Concerns of proxy wars
Concerns of proxy wars Muhammad Amir Rana Published September 19, 2021 dawn.com THE Afghan Taliban’s retaking of Kabul may be the climax of a 20-year-long war in Afghanistan but it is difficult to […]
Blinken’s remarks
Blinken’s remarks Editorial Published September 18, 2021 – PERHAPS it was his country’s chaotic, humiliating recent withdrawal from Afghanistan — and the attendant war weariness that comes with occupying a country for […]
Bayan Galal: First Arab president of Yale student government, Ivy League
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1931021/offbeat?jwsource=cl Short Url RAY HANANIA September 18, 2021 Bayan Galal said that she won the election to become the first Arab to serve as president of Yale’s student government by […]
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 […]
Trump barred by generals from ordering nuclear strike or military attack in final days: Woodward
By Dave Goldiner for daily news Former President Trump was secretly stripped of his power to order nuclear strikes or launch military actions by top military brass in his final chaotic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success
Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success Al Qaeda Changed the World—but Not in the Way It Expected By Nelly Lahoud September/October 2021 On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda carried out the deadliest foreign […]
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. […]