How a Failed Drug War Will Defeat Trump’s Afghan Adventure Alternet Trump's defense team is extending the longest and largest war in U.S. history. | After nine months of confusion, chaos, and cascading tweets, Donald Trump’s White House has finally made one thing crystal clear: the U.S. is staying in Afghanistan to fight and—so they insist—win. “The killers ...
Daesh beheads 15 members in Afghanistan after infighting Press TV The Daesh terrorist group has beheaded at least 15 of its own members in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, local officials say. | Attaullah Khogyani, the provincial governor's spokesman, said on Thursday that the Takfiri militants ...
Karzai reacts at US airstrikes and alleged civilian deaths in Helmand Khaama Press The former Afghan President strongly reacted at the recent US airstrikes jointly conducted by the Afghan forces in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, claiming that several civilians were killed in one of the airstrikes. | The Office of the for...
Pax Indica: Kabul’s new Great Game – Delhi must play to win Deccan Chronicle With the US Congress passing a $700 billion defence budget for 2018 that makes some $350 million available to Pakistan, contingent on whether it takes demonstrable steps towards curbing the Haqqani Network which two US defence secretaries have attack...
Afghan Local Police, Controversial Force That Fills Security Gap Voa News He leads a group of men who wear irregular fatigues, let their hair grow below the shoulders, and drive around in white pick-up trucks, looking like the militants they have vowed to fight. Bilal Bacha is the commander of the Afghan Local Police (ALP)...
An Insubordinate President Truth Dig Hed: An Insubordinate President | Excerpt: The U.S. ruling class is doing all it can to sell the illusion of American exceptionalism with Donald Trump. | Should the excerpt read something like: Donald Trump, like so many former presidents and members...
Washington’s Drug of Choice in the War on Terror Truth Dig After nine months of confusion, chaos, and cascading tweets, Donald Trump’s White House has finally made one thing crystal clear: the U.S. is staying in Afghanistan to fight and — so they insist — win. “The killers need to know they h...
Turkey withdraws troops from NATO drills in Norway Wtop ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Turkey has withdrawn 40 soldiers from a NATO military exercise in Norway, after the country’s founding leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Erdogan himself were allegedly depicted as “enemies.” | In an address to his ruling party’s provincial leaders on Fri...
Key Haqqani network leader among dozens killed in Afghanistan Yahoo Daily News Kabul [Afghanistan], Nov 24 (ANI): A key leader of the Haqqani terrorist network was killed, along with dozens of other terrorists, by Afghan special forces in central Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan. | The operation was carried out in the Nerkh district, the Khaama Press reported. | More than 20 insurgents were killed in the operation, provi...
