afghans

Why can’t we Americans do what the Afghans did, and take back control of our country?

Since the Taliban’s unexpected success in reclaiming their country, the one thing I’ve been losing sleep over is, well, why…

3 years ago

MoD suspends official over leak that exposed data of 250 Afghans who worked for British forces, as SECOND email breach reported

The suspension of the unnamed official, believed to be linked to the major data breach, was announced in a brief…

3 years ago

Child brides & terrorist ties? US struggles to identify many of 100k+ Afghans it evacuated from Kabul

President Joe Biden had declared the Kabul airlift an “extraordinary” success, pointing to 124,000 people extracted from Afghanistan following the…

3 years ago

Afghans who worked with British govt will get PERMANENT residence in UK, but hundreds still left behind

Dubbed ‘Operation Warm Welcome,’ the British government unveiled on Wednesday what it called a “significant cross-government effort,” saying Afghans arriving…

3 years ago

American talk show host calls for mass violence against Afghans over terrorist attack that killed US citizens in Kabul

Starnes’ post, made in the aftermath of two explosions at the Kabul airport on Thursday, seemingly blamed all Afghans for…

3 years ago

‘It is all too familiar’: No matter what, US won’t get all ‘deserving’ Afghans out, journalist who witnessed fall of Saigon says

The ongoing extraction of foreign nationals and locals, who used to work for the occupying forces, bears striking similarities to…

3 years ago

‘Chaos was inevitable!’ Biden shrugs off shock scenes of Afghans falling from US plane because ‘that was five days ago’

Biden was in Camp David over the weekend when the US-backed Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban took over. He…

3 years ago

Taliban acquires US military biometric devices that can identify Afghans who assisted coalition efforts – reports

An unidentified Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) official told The Intercept that the Islamist group confiscated the Handheld Interagency Identity…

3 years ago

Like the Berlin Wall or the Twin Towers: footage of fleeing Afghans abandoned by US marks the end of an era for American supremacy

“I know my decision will be criticized. But I would rather take all that criticism than pass this decision on…

3 years ago

Pay Taliban reparations? UK anti-war fruitcakes’ plan is an insult to the thousands of Afghans and Allies killed by Islamist thugs

There have been some poor decisions made about Afghanistan during the 20-year-long war but nowhere, no-how at no time has…

3 years ago