Around the same time, personnel were discovered to have travelled for security work in Afghanistan, and one soldier was suspected of using his leave to fight with the Kurdish YPK militant group in Syria. All of this led to the introduction of a formal regul...
When Most U.S. Forces Leave Afghanistan, Contractors May StayTom Bowman
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Hideously ugly, they did the job. But they also proved to be the perfect blank canvases. Enter Australian artist, Justin Andrew Hook. John and I had the good fortune of spending a day with Justin last month, hearing his story and getting to know this amazing human being. Justin, whose,...
The title comes from a Pakistani play. I think it was actually that moment that sent me on the journey to interview 300 people of Muslim heritage from nearly 30 countries, from Afghanistan to Mali, to find out how they fought fundamentalism peacefully like my father did...
On Wednesday, he stepped that up, claiming that he fired Mattis.“What's he done for me? How had he done in Afghanistan? Not too good,” Trump said. “As you know, President Obama fired him, and essentially so did I.”Obama did not fire Mattis, although the general did retire ...
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It ignores the fact that Clinton's lies and policies did result in deaths, and that even if Bush lied about WMDs, it does not automatically make the war in Iraq wrong. Additionally, the bumper sticker fails to consider the role of other factors, such as the inaction of Congress a...
“I want to stay here,” she says, “but my dad wants to see the baby.” Like the two children that she’ll leave behind, Mona was young when her father left the islands for the rural heartland of Arkansas. “We see him on Skype,” she adds. ...
After all that, the last US troops to depart – some of them surely born after the 9/11 attacks – will leave parts of Afghanistan under the control of the same oppressive Taliban leaders who were there in 2001. Here is a brief attempt to bring those 20 years of war into perspective....