"Suddenly, there were large planes above us. Then they bombed the house …They bombed and fired from 1 a.m. to 8 a.m. All of my relatives were killed in this bombing -- my cousins, my uncles, nieces, nephews, two of my daughters and my son"
Afghan taxi driver Hajj Gul Ahmed, August 2008

“ We left our houses and came to this camp to escape from the aerial bombings. My house was destroyed, and all our possessions were buried … now I have nothing to eat, nothing to feed my children with”
Afghan woman, Marghar camp, Kandahar province, November 2006

24 October 2009, London: Bring the Troops Home march

4-5 November 2009, Watford: Trial of the Northwood Six 10am, Watford Magistrates Court, WD17 1ST

13 November 2009, Edinburgh: Smash NATO actions on the 1st Day of NATO's Parliamentary Assembly.

15 - 17 January 2010, Nottingham: Peace News Winter Gathering

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US/NATO bombing has killed hundreds – maybe thousands – of civilians since the start of 2006. Indeed, according to the UN mission in Afghanistan, more Afghan civilians died at the hands of US/NATO forces in the first six months of 2007 than were killed by the Taliban.

In one single incident, 25 civilians - including nine women and three young children - were killed by a bombing raid called in by British forces, one of just hundreds of such air strikes.

Moreover, the use of air power - and the human carnage it causes - is central to the occupation of Afghanistan. As one senior NATO official explained: “[W]ithout air, we’d need hundreds of thousands of troops.”

In May 2007 the upper house of the Afghan Parliament passed a motion calling for a military cease-fire and a date to be set for the withdrawal of foreign troops.

Meanwhile, in an Oct/Nov 2008 poll, 68% of the British public said that all British troops should be withdrawn from Afghanistan within 12 months.

We need to stop the bombing and bring the troops home.

See the latest analysis from Peace News on Afghanistan:

Afghanistan: We Must Get Out
Peace News, September 2009

Why is Britain in Afghanistan?
Peace News, September 2009

Britain "crucial" to Afghan war
Peace News, September 2009

Elections, warlords and withdrawals
Peace News, September 2009

Obama is wrong on Afghanistan: a letter to The Guardian, 1 April 2009, signed by Iain Banks, Bruce Kent, Robert Newman, John Pilger, Michael Rosen, Mark Steel, Susannah York, John McDonnell MP

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On 27 May 2009, activists staged a die-in at Northwood military base near Watford to highlight the killing of civilians in Afghanistan. See more about the event. See reports and pictures.

An Afghan boy cries after his two uncles are killed and his rather detained during a US-led raid, 29/06/07.

Agah Lali, whose wife, father, grandfather, grandmother, four sisters and three brothers were killed, when US forces bombed his village on 08/05/07.

An Afghan infant wounded by an airstrike that killed more than 30 civilians on 30/06/07.