Tag: Afghanistan

Kash Patel: Are We Setting Up Ukraine to Be Another Afghanistan?

Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, U.S. Congress has approved over $110 billion in aid to Ukraine. “Ukraine is going to become the modern-day Afghanistan,” argues Kash Patel. “We have no method of tracking the money we are sending to Ukraine as of right now. We are relying on the word of Zelenskyy and…


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Since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, U.S. Congress has approved over $110 billion in aid to Ukraine. “Ukraine is going to become the modern-day Afghanistan,” argues Kash Patel. “We have no method of tracking the money we are sending to Ukraine as of right now. We are relying on the word of Zelenskyy and…


Pakistani Troops Kill 2 Terrorists in Raid Near Afghan Border

ISLAMABAD—Pakistani troops on Friday raided a terrorist hideout in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban terrorist group, in the country’s northwest and near the border with Afghanistan, the military said. The raid triggered a shootout that killed two terrorists. The shootout in North Waziristan, a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, came days after a suicide bomber attacked a…


Taliban, Russia, and China: Cooperation but No Bloc

Commentary The Taliban government of Afghanistan is expanding its trade and cooperation with Russia and China, but a true alliance is unlikely. Earlier this month, Kabul and Beijing signed a $540 million dollar deal to develop Afghanistan’s oil and gas fields. This is the biggest deal the Taliban has signed since taking control of the…


China’s Recent $540 Million Oil Deal With Taliban Reveals Its Broader Agenda in Afghanistan: Experts

A recent oil deal between the Taliban and Beijing has raised concerns about communist China’s larger economic and geopolitical agendas in the violence-inflicted nation. Experts say the Chinese regime wants to take advantage of the vacuum created by the American exit, eyeing more than $1 trillion worth of Afghanistan’s minerals including rare earth elements, while…


More Than 160 Afghans Die in Bitterly Cold Weather

KABUL—More than 160 people have died from the cold in Afghanistan this month in the worst winter in more than a decade, authorities said on Thursday, as residents described being unable to afford fuel to heat homes in temperatures well below freezing. “162 people have died due to cold weather since January 10 until now,”…


Family of Afghan Soldier Detained in Texas Pleas for His Release

The family of Abdul Wasi Safi, 26, an Afghan combat intelligence officer who worked with U.S. Special Forces before the U.S. removed its troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, have been working hard to free “Wasi,” as he is known, who was arrested and detained by U.S. Border Protection and Customs when seeking asylum in…


2 Chinese Citizens Arrested in Afghanistan on Suspicion of Smuggling Lithium

The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has arrested five men, including two Chinese citizens. They are suspected of smuggling about 1,000 tons of lithium-containing stones out of the country. The regime’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said on Jan. 21 that it had seized about 300 tons of these stones in Nangarhar province, and about 700…


Chinese Nationals Arrested in Afghanistan for Allegedly ‘Smuggling’ Lithium Into China

The Taliban regime in Afghanistan reportedly arrested five men, including two Chinese nationals, over their alleged roles in the illegal smuggling of lithium-bearing stones from Afghanistan into China. The two Chinese nationals were accused of trying to smuggle 1,000 metric tons of stones containing 30 percent of lithium into China through Pakistan with the help…


Convicted of Murder, Afghan Asylum Seeker Who Claimed to Be a Child Had Killed Before in Serbia

An Afghan asylum seeker who claimed he was 16 when he was actually 21, has been found guilty of murdering a young man in England, but it has emerged that he was also convicted in absentia of a double murder in Serbia. Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai faces a mandatory life sentence after a jury at Salisbury Crown…