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Return to power of movement’s co-founder embodies Afghanistan’s inability to escape history of conflictTaliban enters Kabul – live updatesAbdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban leader freed from a Pakistani jail on the request of the US less than three years…
Read MoreUS efforts to evacuate its Afghan employees regarded as too little, too late, as many visa recipients struggle to leave country The US is in a race against time to ramp up the processing of its former Afghan employees under threat from the Taliban mili…
Read MoreAnalysis: White House accused of unfairly pointing finger at Afghan military after decades of mismanaging war effortAs one provincial capital after another has fallen to the Taliban, the message from Washington to the Afghans facing the onslaught has b…
Read MoreJoe Biden has said he will cut air support to Afghan forces and target terrorist groups from regional basesAs the US nears completion of its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Pentagon is supposed to switch to “over-the-horizon” counter-terroris…
Read MoreAnalysis: Washington did not learn the lessons of Vietnam and more death and suffering are inevitableThe US war in Afghanistan was not supposed to be another Vietnam. “I don’t do quagmires,” said Donald Rumsfeld, the architect of the original US invas…
Read MoreAlmost all operations shut down with 114 people infectedSeveral people have had to be medically evacuatedThe US embassy in Kabul has had to shut down almost all its operations because of a Covid-19 outbreak that has killed one staffer, and left 114 inf…
Read MoreExclusive: Costs of War study looked at losses suffered by Nato allies over 2001-17, finding UK lost 455 lives British and Canadian troops were more than twice as likely to get killed in Afghanistan as their US counterparts, according to a study that l…
Read MoreKurt Campbell says Beijing has been increasing military activities without taking measures to reduce the chance of miscalculationThe Biden administration’s top Asia official has warned about the absence of a crisis-communications channel between the US…
Read MoreUS intelligence evaluates claims of Afghanistan bountiesPress reports sparked outrage and calls to confront KremlinUS intelligence agencies have only “low to moderate confidence” in reports last year that Russian spies were offering Taliban militants i…
Read MoreAnalysis: Despite warnings not enough has been done to stablise the country, the president has decided to set aside the rule ‘if you break it, you fix it’Joe Biden has decided that 20 years is enough for America’s longest war, and has ordered the remai…
Read MoreScientists say the GBSD project is outdated and the result of lobbying rather than a clear sense of what it will achieveThe US is building a new $100bn nuclear missile based on a set of flawed and outdated assumptions, a new report by the Federation of…
Read MoreCuts would decrease military presence from 4,500 to 2,500 in Afghanistan and from 3,000 to 2,500 in IraqThe Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut the US military presence in Afghanistan by almost half, before Joe Biden takes over the presi…
Read MoreDemocrats write to secretary of state over claims Beijing is helping to develop yellowcake factory Congressional Democrats have asked the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to provide information about China’s alleged role in building a uranium proces…
Read MoreHaqqani network responsible for six attacks, CNN reportsPentagon refrained from retaliation in bid to save peace dealIran is reported to have paid bounties to a Taliban faction for killing US and coalition troops in Afghanistan, leading to six attacks …
Read MoreHistorians and military differ on whether 1945 bombing ended the war and saved countless lives – or was an unconscionable act of brutalitySeventy-five years after it dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the Enola Gay stands, restored and gleaming, as …
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