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Afghanistan
By: guest5 Date: October 23, 2020, 11:20 pm
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Afghanistan fighting shows no sign of ending
[quote]The world is awaiting progress in the peace talks between
the Afghan government and the Taliban. As the negotiations go on
in Qatar, the fighting shows no sign of ending in Afghanistan.
Al Jazeera's Filio Kontrafouri reports from the capital,
Kabul.[/quote]
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Re: Afghanistan
By: guest5 Date: November 2, 2020, 10:33 am
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At least 19 killed after gunmen storm Kabul University
[quote]At least 19 people were killed and 22 wounded on Monday
when armed men stormed Afghanistan’s biggest university in an
attack that ended only after hours of fighting with security
forces, officials said. According to Interior Ministry spokesman
Tariq Arian, “Three attackers were involved." Kabul police
spokesman Ferdaws Faramerz said most of those killed were
students. The Taliban has denied its involvement in the attack.
Al Jazeera's Victoria Gatenby reports.[/quote]
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Re: Afghanistan
By: guest5 Date: March 13, 2021, 2:00 pm
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Deadly car bomb rocks Afghanistan's Herat province | DW News
[quote]At least eight people have been killed and dozens wounded
by a powerful car bomb in western Afghanistan. The late-night
blast targeted a police station in the city of Herat. Around 50
people were wounded, and homes and shops were destroyed. The
government blamed the Taliban but a spokesman for the group
denied responsibility. The United Nations has condemned what it
calls an alarming increase in attacks targeting civilians.
Turkey plans to hold peace talks between the Afghan government
and the Taliban in April.[/quote]
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Re: Afghanistan
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 5, 2021, 10:08 pm
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194 countries to go.
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Re: Afghanistan
By: guest5 Date: May 2, 2021, 3:23 pm
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Taliban warn US as Trump withdrawal date passes
[quote]The Afghan Taliban is maintaining that the US has
violated commitments on troop withdrawal.
US forces have started to leave, but the previous government had
promised that all foreign forces would be out by May 1st.
The commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan has warned it
would be a mistake for Taliban to attack the troops who are
still there.
Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban's spokesperson to Qatar said that
all foreign troops must leave immediately and the Taliban
leadership is yet to decide a proper counter-action in response
to the US violation of the agreement.[/quote]
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Re: Afghanistan
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 26, 2021, 10:40 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/even-taliban-surprised-fast-theyre-083000586.html
[quote]Even the Taliban are surprised at how fast they're
advancing in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — The Taliban are advancing at lightning speed across
Afghanistan as U.S. troops withdraw. They now control a third of
the country, are fighting for control of 42 percent more — and
may even be slowing their advance on purpose.
A Taliban commander in Ghazni province told NBC News that he and
fellow fighters were surprised at the speed of their advance and
had avoided capturing some targets so as not to run afoul of the
U.S.
According to Afghan media reports, eyewitness accounts and
statements from local Afghan officials, the Taliban are
advancing in rural areas and near Kabul. They now hold almost
twice as much of Afghanistan as they did just two months ago,
raising fresh doubts about whether the Afghan government can
survive once U.S. forces depart by Sept. 11.
Since May 1, days after President Joe Biden announced the
withdrawal of U.S. troops, the Taliban have captured 69 of the
country's 407 districts, including territory in northern
provinces once seen as off-limits for the insurgency and a
stronghold for the government, according to Bill Roggio, editor
of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' Long War
Journal. The Taliban now hold 142 districts, and are fighting
for control of about 170 more.
"The Taliban are putting significant pressure on the Afghan
government by their operations in the north," said Roggio, who
keeps a running tally of how much territory the Taliban
controls.
By seizing ground in far-flung areas in the north, including a
border crossing with Tajikistan, the Taliban are forcing the
Afghan security forces to balance stretched resources as they
try to hold off the insurgents elsewhere in the country,
including in provinces near the capital Kabul, he said.
"The Taliban has nearly doubled the number of districts it
controls, has captured key areas and military bases, and
demoralized segments of the Afghan security forces and the
government," Roggio said.
In the country's north, the Taliban have taken control of more
than 40 districts since the start of May, including a key
district in Kunduz province on Monday, allowing them to encircle
the provincial capital.
In a war that has often been a slow grind, the situation on the
ground has changed on a daily — sometimes hourly basis — in
recent weeks. Some Afghan government units have abandoned their
weapons and vehicles without a major fight, as local officials
reportedly negotiated surrender agreements with the Taliban.
...
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the group is not
punishing or capturing government soldiers who surrender. . Such
an approach would represent a change in tactics for the
insurgency, which has been accused by human rights groups of
executing and torturing captured troops.
"We neither imprison them nor punish the Afghan security forces
who surrender peacefully. We let them go home, those who lay
down arms and don't resist," the spokesman said.[/quote]
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Re: Afghanistan
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 3, 2021, 3:44 am
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Recalling better times:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/timeline-more-40-years-war-174618557.html
[quote]Dec. 25, 1979 — Soviet Red Army crosses the Oxus River
into Afghanistan. In neighboring Pakistan, Afghan mujahedeen, or
Islamic holy warriors, are assembling, armed and financed by the
U.S. for an anti-communist war. More than 8 million Afghans flee
to Pakistan and Iran, the first of multiple waves of refugees
over the decades.
1980s — CIA’s covert Operation Cyclone funnels weapons and money
for the war through Pakistani dictator Mohammed Zia-ul Haq, who
calls on Muslim countries to send volunteers to fight in
Afghanistan. Bin Laden is among the thousands to volunteer.
1983 — President Ronald Reagan meets with mujahedeen leaders,
calling them freedom fighters, at the White House.
September 1986 — The U.S. provides the mujahedeen with
shoulder-held anti-aircraft Stinger missiles, which turns the
course of the war. Soviets begin negotiating withdrawal.
Feb. 15, 1989 — The last Soviet soldier leaves Afghanistan,
ending 10 years of occupation[/quote]
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When can we get back to this kind of relationship?
See also:
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Re: Afghanistan
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 4, 2021, 10:29 pm
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Looking good:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/hundreds-afghan-troops-flee-across-131438397.html
[quote]Hundreds of Afghan troops fled into neighbouring
Tajikistan as the Taliban's march through northern Afghanistan
gained momentum with the fall of 10 districts in Badakhshan
province.
The militants on Sunday night appeared poised to move on the
provincial capital, as well as the centre of neighbouring Takhar
province, after demoralised and poorly equipped Afghan troops
either surrendered or retreated.
More than 300 Afghan military personnel crossed the border to
escape the advance, Tajikistan's State Committee for National
Security said.
Others fled to Badakhshan's capital of Faizabad, where
unconfirmed video footage shared on social media appeared to
show crowds of people thronging a commercial plane leaving the
city.
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"Unfortunately, the majority of the districts were left to the
Taliban without any fight," Mohib-ul Rahman, a provincial
council member, told AP. In the last three days, 10 districts
fell to the Taliban, eight without a fight, he said.
...
Dozens of rural districts have fallen since Joe Biden began the
closing stages of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan, leaving
the Taliban to capture large amounts of arms and equipment.
All major towns and cities remain under government control, but
the speed of the collapse has alarmed Washington and its Nato
allies, who fear it will become an unstoppable cascade of
Taliban victories.
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The Taliban on Sunday also took the district of Panjwayi in
Kandahar, where government forces have been under siege in the
district centre for weeks.
The Pentagon has said it will continue to give funding and
advice to the Afghan forces once US troops leave, as well as fix
its small fleet of planes and helicopters. But the swift Taliban
advances have led US intelligence assessments to cut the
government's chances of survival, with analysts now predicting
the government could fall within six to 12 months.[/quote]
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[quote]The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee
hammered President Joe Biden on Sunday for his withdrawal of
U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said that the Taliban is poised to
threaten the stability of the Afghan government and Biden will
be responsible for the looming violence and repression left in
the Taliban’s wake.
“We’re going dark in Afghanistan, and there’s going to be
consequences long term for this,” McCaul said on “Fox News
Sunday. “President Biden [is] going to own these
images.”[/quote]
Biden's best response would be to own it proactively by
re-embracing the Taliban as allies.
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Re: Afghanistan
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 9, 2021, 10:36 pm
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Watch and learn asymmetric warfare from the renowned experts:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/special-report-afghan-pilots-assassinated-110403019.html
[quote]KABUL, (Reuters) - Afghan Air Force Major Dastagir
Zamaray had grown so fearful of Taliban assassinations of
off-duty forces in Kabul that he decided to sell his home to
move to a safer pocket of Afghanistan's sprawling capital.
Instead of being greeted by a prospective buyer at his realtor's
office earlier this year, the 41-year-old pilot was confronted
by a gunman who walked inside and, without a word, fatally shot
the real estate agent in the mouth.
...
At least seven Afghan pilots, including Zamaray, have been
assassinated off base in recent months, according to two senior
Afghan government officials. This series of targeted killings,
which haven't been previously reported, illustrate what U.S. and
Afghan officials believe is a deliberate Taliban effort to
destroy one of Afghanistan's most valuable military assets: its
corps of U.S.- and NATO-trained military pilots.
In so doing, the Taliban -- who have no air force -- are looking
to level the playing field as they press major ground
offensives.
...
Afghan military pilots are particularly attractive assassination
targets, current and former U.S. and Afghan officials say. They
can strike Taliban forces massing for major attacks, shuttle
commandos to missions and provide life-saving air cover for
Afghan ground troops. Pilots take years to train and are hard to
replace, representing an outsized blow to the country's defenses
with every loss.
...
"Pilots are on top of the Taliban's hit list," the senior Afghan
government official said.[/quote]
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Re: Afghanistan
By: guest55 Date: July 11, 2021, 9:43 pm
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Afghanistan Endgame: Taliban seize abandoned American army
bases.
[quote]As American troops withdraw from Afghanistan, the Taliban
have quickly moved in to abandoned military bases and are
collecting the treasure of goods left behind.
Sky's Alex Crawford gets an exclusive look inside one of the
seized military bases.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f37xrmiqmnU
Reminder: (I do not agree with a lot of what Scheuer says in his
address to Congress here, but he makes some very important
points worth noting).
I'd Dump the Israelis Tomorrow --Ex-CIA Michael Scheuer Tells
Congress
[quote]I'd Dump the Israelis Tomorrow --Ex-CIA Michael Scheuer
Tells Congress
House Homeland Security Committee on October 9, 2013[/quote]
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