President Joe Biden did not feel the need to mention the Islamic State group's Afghanistan branch, known as ISIS-K, when he announced in April the U.S. plans to withdraw from its longest war and what it would mean for American interests in the region. That changed – sharply – just...
On October 9, 2012, when 15-year-old Yousafzai was riding a bus with friends on their way home from school, a mask-wearing gunman boarded the bus and demanded to know which girl was Yousafzai. When her friends looked toward Yousafzai, her location was given away. The gunman fired at he...
Sauer also points to the US’ withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 as a sore subject for Biden’s legacy. The US government has come under criticism forrecognising the Taliban regime, which retook control in Afghanistan after US troops left – more than 170,000 casualties and $2.3trn in expen...
Follow Us Jul 2024 How different things are now: Democrats held their 2020 convention virtually while Republicans rigged up an impromptu gathering on the White House lawn for then-President Donald Trump to accept the nomination due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Four years later, the issue that on...
Last year, member country South Africa urged Putin not to attend an international conference in that country so that it could avoid the issue. Putin attended the event by teleconference. Marina Aksenova, a professor of comparative and international criminal law at IE University who specializes in ...
After nearly 20 years, the U.S. has withdrawn its troops from Afghanistan, and the Taliban has regained control over the country. In light of those developments, a panel of foreign-policy experts on Tuesday addressed two separate but related questions: Why did the U.S. military action in ...
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Armed Forces Day came about to organize and replace all the separate Army, Navy, Marine Corp., Air Force, and Coast Guard days that were being celebrated separately every year nationwide. Texas has had a few more military organizations since they were organized in the 1930s.What...
Mike is a US Army veteran who spent 15 years as an international security contractor after leaving the military. During that time, he spent 2½ years in Iraq as well as working assignments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian West Bank, Kenya, and Cairo among others. ...
What did the President George W. Bush say when the US invaded Afghanistan? The invasion, led by US forces with help from NATO allies, was framed specifically as a step in a war on terrorism. “These carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist ...