The history of outside forces helping wage war within Afghanistan—including the U.S. establishment of the mujahideen forces to fight the Russians in the 1980s—is a bloody history indeeed. by: Nikola Mikovic U.S. Soldiers navigate a […]
by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Drone targeting footage, Afghanistan. Photo: USAF. I hear it all the time. The most crucial decision of this century was the vote to go to war against Iraq. It’s meant to serve […]
By Manlio Dinucci Hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties, over 2,400 US soldiers killed (plus an unknown number of wounded), about 1,000 billion dollars spent: this is the budget summary of 19 years of US war […]
Getting the US to negotiate with the Taliban without the Kabul government involved doomed any possibility of success …by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor, …with FARS News Agency, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: Sometimes these overseas interviews get lost […]
KEVIN BARRETT In March 2001, in the mountains northwest of Kabul, the Taliban blew up two colossal statues of Gautama Buddha. The act was almost universally condemned. But the Taliban’s justification of historic vandalism makes […]
By: Julien Mercille By resolution 42/112 of 7 December 1987, the UN General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation […]
By Kadir A. Mohmand By Kadir Mohmand for VT Dear Ms. Deyoung: Please do not sabotage the peace agreement signed on February 29, 2020. I believe the report was extremely bias, supporting the misguided views of […]
By: Orooj Hakimi, Abdul Qadir Sediqi, Hamid Shalizi KABUL – After struggling to get pregnant for years, Zainab, 27, gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday morning at a small hospital in the southwestern […]
BYErik Edstrom, TomDispatch “Every day is a copy of a copy of a copy.” That meme, from the moment when Edward Norton’s character in Fight Club offers a 1,000-yard stare at an office copy machine, captures this […]
Posted by Mandy Smithberger In this century, the war-fighting performance of the U.S. military has proven woeful indeed and both the Pentagon high command and key Trump administration officials have evidently been incapable of drawing obvious […]