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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…
“They have to give us answers. Is our blood so worthless, we don’t even get an explanation?” Ahmadi asked. Photo: Emal Ahmadi shows a photo of his family member who was killed during a U.S. drone strike on their home last Sunday at his home in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq…
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Twelve countries are accepting US local staff, including Albania, Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Mexico, Poland, Qatar, Rwanda, Ukraine, Uganda and Colombia. Photo: An Afghan girl sits in the transit area at the US Ramstein Air Base in Germany 28 August 2021 | Jan D. Walter | DW The US’ first local Afghan…
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America’s allies in the Middle East are weighing options to avoid meeting the fate of the Afghani government, as regional scholars talk of the post Pax Americana era. Photo: US airmen load passengers aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan. (US Air Force/Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen) During a…
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In the decades to come, The Fall of Kabul may be remembered for being little more than manifestly different from The Fall of Saigon. But is it? Photo: In the iconic photo from 1975, people are seen boarding a helicopter on the roof of the CIA station in Saigon 28 August 2021 | James Porteous…
