Afghans cross the Channel thanks to Kurdish clans in northern France. According to sources quoted by the Times, Afghans have become the main nationality crossing to England. In the first seven months of this year, 2.891 Afghans have arrived on small boats and the trend seems to be increasing after [...]
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During a solemn ceremony, the honors were conferred on the flags of war and on the staff. The event was held inside the hangar of the 60 ° Stormo di Guidonia (Rm) and was chaired by the Chief of Staff of the AM, Air Squad General Luca Goretti, in the presence of numerous civil, military and religious. It took place [...]
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The Afghan Taliban are said to be in talks with Russia to import 1 million tons of petroleum products, giving in exchange raw materials for medicines and mineral resources. A Taliban delegation is currently in Moscow for meetings with Russian officials and private companies to strengthen trade ties and encourage investment in the Asian nation […]
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According to a report, released last Sunday by the Wall Street Journal, the Taliban managed to seize power in a very short time last summer, according to a well-studied plan that involved the use of a vast network of intelligence agents and agents sleepers located in the main Afghan cities. Such personnel, loyal to the Taliban, were wisely infiltrated [...]
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In a press release, the Defense General Staff announced that the “Aquila Omnia-Bis” operation has started. The objective of the operation is the transfer to Italy of about 500 people, including former Defense collaborators and their respective families, who are currently in the neighboring countries of Afghanistan or who are in possession of the necessary documentation [...]
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"I share your concerns about the fate of legal practitioners in Afghanistan, who embody the values of Europe". The European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, replies to the letter of August 26, with which the ministers of justice of Italy, France, Spain and Luxembourg requested interventions in favor of Afghan judges and lawyers, with which [...]
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The Taliban, if in the eyes of the world they want to appear more meek and collaborative within the borders, have taken up the practices of summary justice to which they are accustomed, in the name of the Koranic law. The return to bloody justice and the law of retaliation was confirmed by Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, the head of the penitentiary system. Do not […]
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Yesterday from Ramstein Air Base in Germany, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and the head of the US State Department, Antony Blinken, held a remote summit extended to 22 countries on the common approach to be held with the new Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan . On the same day, almost in response, Pakistan organized [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Turkey and Qatar today have become the referents of the Western world in Afghanistan, their diplomatic and intelligence network is growing day by day within the country. Main objective: to counter, as far as possible, competition from China and Russia, the only countries, together with Pakistan, which have kept open the [...]
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Yesterday the first aircraft since it was closed following the deployment of Western forces, a freighter from Qatar, landed at Kabul airport. It is clear to everyone that Qatar played a key role in the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan but it also played a key role in organizing flights [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa - President of the Security Observatory - EURISPES) Overall, the Costs of War Project has estimated that 241 thousand people died as a result of the war in Afghanistan. Among them, over 2.400 members of the US armed forces and at least 71 civilians, as well as 78.000 Afghan soldiers and policemen and 84 fighters from insurgent groups. [...]
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Afghanistan. Letter from 4 ministers of justice to Reynders: "to welcome judges and lawyers at risk"
The Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia, together with her counterparts from France, Spain and Luxembourg, sent a letter to the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, on the crisis in Afghanistan. The ministers want to make the Community institutions aware of the risks of reprisals that could incur, after the advent of the Taliban, especially the legal practitioners, who [...]
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The last flight of the Italian Air Force for the humanitarian airlift between Afghanistan and Italy landed at Fiumicino airport, carrying 110 people, including 58 Afghans. Also on board the ambassador Pontecorvo, the consul Claudi and the carabinieri of Tuscania. Pontecorvo explained that 120 thousand people were taken away from the town and, now that [...]
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“In just 14 days and under difficult conditions, we evacuated and rescued 4.890 Afghan citizens, including many women and children. We did our best, in the afternoon the last C130 also left with the Italian soldiers who were involved in this operation, the Joint Evacuation Task Force, on board. With today ends [...]
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The pilot carried out, as required by the operating procedures, an evasive maneuver to protect the aircraft and passengers. No injuries and no damage reported by the aircraft. In a note, the General Staff specified that with regard to what was reported by the press about the event that involved after take-off from [...]
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The difficult day in Kabul was marked by a series of explosions. The first at one of the airport gates where Afghan civilians are crowded, reported by CNN. It would be a suicide attack that resulted in the wounding of some civilians and numerous victims. Although the budget will tend to increase, at [...]
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The Pentagon told the press that in the past 24 hours, Americans have evacuated 19 people from Kabul airport. Five flights carrying 1.220 evacuees landed at Washington International Airport. "We are racing against the clock," said General Taylor, deputy chief of staff. For the BBC they rose to 82.300 [...]
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Security officers at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar have discovered that one of the Afghans evacuated from Kabul airport has potential ties to ISIS. The news was given by a US official at Defense One. In addition, the biometric identification system of the Department of Defense has reported at least another 100, of the [...]
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An answer is urgently needed. The deadline of August 31, 2021, as the expected date for the Americans and allies to leave Afghanistan, is close even if there are still thousands of desperate Afghans and foreigners amassed at Kabul airport. It is no coincidence that Biden told the nation last Sunday that the evacuation would be "hard and painful" and [...]
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The Operational Command of the Joint Defense Force Summit is coordinating the phases of the Aquila Omina operation, to bring the Italian personnel and Afghan collaborators back to Italy (to date over 2000 have been transported). In all there are 8 aircraft of the Italian Air Force engaged in this difficult mission which since last August 15 have formed the backbone [...]
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Yesterday, the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio was heard by Copasir (Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic) on the Afghanistan dossier and the descending repercussions on national security in relation to migratory flows and the probable resurgence of terrorism risk. At the Copasir the director of Dis, Elisabetta Belloni had already been heard while [...]
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The German secret services, Federal Intelligence Service or BND, are under the storm eye of opinion and politics for not having anticipated the rapid rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Critics from every political faction have described the situation in Afghanistan as a "disaster" for German interests and questioned its effectiveness [...]
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Afghanistan possesses enormous and unspecified mineral riches: oil, iron, gold and precious gems, deposits of copper, lithium and rare earths. A countervalue, writes Il Sole24Ore, estimated by the Americans at three trillion dollars. The US withdrawal from the country, followed by that of coalition allies, is a tempting opportunity for those in [...]
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The question we have all asked ourselves, but who finances the Taliban? What is certain is that the money has served and so much to live in hiding for 20 years. Given that now they no longer need weapons because they have full deposits left by the dissolved Afghan army, it is still interesting to be able to understand how [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The complete conquest of Afghanistan by the Taliban was "sudden" and "unexpected" only for those who, in recent months, have not paid attention to the slow and progressive implosion of the country. It all started last October when US President Donald Trump announced that American troops would [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) “The objective of the mission was not to build a nation, but to counter terrorism. We could not and should not fight a war that not even the Afghan army wanted to fight ", so Joe Biden summarized last night to the Nation the debacle of his administration and intelligence that could not predict what an analyst [...]
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(by John Blackeye) “A touching and extraordinary moment with the closing of a significant chapter in our history. 20 years of national effort have come to an end which have seen the dedication and spirit of sacrifice of our more than 50.000 men and women in uniform who have alternated over these long years and I want to remember with [...]
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Today 15 August 2021, on a day of celebration and rest for the Italians, our soldiers of the COVI (Operational Command of Vertice Interforze), appropriately supported by elements of the Army, will reach the Afghan capital aboard a KC767 of the Air Force and will have the task of directing and coordinating the return to the homeland of [...]
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LAST HOUR. The Taliban are entering Kabul from all fronts, the Afghan interior ministry reports directly. Shots are heard in the streets of the city, but there is no fighting. The militiamen launched the decisive attack: the prison was attacked and thousands of prisoners were released. According to some sources, he specifies [...]
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Yesterday, Undersecretary of State Di Stefano chaired the meeting of the Special Envoys for Afghanistan from Europe (Italy, France, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom) and the United States at the Farnesina. Also attended by NATO's Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, a representative of the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Special Envoy of Qatar […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) NATO changes its skin, from a purely defensive alliance, under the dictates of art. 5, to a more modern, cooperative and reactive version that directs its attention towards crises, on a global level, capable of destabilizing the peace and security of the allied countries. The Secretary General of NATO, Jean Stoltenberg, in the press conference [...]
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“The political and military lessons identified for Afghanistan will serve for the new scenarios of operations in Africa. It is necessary to resort to history and its teachings, such as those inherited from the Roman Empire, which obtained security from threats from the south by strengthening the countries of North Africa “. Thus, on Formiche.net, General Pasquale PREZIOSA, former head of state [...]
read moreThe British Chief of Defense General Nick Carter is not at all happy with the American decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by 11 September, after twenty years of military campaign. General Carter, in his first interview since the announcement of Biden's withdrawal, told the BBC last Tuesday: “It's not […]
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Surprise visit yesterday to Kabul by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the day after Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by 11 September. An inevitable decision for the American president, but probably made not without some stomach ache within his administration. According to some sources close to the House [...]
read moreThe Afghan peace does not hold up, making fear the worst for the future of a national reconciliation process opened with great clamor on 12 September last. The signing in Doha on February 29, 2020 of an agreement between the United States and Taliban rebels should have led to an easing of tensions and a withdrawal [...]
read moreOn Saturday, the Afghan government expelled 10 Chinese intelligence agents from the country who allegedly had contact with pro-Taliban groups. The Afghan National Security Directorate (NDS) arrested 10 Chinese citizens in Kabul on 10 December on charges of espionage, according to reports from several Indian news agencies last December. Between […]
read moreArmy Corps General Nicola Zanelli took over from Lieutenant General Gilles Hill Today with a restricted ceremony due to the containment measures of the contagion from Covid-19, the Italian Army Corps General Nicola Zanelli took over the 'post as Deputy Commander of the NATO Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan, taking over from Lieutenant General Gilles Hill, of the British [...]
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As the debate focuses on Afghanistan, Russian forces challenge US troops in Syria As intense debate rages in the US over the alleged subversion of US military targets in Afghanistan, sources warn that Russia is increasingly challenging Washington's troops in Syria. According to recent reports, the Kremlin [...]
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Russia has denied offering rewards to the Taliban for killing US troops in Afghanistan. In a series of 'tweets' on its account, the Russian embassy in Washington spoke of 'fake news' and accused the New York Times, which had written about it, of circulating news that triggered threats to diplomats [...]
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The United States has signed an agreement with Taliban rebels that could pave the way for a complete withdrawal of foreign soldiers from Afghanistan in the next 14 months and represent a step towards the end of the 18-year war. The agreement was signed in the Qatari capital Doha by US special envoy Zalmay [...]
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A possible peace agreement between the US government and the Taliban will favor the Islamic State in Afghanistan, so some sources on the ground reported. After nearly two decades of war, the United States is close to concluding a peace agreement with the Taliban, the Sunni group of Pashtuns that had [...]
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As part of the mission in Afghanistan, the Basic Gender Course and Counter-IED (Improvised Explosive Device) courses have been completed In recent days, at the Train Advise Assist Command West (TAAC-W) in Herat, within the of the mission in Afghanistan the Basic Gender Course and Counter-IED (Improvised Explosive Device) courses. The Basic Gender Course was [...]
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The Italian soldiers of the mission in Afghanistan donated food and sports material to the local population The Italian Military Contingent of the mission in Afghanistan donated food and sports material, respectively, to the public orphanage "Khuja Abdullah Ansari" and to the association sport Women Economy Social & Sport from Herat. The handover ceremony took place [...]
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking of the explosions in a mosque in Nangarhar province that killed at least 69 people, said: “The United States continues to work for peace and stability in Afghanistan and will continue to fight terrorism, ... we stand alongside the people [...]
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The TAAC-W of the mission in Afghanistan organizes a meeting with the organization and security managers of the western region At Camp Arena, headquarters of the Training Advise Assist Command West (TAAC-W) in Herat, led by the “Pozzuolo del Cavalry Brigade Friuli ", the first meeting was held between all the managers of the organization and safety of the [...]
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The death toll from a truck bomb explosion in Qalat, in southern Afghanistan, the capital of the province of Zabul, has risen to 20 dead. The news was disclosed by the head of the local provincial council, Ata Jan Haqbayan, quoted by the "Dpa" news agency. According to local authorities, the explosion occurred near a hospital and [...]
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The US Central Intelligence Agency plans to maintain a strong ground presence in Afghanistan, despite reports that US troops may soon leave the country following a deal with the Taliban. Several news agencies reported this week that Washington would reach an agreement with the Taliban [...]
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Afghanistan: the commander of the helicopters component changes The Mangusta Helicopters of the Italian Contingent in Afghanistan have reached 13.000 flight hours in over 7.000 missions Yesterday at "Camp Arena" the alternation ceremony of the Command of the Task Group "Fenice" of the Contingent took place Italian in Afghanistan. In the presence of the Train Assist Commander [...]
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At least 34 people were killed by a mine explosion in Afghanistan. According to reports from local authorities, the explosion occurred at dawn in the province of Farah, in the western part of Afghanistan. According to reports from Muhibullah Muhib, spokesman for the provincial police, a bus, "loaded with passengers" hit a mine on the road [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) According to some American analysts, Afghanistan's National Security has deteriorated further since NATO, in 2014, reduced its presence on the ground and did not allow the Afghan security forces to reach the training levels required by the US plans. This is not the case, this is just a little "superfine" way [...]
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Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan in Brussels said US plans to reduce the number of forces in Afghanistan will be coordinated with allies. In recent months, some US officials have suggested to the Trump administration that half of the 14.000 US troops in Afghanistan should return home soon. The decision […]
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The Honorable Volpi, Undersecretary of State for Defense, specifies in a note: “The debate on the mission in Afghanistan has been animated in recent days. It is right to specify that a reduction of two hundred units is already foreseen for our contingent, already in the overall programming, which has been determined for a long time and shared with the allies. I like to remember that [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Since the US primacy in the world, as a global police force, is fading or is no longer what it once was, the international order is today more than ever in chaos. World leaders are increasingly tempted to test the limits of international law to strengthen their influence and [...]
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US President Donald Trump did not order the Pentagon to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan, White House National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis said. "The president did not make the decision to reduce the US military presence in Afghanistan and did not ask the Department of Defense [...]
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Important training activity in favor of the Afghan Security Forces in the framework of the activities of the mission in Afghanistan This morning in Kabul, at the headquarters of the Resolute Support (RS) mission in Afghanistan, the ceremony for the awarding of diplomas to Afghan officers took place National Defense Security Forces (ANDSF) who completed the Spectrum courses [...]
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Today in the military base of "Camp RS", the Army Corps General Salvatore Camporeale assumed the post of Deputy Commander of the NATO Resolute Support (RS) mission in Afghanistan, at the end of the alternation ceremony with the outgoing Deputy Commander, Lieutenant General Richard John Cripwell, of the British Army. The ceremony took place in the presence of the Commander [...]
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An Afghan helicopter carrying security forces crashed in western Afghanistan. According to reports released by local officials, all personnel on board were killed but they ruled out that the helicopter was shot down by Taliban militants. In recent weeks, the intensification of assaults by Taliban militants has [...]
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The government of Afghanistan is facing one of its worst crises since the end of the Taliban reign in 2001. After the dramatic escalation of attacks on Afghan government installations by Taliban and Islamic State forces, which resulted in dozens of victims throughout the Central Asian country, this [...]
read moreThe Taliban rejected the Afghan government's offer of a ceasefire and said they would continue with their attacks. So reported the militant commanders, while the militants ambushed three buses taking hostage almost 200 passengers traveling to Kabul for a period of [...]
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According to Mohammad Yusouf Ayubi, head of the provincial council of the province of Kunduz, a group of Taliban have taken more than 100 people hostage in an embassy in northern Afghanistan. Ayubi said that the insurgents blocked three buses traveling on a road near the Khan Abad district bound for [...]
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Abdul Badi Sayad, president of the Independent Electoral Commission, announced that the presidential elections in Afghanistan will be held on April 20, 2019. 9 million voters have registered, including 3 million women. Concerns remain strong over the violence that continues to shake the country, while the authorities are busy [...]
read moreRadical change of strategy. US diplomatic officials organized secret meetings with Taliban leaders without the presence of the Afghan government. For over a decade, the Taliban have refused to negotiate with the Afghan government, which they view as a Washington-controlled puppet regime. Instead, they tried to speak directly with the United States, without [...]
read moreAl-Jazeera has announced that the toll of the attack carried out yesterday by militiamen against an electoral registration center in Afghanistan has risen to 63 dead. Among the victims 27 women and 8 children, while the injured are more than 120. The kamikaze attack, launched in the capital in Kabul against a school set up in the center of [...]
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At least 59 dead and 57 injured are the latest toll from the Afghan air raid that yesterday hit a school in Kunduz, in the north-east of Afghanistan. To make it known two sources of security that, on condition of anonymity. confirmed that "59 people died, mostly children aged 8" and others [...]
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In an interview with the BBC last week, General John Nicholson reported that Russia, despite common interests in the fight against terrorism and narcotics, has acted to undermine U.S. efforts in Afghanistan and would do so by providing support. financial and even weapons to the Afghan Taliban. "There have been […]
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Russia is "very worried" about the rise of the jihadist organization of the Islamic State (Isis) in Afghanistan, where terrorist attacks are on the rise. This was reported today by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during the press conference following the meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Khawaja Muhammad Asif: “We are very worried about what [...]
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The escalation of violence gives no respite to Afghanistan and in particular to its capital Kabul, where a new attack took place in the very early hours of the morning after the recent attack on the hotel frequented by Westerners and the bloody massacre a few days ago when an ambulance loaded with TNT caused over one hundred deaths in [...]
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According to a source in the Afghan army, national security forces killed a commander of the Taliban division, the so-called "Special Force" or "Sara Qetta", in the northern province of Kunduz. "Mumtaz was killed along with two of his fellow soldiers and three militants wounded following a fire fight [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) On January 33st, President Trump, in one of the usual Tweets, wrote: "The United States has foolishly given Pakistan 15 billion dollars in aids over last XNUMX years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the [...]
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In recent days, the donation of important medical equipment to the Regional Hospital and the pediatric hospital of Herat took place in Camp Arena, headquarters of the Train, Advise and Assist Command West based on the Taurinense Alpine Brigade. The health equipment delivered to the regional hospital will be used for the construction of a molecular laboratory capable of carrying out the reaction [...]
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, during a visit to Kabul, declared that the jihadist group of the Islamic State, after the defeat in Iraq and Syria, represents a growing threat in Afghanistan. "The foreign ISIS fighters, who arrive almost everywhere, including the neighboring countries of Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, are [...]
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Pakistani Defense Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan stressed the need to make border management in Afghanistan a NATO priority. The international community must focus on two issues, borders and "a serious attempt at internal political reconciliation" of the Asian country. In an interview with AGI, the representative of Islamabad, who in the days [...]
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The New York Times wrote today that in Afghanistan small CIA teams, specialized in operating in extreme environments, are carrying out deep actions in search of telebans in the most inaccessible areas of the territory.The news was reported by two senior intelligence officials American. Previously in Afghanistan, local soldiers were helped [...]
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British sources, and more in detail information in the possession of the newspaper "The Times", launch a heavy accusation against Russia that, according to what emerged from the confidences released to the English newspaper by alleged "members of the Islamist group" and "Afghan officials", undermining NATO efforts to stabilize Afghanistan. Moscow would be financing the movement [...]
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According to Nova, Russia is undermining NATO's efforts to stabilize Afghanistan by financing the Taliban movement through a secret program of illegal oil supplies: the accusation is the British newspaper "The Times", which cites "members of the Islamist group "and" Afghan officials "as sources of the complaint. According to the article published today, Monday [...]
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Afghanistan: "Taliban advance, Italians on the front line" Milex report, 7,5 billion dollars spent. “Very critical” situation. In an Afghanistan where the Taliban are far from defeated, but on the contrary are gaining ground every day, the situation is "very critical" also in the west of the country where the Italian soldiers are deployed: to face the "insurgency ", I'm […]
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The United States will ask NATO allies to send a thousand more soldiers to Afghanistan for the battle against the Taliban. This was announced by the new permanent representative of the United States to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchison. The additional forces of the allies would add up to the approximately three thousand additional US troops envisaged by the new strategy [...]
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According to Nova, Pakistan does not agree with the strategy of Donald Trump's US presidential administration for Afghanistan, does not intend to fight the Afghan war on its own territory and will continue to oppose an expansion of India's role in that country " , and for this reason it would do better to prepare for a further deterioration of relations with [...]
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The Afghan security forces carried out an important military operation against the Taliban in the northern province of Kunduz, with a provisional toll of 26 insurgents killed, including the commander of the so-called 'Red Unit'. The provincial police chief, Khalilullah Ziai, specified that the offensive took place yesterday on the third day of the Aid [...]
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President Trump in his August 21 speech for Afghanistan made important clarifications. The first, however, was due to a greater involvement of Kabul to take greater responsibility for the war in progress, thus highlighting that the country is far from a scenario of reconciliation. The second point dealt with [...]
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Pakistan must change its approach and no longer provide shelter for terrorist groups. This was stated by US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, in reference to the strategy announced by President Donald Trump for neighboring Afghanistan. "Pakistan must decide what its long-term interests are," said the head of diplomacy [...]
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According to reports from the Pajhwok news agency, a violent clash, which broke out between Afghan security forces and the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand, caused the death of 12 police officers and nine militants while 9 other officers were injured. The agency, citing reliable sources, specified that it was a [...]
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Thirteen militants were killed in an air raid that targeted a Taliban hideout in the Khan Abad district of northern Kunduz Province in Afghanistan. This was reported by a spokesman for the local army, Abdul Khalil. "Based on intelligence reports, the air forces attacked the hideout located in the area of [...] at dawn this morning.
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