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Afghanistan
U.S. Considers Designating Taliban as Terrorist Organization
DIDPress: The U.S. Secretary of State announced during a session of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Washington is currently evaluating the potential designation of the Taliban as a foreign terrorist organization. These remarks were made by Secretary of State…
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Two Israeli Embassy Staffers Killed in Washington Shooting
DIDPress: Two employees of the Israeli embassy were killed in a targeted shooting near the Jewish Museum in Washington. Two Israeli embassy staff members were killed in a targeted shooting near the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. The attacker, shouting…
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Deporting Afghans, Welcoming White Afrikaners; A National Disgrace for America
DIDPress: In a powerful op-ed published by MSNBC, Matt Johnson describes the Trump administration’s policy toward Afghan refugees as a “national disgrace.” With the looming termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghans and the potential deportation of over 9,000…
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Trump’s Tariffs Hurting Americans
Tim Brinkhof writes for the Daily Bast that Donald Trump’s irrational trade wars have rattled the stock market, discouraged foreign investment, weakened the U.S. dollar, and cooled down global trade and diplomatic relations
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Fear Grips U.S. Security Agencies as Employees Face Lie Detector Tests
DIDpress: A wave of interrogations using polygraph tests has sparked fear and unease among FBI personnel and other U.S. security agency employees. According to a report by the Washington Post, cited by Russia Today and relayed by DIDpress Agency, these…
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Afghanistan
Finding a Way Back to Afghanistan
America did not focus on Afghanistan in the years after the Soviet withdrawal in 1979 and closed its embassy a decade later. This left Washington blind to what was taking shape there in the lead-up to Sept. 11. Over the…
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Why Afghanistan Fell
The other factor that contributed to the demise of the Afghan army was the last-minute wholesale restructuring of Afghanistan’s security institutions. In 2021, amid rapidly deteriorating security, President Ghani reshuffled most of his security officials, often replacing them with fellow…
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New International Approach for Peace and Reconciliation in Afghanistan; UN should Act Comprehensively!
The need for an inclusive and representative government comprised of all of Afghanistan’s political, religious, and ethnic groups is now a stronger point of consensus among regional and Western countries alike
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America’s Shameful Neglect of Its Afghan Friends and Allies
During the chaos of 2021, it is estimated that the US brought only 124,000 Afghan partners out of the country
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Afghanistan
Collapse of Afghan Republic — US Policy Review
The report writers believe that ‘open-ended mission in Afghanistan led America into a policy trap’ where victory in traditional sense was impossible... due to the absence of ‘a functioning civil society’, and external support (read safe havens in Pakistan) to…
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