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Good Luck With That, Pakistan
Pakistan threatens to ‘obliterate’ Taliban after peace talks fall apart Pakistan’s defense minister says the country doesn’t need its full arsenal to push Taliban ‘back to the caves for hiding’ By Landon Mion Pakistan’s defense minister on Wednesday threatened to “obliterate” the Taliban, which controls neighboring Afghanistan, after negotiations toward lasting peace between the two […]
President Trump reportedly is trying to get Bagram back
President Donald Trump participated in a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. One of the announcements that Trump made was his desire to get Bagram Airfield back from the Taliban. Trump listed, as one of his reasons, China’s making nuclear bombs in a part of China not far from Afghanistan. The Taliban […]
ICC Wants Taliban Arrested for Being Taliban
International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting women By Catherine Nicholls, CNN The International Criminal Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two top Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting girls and women in Afghanistan. The pair are suspected of “ordering, inducing or soliciting” the persecution of girls, women […]
Officers involved with the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan may be held accountable
Donald Trump’s transition team is reportedly creating a list of officers involved with the US military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. This list will be a compilation of currently serving officers and retired/former officers. This list is being generated with the view of investigating these officers’ roles with the possibility of bringing up charges. If applicable, retired […]
The Taliban celebrates three years in power
Without the full benefit of US military backing during the withdrawal, units of the Afghan army collapsed and disbanded. They left, in their wake, US and NATO military equipment provided for use by the Afghani Army. As with ISIS in Iraq, and the North Vietnamese in South Vietnam, the Taliban captured these equipment. Since taking […]
Afghanistan withdrawal had Donald Trump been in the White House…
Wesley Hunt, Texas Representative, was in the same room as Donald Trump, the leader of the Taliban, and others were at. According to Hunt, Donald Trump told the leader of the Taliban that the withdrawal was going to be conditions based. When asked what those conditions were, the response was one, that if they harmed […]
Bowe Bergdahl’s conviction dismissal to be considered by US Appeals Court
A U.S. District Court Judge dismissed the conviction of Bowe Bergdahl. The Justice Department appealed this dismissal at the U.S. Court of Appeals at the District of Columbia. The reason for the conviction dismissal involved an argument that the presiding judge for the original trial had a “conflict of interest”. Bergdahl’s lawyers also argued that […]
Taliban benefiting from funds sent to Afghanistan from the US and from other donors
Every two weeks, approximately $80 million in aid pours into Afghanistan. This aid is intended to support humanitarian purposes. One of the caveats to this humanitarian aid is that the Taliban are not among the beneficiaries. However, the Taliban leverages its control to obtain information from aid groups and to funnel money into their coffers. […]
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