Afghanistan
Military
War Is Officially Over as Last US Forces Withdraw from Afghanistan
The United States announced that it had completed its withdrawal of U.S. service members from Afghanistan on Monday evening. The U.S. had set August 31st as the deadline for their withdrawal from the middle eastern country, ending an occupation...
Military
U.S. Airstrike Stops Suicide Bomber Outside Kabul Airport
The US has just executed a military airstrike in Kabul meant to target ISIS-K. The strike successfully killed an ISIS-K suicide bomber who the military believed was planning to launch another attack on the airport.
“US military forces conducted a...
Military
ISIS-K: Who is the ISIS Affiliate Behind the Kabul Airport Attack?
In his speech addressing the Kabul airport attack on Thursday, President Joe Biden said that "we will respond with force and precision, at our time, at the place we choose and at the moment of our choosing” against ISIS-K....
Military
US Special Operations Veterans Work Together to Evacuate Afghan Allies
A group of former U.S. special operations officers have volunteered to attempt one last mission they call the "Pineapple Express," a plan to help evacuate hundreds of vulnerable Afghan allies and their families out of the tumultuous country.
The group...
Military
US Employs “Maximum Force Protection” Measures in Afghanistan
US officials said on Friday that the country's military is using "maximum force protection" at the Kabul, Afghanistan airport after Thursday's attack which left 13 US servicemen and and 157 others killed and many hundreds injured.
The official, speaking on...
USA
Biden on Kabul Airport Attack: “We Will Make You Pay”
President Joe Biden addressed the Kabul airport attack in Afghanistan which resulted in thirteen U.S. service members dying on Thursday. In an emotional statement, the President told those responsible that "We will not forgive. We will not forget. We...
Greek News
13 US Service Members Killed in Attack at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan
Some evacuations have been halted from Afghanistan after there was an explosion outside the gates of the Kabul's International Airport on Thursday afternoon local time.
Thirteen US service members and at least sixty Afghans were killed and 140 others were...
Culture
What is Sharia Law and How Does it Affect Women?
The Taliban, a militant Islamist group in Afghanistan, have seized control of the country as the United States and its allies evacuate its troops from the region. A core dimension of the Taliban is its implementation of its own...
Military
Taliban Now Blocking Westerners from Reaching Kabul Airport
The Taliban is now preventing Westerners from getting to the airport in Kabul, according to several reports Wednesday morning, and strengthening their encircling of the airport, despite pervious assurances that all foreigners would be allowed to evacuate.
A number of...
Music
Afghanistan’s Only Music School Shuts Its Doors
Afghanistan refugee Ahmad Sarmast, a descendant of a well-known music composer, had left the country of his birth and found asylum in Australia in the 1990s but returned to the war-torn country to found a music school in 2010.
But...