Afghan killed by drone praised by co-workers in US aid group
The Pentagon says it is further investigating the strike, but it has no way to do so on the ground in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, severely limiting its ability […]
World should incentivise Taliban instead of trying to control Afghanistan from outside: PM Imran on CNN
World should incentivise Taliban instead of trying to control Afghanistan from outside: PM Imran on CNN Dawn.com Published September 15, 2021 – Prime Minister Imran Khan says there is a need to […]
Why We Need to Stop Calling Afghanistan “The Graveyard of Empires”
ASIAHISTORY Ajam Media Collective 15th September 2021 Labelling Afghanistan “the graveyard of empires” is, at best, historically illiterate and, at worst, utterly self-serving. It not only negates thousands of years […]
Wrong to blame Afghans for Taliban takeover of Kabul
Wrong to blame Afghans for Taliban takeover of Kabul Americans completely failed to appreciate the culture and complexity of Afghanistan Published: September 16, 2021 Sajjad Ashraf, Special to Gulf News ALSO […]
How Scholars of the Islamic Golden Age Saved Ancient Greek Knowledge
By Anna Wichmann September 3, 2021 During the Islamic Golden Age, a period during which science, literature, geometry, astronomy and other fields of knowledge flourished from the eighth to the 13th century. Without the scholars of this period, who translated the works of the Ancient Greeks, it is likely that […]
In U.S. drone strike, evidence suggests no ISIS bomb
In U.S. drone strike, evidence suggests no ISIS bomb – Honolulu, Hawaii honolulu Honolulu, Hawaii 2021-09-14 17:50:00 – Kabul, Afghanistan >> This was the last known missile launched by the […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community helping Afghan refugees start a new life in the Fox Valley
by Monique Lopez, FOX 11 News Friday, September 10th 2021 FOX VALLEY, Wis. (WLUK) — The Fox Valley is now preparing to be a home to Afghan refugees, and local agencies are stepping up to help. It’s still unknown when Afghanistan refugees will arrive in the Fox Valley and how many […]
Preaching ‘true Islam,’ Ahmadiyya Muslims promote peace on 9/11
RELIGION_BELIEF AHMADIYYA HARRIS ZAFAR By Mark A. Kellner– The Washington Times – Thursday, September 9, 2021 Harris Zafar, an Ahmadiyya Muslim author and speaker who often sports a “Talk to a […]
Militia leader gets 53 years in Minnesota mosque bombing
1 / 2In this Aug. 7, 2017, file photo, Asad Zaman stands at the site of the bombing in the Dar Al Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minn. (AP) 2 / 2Acting […]
“Vaccine Apartheid”Unfair Distribution Hampers Global Vaccination Drive
Only 2 percent of the 1.3 billion people who live in Africa have been vaccinated. Yet there are plenty of surplus doses in wealthy countries. Fair distribution has been little more than an illusion so far. By Marco Evers10.09.2021, 16.16 Uhr The battle against the coronavirus is proving to be a […]
Ten lessons to be learned from the U.S. disastrous war on Afghanistan
By Andrew Korybko International August 31, 2021 – TEHRAN TIMES The U.S. panicked retreat from Afghanistan following the Taliban’s complete takeover of the country leaves many lessons to be learned […]
Islam and Islamophobia, and how democracies have responded
Direct Democracy Since 9/11, popular votes have increasingly been aimed against Islam, replacing the anti-Semitic and anti-communist slogans of the time before the terrorist attacks. Healthy democracies, however, have not […]
FBI: Bin Laden Not Wanted for 9/11
The ‘FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11’. Vice President Cheney says, ‘We’ve never made the case, or argued the case, that somehow Osama Bin Laden was […]
Why we still haven’t solved global food insecurity
FOLLOW THE FOOD Why we still haven’t solved global food insecurity BY WILLIAM PARK The number of people living in food insecurity grows every year And the pandemic has made […]
9/11 should have led to a criminal investigation, not a war
The challenge on this anniversary is to understand how and why the West elected to promote al-Qaeda as the counterweight to the US – a 21st-century equivalent of the Soviet […]
Untold Story: How a Short Video Message Became a Source of Guidance!
MAGAZINE: EDITION MAY 2021Abdul Sattar Khan – Colombia UNTOLD STORIES 11th September 2021 Abdul Sattar Khan, Colombia As I recall the month of April 2014, it was a bright, sunny […]
From protection to discrimination: How 9/11 changed air travel forever
Passengers place their belongings in bins before passing through the passenger security checkpoint at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 8 on October 22, 2010. (File/AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/5u8w9 As […]
The lessons learned from 9/11 … and those that weren’t
YOSSI MEKELBERG September 11, 2021 21:44208 Short Url https://arab.news/w5ybm No watershed in post-Cold War US politics and international affairs has been more remarkable than 9/11. It was a defining moment by […]
Afghanistan’s Corruption Was Made in America
How Self-Dealing Elites Failed in Both Countries By Sarah Chayes September 3, 2021 In 2005, I visited a branch of Afghanistan’s national bank in Kandahar to make a deposit. I was launching a cooperative that would craft skin-care products for export, using oils extracted from local almonds and apricot kernels and […]
America’s Perennial Pakistan Problem
Why Washington Failed to Win Over Islamabad—and Prevent a Taliban Victory By Daniel Markey September 9, 2021 The U.S. failure in Afghanistan also reflects the failure of Washington’s approach to Pakistan. […]