Al-Qaeda, Taliban and the history of the Mujahideen
Mohamed Hassan6 September 2021 Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were both born out of the fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which attracted hundreds of young idealistic men from across […]
Afghanistan: The amorphous American empire is alive and well
Hamid Dabashi 27 September 2021 The permanent crisis of the neoliberal economy demands a far more versatile empire than one that gets bogged down in any single country US President […]
Noam Chomsky: Average People Still Have the Power to Stop Wars
AN INTERVIEW WITH NOAM CHOMSKY Noam Chomsky talks to Jacobin about why the US withdrawal from Afghanistan won’t change US imperialism, the many war crimes of George W. Bush, and why he […]
Winter Worries: The Changing Virus
Winter WorriesThe Changing Virus As winter approaches, experts are concerned that more contagious variants of the coronavirus could emerge. Measure to prevent the spread of the virus, they say, will […]
Why Biden should beware delaying a decision on Syria
DR. DANIA KOLEILAT KHATIBSeptember 25, 2021 22:13105 Short Url https://arab.news/c2n26 In his first address to the UN since he became US president, Joe Biden proudly said that for the first time in […]
Triangle-based contractor hires mostly refugees
HUMAN INTEREST BY EVAN SERY DURHAM PUBLISHED 9:11 AM ET SEP. 24, 2021 DURHAM, N.C. — Afghan refugees are welcome in the Bull City. That’s the message Durham city leaders are driving home, and for one Triangle-based painting company, they’re an especially welcome sight. What You Need to Know Triangle-based painting company hires […]
Imran Khan paints US as abandoner of Pakistan and Afghanistan
In his speech to the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Imran Khan touched on a range of topics and reserved his harshest words for India, labelling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s […]
US owes us a home: Afghan family whose 10 loved ones were killed by drone strike after Pentagon blunder mistook aid worker for ISIS-K terrorist say they want compensation and resettlement in America or a safer country
Friday, Sep 24th 2021 Zemari Ahmadi, 43, was an aid worker for a California based nonprofit who was his family’s only breadwinner before he was killed in the US drone […]
Ruminations about the fall of Kabul
By Friedrich Kratochwil Ruminations about the fall of Kabul International September 14, 2021 The hasty retreat of the U.S. from Afghanistan and the re-establishment of Taliban rule in Kabul are […]
Raisi tells UN: Nuclear talks useful only if they lead to lifting all oppressive sanctions on Iran
‘Knowledge that is beneficial to humanity cannot be sanctioned’ Politics September 21, 2021 – TEHRAN TIMES TEHRAN – In his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday […]
China senior diplomat says economic sanctions on Afghanistan must end
This content was published on September 23, 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the various unilateral sanctions or restrictions on Afghanistan should be […]
Erdoğan urges US to take more responsibility for Afghan migrants
BY DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL DIPLOMACY SEP 22, 2021 4:53 PM GMT+3Afghan migrants hide from security forces after crossing illegally into Turkey from Iran, near Tatvan in Bitlis province, Turkey, Aug. 23, 2021. (REUTERS […]
Military aid for Israel removed from US bill to fund government
Some House Democrats objected to a provision in a stopgap spending bill to provide the additional funding so Israel can replenish its “Iron Dome” missile-defense system. (Shutterstock) Short Url https://arab.news/mghxh […]
‘No Accountability Whatsoever.’ Rula Jebreal on Afghanistan and the War on Terror
September 21, 2021in Democracy In Exile Omid Memarian Omid Memarian is the Director of Communications at DAWN. Born into a Palestinian family in Haifa and raised in an orphanage in Israeli-occupied […]
Biden in UN call for independent Palestine
The world faced a “decisive decade,” Biden said, in which leaders must work together to combat a raging coronavirus pandemic, global climate change and cyber threats. (AP) Short Url https://arab.news/4drn8 […]
Why is Biden Prosecuting Assange for Telling the Truth about Afghanistan? | Opinion
OPINION DANIEL ELLSBERG, ALICE WALKER AND NOAM CHOMSKY , ASSANGE DEFENSEON 9/10/21 AT 1:10 PM EDT As we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11, in the midst of a wrenching reassessment […]
Video: ‘You lied about WMDs’: Iraq war veteran blasts Bush in public
BY DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL AMERICAS SEP 21, 2021 12:46 AM GMT+3 Former U.S. President George W. Bush attends an event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks at the Flight […]
US missteps embolden enemies and unnerve allies
BARIA ALAMUDDIN September 19, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/2fenj Joe Biden was supposed to be the anti-Trump on the world stage — restoring the trust of allies, enhancing multilateralism, and calming […]
How the US neocons’ dreams turned to dust
YASAR YAKIS September 19, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/b2ej4 In a public statement in October, 2007, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Wesley Clark revealed details that shed light on […]
The Second Afghan War & US Retreat from Central Asia
CONOMONITOR The Second Afghan War & US Retreat from Central Asia JACK RASMUS SEP 14, 202 Today, September 11, 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the Afghan war. But which […]