Bringing democracy to Muslim countries, grinning at the camera, US soldiers take trophy pictures of Afghans they have killed in acts of pre-meditated murder.

After US attack kills 64 civilians, Gen. David Petraeus, commander of US forces in Afghanistan claims Afghan parents are burning their own children to make the US look bad.

The US counter-insurgency stategy of "winning hearts and minds" in Afghanistan seems to include turning whole towns into dust.

The leak of 91,000 secret US military documents confirms everything the anti-war movement has said for years. The war in Afghanistan is pointless and unwinnable and the warmongers have lied to us continually. It must end now.

The capacity for giving command of US armed services to psychopaths seems unlimited. Just as General Stanley McChrystal goes out one door, in comes another, James Mattis, who thinks it's "fun to shoot some people".

The war in Afghanistan is a catastrophe, but still the warmongers insist "progress is being made". Continued occupation and killing merely delays the inevitable end to a stupid war, says Simon Jenkins.

Video: Soldier Joe Glenton, who was court martialled and imprisoned for refusing to fight in Afghanistan, is interviewed on his release from military prison.

While soldiers' deaths make national news, those injured alongside them often do not. Like the death toll, the number of injured has been steadily rising.

David Cameron is sticking to his "exit strategy" which sees hopelessly inadequate, corrupt and often doped Afghan forces "taking responsibility" for the US-led occupation in place of foreign troops.