VOA News: WASHINGTON — A year after the last U.S. troops left Kabul, there appears to be little consensus on whether the world, and the West in particular, is any safer from the terrorist groups that call Afghanistan home. One of the most polarizing developments in the debate came on July 31 of this year,
Michael Hughes: A year after the U.S. military’s disastrously-managed withdrawal from Afghanistan, a train wreck of epic proportions that made America’s last days in Vietnam look sane, President Joe Biden is thumping his chest about his administration’s counterterrorism record. As he marked the one-year anniversary of the attack that killed thirteen U.S. service members and
Fox News: The Taliban says it has not been able to find the body of al Qaeda terrorist leader Ayman al Zawahiri after a U.S. air strike hit the home he was staying at in Afghanistan. The U.S. said it killed al Zawahiri with a drone strike in the Afghan capital of Kabul in July.
USA Today: Biden said the drone strike that killed an al-Qaida leader is vindication of his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. Experts say it highlights the vacuum created by the U.S. exit. Click here to read more (external link). Related The US and its allies indirectly encouraged Ghani to flee the country: Khurram
Asgar Asgarov VOA News August 11, 2022 WASHINGTON — A year after their forces swept through Afghanistan and surged to power, the Taliban still struggle to gain international recognition, even though several countries have engaged with the group in one way or another, especially to respond to an unfolding humanitarian crisis there. Most recently, Afghanistan made
Tolo News: The US Department of Defense said that it can still “reach out and touch” any “terrorist” groups without having an actual troop presence in Afghanistan. “I think in the last ten days, in the strike that was carried out on Ayman al- Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda and the most wanted terrorist on
Ariana: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hizb-e-Islami, on Monday blasted the United States for violating Afghanistan’s national sovereignty and territory by conducting a drone strike in Kabul and said Washington’s claims of having killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri were false. Radio Azadi meanwhile quoted the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid as having
Tolo News: FBI director Christopher Wray in senate judiciary committee hearing said he is concerned about potential attacks on the United States emanating from Afghanistan. The FBI director was speaking to the committee on Thursday, five days after the attack on Ayman Al-Zawahiri by a US drone in Kabul. “So we are, especially now that
8am: Sources in Zabul province say that the Taliban have forcibly persuaded people to demonstrate against America for killing the leader of Al-Qaeda. The Taliban in some provinces have conducted protests on Friday (August 5th) in connection with the recent US airstrike and the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul. Sources have added that the
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 4, 2022 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Afghanistan’s Taliban administration claimed Thursday that it had “no knowledge” that slain al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was residing in Kabul and warned of unspecified “consequences” if the United States breached Afghan territorial sovereignty in the future. The official declaration in local and English languages came several