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Posted Oct 29, 2021, 12:27 pm
Payton Muse
/Cronkite News
For more than a decade, Zabi had tried to leave his native Afghanistan, where he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. military - and two weeks ago, Zabi and his fiance touched down in Tucson, where they will make their new home.... Read more»
Posted Sep 7, 2021, 8:26 am
Robert Farley
/Factcheck.org
The Taliban seized an arsenal of U.S.-made military equipment, but not the grossly exaggerated figure of $85 billion worth of equipment numerous Republicans have claimed - that figure is the total amount spent on the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund since the war began in 2001.... Read more»
Posted Sep 4, 2021, 2:13 pm
Mort Rosenblum
/GlobalPost
European newscasts have focused for weeks on a violent nation cursed by a pandemic, where armed fundamentalists hostile to Western values want one-party rule, a cowed press and kangaroo courts. And besides America, they also talk about Afghanistan.... Read more»
Posted Sep 2, 2021, 8:28 am
Neta C. Crawford
/Boston University/The Conversation
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in late 2001 to destroy al-Qaida, remove the Taliban from power and remake the nation. The 20 numbers highlighted below, some drawn from figures released on Sept. 1, 2021, by the Costs of War Project, help tell the story of the Afghanistan War.... Read more»
Posted Sep 1, 2021, 1:00 pm
Dara Lind
/ProPublica
President Donald Trump’s ban on the visa lottery was ruled to be illegal, but the government says it can’t help hundreds of Afghans who won it for at least another year. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 24, 2021, 11:47 am
Megan Rose
/ProPublica
A lacerating report this week was the 11th in a clear-eyed series that revealed the US failure to reconstruct Afghanistan over two decades - so why didn’t anyone heed the inspector general’s warnings? ... Read more»
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Posted Aug 23, 2021, 7:46 am
Simon Williams
/Cronkite News
Phoenix resident Naqibullah “Nakib” Isaczai welcomed Gov. Doug Ducey’s announcement that Arizona will accept refugees fleeing the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan – but still worries that the U.S. response will be too little, too late. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 17, 2021, 9:59 am
Mort Rosenblum
/The Mort Report
Here we go again. Americans clamor for the exits, leaving behind innocent blood and sophisticated weapons for jubilant irregulars who humiliated them with antiquated guns and makeshift bombs. Next time, America risks bumbling into another unwinnable war with an adversary that can hit back hard - and closer to home.... Read more»
Posted Aug 16, 2021, 9:27 am
Catesby Holmes
/The Conversation
There would be “no transitional government in Afghanistan,” Taliban officials told Reuters news service, as panic and turmoil grip Afghanistan after Taliban insurgents captured the capital city of Kabul and the president fled on Aug. 15, 2021.... Read more»
Posted Jul 19, 2021, 2:47 pm
Mark R. Jacobson
/The Conversation
Mark R. Jacobson, a foreign policy expert at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University who served as a reserve officer in 2006 and then returned in a civilian role, working as a foreign policy adviser, offers both personal and professional perspectives on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.... Read more»
Posted Jul 19, 2021, 10:56 am
Greg Barton
/Deakin University/The Conversation
Even before the US military completes the final steps of its troop withdrawal, the Taliban is surging, threatening not only the gains made in the past two decades, at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, but also global stability.... Read more»
Posted Jan 12, 2020, 12:45 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
Ignoring the facts of Donald Trump's impeachment case would be a case of the U.S. Senate giving up on fight against corruption. In that case, they're all open to baseless allegations. Let me show them how.... Read more»
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Posted Oct 16, 2018, 11:15 am
Chris McCrory & Lauren Intrieri/Cronkite News
In a debate peppered with accusations of lying and treason, Senate candidates Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema took shots at each other in their only public debate of the 2018 election, each calling out the other’s voting record as proof that the other candidate is not a true representative of Arizona.... Read more»
Posted Nov 1, 2017, 12:21 am
Fraser Allan Best
/Cronkite News
When Congress first authorized military action against terrorists in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Jeff Flake was a freshman in the House and Tim Kaine was still mayor of Richmond. Today, both are U.S. senators and the county is still waging war under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force – a vote they say it’s time to revisit.... Read more»
Posted Aug 2, 2016, 10:56 am
Curtis Skinner
/Reuters
The legal team for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl on Monday asked to have the charges against the former prisoner of war dismissed, arguing comments made by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain violated his due process rights. ... Read more»
Posted Oct 2, 2014, 4:00 pm
Ben Brody
/GlobalPost
American troops who remain on the ground no longer try to sugarcoat the reality that the war has accomplished little of permanence.... Read more»