The new Afghanistan challenge
The new Afghanistan challenge Fahd Husain Published July 10, 2021 – FLAMES from the Afghanistan violence have begun to inch closer to our borders. In one recent incident, a number of troops […]
Will China succeed where US has failed in Afghanistan?
BY MANIK MEHTA OP-ED JUL 10, 2021 12:05 AM GMT+3Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, review a guard of honor during a welcome ceremony […]
US Admits Total Defeat In Afghanistan As Russian Victory In Syria Terrifies West
🔊 Listen to Post Posted by EU Times on Feb 6th, 2016 // 4 Comments An internal strategic report prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) circulating in the Kremlin within the last hour […]
Afghan Taliban say capture key border crossing with Iran
Thousands of Afghan refugees walk as they enter Afghanistan at the Islam Qala border crossing with Iran, in the western Herat Province on March 18, 2020. (File/AP) There was no […]
It’s Saigon in Afghanistan
07/06/2021 Ron Paul The end of the 20-year US war on Afghanistan was predictable: no one has conquered Afghanistan, and Washington was as foolish as Moscow in the 1970s for […]
Afghanistan’s neighbors in the firing line as US withdraws
DJOOMART OTORBAEV July 07, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/j6ecg The US military last week handed control of the vast Bagram Air Base to the Afghan government. US troops and their NATO […]
MARK ALMOND: Days after we leave Afghanistan, China is moving in to gain a direct route to the riches of the Middle East. And with billions in their war chest, where will their ambitions end?
By MARK ALMOND FOR THE DAILY MAIL Not for nothing is Afghanistan known as ‘the graveyard of empires’. Every few decades this beleaguered Central Asian nation emerges from obscurity to remind an apparently […]
Echoes of 1989 as foreign forces withdraw from Afghanistan
BBC News Lyse DoucetChief international correspondent@bbclysedouceton Twitter War in Afghanistan (2001-present) As the Taliban make rapid battlefield gains ahead of the US military pullout from Afghanistan, the question of who […]
US left Bagram Airbase at night with no notice, Afghan commander says
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page The US military left Bagram Airfield – its key base in Afghanistan – in the […]
Left Behind: Portraits of American Allies
Patricia Guerra and Sheena Samu Photographs by Roya Heydari “First of all I was shocked,” said Mohammad Shoaib Walizada, after he heard about U.S. forces withdrawing from Afghanistan. “Our life […]
Rehabilitating Rumsfeld, Erasing Empire: On All Those U.S. War Crimes in Iraq
JULY 2, 2021 Rehabilitating Rumsfeld, Erasing Empire: On All Those U.S. War Crimes in Iraq BY ANTHONY DIMAGGIO Photograph Source: Helene C. Stikkel – Public Domain Former Bush Administration Secretary of […]
US considers 3 Central Asian countries to accept at-risk Afghans
BY REUTERS WASHINGTON ASIA PACIFIC JUL 02, 2021 11:38 PM GMT+3An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier looks out while standing on a Humvee vehicle at Bagram Air Base after all U.S. and NATO […]
New winners in the war America lost
HAFED AL-GHWELLJuly 03, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/p3rxj The end of an era looms in Afghanistan after 20 years of a costly and tumultuous war. What began as a counterterrorism campaign […]
Absolutely not
Absolutely not Ayesha Ijaz Khan Published July 3, 2021 PAKISTAN lost 83,000 lives and the war on terror cost the country almost $126 billion, according to a statement made earlier this […]
Afghan forces take control of Bagram base as US troops withdraw
At its peak around 2012, Bagram Airfield saw more than 100,000 US troops pass through its sprawling compound barely an hour’s drive north of the Afghan capital Kabul. (AFP) Short […]
Looming Afghan Civil War
Looming Afghan civil war Zahid Hussain Published June 30, 2021 – http://www.dawn.com WITH the revival of armed regional militias to stop the Afghan Taliban offensive, Afghanistan is edging towards a new civil […]
When is the US war in Afghanistan really over?
SEARCH Explainer: When is the US war in Afghanistan really over? APPublished July 2, 2021 – Updated 6 minutes agoFacebook CountTwitter Share 0 As the last US combat troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, the question arises: When […]
Most European troops exit Afghanistan quietly after 20 years
Germany, Italy declare their missions over; Poland’s last troops return home By GEIR MOULSON and KATHY GANNON The Associated Press,Updated June 30, 2021 BERLIN — Most European troops have already […]
Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold
REVIEW ESSAY Why America Failed in Afghanistan By Christina Lamb In 2008, I interviewed the United Kingdom’s then outgoing military commander in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, in a dusty firebase in […]
Peace the priority as US, Afghanistan open new chapter
AJMAL SHAMS June 28, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/p4fcj For the past 20 years, the US has had a defining role in shaping politics in Afghanistan. President Ashraf Ghani’s weekend visit […]