Tag: Afghanistan

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 06:45 UTC

  Afghanistan: Western armies always lose guerilla wars in the “Third World,” but it never really matters.

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - “I will never kneel before such a destructive force (as the Taliban),” declared Ashraf Ghani, the ex-president of Afghanistan before fleeing. “We will either sit knee-to-knee for real negotiations at the table or break their knees on the battlefield.” Good luck with that, Ashraf.

• Thursday, April 15th 2021 - 08:41 UTC

  US to withdraw from Afghanistan by September, says Joe Biden

  

  US President Joseph Biden announced late Tuesday his country would withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11, thus putting an end to one of the longest armed conflicts in which the country has been involved.

• Wednesday, November 4th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Pakistan underlines that freedom of expression carries special duties and responsibilities

  

  World leaders have sent messages of support to Austria and Afghanistan as they did previously with France following the last bout of terrorist attacks, while Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, unequivocally condemning terrorism, said that ”freedom of expression,” is not without limits in a pluralistic diverse and respectful societies.

• Friday, January 18th 2019 - 08:55 UTC

  Border wall tit-for-tat: Trump halts Pelosi's trip to Afghanistan by denying military aircraft

  

  President Donald Trump has postponed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's upcoming trip to Brussels and Afghanistan, asking her to stay to negotiate an end to the partial US government shutdown.

• Friday, December 7th 2018 - 15:37 UTC

  Famous Afghan Messi fan displaced by war, fears for his life

  

  Murtaza Ahmadi, whose picture in 2016 donning a plastic home made Argentine national football jersey pretending to be that of Lionel Messi went viral leading the actual Barcelona FC star to meet him personally and give him a real shirt, is now one of thousands of Afghans displaced by war, as his family has left their home in southeastern Ghazni fleeing a Taliban large-scale offensive.

• Thursday, August 24th 2017 - 11:41 UTC

  Populist strategist and Breitbart news criticize Trump's Afghanistan policy

  

  Minutes after President Donald Trump concluded his Afghanistan policy speech Monday night, the conservative site Breitbart news took an aggressive, critical approach to the address and Trump’s new policy. A banner headline blasted the president’s decision to extend the U.S. military commitment in Afghanistan as a “flip-flop” that “reverses course.”

• Tuesday, August 22nd 2017 - 06:10 UTC

  Trump announces greater involvement in Afghanistan; Taliban pledge to fight on

  

  President Donald Trump announced on Monday night his administration’s plans to continue the engagement of the United States military in Afghanistan, a strategy meant to combat the influence of the Taliban and the ISIS affiliate in the country that will for go a formal timetable and instead rely upon “conditions on the ground” to guide U.S. activities.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2016 - 04:47 UTC

  Fifteen Guantanamo prisoners transferred to the United Arab Emirates

  

  Fifteen prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to the United Arab Emirates — the largest single release of the Obama administration. The population of the military prison in Cuba is now down to 61.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2013 - 16:39 UTC

  Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the costliest in US history equivalent to 40% of GDP

  

  US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will cost taxpayers up to 6 trillion dollars or 75.000 dollars for every US household, “the most expensive wars in US history,” a new report has revealed, adding that these campaigns will dominate future federal budgets “for decades to come”.

• Monday, November 5th 2012 - 19:38 UTC

  Son of Falklands’ war hero will take command of British troops in Afghanistan

  

  The son of Falkland Islands war hero Colonel ‘H’ Jones is to take command of Britain’s 9.000 troops in Afghanistan, reports the Daily Mail. Brigadier Rupert Jones was 13 when his father died during a one-man charge on an Argentine trench in the Battle of Goose Green in 1982, for which he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.