Shia men from Afghanistan are coaxed into war to support Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Guardian investigation reveals. Iran is covertly recruiting hundreds of Afghan Shias in Afghanistan to fight for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, drawing them out of their own conflict-ridden country and into another war in which Afghanistan plays no official part. The Afghan […]
Israel told the United States on Thursday Kurdish independence in northern Iraq was a “foregone conclusion” and Israeli experts predicted the Jewish state would be quick to recognise a Kurdish state, should it emerge. Israel has maintained discreet military, intelligence and business ties with the Kurds since the 1960s, seeing in the minority ethnic group […]
The U.S. toolbox is brimming with $20 billion in carrots but desperately lacking in sticks. While these are important tactical questions, they’re of limited value if the underlying strategy remains flawed. A more consequential question is why Pakistan’s harboring of yet another terrorist commander has been met with a collective shrug by the United States […]
Baluchistan has been constantly under brutal harassment by the Iranian regime. The Iranian regime also has been implementing various projects without any hesitations to wipe out the identity of Baluch in Baluchistan. The deliberate gradual use of the term “SISTAN” instead of BALUCHISTAN in official correspondents and speeches are the testimony to eliminate by design […]
US Senator Dana Rohrabacher has said Pakistan is a reliable partner fir terrorists and not the United States, warning that the provision of millions in aid to Pakistani government in fight against terrorism would have a reverse outcome. The US Senator was speaking to Voice of America’s Afghanistan during an exclusive interview. Senator Rohrabacher further […]
But less attention is being paid to budding relations between the hard-line Sunni insurgent movement and Iran’s clerical establishment. A well-placed Afghan source has confirmed to RFE/RL’s Gandhara website that Mansur was targeted on the afternoon of May 21 after returning from Iran earlier that day. “A person named Wali Muhammad, son of Shah Muhammad, carrying […]
