Mariam Ghani, daughter of exiled Afghan president Ashraf Ghani, is living a luxurious lifestyle in New York City as chaos continues overseas…Ghani lives a bohemian artist life in a loft in a luxury co-op in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood and has previously described herself as a ‘Brooklyn cliché’…Her father, Ashraf, recently fled Afghanistan in a helicopter filled with $169million in cash as the Taliban overtook the nation. He has been given asylum in Dubai on ‘humanitarian grounds’…
Why the Afghan Army Folded to the Taliban…
The Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan caught the West by surprise, as no one had expected that the Afghan government forces would not put up a fight and vanish into thin air so quickly…
The War Nerd: Was There a Plan in Afghanistan?…
Was there ever a plan there? So what was supposed to happen back in October 2001, when the US forces invaded? I’ve been going through the papers of record, the NYT and WaPo, to see what the official line was, year by year. The first years of an occupation are the most important, so I’ve focused on the first five full years of US occupation, 2002-2007. You can find a good timeline of these years here, but it’s much harder to find any trace of a plan…
WATCH: Taliban Trolls Facebook on Freedom of Speech, Censorship…
Taliban leaders have made it clear they are in no mood for a lecture from the West on the issue of free speech…
FLASHBACK: This Is Why U.S. Military Trained Afghan Defense Forces Collapsed…
The loss of U.S. contractors could trigger a game-changing shift in the military balance between the Taliban and the Afghan government…
Taliban Commander Who Gave Taunting Victory Speech from Kabul Palace Was Released from Guantanamo After Claiming He Was a ‘Simple Shopkeeper’…
A Taliban commander claimed he spent eight years in Guantanamo Bay in a triumphant speech from inside the Presidential Palace in Kabul Sunday…This came as the militants declared an Islamic state of Afghanistan after President Ashraf Ghani fled his country amid chaotic scenes…Experts identified the commander and former Gitmo detainee as Gholam Ruhani, who was accused of being a longtime security agent for the Taliban…
UNREALISTIC TIMELINES, UNSUSTAINABLE GOALS MADE ‘VICTORIOUS U.S. WITHDRAWAL’ FROM AFGHANISTAN IMPOSSIBLE…
A “victorious U.S. withdrawal” from Afghanistan was impossible to achieve because the U.S. government created unrealistic timelines to rebuild the country, leading to short-term fixes such as injections of troops, money and resources, according to the watchdog agency created by Congress to provide oversight…
U.S. Treasury Freezes Billions in Afghan Reserves, Depriving Taliban of Cash…
After handing the Taliban US-supplied military hardware on a silver platter thanks to the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, the Biden administration scrambled to deprive the terrorist organization of funding – freezing Afghan government reserves held in US bank accounts, and blocking the Taliban from accessing billions of dollars held in US institutions, according to the Washington Post, citing two people familiar with the matter…
Pentagon Admits Taliban Has Billions in U.S. Weapons…
If anyone was holding out hope that the Pentagon has some clue where all those billions in weapons that accumulated in Afghanistan over the past 20 years ended up, don’t…
U.S. State Department Tells Americans in Afghanistan to Head to the Kabul Airport but “Cannot Guarantee Your Security”…
How would you like to be one of the 15,000+ American citizens in Kabul, or surrounding region, and getting this notice from the United States State Department:…