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Topic: Afghan War

Ronald Reagan meets in the Oval Office with a group of Afghan resistance fighters, Feb. 2, 1983. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Afghanistan's tragedy — and America's

Leila Nadir
Relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family gathered around the incinerated husk of a vehicle targeted and hit earlier Sunday afternoon by an American drone strike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)

Drone attacks: The madness continues

Norman Solomon
In this handout provided by the U.S. Air Force, an air crew assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron assists evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via Getty Images)

The graveyard of empire strikes back

Chris Hedges
Recently-arrived refugees from Afghanistan seen at a temporary camp at the U.S. Army's Rhine Ordnance Barracks (ROB), where they are being temporarily housed, on August 30, 2021 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Several U.S. military facilities with the capacity to house up to several thousand evacuees are participating, in an operation called Operation Allied Refuge. (Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)

A crushing blow to empire? Good

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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14th International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF) held in Istanbul, Turkey on April 30, 2019. (Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Who really "won" in Afghanistan?

Shaan Sachdev
Anti-war protest at the Federal Building in Westwood on Sunday, October 6, 2002. Over 4,000 people gathered to voice their oppositon to a war against Iraq. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Some Americans were right all along

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
A U.S. Chinook military helicopter flies above the US embassy in Kabul on August 15, 2021. Several hundred employees of the US embassy in Kabul have been evacuated from Afghanistan, a US defense official said on August 15, 2021, as the Taliban entered the capital. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

After the fall: Media erases reality

Gregory Shupak
Afghan security forces patrol in Kabul on Aug. 15. In a statement, the Taliban said they do not intend to enter Kabul "by force or war, but to negotiate with the other side to enter peacefully." (Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

After 20 years, Taliban is back

Jon Queally - Common Dreams
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Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani (SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Afghan president flees country, Taliban

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story
A B-52 drops an X-15 rocket plane after carrying it to launching altitude for a test flight (Dean Conger/Corbis via Getty Images)

Bombing Afghan cities: Final failure

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
A US soldier holds the national flag ahead of a handover ceremony at Leatherneck Camp in Lashkar Gah in the Afghan province of Helmand on April 29, 2017. US Marines returned to Afghanistan's volatile Helmand April 29, where American troops faced heated fighting until NATO's combat mission ended in 2014, as embattled Afghan security forces struggle to beat back the resurgent Taliban. The deployment of some 300 Marines to the poppy-growing southern province came one day after the militants announced the launch of their "spring offensive", and as the Trump administration seeks to craft a new strategy in Afghanistan. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Out of Afghanistan? Nope, not exactly

Norman Solomon
Afghan children are seen as Afghan families, who lost their family members in the suicide bombings and war, suffer life difficulties in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 19, 2021. ( Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Is U.S. changing course in Afghanistan?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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Donald Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

Trump's Taliban deal flops again

Sophia Tesfaye
US President Donald Trump (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump threatens Afghan armageddon

Nick Turse
Donald Trump and Edward Gallagher (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

The president and the accused murderer

Heather Digby Parton
A soldier stands next to the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on November 13, 2019. - At least seven people were killed and seven wounded when a car bomb detonated during Kabul's busy morning rush hour on November 13, an interior ministry spokesman said. (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo by (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

America loves war: Can we give it up?

David Masciotra
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Military Cemetery (Getty Images)

Who fights America's "forever wars"?

Chauncey DeVega
Afghan security forces inspect the aftermath of Sunday's attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Are we ever leaving Afghanistan?

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Donald Trump and Osama bin Laden (AP Photo/Jim Collins/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)

9/11: Actually, we did forget

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump, White House National Security Advisor John Bolton, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (AFP/Getty Images/ LUDOVIC MARIN/ Chip Somodevilla/ AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Bolton, Graham opposed Taliban summit

Matthew Rozsa
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(Getty/Joe Raedle/Chris Hondros)

How America’s wars end — messily

Danny Sjursen
<> on December 15, 2016 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Fox host lobbied Trump on pardons

Igor Derysh
Donald Trump; Mathew Golsteyn (Getty/Mark Wilson/YouTube/NBC News)

Trump plans to pardon war criminals

Heather Digby Parton
Fighters with Afghanistan's Taliban militia walk with their weapons in Ahmad Aba district on the outskirts of Gardez, the capital of Paktia province, on July 18, 2017. (Getty/FARIDULLAH AHMADZAI)

Trump wants us to pay back the Taliban

Igor Derysh
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