NEW DELHI—Lotfullah Najafizada, is the Director of Afghanistan’s biggest news broadcaster, the TOLONews. At 33 he has seen things closely in his war-torn country—death threats, deaths, injuries to his employees, and accolades for fearless journalism. The Epoch Times talked with Kabul-based Najafizada over the phone about his thoughts on the current situation in Afghanistan after…
US Troop Withdrawal by Sep. 11: Exclusive Interview With the Director of Afghanistan’s Biggest News Channel
Afghanistan Peace Process Will Depend Upon Whether Regional Powers Cooperate or Compete: Experts
News Analysis NEW DELHI—The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan freshly scheduled for September has created a period of instability and regional and global powers are testing the waters for influence. Experts said the peace process will depend upon whether these powers will cooperate or compete. The United States decided to keep thousands of its…
Pentagon Says Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal Up to 12 Percent Complete
The Pentagon has said that the withdrawal of remaining U.S. military forces in Afghanistan is making steady headway, with up to 12 percent of the process already complete. The U.S. military’s Central Command, or Centcom, said in a May 11 statement that it estimates completion of between 6-12 percent “of the entire retrograde process,” the technical…
Are We to Be the World’s Greatest Force for Good or Not?
Commentary America is going through convulsions that may destroy it as the country we and the world have known for more than two centuries. For all its flaws—virtually all of which were not unique to America but universal throughout human civilization—America has been regarded more than any other nation in modern times as a force…
Afghan School Blast Toll Rises to 68, Families Bury Victims
KABUL—The death toll from a bomb attack outside a school in the Afghan capital Kabul has risen to 68, officials said on Sunday, with doctors struggling to care for 165 injured victims and families searching desperately for missing children. Explosions on Saturday evening shook the neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, home to a large community of Shi’ites…
Gunmen Shoot Dead Former News Anchor in Afghanistan’s Kandahar
KABUL—A former journalist who worked for Afganistan’s finance ministry was shot dead by gunmen in the southern city of Kandahar on Thursday, provincial officials said, as violence mounted across the country amid a U.S. troop withdrawal. No group immediately claimed responsibility but government officials and Western powers usually blame Taliban insurgents for such attacks, which…
Former US Marine Sends Care Packages to Troops
May 2, 2021
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Former U.S. Marine Si Tenenberg is still on a mission: to ensure American soldiers serving overseas receive vital supplies. Over the past 15 years, the 86-year-old resident of San Luis Obispo, California, has sent over 22,000 care packages to soldiers in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Korea, Turkey, Germany and elsewhere. “You name it—wherever our troops are…
US Starts Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan With ‘Local Actions’ Already Taken: Gen. Miller
America’s top general in Afghanistan said Sunday that the U.S. military has already begun closing down operations in the country in preparation for a full withdrawal. “All of our forces are now preparing to retrograde,” Army Gen. Austin Miller told Afghan journalists at a press conference in the capital, Kabul. Miller added that the official…
General: US Withdrawing From Afghanistan Makes Terror Fight Harder
The United States completely withdrawing from Afghanistan will make fighting terror more difficult, a top general said on Tuesday. Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, told members of Congress in Washington that conducting counterterrorism requires finding targets, locating them, and eliminating them. “If you’re out of the country, and you don’t have the…
US-Backed Afghan Peace Meeting Postponed
KABUL, Afghanistan—Turkey announced early Wednesday that a conference Washington had hoped would move Afghanistan’s warring sides to a final peace agreement was postponed, as fresh violence rattled the Afghan capital. The postponement of the conference, which was to have begun Saturday in Istanbul, underscored the difficulties the Biden administration is facing in orchestrating an orderly…
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