Afghanistan Archives - Page 2 of 66

27Jul

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Afghanistan, C.I.A, Middle East

Al-Qaeda Still Potent

By: Manish Rai A terror group which globalised the concept of Jihad and have existed for more than three decades is not dependent on just one leader for its survival With the recent killing of Al-Qaeda (AQ) chief Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghan capital Kabul a lot of speculation is happening on the future of this terror outfit. Some analysts even going to the extent and suggesting that Al-Qaeda is nearing its end. But certainly that is highly unlikely. The group survived its ideological chief Osama bin Laden’s death in 2011. In fact with the killing of Zawahri Al-Qaeda may regenerate itself and become more dynamic. Ayman al-Zawahri was an Egyptian-born jihadist who became al-Qaida’s top leader in 2011 after his predecessor, Osama bin Laden, was killed by a U.S. operation. Zawahir...

Afghanistan: RAWA Responds to the Taliban Takeover

14Jul

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan: RAWA Responds to the Taliban Takeover

(Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan - RAWA - is one of the oldest Afghan feminist organisations, which has consistently resisted US occupation as well as feudal and fanatic forces in Afghan society including the Taliban. We share excerpts from a recent interview conducted by Sonali Kolhatkar of the US-based Afghan Women’s Mission with a representative of RAWA.) Sonali Kolhatkar: For years RAWA spoke out against the U.S. occupation and now that it has ended, the Taliban are back. Could President Biden have withdrawn U.S. forces in a manner that would have left Afghanistan in a safer situation than currently? Could he have done more to ensure the Taliban were not so quickly able to take over? RAWA: In the past 20 years, one of our demands was an end to...

Two Years after Afghan Fiasco, There’s a Key Question We Still Aren’t Asking

27Jun

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Afghanistan

Two Years after Afghan Fiasco, There’s a Key Question We Still Aren’t Asking

BY GLENN SACKS Photo by Staff Sgt. Kylee Gardner – Public Domain Two years ago this week Americans were shocked and dismayed at the incredibly rapid collapse of the US-backed government in Afghanistan. This despite the fact that over a 20-year period the US had suffered upwards of 40,000 casualties and spent $2.3 trillion dollars to support the government and to supply the Afghan National Security Forces with some of the best weapons and training available anywhere in the world. General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that in August 2021, “the vast majority of the Afghan units put their weapons down and surrendered without a fight. Kabul was taken with a couple hundred guys on motorcycles and not a shot fired…How is...

The first Australian soldier has been charged over Afghanistan war crimes, but those ultimately responsible remain in command

26Mar

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Afghanistan, Australia, Human Rights

The first Australian soldier has been charged over Afghanistan war crimes, but those ultimately responsible remain in command

The murder allegation could be the start of a lengthy string of trials, which is unlikely to ever reach the top brass Graham Hryce is an Australian journalist and former media lawyer, whose work has been published in The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Sunday Mail, the Spectator and Quadrant. FILE PHOTO: Australian soldiers in Afghanistan, January 24, 2013. © Photo by Kate Geraghty/The Sydney Morning Herald/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images Earlier this week, an Australian soldier, Oliver Schulz, 41, was charged with murder by the Australian Federal Police in relation to the killing of a civilian in Afghanistan in 2012. Schulz was remanded in custody and is due to appear in court again on May 16. His trial wil...

UK war crimes probe launches with call for evidence

22Mar

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Afghanistan, Iraq, United Kingdom

UK war crimes probe launches with call for evidence

The investigation into extrajudicial killings by British troops in Afghanistan was announced last year © Getty Images / Jonathan Brady An independent inquiry into alleged illegal killings by the British military in Afghanistan officially opened with a call for evidence on Wednesday. Investigation chairman Lord Justice Haddon-Cave promised to “do everything in our power” to “get to the bottom” of the scandal. “I would urge anyone, who has got any information or material, which they think may be relevant to the inquiry, to please get in touch with the inquiry team as soon as possible,” Haddon-Cave said in a statement on Wednesday accompanying the launch of a public website devoted to the inquiry. Allegations surfaced last year that UK Special Air Services (S...

Taliban reveals plans for abandoned US military bases

18Feb

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Afghanistan, USA

Taliban reveals plans for abandoned US military bases

The Pentagon ended its near two-decade military presence in Afghanistan in 2021 Afghan National Army inspect a vehicle who keep watch after the US forces left Bagram airfield in the north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 5, 2021 © Getty Images / Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Afghanistan’s fledgling Taliban leadership is set to use military bases abandoned by the United States during its 2021 withdrawal from the country as ‘special economic zones’ for businesses as part of a drive to support economic self-sufficiency, a top government official said in a statement on Sunday. “Following a thorough discussion, it was decided that the Ministry of Industry and Commerce should progressively take control of the remaining military bases of the fore...

15Feb

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Afghanistan, USA

Afghanistan needs ‘Black Girl Magic’

Washington’s diplomatic representative seemingly thinks that Beyonce and a woke hashtag can help women in the war-ravaged country Women wait to receive food rations distributed by a Saudi humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 25, 2022 © AP / Ebrahim Noroozi The US’ diplomatic envoy to Afghanistan has declared that the hashtag “#BlackGirlMagic” might improve the lives of Afghan women, calling on Beyonce and Lizzo to in some way aid her cause. She was ridiculed online for her suggestion. Since taking over as Chargé d’Affaires at the US Mission to Afghanistan in Qatar last year, Karen Decker has repeatedly and strongly condemned the Taliban for barring women from universities and cracking down on female activists. Deck...

CIA-Backed Units Killed Hundreds of Afghan Civilians in Brutal Night Raids

26Jan

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Afghanistan, C.I.A

CIA-Backed Units Killed Hundreds of Afghan Civilians in Brutal Night Raids

“Zero Units” backed by the U.S. made virtually no effort to distinguish noncombatants and killed with total impunity. By Lynzy Billing An Afghan Nation Army (ANA) soldier keeps watch as colleagues search a house during an operation in Bala Murghab district of Badghis province on March 26, 2017. This story was originally published by ProPublica. In 2019, reporter Lynzy Billing returned to Afghanistan to research the murders of her mother and sister nearly 30 years earlier. Instead, in the country’s remote reaches, she stumbled upon the CIA-backed Zero Units, who conducted night raids — quick, brutal operations designed to have resounding psychological impacts while ostensibly removing high-priority enemy targets. So, Billing attempted to catalog the scale of ...

Nazi Harry reveals how many people he killed in Afghanistan

4Jan

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Afghanistan, United Kingdom

Nazi Harry reveals how many people he killed in Afghanistan

Harry the Nazi “It’s a joy for me because I’m one of those people who loves playing PlayStation and Xbox, so with my thumbs I like to think that I’m probably quite useful” The UK’s Nazi Harry says he killed 25 people in Afghanistan when he was acting as an Apache helicopter pilot during the invasion of Afghanistan, noting that these killings do not “embarrass” him. Nazi Harry acknowledged this in an autobiography that is set to be published in the UK on January 10. The Telegraph quoted extracts from the Spanish version of the autobiography it obtained after the book was mistakenly put on sale in bookshops on Thursday before being withdrawn. Nazi Harry served as a forward air controller in Afghanistan’s Helmand province in 2007-8 and then as an Apache helicopter pilot in t...

Afghanistan: Taliban ban women’s entry to amusement parks

6Nov

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Taliban ban women’s entry to amusement parks

Edited By: Mukul Sharma Afghan women protest against inequality under Taliban government Photograph:( AFP ) STORY HIGHLIGHTS The move is the latest among a series of gender-oppressive measures in Afghanistan that country's Taliban rulers have imposed to curtail women's rights and freedoms in the country. Women in Afghanistan will be denied entry to amusement parks in the country, the Taliban government's "morality police" ordered on Wednesday. The ban adds to a series of gender-oppressive measures imposed by the Taliban-led government after it dethroned the democratically-elected Ashraf Ghani government in Kabul last August, followed by a chaotic exit of the last US forces stationed there in operative capacity since the aftermath of September 11, 2001 attacks. ...