Afghanistan
Putin and Xi pledge to keep peace in Central Asia, after...
25 Aug, 2021
photo: © Sputnik
Moscow and Beijing will work together to secure the region around Afghanistan, after Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese premier...
US Loses One Afghanistan War: Proposals for New Afghanistan Wars Multiply
by Doug Bandow
Posted on August 25, 2021
It took just 11 days, but the US lost another war. Washington and its mostly NATO allies...
Taliban says it doesn’t want Turkish soldiers in Afghanistan
Ankara wants to remain in Kabul to protect the Turkish commercial and political interests, but Taliban doesn't appear very interested
By Ragip Soylu
Aug. 24, 2021
A...
Afghanistan officials sanctioned murder, torture and rape, says report
Human Rights Watch accuses high-ranking officials of allowing extrajudicial killings and brutal practices to flourish after fall of Taliban
By Emma Graham-Harrison
Tue 3 Mar...
UN urges Poland to take in Afghan & Iraqi refugees fleeing...
24 Aug, 2021
The United Nations' refugee agency, the UNHCR, has blasted Poland for locking out refugees escaping war-torn countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, as...
Star Trek Versus Imperialist Doctrine
America’s liberal imperialist doctrine has been responsible for appalling carnage in places like Vietnam, Iraq, and Central America. But America has also produced a...
The Cynical Campaign To Scapegoat Joe Biden for the Afghanistan Debacle
by Ted Galen Carpenter *
Posted on August 24, 2021
The chaotic end to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan has produced an abundance of recriminations....
G7 States Agree on Roadmap for Dealing With ‘Probable’ Taliban Government,...
by Tim Korso
Aug 24, 2021
Earlier, the Taliban*, which currently controls the entirety of Kabul with the exception of its international airport, which is held...
Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation
By Jonathan Nancy
Aug. 17, 2021
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States....
EU more worried about Russia & China gaining from Western defeat...
24 Aug, 2021
Fears in Brussels that the fall of Kabul to the Taliban is a victory for Moscow and Beijing show that the EU...