Candles and flowers decorate a makeshift memorial for US Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old US Army specialist, at Power House Gym on August 14, 2020, in Houston, Texas. Guillen’s murder the subsequent suicide of the […]
Mohamed El-Doufani* writes: The Taliban are back in control of Afghanistan and the United States and its satellite states are out, having invested trillions of tax dollars propping up a corrupt client regime (and domestic Western […]
BY RAMZY BAROUD The resulting victory of the Taliban will extend well beyond the borders of Afghanistan. Taliban patrol the streets in Kabul, Afghanistan on September 11, 2021. Photo by Wali Sabawoon, Anadolu Images An urgent task […]
By VT VT: Our sources say Israel declared war on Mark Milley, who kept Trump in check with some exceptions, for 4 years. Trump did attack Syria on Israel’s orders based on a supposed gas attack […]
BY SOPHIE REARDON https://www.cbsnews.com/video/pentagon-admits-drone-strike-killed-afghan-civilians/ A U.S. drone strike launched in Afghanistan late last month killed as many as 10 civilians, and not an ISIS-K terrorist as the U.S. military previously reported, the Pentagon acknowleged Friday. […]
By Jim W. Dean, by Viktor Mikhin, with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa. [ […]
By VT September l 6, 2021 U.S. Department of StateTo the Honorable Antony John Blinken, Secretary of State2201 C Street NWWashington DC 20520 Dear Secretary Blinken: On behalf of the Afghan villagers, I thank you for […]
OPINIONBY ALI LMRABET What had to happen, happened. Algeria and Morocco have broken off their diplomatic relations. What will happen now? An Algeria man holds today’s newspaper in the capital Algiers, on August 25, 2021. – […]
By VT Editors Former Saudi spy chief’s authoritative account of the Afghanistan conflict, 1979-2001 The Afghanistan File to be launched at live streamed launch event in conjunction with the Royal Society for Asian Affairs on 22nd September […]
BY ALFRED W. MCCOY Photograph Source: steve_w – CC BY 2.0 The collapse of the American project in Afghanistan may fade fast from the news here, but don’t be fooled. It couldn’t be more significant in ways […]