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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“A difficult, painful operation: I am heartbroken to see those images”, so Joe Biden told the Nation yesterday, during his third unified network television intervention. We will use civil aviation to take away as many civilians as possible, the US president said. To echo him, Donald Trump who called the US exit from Afghanistan a [...]
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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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Last night the first flight of the Air Force departed from Kabul, thus starting the evacuation plan developed by the Defense in the context of the operation called “Aquila Omnia”. "That party is the first of the flights that will continue to take off from Kabul in the coming days for the repatriation of our compatriots and Afghan collaborators". It [...]
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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 [...]
read moreThe CIA used the Jab vaccination program to track down Bin Laden in his hideout in Pakistan. The vaccination program, the Taliban mullahs said, was part of a secret CIA plot. This was the narrative used, at the time, with the followers to discredit the American health activity, the Taliban argued that [...]
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 […]
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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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Yesterday, the president of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani ordered the gradual release of thousands of jailed Taliban fighters, giving in to a previous refusal that was threatening the peace plan, negotiated thanks to the US government. Ghani's government had not accepted part of the agreement signed last month between the United States and the Taliban which [...]
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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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According to what was announced by the officials of the Afghan Ministry of Defense, at least 27 Taliban militants were killed and another 15 were wounded in the course of an air attack and a ground operation carried out on the territory of Afghanistan. The Afghan Ministry of Defense stressed in particular that 19 armed militants are [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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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The American professor Kevin King, kidnapped together with his Australian colleague Timothy Weekes in front of the American University of Kabul last August 7, is in very serious condition. In a statement, the Taliban said Kevin King has a "dangerous heart and kidney disease" and assured that the situation is getting worse despite periodically trying to cure the hostage, [...]
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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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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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