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The Cobalt and the Salt Pit prisoner was used to teach enhanced torture techniques CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach interrogators torture techniques 14 March 2022 | Julian Borger | The Guardian A detainee at a secret CIA detention site in Afghanistan was used as a living prop to teach trainee interrogators, who…
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The response to Putin’s aggression evokes memories of the US strategy to bleed Moscow in Afghanistan Photo: A monument to Soviet soldiers killed in Afghanistan during the 1979-1989 war, in Moscow on 2 April 2021 (AFP) 11 March 2022 | Helena Malikyar | Middle East Eye For Afghans of my generation and older, the Russian invasion…
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The U.S. has dropped at least 337,000 bombs and missiles in 20 years Photo: Afghan residents and family members of the victims gather next to a damaged vehicle inside a house, day after a US drone airstrike in Kabul on August 30, 2021. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images) 11 January 2022 | MEDEA BENJAMIN – NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES…
Russia may be headed once again for an inglorious Afghanistan 2.0 military exit from Ukraine. Photo: A Russian soldier-internationalist guards roads during the Soviet-Afghan War. Photo Credit: RIA Novosti, Wikipedia Commons. 05 March 2022 | Dr. Subhash Kapila | Euroasiareview | With additional information Russian President Putin’s ‘War of Choice’ in invading Ukraine reflective of…
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Having condemned western-style regime change in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, Russia is once again indulging in the same practice in Ukraine Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a flower-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier after the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on 9 May 2021 (AFP) 24 February 2022 |…
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A former Foreign Office diplomat suggested that out of an estimated 75,000-150,000 people who applied for evacuation under the Leave Outside the Rules scheme, fewer than 5% received assistance. Photo: Evacuees from Kabul on their way to Poland via Uzbekistan. Marcin Obara / EPA-EFE 09 December 2021 | Brad K. Blitz | The Conversation The testimony of a whistleblower…
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SBS Dateline features international documentaries on many current affairs topics not covered elsewhere. 24 October 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media ‘Dateline is an Australian award-winning international documentary series with a current affairs backbone. ‘Every week we transport you to a different part of the world to share half-hour stories about family, social injustice,…
While the movement’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has downplayed the threat, saying this week that Islamic State had no effective presence in Afghanistan, commanders on the ground do not dismiss the threat so lightly. Photo: A screen grab shows an emergency vehicle as people arrive at a hospital after an attack at Kabul airport, in Kabul,…
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Former prisoners return to the now-abandoned US-run Bagram jail, which was notorious for ‘enhanced torture.‘ Photo: Hamza recounts the torture he endured during his imprisonment at Bagram [Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska/Al Jazeera] All Photos: Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska/Al Jazeera 22 September 2021 | Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska | Al Jazeera Bagram, Afghanistan – Hajimumin Hamza walks through a long, dark corridor and…
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A U.S. drone strike launched in Afghanistan late last month killed as many as 10 civilians, and not an ISIS-K terrorist Photo: A view of the damage at Zemerai Ahmadi’s family house after a drone strike one day before the final U.S. evacuation flights from Kabul, Afghanistan. Ahmadi and nine members of his family, including…
Photo: Screenshot: US detention centre at Bagram airbase 13 September 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Sky News has seen inside the detention centre where thousands of suspected militants were held during the War on Terror in Afghanistan. Bagram Airbase is now under the control of the Taliban, and we saw, that what they…
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Speaking to Al Jazeera, acting PM Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund reiterates Taliban promise of amnesty for anyone who worked alongside the US and the gov’t it backed. Photo: Akhund: ‘The stage of bloodshed, killing and contempt for people in Afghanistan has ended’ [File: Sayed Khan/AFP] 08 September 2021 | Staff | Al Jazeera English Afghanistan’s…
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