BY AYAN MOHAMED ALI September 14, 2021ISIS-K was established in January, 2015 and was able to establish territorial authority in numerous rural areas in north and northeast Afghanistan. Anas Haqqani, center right, gets a tour of […]
Republicans are baying for Biden’s impeachment or resignation as the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle turns lethal By STEPHEN BRYEN US President Joe Biden pauses while listening to a question from a reporter about the situation in Afghanistan […]
Ahmad Masoud, son of Afghanistan’s slain anti-Soviet resistance hero Ahmad Shah Masoud, poses April 4 during a trip to Paris. The son, currently leader of the National Resistance Front, pledges to hold out against the […]
Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada posing for a photograph at an undisclosed location in 2016. Photo: Afghan Taliban via AFP Internal Taliban divisions come to the fore as squabbling hinders the formation of Afghanistan’s new Islamic Emirate […]
A wiser, better-traveled and social media-savvy Taliban will strive to avoid the many dire mistakes of its 1996-2001 rule By PEPE ESCOBAR A Taliban delegation in Doha on August 12, 2021. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images […]
Biden’s efforts to revive multilateral support for the US empire have been fumbled on many fronts By CHARLES XU On May 26, President Joe Biden ordered US intelligence agencies to produce “analysis of the origins of Covid-19” within […]
By Syed Zafar Mehdi Last week, after Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid, with a characteristic bluster, announced that the group has taken “complete control” of Panjshir, the last holdout of anti-Taliban forces in the war-ravaged country, […]
BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR – ALEXANDER COCKBURN Ground Zero, World Trade Center, September 12, 2001. Photo: NOAA. September 12, 2001 The onslaughts on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are being likened to Pearl Harbor […]
Anatol Lieven, who has covered wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Southern Caucasus, speaks on the US legacy and the Taliban’s rise. James W. Carden On Monday, August 30, at 3:29 p.m. Eastern Time, a C-17 […]
BYWilliam Rivers Pitt, Truthout Former president George W. Bush recently took a break from painting portraits of the wounded soldiers he fed into the maw of dual wars 20 years ago to complain about the end of one […]