Washington Post: A former Afghan militant who is one of the last 40 detainees held at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, asked a U.S. judge for his freedom on Monday, arguing that President Biden’s recent troop withdrawal announcement amounted to a declaration that the U.S. war in Afghanistan is ending and that all prisoners
Press TV May 10, 2021 Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has strongly condemned the terrorist attack targeting a girls’ school in the Afghan capital, noting that the massacre is part of an American plot to bring Takfiri terrorism back to life in the war-torn country. “This grave crime is a plot by Americans, which
Politico: The Americans are dismantling their portion of nearby Bagram Air Base, and anything that they are not taking home or giving to the Afghan military, they destroy as completely as possible. “They left us nothing,” he [Afghan junk dealer] said. “They don’t trust us. They have destroyed our country. They are giving us only
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 10, 2021 ISLAMABAD – The Taliban have announced a nationwide cease-fire in Afghanistan that will take effect when the three-day annual Muslim festival of Eid-al-Fitr begins Thursday, marking the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. The announcement follows a spike in attacks by the Islamist insurgent group against government forces
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 9, 2021 ISLAMABAD – The leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency Sunday praised the ongoing withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from the country, as officials in Kabul raised the death toll to more than 60 from the previous day’s multiple blasts outside a girls’ school in the capital. “We consider
Ariana: The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda and her team met a high-level delegation from Afghanistan, including Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar, in a bid to achieve justice for the Afghan people by holding perpetrators of “atrocity crimes” accountable. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 7, 2021 The Pentagon has deployed more heavy bombers and fighter jets to ensure the protection of the withdrawing U.S. and coalition troops from Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters on May 6. “Less than one week in, the drawdown is going according to plan,” Austin told reporters, adding
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 5, 2021 U.S. intelligence agencies warn in an unclassified report released on May 4 that gains in women’s rights in Afghanistan made in the last two decades will be at risk after U.S. troops withdraw. “The Taliban remains broadly consistent in its restrictive approach to women’s rights and would roll
Ashraf Ghani via Foreign Affairs: President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September represents a turning point for the country and our neighbors. The Afghan government respects the decision and views it as a moment of both opportunity and risk for itself, for Afghans, for the Taliban, and
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 4, 2021 Thousands of people have fled their homes in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand as Afghan security forces fought back a large-scale offensive after the United States began to pull its forces from the war-torn country. Provincial council head Attaullah Afghan said on May 4 that the Taliban launched