But in the US the “custom” is to never prosecute any former President for anything. ... Bush Jr. for murdering over 1 million in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Obama. ..…

President wants to reverse this situation by sending a further 6,000 troops to the country. Over 15 years of war in Afghanistan, Washington has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers and officers, modern warfare and all kinds of intelligence services. ..…

Unless unions can begin to see military intervention and corporate globalization as part of the same system, many will support the war in Afghanistan, as a new and popular Democratic president calls for increased intervention. . ..…

After thousands of people are killed in the World Trade Center and Pentagon, President George Bush and Congress declared war on Afghanistan. Sanders joined the bandwagon and voted to adopt the joint resolution that authorized the President to use the United States Armed Forces..…

The former Afghan president sees only more killing in Trump's plan for his country. . . . . . ... President Donald Trump announced a new strategy for Afghanistan, pledging “to fight and to win.” ..…

In Afghanistan, for example, Islam is the official state religion, stated explicitly in the constitution: “The sacred religion of Islam is the religion of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.”3 The constitution also requires the president and vice president to belong to the state..…

Afghanistan's militancy problem is giving serious headaches to the government of President Ashraf Ghani. ..…

Iranian president said the powers destabilizing the region over the 16 years through military intervention and the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq have failed to stand up to terrorists Iraq and rejoiced over new problems facing the region.. ..…

ThinkProgress’ Rebekah Entralgo adds that “Those who served with Tillman in Iraq and Afghanistan say he was vehemently against former U.S. president George W. ..…

Hours before Orlando massacre, Mateen declared his candidacy for president of Afghanistan and ordered the arrest of five ideological opponents there... ..…

On July 3, President Bush designated six captives from the Afghanistan war as destined for the military tribunal process. ..…

The four men, who were captured in the American-led war in Afghanistan on suspicion of fighting for the Taliban, were released after what President Jacques Chirac called 'long and intense negotiations' with the Bush administration. . ..…

He isn't answering his e-mail anymore, so we are pretty sure he is on the ground in Afghanistan. . . . . . ... However, President Bush and his frantic attorney general are creeping me out with their round-ups and their detentions and their wiretapping and their plans for military tribunals...…

After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, President Jimmy Carter authorized the CIA to provide covert aid to Afghan rebels—a revival, in effect, of the OSS’s “Jihad of Freedom.” . ..…

More Americans now disapprove of the job President Obama is doing overseas (56 percent) than approve (34 percent).  Disapproval of Obama’s handling of specific issues like Afghanistan, China, and immigration has jumped by more than ten percentage points since he started his second term. ...…

(Although the U.S. invaded and occupied Afghanistan under a different rationale, I also want to acknowledge the Afghan citizens who have been killed or wounded in the U.S. war in Afghanistan.) . President Obama has not spelled out the possible consequences of a military attack on Syria, but..…

Hillary Clinton Hosts Afghan President For Dinner. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton welcomes Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai to the Department of State... ..…

Or will it continue to be a greedy, extractive power shying off from political responsibilities in Central Asia and leaving the mess in Afghanistan for others to clean up? ... Mikhail Klimentyev/ITAR-TASS/Corbis Uzbek President Islam Karimov, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Kazakh President..…

First, there was the president of the pro- Soviet Republic of Afghanistan, Communist-turned- Afghan-nationalist strongman named Mohammad Najibullah. ..…

In light of the fact that a Democratic president in the White House has yet to set a timetable for ending the war in Afghanistan, Kucinich continues to press for a “Department of Peace” to replace the “Defense Department”. . . . ..…

Key quote from President Obama: . It’s important to remember why we remain in Afghanistan. ... Statement by the President on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Annual Review- Transcript . . . ..…

Both the public and CFR members doubt that additional U.S troop deployments would stabilize the country 57 percent of CFR members and 47 percent of the public say it's that Afghanistan can become stable enough to withstand Taliban threat.. The president still gets good marks overall,..…

In polling conducted before President Obama’s decision to increase U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan, both groups expressed pessimism about prospects for long-term stability in Afghanistan. ... And while the foreign policy opinion leaders differ with the public about many issues –..…

That's domestic terrorism in the United States, and yet the president's statement on that falls far short of any of the rhetoric he seems to reserve for people in Afghanistan who are under U.S. bombardment and occupation. . ..…

ON OCTOBER 6, 2011, the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan will enter its eleventh year. ... Despite talk in the press of 'withdrawal,' ThinkProgress.com notes that even if active-duty troop 'reductions are carried out as planned, the United States would still have far more troops in..…

The Death Toll In March 2015, Physicians for Social Responsibility calculated that the war on terror has, directly or indirectly, murdered around million people Iraq, 220,000 Afghanistan and 80,000 Pakistan--a total death count of 1.3 million. Instead, Nobel Peace Prize-winning president..…

“Look at what the President has done in Afghanistan,” he said, “and look at his speech to the joint session of Congress”—meaning the State of the Union Message, in January. ..…

It made more sense to use Afghanistan. Yuldashev had been introduced to the Taliban in Kabul, and they had every reason to offer him refuge: President Karimov was belligerently anti-Taliban, and Uzbekistan was backing the anti-Taliban opposition in Afghanistan. ..…

KABUL - Second Vice President Sarwar Danish says Afghanistan and China will become connecting point for Europe, Africa and Asia through Belt and Road. ..…

More than 5,011 service-men and women have lost their lives in Iraq & Afghanistan. . . . . ... KIA in Iraq since Mission Accomplished:  At the time the President announced 'Mission Accomplished,' on 1 May 2003, 139 American servicemen & women had lost their lives in the War in Iraq, less..…

And so Donald Trump became the latest surge president, authorizing, however grudgingly, the dispatching of yet more American troops and air power to Afghanistan (just as he recently authorized an “indefinite military effort” in Syria in the wake of what we can only imagine was another..…