Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has been placed in charge of the investigation, which will be conducted by Air Force Inspector General Lt.Gen. Sami Said, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Monday. The probe comes after Austin ordered a military officer (three stars or higher) to conduct a review of …
Read More »Amazon, Facebook & Uber pledge to hire Afghan refugees to support US economic ‘vision’
Some 34 companies joined the Tent Foundation’s Coalition for Afghan Refugees and have pledged to train, hire, and “help integrate” refugees into the American economy, the Tent Foundation announced on Tuesday. The companies include Facebook, Uber, UPS, Pfizer, Chobani, Trip Advisor, Western Union, Hilton, Gap, Mastercard and Amazon – the …
Read More »Russia to upgrade tanks on Afghan border as part of plan to protect former Soviet states after chaotic US withdrawal from Kabul
In a statement issued by Russian defense chiefs on Friday, officials said that the latest hardware would be shipped to troops stationed in the mountainous Central Asian nation. “By the end of this year, 30 modern tanks will replace earlier combat vehicles used by the tank battalion at the Russian …
Read More »White House pauses Afghan flights to US after 4 evacuees test positive for MEASLES
Four cases of measles have been diagnosed among Afghans who have recently arrived in the US, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced on Friday, adding that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had called for a halt to the flights out of an abundance of caution. The cases were …
Read More »Afghan invasion was never a ‘good war,’ it was always an imperialist project, John Pilger tells RT
Pilger joined RT’s Going Underground program to reflect on the lessons that should be learned from two decades of occupation in Afghanistan, which ended in an ignoble withdrawal last month. He warned against remembering the military misadventure as a sort of “good war” justified by the threat of terrorism. Just …
Read More »‘Islam doesn’t allow them to be seen like this’: Taliban official says ‘not necessary’ for Afghan women to play sports
Speaking to Australian broadcaster SBS, Ahmadullah Wasiq suggested that it would be inappropriate for women to take part in sporting activities under the new Taliban government in place following the fall of Kabul on August 15. Wasiq stated that the women’s cricket team will not be “allowed” in a ban …
Read More »‘They attacked us & killed our children’: Grieving Afghan fathers demand fair investigation of US drone strike in Kabul (VIDEO)
President Joe Biden urged the US military commanders in Afghanistan to “stop at nothing” to make ISIS-K (Islamic State Khorasan Province) pay for the deaths of the 13 American troops who were killed along with 169 Afghans in a suicide bombing and gunfire at the gates of Kabul airport on …
Read More »MORE Afghanistan spending: Biden asks Congress for $6.4 billion for ‘full resettlement’ of Afghan refugees
By the time the last American plane left Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul a week ago, more than 120,000 people had been airlifted out of the Afghan capital. However, fewer than 6,000 of these were American citizens and their families. “The vast majority” were Afghan refugees and Special Immigrant …
Read More »US working with Taliban on securing additional flights from Afghan capital – secretary of state
Speaking at a news conference in Qatar on Tuesday, Blinken said the US has been communicating with the Taliban to secure agreements for more charter flights to leave safely. He vowed to hold the Taliban to their promise that all those with travel documents wanting to leave the country would …
Read More »‘First order security threat’ akin to revolutionary communism: Afghan war didn’t solve radical Islam, Tony Blair says
In a much-hyped address on Monday, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted that leading powers must “unite to develop a shared strategy” to counter the threat of radical Islamism, claiming that defeating this ideology and its violence is also in China and Russia’s interests. While terrorist attacks have become …
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