Since the war ended, Afghanistan has experienced a significant reduction in violence and a relative period of peace. According to the Global Terrorism Index, terror deaths fell by 519 in Afghanistan in 2023, an 81-percent improvement. This was the first year since 2019 that Afghanistan has not ...
KABUL, Afghanistan-- Since the International Criminal Court began collecting material three months ago for a possible war crimes case involvingAfghanistan, it has gotten a staggering 1.17 million statements from Afghans who say they were victims.The statements include accounts of alleged atrocities no...
A year after the messy withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, the country is facing multiple natural and manmade crises that threaten the lives of millions of Afghans. TV & Movies How Two U.S. Soldiers Risked It All To Get Their Families Out of a War Zone Alive ...
The headlines claim America’s war in Afghanistan has finally ended, but of course no war ends just because someone claims it to be so. The Afghan people will be living with the chaos and destruction of this war for decades to come, even as mainstream media pundits in the USA and at th...
decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq has placed an unprecedented strain on U.S. special-operations forces. The 66,000 members of the Special Operations Command comprise three percent of the military, yet they’ve suffered more than 20 percent of American combat deaths this year in Afghanistan...
in order to prevent and interdict cross-border incursions by Taliban such as those that have resulted in the deaths of the NZ soldiers this month (I shall leave aside the snide critique by the PM of the Hungarian PRT in Baghlan since its rules of engagement (ROE) never involved long-rang...
Afghanistan War Challenge: Civilian Deaths from NATO AirstrikeGen. Stanley McChrystal's nuanced Afghanistan war plan took a hit on Sunday when a convoy of suspected insurgents targeted by a coalition airstrike turned out to be civilians.Lubold, Gordon...
The War in Afghanistan has sparked worldwide protests, with the deaths of Afghan civilians being the main focus of the protests.[1] According to Amnesty International, the Tablian committed many war crimes, including targeting civilians, killing aid workers, using white phosphorus, and using civili...
report by the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The SIGAR report makes clear that the Doha agreement, instead of propelling Taliban-Kabul talks, unleashed an offensive that caught government forces unprepared and increased the number of civilian deaths, France24 ...
Her sons and grandsons earned less than $200 a month to serve. Poor morale, drug abuse and never-ending combat have driven Afghan desertions and deaths so high that staffing levels are now classified by the American military. After 17 years of war, Taliban field commanders signal openness to...