The SCO would do well to coordinate its members’ efforts to contain Afghan-emanating regional terrorist threats such as ISIS-K, encourage a political compromise between Kabul and the Taliban, and devise a plan for developing the war-torn country’s
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was criminal. It was criminal because of the immense force used to demolish Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure and to break open its social bonds.
Bloomberg published an op-ed last week provocatively claiming that “Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Is A Blow To China”.
Given the present atmosphere in Washington in which there is no lie so outrageous as to keep it out of the mainstream media, a great deal of policy making takes place without even key players in the government knowing what is going on behind their
It’s easy to forget, but the United States by the end of 2001 thought it had won in Afghanistan.
When the United States and the Taliban signed a landmark deal in Doha on February 29 last year, the Trump administration had a clear roadmap — it wanted to see a political settlement by January this year.
On August 21, Kabul launched rockets. The authorities carried out a retaliation operation, two militants were liquidated.
The attack occurred during the speech of President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, timed to the holiday of Eid al-Adha.
In general, the situation in Afghanistan is far from stable. Only in recent months, militants have regularly captured police and military facilities.
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