Tag: Afghanistan

Afghanistan/USA – The Taliban Captured Helicopters. Can They Capture an Air Force? (Defense One)

U.S officials formally deliver four Super Tucano attack aircraft to the Afghan Defense Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on January 15, 2016. HAROON SABAWOON / ANADOLU...

Afghanistan/USA – Pentagon Sending Enough Airpower to Evacuate ‘Thousands’ from Afghanistan Per Day (Defense One)

Taliban fighters drive an Afghan National Army vehicle through a street in Kandahar on August 13, 2021. AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Tara Copp U.S. Air Force cargo...

Afghanistan/USA – How I Failed My Afghan Comrades (Defense One)

Sgt. 1st Class Jeremiah Velez, left, and Capt. David Zak, center, both advisors with the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade's 3rd Squadron, speak with...

Afghanistan – Regrouping the military ‘a top priority’, Afghan president says (Al Jazeera)

President Ashraf Ghani said extensive consultations have been held within the government and with international partners Ali M Latifi Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has addressed...

Afghanistan – Afghan President vows to prevent more destruction, displacement (Al Jazeera)

Taliban fighters drive an Afghan National Army vehicle through a street in the southern city of Kandahar after its capture Farah Najjar The Taliban launched...

Afghanistan/USA/China – Afghan party leader enumerates bloody and depraved legacies of US withdrawal, call for bigger role of China (Global Times)

Dr. Latif Pedram, leader of the National Congress Party (NCP) of Afghanistan and a former Member of Parliament Photo: Courtesy of Pedram Zhao Juecheng and Hu...

China/Pakistan/India/Afghanistan – Truth on Dasu terror attack surfaces amid unanswered questions, as China and Pakistan step up security for Chinese (Global Times)

Photo: AFP After Pakistan announced its preliminary investigation results Thursday that the Pakistani Taliban was responsible for the Dasu terror attack that killed nine Chinese...

Afghanistan – Taliban captures Afghan commander Ismail Khan after fall of Herat (Al Jazeera)

Afghan commander and former mujahideen leader Ismail Khan addresses a gathering at his house in Herat The Taliban has captured Ismail Khan – the...

Afghanistan/Pakistan – Pakistani forces clash with Afghan protesters at border crossing (Al Jazeera)

Pakistani soldiers stand guard in front of people waiting to cross at the Friendship Gate crossing point in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Chaman,...

Afghanistan/USA – Kabul evacuations: Echoes of 1975 US exit from Vietnam’s Saigon? (Al Jazeera)

  A South Vietnamese soldier with a bazooka advances along a Saigon Street in this February 2, 1968 photo Thousands of US soldiers being sent...

USA/Afghanistan – The US is leaving Afghanistan, but what is it leaving behind? (Al Jazeera)

The United States leaves Afghanistan as the Taliban seem to be retaking control of the entire country, city by city. So what becomes of the...

Afghanistan/Taliban – Who are Taliban’s key leaders in Afghanistan? (Al Jazeera)

Taliban chief negotiator Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai at the intra-Afghan peace talks in Doha The Taliban has been fighting the Western-backed Afghan government in...

Germany/Afghanistan – Germany’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan puts its Security Policy Back at Square One (Global Policy)

Image: Ninara via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) On 29 June 2021, a press release announcing that the last German soldiers were leaving Afghanistan coincided with the German team leaving the confusingly...

Afghanistan/Pakistan – #SanctionPakistan trends as violence rages in Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

A Taliban flag, iin white, raised at the Afghan side of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Chaman, Pakistan As violence from a Taliban offensive on government-held areas...

USA/Afghanistan – US loses moral credibility abandoning Afghan forces (Global Times)

Li Zixin The Taliban seized three more provincial capitals on Tuesday, making it nine fallen cities in five days. After the Taliban seized three provincial...

Afghanistan/USA/Central Asia – No good options for Central Asia after US withdrawal from Afghanistan (East Asia Forum)

Nishank Motwani, ATR Consulting The US withdrawal from Afghanistan presents a special challenge to Russia and several Central Asian states. The withdrawal could see Afghanistan...