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.

There has been scandalously little reporting of the war in Afghanistan, even though the 7,700 British and more than 40,000 NATO troops there are engaged in more intense fighting than in Iraq argues the Stop the War Coalition.

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

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.

The crisis of the Afghan occupation is a reminder of its fraudulent claims, growing cost in blood, and certainty of failure, says Seumas Milne