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After the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, an attempt is being made to find out why the world's most powerful country, which has the latest army, state-of-the-art technology and state-of-the-art air force, could not defeat the Taliban. American intellectuals wonder why the United States cannot win wars in modern times. The question is also whether the withdrawal of US troops will end US involvement in Afghanistan, especially at a time when China and Russia have increasingly established ties with the Taliban. In defense of the United States, some argue that the United States has had many successes in Afghanistan and Iraq. Tom Cassidy, a professor at the University of Chicago, says: "The US military has found Osama bin Laden and killed him, destroyed al Qaeda, and many of its leaders have been killed or captured. "Infrastructure has been developed in Afghanistan, schools have been opened for women's education. An educated middle class emerged. Dangerous terrorists such a

Blast from Past With the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken power everywhere in the country. On August 15, the Taliban advanced into the capital, Kabul. The Afghan government has admitted defeat and President Ashraf Ghani has left the country. In February 2020, the USA and representatives of the Taliban signed a peace agreement for Afghanistan . In it they had promised the gradual withdrawal of the troops. In May, after 20 years in the Hindu Kush, the United States and its NATO allies began withdrawing their soldiers, which should be completed in September. Updates..... Rockets fired again over Kabul One day after a US drone attack on a car loaded with explosives, rockets were fired again over Kabul on Monday morning. AFP news agency employees heard the sound of bullets over the city. According to residents at the airport, the missile defense system has been activated. Smoke rose near the airport. At first it was unclear where the rockets had lan

LATEST NEWS After the attack at the airport: US airstrike on Afghan IS offshoots In In response to the deadly terrorist attack in Kabul, the USA attacked a local IS terrorist group in an air strike. The unmanned air strike in the Afghan province of Nangahar was aimed at "a planner" from Isis-K , said the spokesman for the US Centcom Central Command, Bill Urban. "According to the first signs, we killed the target. We do not know of any civilian casualties." Isis-K is a local branch of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). The Americans speak of Isis instead of IS - that's why they refer to the branch as Isis-K. The terrorist militia killed dozens of Afghans and 13 US soldiers in an attack at Kabul airport on Thursday. Nobody Can Get Past The Taliban The Taliban want recognition - and they will get it in a certain way, as much as one can hear everywhere these days: Don't! Because yes, normalization of these murderous extremists is out of the question.

The Taliban took power in Afghanistan just over a week ago. Since then, events have come thick and fast, because their opponents are pulling fighters together as well. The fear of civil war is growing. An overview of the key players in the crisis: Haibatullah Achundsada Before he was appointed supreme Taliban leader, Achundsada was an Islamist preacher without a high profile, a religious scholar and Sharia judge from the Afghan province of Kandahar. After his predecessor Mullah Mansur was killed in a US attack in 2016, Achundzada, as the "leader of the faithful", makes the final decisions on political, religious and military affairs of the Taliban. The hardliner is probably around 60 years old and belongs to the founding generation of the movement. He should have good contacts with Iran and Russia. His appointment was seen as a sign that he should serve primarily as an ideological leader and less as a military commander of the Taliban. He was given the task of reuniting the f

The Taliban warned Monday that the United States and its allies risk "consequences" if they delay their withdrawal from Afghanistan, scheduled for August 31, a possibility contemplated by Washington to continue the chaotic evacuations of the Kabul airport. "If the United States or the United Kingdom ask for more time to continue with the evacuations, the answer is no. Or there will be consequences," Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman, told Britain's Sky News channel. Read more:  The Lost War In Afghanistan US President Joe Biden, under pressure from his allies, opened on Sunday the possibility of keeping the troops beyond August 31 to continue with the evacuation, something that for Shaheen would mean "prolonging the occupation." The G7 will meet on Today to discuss how to proceed with the evacuation, amid European pressure to extend the military presence in Kabul. Pentagon plans to complete evacuations soon The US Department of Defense continues to p

August 15th of this year will go up in Afghan history. It is the day on which the Taliban recaptured the capital Kabul. The Islamists, who have been active in Afghanistan and partly in Pakistan since 1994, only needed a few weeks after the withdrawal of western troops to regain control of a few provinces and then the capital and thus the entire country. Now, after 20 years of relative freedom, people are threatened with the return of strict orthodox and anti-western teaching, in which only Sharia - Islamic law - applies. In the capital Kabul in particular, incredible scenes are taking place these days: people storming the airport in the hope that they will save American or European planes. Afghan youth demonstrating against the seizure of power and being attacked by the Taliban. Women who no longer dare to go outside their front door or who have to walk through the streets fully veiled for the first time in many years. Sebastian Kurz refuses to accept refugees: "That will not happ

What does a person think and feel who jumps on an approaching military aircraft? Who won't let go as the plane slowly takes off, who still clings on as it climbs until it falls high out of the sky to its death? Anyone who has seen the videos of the panicked crowds at the airport in Kabul these days will hardly be able to forget them. These are images that Joe Biden and his government were determined to prevent.  Read more:  Taliban Will Allow Access & The Fear Of The Neighbors The withdrawal of the Americans from Afghanistan should by no means be a reminder of the shameful escape from Saigon in April 1975, when diplomats and staff had to be rescued from the roof of the US embassy by helicopters. "This is obviously not Saigon," asserted Biden's Foreign Minister Antony Blinken last Sunday, when the Taliban were already occupying Kabul. Blinken is right: Kabul is not Saigon. It's worse, in some ways. The lost war in Vietnam was a terrible humiliation for the USA,