Judging by the headlines, the consensus of many of those in politics today is that Joe Biden lost Afghanistan. And yet he took office at the tail end of a 20-year war in which his two predecessors, of different parties, also wanted out of that quagmire.There...
Amid the social tumult of the 1970s, Meena (who is known only by her first name) left her university classes in the 1970s to organize and educate women, founding the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) in 1977. RAWA opposed the communist regime, which took control...
Ayman al-Zawahri, 71. An Egyptian surgeon who became a mastermind of jihad against the West and who took over as al-Qaida leader after Osama bin Laden’s death in a U.S. raid. July 31. Killed by a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. Fidel Valdez Ramos, 94. The former Philippi...
The former peanut farmer had his share of foreign policy troubles as well. (His important role in brokering a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt notwithstanding.) There was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan—which reignited Cold War tensions—as well as the unsuccessful rescue of U.S. hostag...
Biden, whocontinues to face backlash over the withdrawal, announced on Monday that he willaddress the nation on Afghanistanat 3:45 p.m Eastern time. The Taliban is pushing to restore the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the formal name of the country under the Taliban rule before the militants...
Around 150,000 British military personnel have served in Afghanistan over the past 20 years, and 457 have been killed. Also, 2,448 American service members have died in the conflict. What happened to the US-Taliban peace talks? Image:The Taliban took the city of Jalal...
Just last week, US intelligence analysts had predicted it would likely take several more weeks before Afghanistan’s civilian government in Kabul fell to Taliban fighters. In reality, it only took a few short days.
His grandfather had been the doctor of Abdel Aziz bin Saud, the country’s founder, and he himself, reporting from Afghanistan in the 1980s, had worked for Saudi intelligence, getting close to Osama bin Laden to ensure some link, some influence, for the Saudi royal house. This tricky work...
KABUL, Afghanistan-- A 10-year-old Afghan boy who was declared a hero after fighting the Taliban has been shot dead by insurgents while on his way to school, officials said on Wednesday. The deputy police chief of the province, Rahimullah Khan, said the boy, Wasil Ahmad, was killed in...
At the Paris Olympics, the Hashimi sisters will compete under the tricolored flag of Afghanistan, which is no longer permitted in their own country under the Taliban's rule. After their harrowing journey — and more recently their grueling interval training sessions of over 30 hours per ...