allies of convenience: the politics of betrayal
It was considered to be alliance of the period 1979 to 1989, until 2001, when the US invaded Afghanistan toppling the regime of those they once regarded high esteem, i.e. ..…
It was considered to be alliance of the period 1979 to 1989, until 2001, when the US invaded Afghanistan toppling the regime of those they once regarded high esteem, i.e. ..…
On the anniversary of September 11 attacks, the illegal US occupation of Afghanistan continues as the longest overseas American history. President Donald Trump declared that peace negotiations over the withdrawal of US troops with Taliban are dead, reportedly the status of future..…
The US-led Afghanistan war was declared in the wake of the horrendous attacks. ..…
TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reminded the US that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contributed to the launch of US-led of Afghanistan before he tried bringing about Washington-led on Iraq... ... TEHRAN - Iran's Ambassador and Permanent..…
TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reminded the US that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contributed to the launch of US-led of Afghanistan before he tried bringing about Washington-led on Iraq... ... TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad..…
By my counterparts who were serving, In with the US to Afghanistan he agreed the war was unwinnable, and corrupt, and would not let his children serve in such war. ... Observe the protestation by US Senate towards the idea of the US wars Afghanistan and Syria..…
That United States cannot consign Afghanistan to Taliban Islamist feudalism finally ironically dawned yesterday on United States with US President Trump calling off the US- Taliban Peace Dialogue in motion for over year. ... The first was that for nearly five years following US..…
Despite Peace Deal, US To Remain Afghanistan.. Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams Those hoping for US from Afghanistan after 18 years of war and peace with Taliban going to be disappointed. According to press reports, the US will be keeping more troops..…
He represented the US in Afghanistan at the start of the US intervention in 2001, first as a special envoy, then as ambassador (2003-05). . ... US war weariness is evident. Between October 2001 and October 2018, 2,401 US soldiers died in Afghanistan and..…
The US, for its part, seeks Taliban guarantees that Afghanistan, will not be used as launchpad for terror assaults.. ..…
Further, while Iran leads the interdiction of opiate drugs from US-occupied Afghanistan, this flood of US-protected opiates has killed 33,000 Iranians and the million people. Further violent Iranian deaths occurred with US Navy downing of Iranian Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988 with..…
By way of comparison, these UNODC-based figures are China, Russia, Iran, Vietnam, Kenya, Indonesia, Myanmar, Uzbekhistan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, and Afghanistan. CIA-linked, US-backed opium production shifted from Turkey in the 1960s, and to South East Asia during Vietnam War years,..…
The US Paved Ground for Regional Powers to Seek Stake Afghanistan By Masud Wadan, January 24, 2019.. ... Afghanistan's Traumatized Population The Forgotten Downsides of US-led Afghan War By Masud Wadan, February 08, 2018.. ..…
The message arrives on the day always Qatar that phase, the agreement was made that included the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, ceasefire and talks with Afghan authorities. According to statements by US Special Representative for Reconciliation Afghanistan,..…
On top it's the preference for presence of the UN in the process, that agreement between the US and Taliban only may not provide lasting basis for Afghanistan. SCO is, as is evident, Afghanistan that does not stand in alliance with the US even. ..…
The International Criminal Court's prosecutor has filed appeal challenging the rejection of probe into war crimes Afghanistan by invading US forces, Afghan troops and Taliban and other militant groups.. ... United States has revoked the entry visa of ICC Fatou Bensouda who is looking into..…
Almost ago, on February 12, 2010, US Special Operations Forces arrived at the home of Haji Sharabuddin Khataba, Paktia, Afghanistan. ... This US war on Afghanistan, has produced unknown death count with unknown numbers of war crimes. ..…
US airstrikes Afghanistan last May resulted civilian casualties and violated law, UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan reported Wednesday.. On May 4 the US Forces- Afghanistan completed airstrikes on buildings located in Bakwa district, Farah and Nimroz..…
In its manifestation, one finds United States that threatens Iran on nearly weekly basis and tears up arms control agreements with Russia while also maintaining deployments of US forces Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and places like Mali. ..…
Despite Trump's announced US troop withdrawals, Afghan opium trade continues to be protected by US-NATO occupation forces on behalf of powerful financial interests. ... In the wake of the 2001 US bombing of Afghanistan, British of Tony Blair was entrusted by G-8..…
US National Security Adviser John Bolton had also threatened to revoke the visas of ICC if the court pursued charges against members of the US military over crimes Afghanistan.. ..…
US National Security Adviser John Bolton had also threatened to revoke the visas of ICC if the court pursued charges against members of the US military over crimes Afghanistan.. ..…
US National Security Adviser John Bolton had also threatened to revoke the visas of ICC if the court pursued charges against members of the US military over crimes Afghanistan.. ..…
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction Photo . INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT: Will Not Investigate US Troops in Afghanistan . April 12, 2019 Comments Off on INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT: Will Not Investigate US Troops in Afghanistan 11 Views . ..…
It also said that Assange rejected US State Department's warning in 2010 to redact the names of its and the US military's sources Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Iran and China, included journalists, religious leaders, human rights advocates, and political dissidents... ... WikiLeaks..…
Taliban's five-year rule over at least three quarters of Afghanistan came to in the wake of US-led in 2001, and the militant group still continues to attack government and civilian targets and foreign forces.. ..…
In relevant remarks earlier this month, Lieutenant Commander of Iranian Army's Air Force Brigadier General Ali Shadmani warned China, of the US attempts to relocate ISIL terrorists to Afghanistan... ... Shamkhani also described the US forces withdrawal from Afghanistan..…
One of the great myths about Afghanistan war is that the US started backing Islamist fighters after Soviet Union tanks rolled into the country on December 24, 1979. ... Some 15 years later, let's not forget, the US invaded Afghanistan on the premise of toppling..…
Phyllis Bennis directs New Internationalism project at Institute for Policy Studies, and is author of numerous books, including Ending US War Afghanistan Primer, co-authored with David Wildman. ..…
Speaking at US Institute for Peace on Friday, Khalilzad would be best for Afghanistan. ... Major-General Jeff Schloesser, argued for residual US military presence to safeguard US interests Afghanistan.. ..…
The US for Afghanistan, that the must call for intra- Afghan between Taliban and US-backed Afghan government, and ceasefire. Certainly, Afghans need the withdrawal of the thousands of US and NATO troops from Afghanistan, and in the war between Taliban and..…
The refusal of Afghan Taliban to include and sit at the same with Afghan Government officials US-sponsored peace dialogues on future of Afghanistan's and stability should have been eye-opener to the US on the real intentions of Afghan Taliban.. ..…
Accepted without question by Times is the idea that the US has right to enforce deal, or should have the ability to influence events in country 7,000 miles away from its borders, or that doing so would contribute to Afghanistan.. There is very little the US can do now to mitigate the..…
He compares American from Afghanistan to the disorderly retreat and defeat that US forces incurred at the end of Vietnam War in the mid-1970s.. ... But three presidents later, Taliban now are reckoned to control over half Afghanistan, and can carry out attacks on..…
Since 2001, and at cost of $800 billion, the US military has caused irreparable and horrific losses Afghanistan. ... By late 2018, even top military commander, Army General Scott Miller, told CNN the US had no chance of Afghanistan. ..…
KABUL senior US government official, on Monday that Washington was committed to withdrawing foreign forces from Afghanistan to end more than 17 years of war... ... United States has about 14,000 troops Afghanistan as part of NATO-led mission and US counter-terrorism..…
The US has savaged Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries. This cash crop could not be exported to Pakistan, India, Iran and Russia without the connivance of Kabul regime and its US military protectors. ... The absurd waste of US Afghanistan and Pakistan has been..…
Donald Trump had vowed to bring US troops back from Afghanistan, and he had to review his policies, and ended up adding to the figure of force deployment Afghanistan.. ... The US can avoid similar to the one Soviet Union faced Afghanistan.. ..…
The joke here is that he frames Iraq War as mistake largely because it diverted the US from nation-building Afghanistan. He even appears unaware that his formulation about Afghanistan and the decline of American empire fits the reality of US defeat Vietnam.. ..…
But the delayed denial, under the circumstances of identical withdrawal threat from Syria, adds more credence to what the US government is in the middle of doing Afghanistan looking for ways to get out.. ... The announcement for this team came days the US special representative..…
The chief of the media wing, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, said Washington should realise that the misunderstandings between Pakistan and United States could impact the in the region, particularly Afghanistan.. Diplomatic sources believed at the time that element of the new US strategy for..…
Administration led by Obama while stressed on the drawdown of American troops from Afghanistan, it concluded Afghan-US pact. ... The US, under Trump leadership, has been more in criticizing Iranian and Russian sabotaging peace and Afghanistan by bolstering Taliban..…
Two months after Zalmay Khalilzad was appointed as US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation and after several attempts to negotiate with the Taliban, Khalilzad announced on 18 November that he hoped a peace deal could be reached with the Taliban before next April's..…
This is while at least 23 civilians, most of them women and children, have been killed in US airstrike Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand.. ... The UN says US airstrike Afghanistan's Helmand this week killed at least 23 civilians, mostly women and children... ..…
While the corruption part is true, and that many young soldiers have been brainwashed into fighting this war, the truth is that US's in the region is not to fight Taliban ISIS, rather to use them as tools for their gains. Friba Afghanistan's situation is different from the current..…
Therefore, while the absence of Kabul at the summit may signify how the US is wanting to limit the role Russians can play, the fact that the US itself was present and that Khalilzad is coming to Moscow to 'discuss Afghanistan illustrate that limiting the role Russians can play..…
particularly President Donald Trump, it seems that the US has come round to realizing the improbability of finding any other solution for Afghanistan war than sitting across the table with Taliban for settlement of this festering wound South West Asia.. ... There was no dearth of rabid..…
US-trained forces Afghanistan routed by Taliban, another sign the war is lost cause. US-trained forces Afghanistan routed by Taliban, another sign the war is lost cause US-trained forces Afghanistan... ..…
United States remains stuck in Afghanistan. This is fact that imprisons US presidents and policymakers imagine being the president. ... Pakistan will not change its two-sided policy of working with the US Afghanistan with one hand while quietly enabling Taliban with..…
This month, the US Afghanistan turns 17. But Americans and Afghans looking for solutions to end the war should not lose sight that some approaches may exacerbate abuses and undermine what justice systems exist.. ..…
Video 17 years of Afghanistan Taliban rejects possibility of negotiations with US. ..…
He added the US would continue cooperation with Afghanistan in different fields.. US administration is the supporter of WFP Afghanistan and it has assisted around $68 million to the organization this year.. ..…
On Wolesi Jirga members remarks on cancelation or reviewing US- Afghanistan BSA, he did not know that these people understand the ongoing challenges, security and economic factors their complex against the government has persuade them to hand over the country to its enemies.. ..…
He says the war will be over by the end of next year, and now everyone must now focus on the task of rebuilding America, strengthening our economy, and supporting US troops and veterans.. This week, I welcomed President Hamid Karzai to White House to discuss Afghanistan. ..…