After President Trump met with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un to stop a region headed toward military crisis, the President was asked about the Nobel peace prize for his efforts with South Korean Moon Jae-in. President Trump responded: “Peace is the prize“. Yesterday U.S. President Donald Trump secretly flew to Afghanistan to spend time with […]
Leaked Chinese Government Documents Prove Muslims Are Being Detained in Massive Numbers…
There’s now substantial evidence – in the Chinese government’s own words – that they are detaining Muslims in massive numbers. 403 pages of internal documents have been leaked to the New York Times that describe a clampdown in Xinjiang – a resource-rich territory located on the border of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia – where […]
U.S. Troops to Stay in Afghanistan Several More Years, Top General Says…
U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has predicted that American troops, already in Afghanistan for 18 years, would remain in the country “for several more years.” In an ABC interview broadcast on November 10, Milley noted that, after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the original reason U.S. forces […]
What Baghdadi’s Death Tells Us About the Real Terror Threat…
What’s the best place to look for the terrorist leader of a defeated Islamic terrorist group? When his men are on the run, look for his hideout in or near the country that sponsors him. We didn’t find Osama bin Laden hiding in a cave in Afghanistan, but in a compound in a Pakistani military […]
18-Year Old U.S. Soldiers Now Entering Afghanistan 18 Years After War Began…
This week America’s longest war in Afghanistan turned eighteen, and so did its youngest solder. To mark the occasion, ABC News profiled the US occupation’s newest American member: “Pvt. Hunter Nines is about to join a war nearly as old as he is,” the report said. Reflecting on his first impending deployment with the Army […]
U.S. Drone Strike Kills 30 Civilians in Afghanistan…
A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labor in the fields, officials said on Thursday. The attack on Wednesday night also injured 40 people after accidentally targeting farmers and laborers who had just finished collecting pine nuts at mountainous […]
How Afghan Opium Poppy Farming Has Grown and Grown and Grown…
The US has spent $1.5m (£1.15m) a day since 2001 fighting the opium war in Afghanistan. It’s November 2017. The night vision camera shows a network of streets in a town in Helmand province, the poppy-growing centre of Afghanistan. The camera wheels around the targets before the missiles come arcing in. There are nine strikes […]
DoD Identifies Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy W. Griffin as Green Beret Killed by Small Arms Fire…
The Defense Department has identified an Army Special Forces soldier killed in action Monday. Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy W. Griffin, 41, was killed in action by small arms fire during combat operations in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, Army officials announced Tuesday morning. Griffin, who was from Greenbrier, Tennessee, served as a Special Forces communications sergeant with […]
OPINION: Where We Are Now in Afghanistan by Pat Lang…
A year or so after the US intervention in Afghanistan began in 2001 I perceived that there was a danger that US public and government opinion might begin to favor the idea of “nation building” in Afghanistan. From long experience in and study of the area of Islamicate civilization and its history it seemed clear […]
Two U.S. Service Members Killed in Afghanistan…
Two U.S. service members were killed Wednesday in Afghanistan. The troop deaths were announced by NATO’s Resolute Support mission to the country in a press release Wednesday afternoon. “In accordance with U.S. Department of Defense policy, the names of the service members killed in action are being withheld until 24 hours after notification of next […]
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