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HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. — Garbage and signs of carnage lined the runway of Kabul International Airport days after the Afghani government’s collapse. American forces and their allies were dispersed across the airfield attempting to maintain security as the remaining troops make their way back home. Intermittent gunfire signified the last gasps of the […]
At least three people were killed and two others injured after the Taliban crashed a US-made Black Hawk chopper during a training exercise on Saturday, September 10. According to the Taliban’s Defence Ministry, the incident took place in Kabul where the chopper crashed inside a military training base. The ministry further stated that the incident […]
CNN has learned that one smaller intelligence agency within the State Department did more accurately assess the Ukrainian military’s capability to resist Russia. But while that assessment was shared within the US government, it did not override the wider intelligence community’s predictions. “I think there was a major issue that we missed that had a […]
A powerful explosion has killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, the latest of a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan during Ramadan. The blast hit the Khalifa Sahib mosque in the west of the capital in the early afternoon, according to Besmullah Habib, the deputy spokesperson for […]
What better illustration of the perversities of “justice” under colonial modernity, than the grotesquely disparate treatment of Afghanistan versus the Vatican when it comes to exacting recompense for international crimes. Afghanistan is being further immiserated by its former US occupier in the name of compensating 9/11 victims; while the Vatican, enriched by colonial plunder, continues […]
BEIJING, March 30 (Reuters) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui, where China was set to host two days of meetings on Afghanistan, state broadcaster CGTN reported. The report gave no other details on their meeting. Lavrov had arrived earlier . […]
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The statement comes after a report was released by Human Rights Watch on Tuesday alleging more than a hundred former Afghan security forces had been killed or forcibly disappeared by the Taliban since their surrender in late summer. The report, based on interviews with witnesses, relatives and friends of the victims, detailed “the summary execution […]
“I had multiple encounters with them directly, that they threatened my life and said they’d kill me.” SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. — “I think it’s a sorrow. It’s a sadness that all Afghans around the world feel,” said Sara Javid. “It feels that (the last) 20 years was an illusion. The freedom, the education, all the […]
A coalition of organizations working to evacuate people who could be targeted by the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan appealed Monday for more assistance from the U.S. government and other nations as conditions deteriorate in the country. Members of the AfghanEvac Coalition met in a video call with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to press the […]