News and Media at Your Favorite Things

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• Regional: Asia: Afghanistan: News and Media  (25)
• Society: Issues: Warfare and Conflict: Specific Conflicts: War on Terrorism: News and Media  (1,762)

• AfghanPix.com - Detailed photo essay covering the civil war and the daily life of Afghans, by Alexander Merkushev.
• CBC In-depth Report: Afghanistan - News and analysis, background information, profiles of key figures and countries, multimedia.
• Christian Science Monitor - Terrorism & Security - A survey of what's going on in the war against terrorism, with links to news coverage across the web on the Taliban, al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden.
• Eurasia.net: Afghanistan Archive - Includes articles, interviews, photo essays, and resources.
• FAIR Resources: Afghanistan - Provides articles, broadcasts, documents and links about media coverage of Afghanistan, produced and compiled by the media watch group FAIR.
• Financial Times Special Report: Afghanistan's Future - Includes articles, background, and links for related special reports.
• Guardian Unlimited - Weblog special: Attack on Afghanistan - Collection of articles from around the net discussing the rights and wrongs of the US-attack on Afghanistan.
• Guardian.co.uk: War in Afghanistan - Articles, analysis, comments and background information.
• Hope in a Ruined Land - Photojournal by Tyler Hicks for the New York Times, showing the country in summer 2002. Includes audio commentary, transcript and map.
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Afghan Crisis - Reports and news analyses with focus on Afghanistan and the neighbouring countries [articles in English and Russian].
• PBS: Afghanistan - News updates, political and economic crisis, US military strikes, discussion forum, map, timeline, background sources, and links.
• UN News Centre: Afghanistan - UN press briefings and reports, news, information and articles on the peacekeeping force and the UN relief efforts, maps.
• Washingtonpost: Afghanistan - Latest news, articles, interview transcripts and external links.
• Why We Must Show the Dead - Eamonn McCabe explains the reasons for publishing photographs of war's victims.
• Williams Afghan Media Project - Williams College and the Afghan Media Resource Center collect and archivate material related to the conflict in Afghanistan. Includes a contact address, information on the project and an online searchable database of images.
• World In Crisis, Media In Conflict - Reports, commentary and resources from the global MediaChannel network help to understand the role of media.
• Yahoo! News: Afghanistan - Gives relevant news and opinion, audio, video, photos, interactives and web resources relating to Afghanistan.

• Know Nothing About Afghanistan? Blame the Death of the Documentary - The audience is flooded with news, but the media reduce Afghans to either victims or warriors. (October 30, 2002)
• CNN: "We Didn't Want to Criticize a Popular War" - Kurt Nimmo criticizes the lack of investigative journalism in the US mainstream media. From Counterpunch, US. (August 23, 2002)
• Journalists Fight "Hidden War" in Afghanistan - US military and Northern Alliance may have colluded to keep journalists away from areas in Afghanistan where special forces were operating. The Guardian, UK. (April 26, 2002)
• How Smart Was This Bomb? - Did the US mean to hit the Kabul offices of Al-Jazeera TV? Some journalists are convinced it was targeted for being on the 'wrong side'. A report by Matt Wells in the Guardian. (November 19, 2001)
• First 'Internet War' Gives Americans Non-American Viewpoints - Anick Jesdanun discusses and lists websites giving Americans foreign viewpoints on the conflict in Afghanistan. (October 18, 2001)
• TimeAsia.com: Bracing for Mayhem - Afghanistan is again facing devastation as the United States plans a substantial military action. Includes current and past news articles, photo gallery, interviews, map, timeline from 1919 to 1998, section on bin Laden, and links. (September 18, 2001)
• The Iranian: Limbs of No Body - Commentary by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, an Iranian film-maker who has produced two feature films on Afghanistan, on the reasons for the high mortality and emigration rates. Photo essay by Ali Khaligh. (June 20, 2001)