Obama Exits Afghanistan, ISIS Moves In
by Daniel Greenfield Obama pushed for a surge in Afghanistan claiming that Al Qaeda had to be defeated. Al Qaeda wasn’t there then, but it may be making a comeback now. Afghan officials confirmed for...
View ArticleWhy we lost Afghanistan
By Pedro Gonzales For once, The New York Times has it right. It has an article revealing that ordinary Afghans avoid their regular civilian courts and go to be judged by Taliban courts. Frustrated by...
View ArticlePentagon acknowledges ISIS spread to Afghanistan amid Obama troop drawdown
By Kristina Wong – 02/12/15 08:23 AM EST U.S. officials are acknowledging that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has spread into Afghanistan, where President Obama is on track to draw down all...
View ArticleAfghanistan arrests, hands over several Muslim Uighur from China
KABUL: Afghanistan arrested and handed over several Muslim Uighur militants from China’s west in an effort to persuade China to use its influence with Pakistan to help start negotiations with the...
View ArticleAfghan woman who donned breast armor goes into hiding
Kubra Khademi walking in central Kabul with wearing a suit of armor featuring large breasts and buttocks in protest against groping. (Photo courtesy of: Twitter) AFP, Kabul Monday, 9 March 2015 A young...
View ArticleAfghan leader warns of Islamic State threat
By Kay Johnson and Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) – President Ashraf Ghani publicly acknowledged for the first time on Saturday that Islamic State was gaining influence in Afghanistan, as he prepared to...
View ArticleAfghan president admits he’s losing troops to ISIS
By The Associated Press Saturday, March 21, 2015, 9:06 p.m. KABUL, Afghanistan — President Ashraf Ghani publicly acknowledged for the first time Saturday that the Islamic State is gaining influence in...
View ArticleISIS in Afghanistan Beheads 10 Taliban Militants
AFP PHOTO / HO / AL-FURQAN MEDIA by Adelle Nazarian7 Jun 2015148 The Islamic State beheaded at least 10 Taliban militants in Afghanistan this week in a remote area in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar region,...
View ArticleWhy the Taliban Wants ISIS Out of Afghanistan
By Ankit Panda A few months after Mosul fell in Iraq last summer and the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS) rose to prominence, we began hearing murmurs that ISIS had spread eastward, into...
View ArticleISIS on the move in Afghanistan
By Kristina Wong//The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has made inroads in Afghanistan as U.S. troops have drawn back from remote areas of the country to larger bases near major cities. U.S. and Afghan...
View Article500+ U.S. military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan directly linked to Iran...
Daniel Greenfield The origin of the dirty Iran nuke deal can be traced back to the Bush days when Democrats decided to do everything they could to undermine an enemy administration. Back then the...
View ArticlePoisoning Afghan Schoolgirls
Arnold Ahlert//On Monday, as many as 126 teachers, schoolgirls and kindergartners were poisoned at the Habibul Mustafa School in Afghanistan’s western Herat province. Herat provincial hospital...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Islamic State expands footprint with terror campaign
BY LYNNE O’DONNELL AND HUMAYOON BABUR JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Rahman Wali’s younger brother was one of 10 Afghan men forced by Islamic State militants to kneel over bombs buried in the soil in a...
View Article#Afghanistan: Woman falsely accused of burning Koran ripped apart by mob
By Ed Straker A woman falsely accused of burning a Koran was ripped to pieces by a mob in Afghanistan. The woman, Farkhunda Malikzada, was falsely accused by a merchant who was selling Viagra and...
View ArticleWhat Happened to ISIS’s Afghanistan-Pakistan Province?
By Arif Rafiq The so-called Islamic State’s Khurasan province (ISIS-Khurasan), which includes Afghanistan and Pakistan, remains a notional entity a year after its establishment. It consists mainly of...
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