And to imagine that we can produce millions of jobs at home, and keep people in their foreclosed homes, while fighting yet another war in Afghanistan, is a dangerous illusion. . Union members are not ignorant. They think about the issues of war and jobs all the time. ..…
In 2015, 1.3 million migrants applied for asylum in Europe, nearly doubling the previous annual high of about 700,000 in 1992, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. More than half (54%) came from three Muslim-majority countries – Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. . ..…
We did it Libya, we did it Bosnia, we did it Kosovo, we did it Afghanistan against Soviet Union, we have long history of using these very radical groups as geopolitical tools against people we do not like... ..…
Kerry made the remarks on Tuesday before the opening of conference on Afghanistan organized by European Union Brussels, Belgium... ..…
A US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refuels an F-16 Fighting Falcon as it flies over Afghanistan in support of the so-called US-led coalition in Syria on December 29, 2015. ..…
International jihadism, born in the successful war to drive the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan, established beachheads across the region. ..…
On at least one occasion in 1983, the administration came close to nuclear war with the Soviet Union, according to declassified documents published by the National Security Archive and reported in the Atlantic. . After the USSR invaded Afghanistan, the CIA provided money and weapons to an..…
Several new Muslim-majority states emerged in the Caspian basin and Central Asia from the dissolution of the Soviet Union, neighboring the self-declared 'Islamic Republics' of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. If Islam and cultural affinity were a basis for alliance formation and..…
District Court in Virginia in connection with his role in a prison uprising last November in northern Afghanistan. . Another U.S. citizen, Yasser Esam Hamdi, who was born in Louisiana to Saudi parents and captured by Northern Alliance soldiers in Afghanistan last fall, has been held..…
Little and nine of his team members were murdered in Afghanistan in 2010. ..…
And and brought home nearly 100,000 of our troops from Iraq, we're in better position to give our forces Afghanistan the support and equipment they need to achieve their missions. This sense of urgency also helped galvanize the coalition around the goals that we agreed to at NATO summit..…
The President’s announcement at West Point last December that US troops will start withdrawing in July 2011—in time to impress voters before his reelection campaign the following year—has been qualified over the summer, not only by General David Petraeus, whom the President chose in June to replace..…
Yet on every occasion, once that lesson had been learned the hard and bloody way, Britain's imperial strategists sought, saner and more sustainable objective self-governing, self-policing, subsidized Afghanistan. Britain's experience in the century, and Soviet Union's in the twentieth,..…
., to protest the ongoing occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq--with solidarity events taking place in other cities. A new organization, the United National Antiwar Coalition, is trying to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of other organizations and coalitions that failed to effectively..…
,” which Zalmay Khalilzad, who joined Cheney’s team in 1991 and is now special envoy to Afghanistan, published a couple of years into the Clinton Administration, when he was out of government. ... “Look at what the President has done in Afghanistan,” he said, “and look at..…
After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, thousands of Central Asians were drafted into the Red Army to fight the Afghan mujahideen. ... Nevertheless, the Tajik President, Emomali Rakhmonov, did exert pressure on I.R.P. leaders in the coalition government to get rid of..…
KABUL - Before the start of the Asia Cup Afghanistan captain Asghar Afghan had warned his team would not only compete but would . . .Read More . . ..…