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Biden under pressure as NGO says flights from Afghanistan blocked
Sep 09, 2021 09:42Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House foreign affairs committee said that the situation in Afghanistan is “worse” than before the September 11 terrorist attacks because the Taliban are “fully armed” with American weaponry.
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Calculating the real costs of the Afghanistan war
Sep 07, 2021 08:32The so-called global war on terror was not confined to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US now has counterterrorism operations in 85 countries.
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Bruised Biden tries to turn the page after US debacle in Afghanistan
Sep 07, 2021 08:20After a hellish month, the US President Joe Biden wants to focus on domestic matters – but Republicans won’t let Afghanistan drop from the radar.’
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US drone strike in Kabul killed a family — and began a new chapter of war
Sep 05, 2021 09:19Though U.S. forces have left Afghanistan, the war could continue with remotely controlled drone strikes — and even less accountability.
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Afghanistan today, Africa tomorrow: America’s saga of failure
Sep 02, 2021 15:10The presence of extremist militant groups in Africa is providing the perfect pretext for expanding the US military footprint there. The US desperately needs new leadership before it bleeds another generation in an endless war.
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Afghanistan: The great deception
Sep 01, 2021 08:32The U.S./NATO’s rhetorical game of nation-building and democracy-building, all while funding the very forces they were officially fighting in the so-called “war on terror,” is one of the greatest deceptions of the last 20 years.
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Taliban assure world leaders they will let eligible people leave Afghanistan
Sep 01, 2021 08:27Britain's prime minister, Boris Johnson, and other world leaders have received assurances from the Taliban that foreign nationals and those with authorisation to exit Afghanistan will be free to leave, as tensions and bloodshed escalate on the streets of Kabul.
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Western media suddenly care about Afghan women again after US departure
Aug 27, 2021 19:41Western media outlets are proving once again that Afghan women’s rights are only of interest to them when they can be used to prop up imperialism and the military industrial complex.
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Five ways US created and prolonged Afghan crisis
Aug 27, 2021 19:33Media coverage of the Taliban takeover of Kabul would lead most Americans to believe that U.S. involvement in Afghanistan began after 9/11, with the invasion launched to topple the previous Taliban government. But Afghanistan has been at war continuously for forty-two years, and the Pentagon has been involved every step of the way, under both Republican and Democratic administrations.
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Where will Afghanistan’s refugees go?
Aug 26, 2021 19:34The US Refugee Act of 1980 standardized the procedures for admitting refugees – people who have fled war, violence, conflict or persecution – and put in place a rigorous vetting process. But over the past 40 years, US acceptance rates for refugees worldwide have fallen significantly – from 200,000 admitted in 1980 to less than 50,000 in 2019.