“Although it was the longest military conflict in U.S. history, Afghanistan frequently was a forgotten war, overshadowed by the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent rise of the Islamic State extremist group. In all, 2,461 U.S. troops were killed, including 13 in the past week, in a U.S. campaign that began Oct. […]
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8/30/2021
“A U.S. military C-17 carried the last American troops out of Afghanistan on Monday [8/30/2021], marking the formal end of the longest war in U.S. history but leaving between 100 and 200 Americans and tens of thousands of America’s Afghan allies to face a future of uncertainty and danger.” – Nancy A. Youssef and Gordon […]
8/30/2021
“The image of Army Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue departing Afghanistan on Monday night [8/30/2021] will forever serve as a symbol of the end of a grueling, nearly two-decade war there. Donahue, steely-eyed, in a helmet and fatigues and carrying a rifle, was photographed using night vision optics as he became the last American soldier to […]
8/24/2021
“Biden surrendered Afghanistan to terrorists and left thousands of Americans for dead by pulling out the Military before our citizens. Now we are learning that out of the 26,000 people who have been evacuated, only 4,000 are Americans. You can be sure the Taliban, who are now in complete control, didn’t allow the best and […]
8/16/2021
“The Taliban has declared the war in Afghanistan over, after its fighters swept into the capital, Kabul, and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Victorious Taliban fighters patrolled the streets of Kabul on Monday [8/16/2021] as thousands of Afghans mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee the group’s feared hardline brand of rule. Scores of […]
6/17/2021
“The U.S. House of Representatives moved Thursday [6/17/2021] to repeal a nearly two-decade-old war powers measure, marking what many lawmakers hope will be the beginning of the end of wide-ranging authorities given to the president after the 9/11 terror attacks. The vote was 268-161. The measure now heads to the Senate. Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee […]
2/29/2020
“The US has agreed to begin withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan as long as the Taliban upholds its commitment to ‘not allow any of its members, other individuals or groups, including al-Qa’ida, to use the soil of Afghanistan to threaten the security of the United States and its allies.’ The accord states that the US […]
2/29/2020
“Hours after the US and the Taliban signed a landmark agreement aimed at ending America’s war in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump said that he plans to start pulling troops out of Afghanistan immediately. ‘Everybody’s tired of war,’ Trump said at a White House press briefing Saturday afternoon [2/29/2020], adding that the 18-year conflict in Afghanistan, […]
2/8/2020
In an online report by Brown University Watson Institute For International And Public Affairs’ The Costs of [post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the related violence in Pakistan and Syria] War Project, titled “Costs of War,” “SUMMARY OF FINDINGS – Some of the Costs of War Project’s main findings include: At least 800,000 people have […]
1/1/2020
“The Authorisation for the Use of Military Force Act was drafted by the Bush White House in the week after the 9/11 attacks. At its heart is a sixty-word sentence that gives the US president the power to ‘use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organisations, or persons’ that he or she determines […]