Afghanistan
Ray McGovern on Exit From Afghanistan: An Intelligence Failure?
by Ray McGovern *
Posted on August 20, 2021
During a 7-minute interview today I was asked whether a lack of good intelligence accounts for...
Here’s what we know about ISIS-K, the splinter jihadist group, which...
26 Aug, 2021
photo: © Sgt. Glen McCarthy
Australia’s Department of Defence/Reuters
The US and the UK warned that Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K/IS-K) was planning attacks...
Top 3 ways Taliban’s takeover will revive Islamist movements
Farah Adeed discusses the ways in which the Taliban will revive the Islamist movements in Afghanistan now that they are ruling the country again....
Taliban and Northern Alliance in Panjshir strike a peace deal
After two days of consecutive meetings, Taliban and National Resistance Front (NRF) have agreed on peacekeeping in order to avoid further bloodshed in Panjshir....
Fleeing the Taliban: Afghans met with rising anti-refugee hostility in Turkey
As violence causes a fresh wave of desperate journeys, populist politicians claim their country has become a ‘dumping ground’
By Liz Cookman
Aug 5, 2021
Photography by...
After privatizing war, Prince privatizes death
Feeding on tragedy: Ex-Blackwater boss Erik Prince squeezes profit from mad scramble at Kabul airport, charging $6.5k for escape
By Damian Wilson*
Aug. 25, 2021
As terrified...
Israel exploits Biden’s problems to relaunch war threats to Iran
As Bennett meets Biden, IDF ramps up plans for strike on Iran’s nuke program
Military, defense minister believe a credible threat of an Israeli attack...
Left, Wars and War Capitalist Economy
A guide for the U.S. antiwar movement
Originally published: Covert Action Magazine
by Matt McKenna and Jeremy Kuzmarov
August 19, 2021
photo:antiwarcommittee.org
Since the Vietnam War, the...
Putin and Xi pledge to keep peace in Central Asia, after...
25 Aug, 2021
photo: © Sputnik
Moscow and Beijing will work together to secure the region around Afghanistan, after Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese premier...
US Loses One Afghanistan War: Proposals for New Afghanistan Wars Multiply
by Doug Bandow
Posted on August 25, 2021
It took just 11 days, but the US lost another war. Washington and its mostly NATO allies...