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 On 4 May, the US launched an airstrike on a village in Afghanistan. Local accounts from villagers, International Red Cross reports and an official Afghan government inquiry all agreed that 140 civilians, including 93 children, were killed. Only 22 of the victims were adult males. The US military "apologised" but claims "only" 26 civilians were killed and the rest were "Taliban". Watch this video for 140 reasons why all foreign troops must leave Afghanistan now. Read also Guy Smallman's report.
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 America plunged Iraq into chaos, shattered the infrastructure and destroyed the society. Having created the chaos, violence and jihadism, the U.S. said, in colonial fashion, it had to stay to curb the chaos, violence and jihadism. Having crippled the state, it had no choice but to prolong the occupation until the natives were ready to govern themselves.
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 Obama campaigned on a promise to leave Iraq. Yet the response to the June 30 deadline to withdraw all US troops from Iraq's cities, and the passage of another $70 billion for the war by the US Congress, are stark indicators of what the real Iraq policy may be. 50,000 military personnel will remain in the cities after the deadline, plus tens of thousands of mercenaries.
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 Saturday 27 June was Armed Forces Day. Stop the War groups were out on Britain's high streets and shopping centres, leafletting their support for the troops in Afghanistan, by calling for them all to be brought home now.
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 Barack Obama has authorised missile attacks deep inside Pakistan, now killing around 40 civilians a month. Ignoring Pakistan's objections, Obama is expanding an illegal and undeclared war.
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 Read extracts from speeches by Jeremy Corbyn MP, George Galloway and John Mcdonnell, speaking in Parliament on 24 June when an inquiry into the Iraq war was debated.
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Stop the War Coalition Statement: The responsibility of the anti-war movement is first of all to oppose the role of the British government in the region, and to prevent its posturing being used as a pretence to justify a US or Israeli military attack against Iran, an attack which would have catastrophic results for the Iranian people and the whole Middle East. |
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 Since 2001, the US Air Force has dropped 40 million lbs of bombs on Afghanistan, killing and maiming many thousands of innocent civilians. In this video Afghan civilians describe how they feel about invading armies destroying the country which they say they have come to save.
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 A confidential record of a meeting between President Bush and Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq, outlining their intention to go to war without a second United Nations resolution, will be an explosive issue for the official inquiry into the UK's role in toppling Saddam Hussein.
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