A crippling blow to the global 'war on terror'
The U.S. has come full circle by ceding control of Afghanistan to the same organization that gave Osama bin Laden the base from which to plot the 9/11 attacks.
Father of Japanese 9/11 victim to publish translation of U.S. report
Kazusada Sumiyama, 84, spent around 10 years working on the translation of the 567-page final report after his eldest son perished in the incident.
The end of the 'forever war' in Afghanistan will not bring peace
Many in the West who attack Joe Biden’s Afghanistan policy are in fact upset about the return of brutal geopolitical competition.
Israel feels alone without the U.S. in Afghanistan
All the groups wanting to annihilate Israel, such as ISIS, Hezbollah and Hamas have been inspired by the Taliban victory.
New Zealand police kill extremist who stabbed six in supermarket
The attacker, who was not identified, had been a "person of interest" for about five years, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.
The Afghanistan war wasn’t a cynical misadventure
When once-good wars go bad, Americans tend to conclude that there was never anything redeeming about them in the first place.
NATO has a responsibility to save Afghans
Just as Albania has offered shelter to thousands of refugees fleeing the Taliban, all NATO members must recognize their responsibility as well.
U.S. troops exit Afghanistan, ending America's longest war
The chaotic withdrawal concluded two decades of American involvement touched off by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Afghans left behind need an underground railroad
Establishing an Afghan underground railroad would be easier than during the time of U.S. slavery because today we have vastly better methods of point-to-point communication.
As U.S. troops searched Afghans, a bomber in the crowd moved in
Officials are still piecing together the chain of events in the attack that killed scores of people, including 13 U.S. service members, outside the Kabul airport.
The coming carnage between the Taliban and their jihadist rivals
IS has argued that the Taliban’s actions weren’t so much a conquest as a takeover coordinated with the U.S. and that its violent path to victory over the West is the right way.
Deadly Kabul attack shakes Biden’s Afghan exit strategy
The sheer scale of the tragedy renewed criticism from lawmakers and allies over the withdrawal and the failure to forecast the Afghan government’s rapid fall at the hands of the Taliban.
