Is Britain ‘outsourcing’ torture to the Pakistani intelligence agency, as a number of detainees have alleged? Ian Cobain reports

James Cogan describes how the US/NATO occupation force in Afghanistan recently suffered the largest number of casualties in a 24-hour period for more than three years.

A regroupment of the Taliban and al-Qaida in the Pakistani borderlands is bringing the war closer to Kabul argues Paul Rogers.

As Noordin Mengal’s experience shows, the US is now adding human rights defenders to its list of unwanted aliens argues Peter Tatchell.

The decisions taken by the United States and Israel over the next four months will influence events in the middle east for the next four years and beyond, says Paul Rogers.

Brian Cloughley asks why foreign troops are fighting in Afghanistan, and what – if anything – they have achieved. He calls for a common sense approach by all the clever foreigners who think they know how the country should be governed

The patterns of conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and north Africa are reassembling to create a new phase in the global "war on terror". Paul Rogers reports

The west’s ‘good war’ in Afghanistan has turned bad, says Tariq Ali. A local solution, rather than a neocolonial one, is what’s needed

An increased American military and political effort in Afghanistan is making the conflict there part of a new dynamic of global confrontation, says Paul Rogers.

British agents are alleged to have questioned men at a Pakistani interrogation centre after they had been brutally mistreated. Ian Cobain reports.

Pakistan’s President Musharraf is running a state terrorist regime with the backing of both Britain and the US, writes Peter Tatchell

Britain’s economic and military assistance in Pakistan serve only to add to that country’s mounting problems, says Tom Porteous of Human Rights Watch.

A season of political deal-making in Islamabad, London and Washington cannot conceal the failings of the “war on terror” at its point of origin, writes Paul Rogers.

Amy Goodman interviews Tariq Ali on recent violence on the Afghan-Pakistan border, and the continuing role of the US and UK in the regional turmoil.