Afghanistan
As U.S. Leaves Afghanistan, How Biden’s 7-Month Approval Rating Stacks Up...
By Jenni Fink
Aug.30, 2021
Despite the significant backlash over problems with the withdrawal of Americans from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden's approval rating is still...
Fighters celebrate the end of US – NATO occupation of Afghanistan....
America's Longest War Ends: Pentagon Announces Withdrawal of US Troops From Afghanistan
by Evan Craighead
Aug. 30, 2021
photo: US Central Command Public Affairs
The US Department...
Tony Blair should go to Afghanistan
The former British PM should follow up by personal example on his calls not to abandon Afghanistan
By Andrew Mitrovica
29 Aug 2021
Robert Fisk would not...
Senators now investigating Biden’s withdrawal were mum on ‘Afghanistan Papers’
Selective accountability on failed US foreign policy is a feature of Washington
Written by Ben Armbruster
August 20, 2021
The chairs of the Senate’s leading foreign policy committees...
Pentagon prepared for ‘mass casualty’ attack at Kabul Airport hours before...
Detailed notes of three classified calls provided to POLITICO show top Pentagon officials knew of imminent threat, but struggled to close Abbey Gate.
By LARA...
Afghanistan always defeats the West
A grasp of history might have prevented this disastrous war
By William Dalrymple*
August 30, 2021
Photo: Yam/LA Times
Before the events of this month, the First Anglo-Afghan...
US mainstream media on Biden’s popularity
Most Americans, including half of young Democrats, disapprove of Biden’s handling of recent Gaza crisis
By Shibley Telhami
July 29, 2021
President Joe Biden’s handling...
Afghanistan, One Defeat Breeds Another | By Alain Gresh
Kabul has fallen, and it took the Taliban only a few weeks to sweep away the Afghan army, which had been financed and trained...
The Great Game in central Asia is over – and America...
Biden has very few options to restore US global credibility and counter the rise of the Eurasian power bloc. And all of them are...
US airstrike targets Islamic State member in Afghanistan – Biden warns...
US airstrike targets Islamic State member in Afghanistan
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS
Aug.28, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting swiftly on President Joe Biden’s promise...