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Biden Grants Commanders ‘Full Authority’ to Target Daesh-Khorasan in Wake of...
by Ilya Tsukanov
Aug. 27, 2021
At least 170 people were killed and over 1,330 more wounded in Thursday's twin bombing and gun attacks outside Kabul's...
Biden vows to finish Kabul evacuation, avenge US deaths
By ROBERT BURNS,
DARLENE SUPERVILLE and MATTHEW LEE
Aug. 27, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden vowed Thursday to complete the evacuation of American citizens and...
Israeli extremists delighted by Taliban’s victory. “War of civilizations” scenario
The Taliban Victory as a Victory of Faith
By Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen
August 23, 2021
photo: via Flickr CC
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The American defeat in Afghanistan will...
Ray McGovern on Exit From Afghanistan: An Intelligence Failure?
by Ray McGovern *
Posted on August 20, 2021
During a 7-minute interview today I was asked whether a lack of good intelligence accounts for...
Here’s what we know about ISIS-K, the splinter jihadist group, which...
26 Aug, 2021
photo: © Sgt. Glen McCarthy
Australia’s Department of Defence/Reuters
The US and the UK warned that Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K/IS-K) was planning attacks...
Top 3 ways Taliban’s takeover will revive Islamist movements
Farah Adeed discusses the ways in which the Taliban will revive the Islamist movements in Afghanistan now that they are ruling the country again....
Taliban and Northern Alliance in Panjshir strike a peace deal
After two days of consecutive meetings, Taliban and National Resistance Front (NRF) have agreed on peacekeeping in order to avoid further bloodshed in Panjshir....
Fleeing the Taliban: Afghans met with rising anti-refugee hostility in Turkey
As violence causes a fresh wave of desperate journeys, populist politicians claim their country has become a ‘dumping ground’
By Liz Cookman
Aug 5, 2021
Photography by...
After privatizing war, Prince privatizes death
Feeding on tragedy: Ex-Blackwater boss Erik Prince squeezes profit from mad scramble at Kabul airport, charging $6.5k for escape
By Damian Wilson*
Aug. 25, 2021
As terrified...