force personnel, were killed.

What's unusual about the Kunduz hospital bombing is not that it happened but that it happened to a prominent European organization. In recent times, the U.S. military has bombed a number of civilian facilities.

Those who already “know” that this was all a terrible mistake, that no U.S. personnel would ever purposely call for a strike on a hospital even if they thought there were Taliban inside, should be the ones most eager for the most credible investigation possible.

We now have U.S. and Afghan officials expressly justifying the consummate war crime: deliberately attacking a hospital filled with doctors, nurses, and wounded patients. And whatever else is true, the story of what happened here has been changing rapidly as facts emerge proving the initial claims to be false.

From the start, not even the U.S. military had the audacity to try to obscure that they did this. They left that dirty work to their leading media outlets, which, as usual, are more than eager and happy to comply.