LONDON (AP) — Members of Afghanistan’s women’s youth development soccer team arrived in Britain early Thursday after being flown from Pakistan with the help of a New York rabbi, a U.K. soccer club and Kim Kardashian West. A plane chartered by the reality star and carrying more than 30 teenage players and their families, about […]
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Was the Afghan War a Schell Game?
A man grieves during a mass funeral for members of a family was killed in a U.S. drone airstrike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (Photo: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times) I waited almost three months for some acknowledgement, but it never came. Not a bottle of champagne. Not a congratulatory note. Not an email of […]
From punishing the Taliban to punishing the Afghan people
Following the departure of American occupation forces from Afghanistan it seems that the international community, especially the US, is moving from trying to punish the Taliban to punishing the Afghan people. It was the Taliban fighters, of course, who basically defeated US troops in the longest war in American history. This shift is exposed by […]
Turkey condemns deadly terrorist attacks in Afghan capital
On Tuesday, Turkey the deadly terror attacks this week in the Afghan capital, Kabul, calling them “inhuman acts of terrorism.” The Turkish Foreign Ministry, in a statement, expressed sadness over casualties from two successive bomb attacks and subsequent armed clashes at the entrance of Afghanistan’s largest military hospital. The ministry wished God’s mercy upon those […]
US-Trained Afghan Spies & Special Forces Are Joining ISIS For ‘Protection’ Against Taliban
Many former national Afghan forces who are now being hunted by the Taliban after their US military backers withdrew from the country in August are turning to the Islamic State for protection, a new investigative Wall Street Journal report finds. Also among those joining the ranks of ISIS in Afghanistan, or ISIS-K, are members of […]
Moscow Takes Initiative in Tackling the Afghan Issue
On October 20, the Russian capital hosted Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan, a meeting involving members of the Taliban (banned in Russia) as well as representatives of China, Pakistan, Iran, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The US welcomed the talks, saying though that it would abstain from this meeting. Russia was represented at […]
Vietnamese, Afghan & Iraqi Genocides: Mainstream Media Ignore War Crimes Of Colin Powell
The former African-American military commander Colin Powell has just died from COVID-19 complications, and mendacious and pro-war Western Mainstream media and politicians have been fulsome in their praise for the first Black American Secretary of State while conceding his error at the UN over non-existent Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Missing has been mention […]
U.S. Ties Up $9.5 Billion of Afghan Funds Hoping to Collapse Afghan Economy Starving 14 Million Afghans
by Admin · Published October 21, 2021 · Updated October 21, 2021 Ron Wieczorek Octobehr 189 atg0nsm7o3 8u:4746 ePM2 · “Washington Urged to Release Afghan Funds”Oct. 18 (EIRNS)—PARIS, Oct. 18, 2021 (Nouvelle Solidarité)—Without mentioning the Schiller Institute’s international mobilization, China Daily, under this title, gives today on its website a rundown of several voices demonstrating that “raising concerns are growing over […]
Afghan migrants in Bosnia still hope to reach EU despite violent pushback
Several hundred Afghan migrants including women, children and a seven-day-old baby have settled in a makeshift tent camp near the border with Croatia, determined to continue their journey to the European Union despite pushback and deportations, Reuter’s reports. “I don’t want to go back to my country ever again,” said a man who identified himself […]
Guess What Happened to This Hotel After it Allowed 150 Afghan Refugees to Stay
A powerful blast that ripped through an apartment block in Gothenburg was likely caused by an explosive device, raising the prospect of another gang-linked attack in multicultural Sweden. The explosion tore through the building in the Annedal district in central Gothenburg on Tuesday morning, starting a major fire. “The explosion rocked through the building just […]
Several Afghan Refugees Rape Female Soldier at Fort Bliss
Several Afghan refugees at Fort Bliss are being investigated by the FBI for the brutal rape of a female soldier. The news comes just days after two other Afghan refugees were arrested for child rape spouse abuse. NEW: The FBI confirms to @FoxNews they’ve launched an investigation into the alleged assault of a female U.S. […]
Afghan Refugees at Fort McCoy Arrested for Child Rape & Assaulting Woman
Two Afghan evacuees will face federal charges at Fort McCoy for attempting to rape a child and assaulting a woman. Bahrullah Noori, 20, is charged with attempting to rape a child. Mohammad Haroon Imaad, 32, is charged with assaulting his spouse by strangling and suffocating her. Thepostmillennial.com reports: Both men made initial appearances in Madison […]
CDC: Biden’s Afghan Migrants Pouring into U.S. Are Riddled with Diseases
President Joe Biden is allowing Afghans into the United States who are riddled with diseases such as measles, malaria, tuberculosis, and Covid, according to a damning CDC report. On Monday, the CDC announced that the thousands of Afghans continuing to pour into the U.S. under Biden’s watch must be vaccinated as soon as possible otherwise […]
ISIS-K Bombs Eastern Afghan City, Kills Taliban Fighters
ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly bombings that killed or injured more than 35 Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan over the weekend, Fox News reported Monday. ISIS-K on September 19 “claimed responsibility for six explosions caused by improvised explosive devices (IED)” on September 18 and 19 in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar […]
Afghan Survivors of Failed U.S. Drone Strike: Sorry Is ‘Not Enough’
Afghan survivors of the failed U.S. drone strike that killed 10 innocent civilians, including seven children, say “sorry” is not enough and are demanding accountability. On Friday, U.S. Central Command commander General Kenneth McKenzie admitted that the man targeted in the drone strike was aid worker Zemari Ahmadi, who had no connections with ISIS or […]
Afghan Survivors Of U.S. Drone Strike Say Apology ‘Is Not Enough’
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Sorry is not enough for the Afghan survivors of an errant U.S. drone strike that killed 10 members of their family, including seven children. Emal Ahmadi, whose 3-year-old daughter Malika was killed on Aug. 29, when the U.S. hellfire missile struck his elder brother’s car, told The Associated Press on Saturday […]
US Drones Still Fly Over the Afghan Horizon
Facing unrelenting criticism over the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden Administration is insisting that the United States will maintain a capability to launch airstrikes in Afghanistan, regardless of the legal limitations and possibility of perpetuating the war. The Biden Administration vows to keep in place an “over-the-horizon capability,” meaning that the United States will still be able […]
Report: Joe Biden Brings to U.S. Another Afghan Felon Trump Deported
President Joe Biden’s administration has reportedly brought a second convicted Afghan felon, previously deported by former President Trump’s administration, back to the United States as part of its massive resettlement operation. The Washington Times’ Stephen Dinan has exclusively reported that an Afghan, convicted of aggravated robbery in 2011 and subsequently deported in 2017, was able to […]
“Do Not Touch My Clothes”: Afghan Women Post Selfies in Colorful Dresses to Protest Taliban Dress Codes
Fatima Kakkar, MD, MPH (@DrFatimaKakkar) wrote: Proudly wearing in our traditional, colourful, vibrant Afghan clothes #DoNotTouchMyClothes #AfghanWoman #AfghanistanCulture #AfganistanWomen Afghan women are protesting Taliban imposed women dress code. At the same time, Taliban organized a head to toe veiled women gathering at the Shaheed Rabbani Education University in Kabul on September 11, 2021 attended by […]
The True Lessons of the Afghan War
Handover ceremony at Camp Anthonic, from US Army to Afghan Special Forces, Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 2, 2021. Disagreements over how to assess the American exodus from Afghanistan have kept the pundits busy these last weeks, even though there wasn’t much to say that hadn’t been said before. For some of them, however, that was […]