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The US war in Afghanistan is over. This is how it began and what it left behind For the first time in 20 years, Afghanistan is all but free of foreign troops. But with the Talibans rapid advance as American and NATO  troops leave, its future looks uncertain. 7 July 2021 With American and NATO troops having all but departed Afghanistan after 20 years of war, the country is still riven by internal conflict.  The United States descended on Afghanistan and its Taliban government in 2001 i...

A timeline of more than 40 years of war in Afghanistan Sign In The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 11 1of11FILE - In this photo courtesy Ronald Reagan Library, then President Ronald Reagan meets with Afghan "freedom fighters" on Feb. 2, 1983, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, to discuss Soviet atrocities in Afghanistan. The former Soviet Union marched into Afghanistan on Christmas Eve, 1979, claiming it was invited by the new Afghan communist leader, Babrak...

Cum a transformat CIA Afganistanul într-un narco-stat Ajutorul acordat de Agenția Centrală de Informații a SUA (CIA) milițiilor mujahedine pentru anihilarea invaziei sovietice, precum și încurajarea tacită oferită de americani traficului ilegal cu opiu aveau să se transforme, peste decenii, într-una din principalele cauze ale înfrângerii US Army în Afganistan. În paralel, țara cu cei mai triști oameni de pe planetă a devenit un narco-stat, cu un procent galopant de consumatori...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even warned that the economic dislocation could spark widespread famine. But one sector is still booming: the illicit opium trade. Last year saw Afghan opium poppy cultivation grow by over a third while counter-narcotics operations dropped off a cliff. The country is said to be the source of over 90% of all the world’s illicit opium, from which heroin and other opioids are...

The problem of Frances Islamisation stems from the Cold War era, when Islamists were used by NATO allies as a tool against the Soviet bloc, says French politician...

Antiwar.com Original Setting the Record Straight on Operation Cyclone Claims that the al-Qaeda founder worked for the CIA are demonstrably unfounded, but the facts behind the U.S.s decade-long program to fund and arm the Afghan mujahideen are not much better.by Thomas Resnick Posted on Last month, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Twitter account posted a short article on the FIM-92 Stinger, a surface-to-air missile system that has become a metonym for American assistance to Afghan ...

Things to know about all the lies on Xinjiang: How have they come about? China Watch Institute, China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-28 12:45 Share CLOSE A Uygur family in Yuli county, Northwest Chinas Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, April 15, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] In recent years, manipulated and encouraged by the anti-China forces in the United States, some truth-bending "academic institutions", rumor-mongering "experts and scholars" and "amateur actors" w...

The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy Opium Wars, bin Laden, and Mujahideen “When the operation started in 1979, this region grew opium only for regional markets and produced no heroin. Within two years, however, the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world’s top heroin producer. . . . CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax.” —Alfred M...

Examining underlying issues Obviously, there is no genocide going on in China, but we must conduct our own research into what is happening in Xinjiang, urges Foppe de Haan A couple of weeks ago, Daniel Lazare correctly dismissed allegations of Uyghur ‘genocide’ (‘Uyghurs: why now?’, March 18). We are all aware of how the US will weaponise and even create ‘human rights’ situations in order to further its goals, and that it has engaged in such actions almost constantly since World War...

Comments Like so many of the conflicts around the world today, the ongoing war in Somalia dates back to the proxy wars between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. With the latter now a historical relic, American involvement in the East African nation has continued under the guise of the “war on terror,” in order to maintain a geopolitical edge in the Horn of Africa. In December of 2020, the Trump administration announced the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from S...