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Topic: Afghanistan (page 5)

In this photograph taken on January 3, 2018, Afghan commandos forces patrol during ongoing US-Afghan military operation against Islamic State militants in Achin district of Nangarhar province. Afghan security forces are conducting most of the fighting against the Taliban and other insurgent groups as US troops operate alongside them in a training capacity and are frequently on the front lines. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

Out of Afghanistan at last — now Iraq?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Infantrymen of the US 8th Army pour ashore in the Subic Bay area of Luzon Island in the northern Philippines, en route to Manila during World War II. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Unraveling of the American empire

Chris Hedges
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
November 28, 2019, US President Donald Trump speaks to the troops during a surprise Thanksgiving day visit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. (Getty Images)

The one good thing Trump ever did

Heather Digby Parton
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the State Dining Room of the White House January 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden delivered remarks on his administration’s COVID-19 response, and signed executive orders and other presidential actions. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

20 years later, US to leave Afghanistan

Jon Skolnik
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
This picture taken on March 13, 2020 shows damaged military vehicles in the aftermath of US military air strikes at a militarised zone in the Jurf al-Sakhr area in Iraq's Babylon province (south of the capital) controlled by Kataeb Hezbollah, a hardline faction of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) forces paramilitaries. (AFP via Getty Images)

Trump and Biden's secret bombing wars

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Yemeni pupils attend class on the first day of the new academic year, in a makeshift classroom in their school compound which was heavily damaged in the fighting between the government and Iran-backed Huthi rebels, in the country's third-city of Taez on October 7, 2020. (AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP via Getty Images)

Will Biden end the war on children?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Sen. Tom Cotton (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Tom Cotton's embellishments go deeper

Roger Sollenberger
The main gate at the prison in Guantanamo at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base on October 16, 2018. (Sylvie Lanteaume/AFP via Getty Images)

An end to all-war-all-the-time?

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
(Getty/Joe Raedle/Chris Hondros)

A good deed from the wicked witch?

Andrew Bacevich - TomDispatch.com
Like every great Detective, Bosch knows where to go for a strong drink and a good meal and one of his favorite haunts is Los Angeles’ historic Musso & Frank’s Grill, where he starting frequenting as a child. Open since 1919, most of Musso’s original restaurant menu remains unchanged and it’s still a popular among Hollywood A-Listers in search of a great martini and a delicious steak to go along with it. (Aaron Epstein)

Patton and Westy meet in a bar

Andrew Bacevich - TomDispatch.com
Muhammad Rehman Shirzad, a government forensic scientist, inspects an Ephedra sinica plant in the Surobi District in eastern Afghanistan. (Kern Hendricks/Undark)

Afghan officials warn of tainted cure

Ruchi Kumar - Undark
(Getty/Joe Raedle/Chris Hondros)

Why is the US punishing the ICC?

Susan M. Akram - The Conversation
In this file photo taken on November 28, 2019, US President Donald Trump speaks to the troops during a surprise Thanksgiving day visit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump losing to Biden among troops: poll

Roger Sollenberger
Representative Ilhan Omar (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Dems and GOP vote down Omar amendment

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Trump's foreign policy: Pointless defeat

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

What did Trump cut from Bolton's book?

Roger Sollenberger
November 28, 2019, US President Donald Trump speaks to the troops during a surprise Thanksgiving day visit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. (Getty Images)

The "bounty" should be on his head

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin (AP Photo/Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo/Naohiko Hatta/Alex Brandon/Salon photo illustration)

A few dead soldiers — big deal!

Heather Digby Parton
Afghanistan’s cities — and even its impoverished rural areas — are seeing a flood of crystal meth use and addiction. (Kern Hendricks / Undark)

Shrub at the root a Afghan meth epidemic

Kern Hendricks - Undark
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/AP Photo)

America is a slow-motion failed state

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Donald Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

Trump's Taliban deal flops again

Sophia Tesfaye
(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

CIA torture program's architects testify

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
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