Afghanistan

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Fair warning. Stop reading right now if you want, because I’m going to repeat myself. What choice do I have, since my subject is the Afghan War (America’s second Afghan War, no less)? I began writing about that war in October 2001, almost 17 years ago, just after the U.S. invasion […]

Afghanistan

As Trump Expands Failed War in Afghanistan, he Stops Boasting about It

Reese Erlich

(San Francisco ( 48hills.org) – President Donald Trump is back on the stump, trumpeting his alleged triumphs since the 2016 elections. Somehow, he never mentions Afghanistan. For years, Trump has denounced endless foreign wars, including Afghanistan. He tweeted in 2012, for example, that Afghanistan is “a complete waste….Time to come home!” Once in power, however, […]

Afghanistan

Farmers in War-Torn Afghanistan Hit by Worst Drought in Decades

AFP

With Emal Haidary | – Mazar-i-Sharif (Afghanistan) (AFP) – After his wheat crop failed and wells dried up, Ghulam Abbas sold his animals and joined thousands of other farmers migrating to cities as Afghanistan’s worst drought in living memory ravages the war-torn country. A huge shortfall in snow and rain across much of the country […]

Afghanistan

If US Special Ops are Winning War on Terror, why have they lost 1/2 of Afghanistan?

Nick Turse

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – A U.S. drone strike in Yemen. (I could be talking about 2002 or 2018.) Missions by Green Berets in Iraq. (I could be talking about 2003 or 2018.) While so much about the War on Terror turned Global War on Terrorism turned World War IV turned the Long War turned “generational […]

Afghanistan

Raising Questions about Trump Policies, Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Highest in Decade

Allison Jackson

The number of Afghan civilians killed in the country’s long-running conflict hit a record high in the first six months of 2018

Afghanistan

Did You Hear about the Great Afghan Peace March? MSM Ignores Nonviolent Activists

Mushtaq Mojaddidi

Dozens of peace protesters arrived in Kabul on Monday after walking hundreds of kilometers across war-battered Afghanistan

Afghanistan

On Memorial Day, US Troops still Dying in Afghanistan but 1/2 the Country is Lost

Juan Cole

The Afghanistan government controls only about half of Afghanistan, 229 of 407 districts. Maybe because it is a bad news story, our Afghanistan War, the longest in our history, keeps slipping our minds, along with thoughts of the Americans still fighting there. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, has issued a report […]

Pakistan

To Fight Talibanism, Pakistan finally gives Rights to People in Tribal Areas

Sajjad Tarakzai

Pakistan’s restive tribal areas may finally be allowed to enter the political mainstream

Afghanistan

Kabul Mourns Loss of ‘Invincible Hero’ in Anti-Shiite Suicide Blast

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Salafi Jihadi extremists target Afghan Hazaras in Hopes of Provoking More Sectarian Conflict