‘Darkness has fallen’: One year after Taliban takeover, humanitarian crisis widens

‘Darkness has fallen’: One year after Taliban takeover, humanitarian crisis widens

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler One year after the appalling collapse of Afghanistan into the hands of the Taliban insurgents, the humanitarian crisis in that beleaguered South Asian country has gone from bad to worse.  The Biden Administration’s shameful and botched pullout of American military forces signaled the last tawdry act of the […]

Report: Abandoned by Team Biden, Afghan allies forced to join ISIS to survive

Report: Abandoned by Team Biden, Afghan allies forced to join ISIS to survive

by WorldTribune Staff, November 2, 2021 Former Afghan security personnel who aided the United States during the war are now being hunted by the Taliban and have resorted to joining the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) after being abandoned by Team Biden, a report said. A former Afghan official told the Wall Street Journal that several […]

Reports: Military planes seen landing at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan

Reports: Military planes seen landing at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan

by WorldTribune Staff, October 3, 2021 The strategically vital air base that Joe Biden abandoned to the Taliban has been re-opened and is being used by military aircraft, reports say. The Daily Mail on Sunday cited multiple reports of military planes arriving at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan just hours after images emerged showing that […]

Report: Afghans seeking to resettle in U.S. triggered alerts, 100 on terrorism watch lists

Report: Afghans seeking to resettle in U.S. triggered alerts, 100 on terrorism watch lists

by WorldTribune Staff, August 26, 2021 Some 100 Afghans who were evacuated as the Taliban seized power and are awaiting resettlement in the U.S. are on the Defense Department’s terrorism watch lists, a report said. The Afghans “flagged” for being on the watch lists were prospective recipients of Special Immigrant Visas (SIV), Defense One reported […]

As China fills the void, Trump tells Biden it’s time to resign in disgrace

As China fills the void, Trump tells Biden it’s time to resign in disgrace

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2021 As Joe Biden vacationed, the Taliban conquered. And China was quickly moving in to fill the void left by an utterly incompetent U.S. foreign policy team. Whether the 78-year-old Biden has the capacity to grasp what is happening before his eyes, one thing is clear, former President Donald […]

Back to war: Team Biden sets stage for troop buildup in Afghanistan

Back to war: Team Biden sets stage for troop buildup in Afghanistan

by WorldTribune Staff, February 1, 2021 President Donald Trump’s goal of withdrawing all U.S. forces from Afghanistan over the next three months is “increasingly in doubt,” a report said. Not only will Joe Biden’s team not bring the 2,500 U.S. troops remaining in Afghanistan home, but they are likely to deploy even more troops and […]

Rep. Banks: New York Times compromised national security to damage Trump

Rep. Banks: New York Times compromised national security to damage Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, June 30, 2020 In its eagerness to do anything it takes to smear President Donald Trump, The New York Times not only compromised national security but has “blood” on its hands for reporting that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan, a congressman and Afghanistan war […]

Mideast roundup: Report suggests Israel requested U.S. Syria pullout

Mideast roundup: Report suggests Israel requested U.S. Syria pullout

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 26, 2018 Israel requested the United States withdraw its troops from Syria ahead of a “winter offensive” the Jewish state plans to launch against Hizbullah, a Dec. 25 report said. The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw the roughly 2,000 American troops […]

U.S. general in Afghanistan: ‘Enemy believed that we had lost our will to win’

U.S. general in Afghanistan: ‘Enemy believed that we had lost our will to win’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy in Afghanistan “is fundamentally working and advancing us towards reconciliation,” the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said on Aug. 22. Ditching the Obama administration’s timeline for withdrawal and gaining commitments from NATO allies to extend assistance to 2024 were key moves made by […]

Surrender of 200 ISIS fighters in Afghanistan raises question of who gets credit

Surrender of 200 ISIS fighters in Afghanistan raises question of who gets credit

by WorldTribune Staff, August 2, 2018 More than 200 Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists who had been engaged in intense fighting with the Taliban ended up surrendering to the Afghan army. Reports on the ground differ on why the fighters chose to surrender. Some say the jihadists surrendered to Afghan forces because they did not want […]