Liberation Legitimacy: How Far Does It Count?
This includes Algeria, Palestine, Angola, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Vietnam, among others.
China-US Rivalries after the Afghan War
nce again, turmoil in Afghanistan forces us to face the contradiction between the world we are creating and the world we want to leave our descendants.
Understanding the Tunisian Coup: Actors and Implications
The Americans are not interested much in competing with France for influence in Tunisia, and have far more important issues such as Afghanistan, Iraq, China, Russia, and COVID-19.
‘America is back’; So What? On Why the United States is Losing the World
Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Mission Accomplished?The pretense ‘war on terror’, though misleading if not outright fabricated, was the overriding American motto in its invasion of Iraq and, earlier, Afghanistan.
Debates Heat Up As Iranians Elect Their New President
VIDEO: One on One - Former Iranian President Mahmoud AhmadinejadIn the meantime, the new Iranian president will also have to attend to regional issues that are of concern to Iran, particularly Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Syria.
Will the United States Contain Russia or China, or Both?
Clinton believed the future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action.
Say This, Don’t Say That: Time to Confront the Misleading Language on Palestine, Israel
Misrepresenting the ‘conflict’ as a ‘war’ between Israel and Hamas is crucial to Israeli propaganda, which has succeeded in equating Hamas with militant groups throughout the Middle East and even Afghanistan.
Denmark Is a Wonderland Except for Refugees
In the same annual UN report, authors claimed that the unhappiest country in the world is Afghanistan, followed by Rwanda.
India and Pakistan: Are the Two Rivals Becoming Friends?
Pakistan to maintain its legitimacy in the affairs of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), to remove itself from the “Grey List” of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), to reach a better settlement in Afghanistan, build good relations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and have access to trade in Central Asia.
An Axis of Evil: Why Russia and China Protect Myanmar’s Military Regime
Even many lay persons among the Burmese public with rudimentary understanding of military affairs are acutely aware of the game-changing role Stinger shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft, surface-to-air rockets played in turning the tide of war in Afghanistan.
What’s behind Joe Biden’s “Armenian Genocide” Statement?
Turkey can cooperate and/or contain Russia in the Middle East and Central Asia, it has strategic relationship with Azerbaijan and Ukraine, and has a role in the Afghanistan peace process, not to mention Syria and Iraq.
France’s Endless War in the Sahel
“We did it with the Americans in Iraq and with the British in Afghanistan.
Diplomatic Expulsion: Resurgence of A Cold-War Era Norm?
On one hand, he adopted aggressive policies including diplomatic expulsions, economic sanctions, support of Poland’s solidarity movements and arming of anti-Soviet resistance in Afghanistan.
Russia’s Changing Relationship with India: Arms Talk
military commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan drew down, it signaled the start of new contest for primary and hegemony in the region, pitting China’s regional ambitions against a United States that sees itself as the hegemon of a unipolar world, thus rubbing against Russia, which sees itself as one of a handful of dominant powers in a multipolar world.
“Istanbul Is a Testing Ground for the Afghan Peace Talks”: An Interview with Heela Najibullah
Nihan Duran interviewed Heela Najibullah, daughter of former Afghan president Najibullah, a humanitarian worker and a peace researcher, on the past and present approaches to peace in Afghanistan, the continuing talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban who are supported by Pakistan and her proposal regarding the establishment of peace and stability in Afghanistan.
The Foreign Factor in Jordan’s Plot Crisis
The first was Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, the king’s former envoy to Saudi Arabia and the brother of Captain Ali bin Zaid, a senior Jordanian intelligence officer who was killed at the end of 2009 in a suicide attack by an al-Qaeda double agent in Afghanistan.
India is Lobbying to Put Pakistan on FATF’s Black-list: Will it Succeed?
Having been the base for military operations that saw the Soviet Union defeated in Afghanistan in 1989 and, over a decade later in clashes with the West, during the US invasion of the Islamic Republic, which at the time was under Taliban rule, Pakistan has found it challenging, to say the least, in dealing with non-state armed groups and tribes that moved freely through its porous border.
The ICC vs. Israel: Three Main Scenarios
Read: From Afghanistan to Palestine: ICC Tackles Politically Charged CasesFurthermore, Israel is openly attempting to intimidate the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah to discontinue its cooperation with the ICC, as can be easily gleaned from the official Israeli discourse.
America’s Hyper-Surveillance of Muslims Targets Our Religious Identity
ovember 11, 2001 marked the beginning of an era of American terror - an era of reckless massacre, carpet bombing, pillage and rape, and the use of radioactive weaponry against Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Future of Daesh: Cracks in the Wall?
According to Mohammed Abu Rumman, a Jordanian scholar and former Minister of Culture and Youth, the fight between the two extended all across the world, starting from Iraq and Syria and later crossing over to Yemen, Afghanistan, and North Africa.
