The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) identified “about $2.4 billion in assets that were unused or abandoned, had not been used for their intended purposes, had deteriorated, or were destroyed” out of nearly $7.8 billion the US has spent on capital assets in the country. Only $1.2 billion …
Read More »With mere months left till deadline for Trump-negotiated Afghanistan withdrawal, press prepares public to accept its likely breach
The agreement signed in Doha in late February 2020 sets May 1 as the deadline for a full withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. The Pentagon currently has 2,500 service personnel deployed in the country, with NATO allies fielding some 7,000 more. Under the agreement, the Taliban pledged to make …
Read More »MMA fighter Leonardo Barbosa admits to ‘throwing fight in Afghanistan after being pressured by gunman in locker room’ (VIDEO)
Barbosa admitted to feigning injury as a result of a knee to the body in the fight against Ahmed Wali Hotak in Kabul on February 11, leading to the referee calling the bout in favor of the hometown fighter – but he claims that the fight’s telling blow didn’t come in …
Read More »‘There will be no full withdrawal’: Troops to remain in Afghanistan past Trump-set deadline – report
“There will be no full withdrawal by allies by April-end,” one NATO official told Reuters. According to the source, “conditions have not been met” to justify a full-scale withdrawal, and the new administration will likely present “tweaks in policy.” “With the new US administration, there will be tweaks in the …
Read More »House overrides Trump’s veto of defense spending bill that blocked Afghanistan withdrawal
After aligning with Trump to approve raising the coronavirus stimulus payments to $2,000 per American, the House also voted 322- 87 to override Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a $740 billion military spending bill, which passed both chambers of Congress earlier this month. Trump objected to …
Read More »Trump says ‘elections far more secure’ in AFGHANISTAN in latest ‘voter fraud’ twitterstorm
“A young military man working in Afghanistan told me that elections in Afghanistan are far more secure and much better run than the USA’s 2020 Election,” Trump tweeted on Saturday. “Ours, with its millions and millions of corrupt Mail-In Ballots, was the election of a third world country,” he added, …
Read More »US continues its long history of using death squads, this time in Afghanistan. This is nothing but horrifying
According to The Intercept, “Beginning in December 2018 and continuing for at least a year, Afghan operatives believed to belong to an elite CIA-trained paramilitary unit known as 01, in partnership with U.S. special operations forces and air power, unleashed a campaign of terror against civilians.” This unit carried out …
Read More »Pentagon lost track of over HALF of ‘sensitive’ equipment provided to Afghanistan’s military – watchdog
The severe lack of accounting of the military toys provided to Kabul was exposed in a new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) tasked with providing so-called end-use monitoring (EUM) needed to ensure the provided equipment was utilized exactly as …
Read More »Sickening 300% rise in civilian casualties shows Afghanistan still has nothing to show for 20 years of US warmongering
It’s been almost 20 years now since the United States and its allies entered Afghanistan as part of the ‘war on terror’, but even after all that time, it shows no signs of ending. Nor, arguably, has there been any respite for Afghanistan’s people, despite a commitment towards peace between …
Read More »Britain likely to follow US and cut troops in Afghanistan, but America not completely pulling out yet – UK defence minister
“I expect if [the US) are reducing at some stage, we will come down,” Ben Wallace told Sky News. But London will continue to work with Afghanistan’s government and Washington to ensure the country’s security. Wallace noted that fundamentally, the US is not 100 percent pulling out of Afghanistan. The …
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