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Keyword: Unwinnable War

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Editorials

War on Gaza: winners and losers

Zafar Bangash

Dhu al-Qa'dah 06, 14352014-09-01

Zionist Israel may have killed thousands of civilians in Gaza but it has failed to achieve any of its military objectives.

News & Analysis

Af-Pak War enters twilight territory

Zainab Cheema

Dhu al-Qa'dah 14, 14332012-10-01

After incurring trillions of dollars in war costs, the Americans are no closer to securing Afghanistan. The Afghan have proved once again that invading Afghanistan is a fool and a graveyard for invaders.

Letters To The Editor

US-NATO defeat in Afghanistan

Adam Khan Afridi

Sha'ban 11, 14332012-07-01

It is now clear that the US-NATO combine has lost in Afghanistan. They cannot make any more excuses.

Editorials

The US retreats on all fronts

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Akhirah 09, 14332012-05-01

It is always difficult to reconcile with decline in one’s power and clout. This is as true of individuals in old age as it is of societies and empires in their twilight years.

Editorials

America’s Afghan quandary

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Ula' 09, 14332012-04-01

It requires no great imagination to figure out that in order to get out of a hole, one must first stop digging. This should be obvious even to the most simple-minded people but American policy-makers, it seems, refuse to learn.

News & Analysis

US retreats from Iraq but the shame lingers on

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Safar 07, 14332012-01-01

Ultimately, even the great rhetorical skills of Barack Obama could not hide the fact that the US military had been defeated in Iraq. American troops sneaked out of the country into Kuwait on December 15, a full two weeks ahead of the stipulated deadline.

News & Analysis

Canada’s Afghan mission: what did it achieve?

Tahir Mahmoud

Shawwal 03, 14322011-09-01

Beyond the drum-beating and chest thumping about what a great job the Canadian soldiers did in Afghanistan, the question that needs to be asked is: what exactly did they achieve despite spending $20 billion on a war that is still raging and the Afghans are no better off today, in fact much worse, than they were 10 years ago?

Main Stories

US defeat in Afghanistan spurs new regional alliances

Zafar Bangash

Ramadan 01, 14322011-08-01

With America’s departure from Afghanistan now almost certain, new alignments are beginning to emerge among regional players aimed at securing the most favorable outcome for each country. Islamic Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan are in the forefront of this effort but Russia, China and the Central Asian republics are not far behind either.

News & Analysis

Obama’s moment of truth in Afghanistan

Zia Sarhadi

Rajab 29, 14322011-07-01

The removal — real or fake — of Osama bin Laden from the equation in the US war on terror has opened up new possibilities for what could be achieved in Afghanistan. While much attention is focussed on US moves, no doubt an important consideration, Washington is quickly losing control, thanks to its military defeat in Afghanistan.

Special Reports

New reality of Arab street’s demands torment dictators and their American backers

Iqbal Jassat

Rabi' al-Thani 27, 14322011-04-01

Has the American dream of permanent supremacy in the oil-rich region of the world been shattered? It’s a question that not only haunts influential institutions that function as pillars of power in America’s global hegemony, but also torments a wide array of rightwing think tanks masquerading as “impartial analysts”.

News & Analysis

Afghans consign another superpower to the dustbin of history

Zia Sarhadi

Muharram 26, 14322011-01-01

A non-descript country like Afghanistan has become the epicenter of global change sending not one but two superpowers into the dustbin of history.

Main Stories

US looking for a way out of Afghanistan?

Zia Sarhadi

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

True, there is no shortage of armchair warriors in Washington insisting that the US cannot cut and run, or that President Barack Obama does not have the spine for a fight.

Editorials

Afghanistan: nine years after US invasion

Zafar Bangash

Rajab 18, 14312010-10-01

It was exactly nine years ago that US-led western forces invaded and occupied Afghanistan. The ostensible reason was to avenge the attacks of 9/11.

News & Analysis

US clutching at straws in Afghanistan

Zia Sarhadi

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

Nine years and tens of thousands of deaths later, it is the Americans that are begging the Taliban for talks

News & Analysis

Kabul Conference confirms US defeat in Afghanistan

Zia Sarhadi

Rajab 18, 14312010-07-01

This was evident during the one-day conference when officials from 70 countries converged on Kabul to talk about Afghanistan’s future amid growing concern for intensified violence and the growing strength of the resistance.

World

US rhetoric dangerously out of step with realities on the ground in Afghanistan

Zia Sarhadi

Jumada' al-Ula' 05, 14272006-06-01

The announcement by US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld during a brief visit to Kabul on May 1, to the effect that the military phase of the campaign in Afghanistan is over, took American soldiers in the country by surprise.

Reflections

Implications for Muslims of the US's humiliating defeat in Iraq

Zafar Bangash

Rabi' al-Thani 13, 14252004-06-01

America has undoubtedly suffered a humiliating defeat in Iraq, even if no US soldier has yet actually left the country. It is enough that America has become the most hated country in the world today...

Reflections

Brave Iraqi resistance helps expose the folly of the enemies of Islam

Zafar Bangash

Rabi' al-Awwal 11, 14252004-05-01

US president George Bush had hoped that by April 2004 American casualties in Iraq would be so low that he could present this success as his personal triumph in transforming Iraq from a tyranny into a democracy...

World

American losses mounting as Afghans maintain resistance

Zia Sarhadi

Safar 14, 14242003-04-16

Hamid Karzai, the American-installed puppet in Afghanistan, was dealt another blow when Haji Gilani, one of his close allies, was gunned down outside his home in Deh Rawood, Uruzgan province, during the night of April 3. His nephew was also shot dead by six armed men, who then managed to escape.

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