New revealed paperwork have shed recent mild on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program in Afghanistan, describing in alarming element a number of the excessive methods utilized by officers that resulted in deaths in captivity. ...

State Division bureaucrats had been so traumatized by the Afghan withdrawal that they cried, sought counselling, and cuddled remedy canine to get by. By no means thoughts the Afghans; these fits are the true victims. ...

A British basic appears to assume that Taliban-ruled Afghanistan might quickly be in your bucket record identical to that different state that was as soon as ‘aggressively transformed’ by the American navy, Vietnam… Nah. I don’t assume so. ...

Russia knew prematurely that representatives of the unconventional Taliban* motion (terrorist group, banned in Russia) wouldn't meet with resistance when making an attempt to take Afghanistan's capital Kabul in August of this 12 months, Russian ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov stated, TASS experiences. In keeping with him, Russia obtained data ...

The US failed to make sure stability in Afghanistan from 2001 by way of 2014. As an alternative, it promulgated insurance policies that not solely strengthened the Taliban, but additionally created pockets of ungovernable house that had been then taken over by ISIS-Ok. ...

The usage of foreign currency has been fully banned in Afghanistan, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid stated in an announcement, citing nationwide pursuits and present financial circumstances as main causes for the sudden transfer. ...

Tehran is able to work on Afghanistan solely inside a UN-led framework or with nations belonging to the area, an Iranian FM spokesman has mentioned, rejecting prospects of cooperation with the US and different “trans-regional” nations. ...

Two bombings in as many weeks inflicting a whole bunch of casualties at Shia mosques in Afghanistan raises fears of a sectarian battle erupting within the Central Asian nation. ...

Washington’s high envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has resigned his submit, the State Division stated, amid mounting experiences that the division will conduct a collection of probes into the hasty and chaotic evacuation from Kabul. ...

Withdrawing from Afghanistan was dangerous, sanctions are good, regime change in Iran is the one manner, and Donald Trump is guilty for US Covid-19 deaths, his former advisor John Bolton informed RT’s Going Underground. ...