Central Asia
A ‘Strategic Apocalypse’ in Afghanistan: A Seismic Shift, Years in the...
By Alastair Crooke
Aug. 20, 2021
A huge geo-political event has just occurred in Afghanistan: The implosion of a key western strategy for managing what Mackinder,...
Taliban Resistance Force Forming in Panjshir Valley
The leader of the resistance penned an op-ed in The Washington Post calling for US support
Posted on August 18, 2021
photo: Twitter. (@HajiNoorUllah7)(Twitter)Categories
The Taliban...
Afghan mothers throw babies over barbed wire at Kabul airport and...
“They shouted, ‘save my baby’ and threw the babies at us, some of the babies fell on the barbed wire,” said one Parachute Regiment officer
By Taz...
Taliban reportedly fire on civilians in Jalalabad, killing 3, after protesters...
18 Aug, 2021
The Taliban has reportedly opened fire on civilians in the city of Jalalabad and killed three, as people protested against the Islamist...
Trump the great friend of Russia
American missiles & choppers abandoned to Taliban by troops in Afghanistan could fall into Russia’s hands, ex-president Trump says
Aug 18, 2021
High-tech American hardware left...
Afghanistan: Drawing the lessons
By Herman Michiel
17 August 2021
We saw Taliban troops parade in the presidential palace in Kabul, from which President Ashraf Ghani fled abroad. The largely...
Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul
By AHMAD SEIR, RAHIM FAIEZ,
TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL
Aug. 15, 2021
AP Photo/Rahmat Gul
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday,...
Stop the War Coalition: Statement on Afghanistan
The disaster now unfolding in Afghanistan is the consequence of a twenty-year long failed military intervention. The responsibility rests with the US, British and other...
Avancée des Talibans : vers une nouvelle crise des migrants ?
Par Emmanuel Dupuy
Aug. 14, 2021
Atlantico : Les talibans mènent actuellement une forte offensive en Afghanistan et s’emparent de plusieurs capitales régionales. Le contexte semble être...
The US Spent $83 Billion Training Afghan Forces. Why Did They...
The U.S. is rushing enough airpower to evacuate thousands as the Taliban advances on Kabul.
By Tara Copp
Aug. 14, 2021
photo: U.S. Army / Spc....