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https://sputnikglobe.com/20240129/official-lies-arent-what-they-used-to-be-1116451807.htmlOfficial Lies Aren’t What They Used to BeOfficial Lies Aren’t What They Used to BeThe Bushies told us we had to invade Afghanistan to catch Osama bin Laden and then to go into Iraq because Saddam had WMDs. As the Pentagon knew, bin Laden was already in Pakistan; as ...

In this Dec. 2, 2009 file courtroom sketch, Tahawwur Hussain Rana appears before federal Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan in Chicago. File | Photo Credit: AP The Biden administration has urged a court in California to deny the writ of habeas corpus filed by Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana and ...

The Biden administration has urged a court in California to deny the writ of habeas corpus filed by Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana and reiterated that he be extradited to India where he is sought for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.A US court had approved Rana’s ...

WASHINGTON D.C.: The Biden administration has added 43 businesses to the US Commerce Department's Entity List, including Frontier Services Group, for training Chinese military pilots and other activities that threaten US national security.Frontier Services is a security and aviation company previously run by Erik Prince, founder of the security ...

A group of eminent Indian-Americans expressed disappointment over the latest annual report of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and alleged that it is biased against India. The report recommended to the Biden Administration to designate India, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and 11 other nations as “country of particular ...

Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammed Shehbaz Sharif has chosen to chart a different path from his two predecessors, Imran Niazi and his elder brother Nawaz Sharif, while engaging India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Rather than use uncouth language of Imran Niazi against PM Modi, Shehbaz has sought meaningful engagement ...

America’s retreat from Afghanistan is ending tragically—and that has sweeping strategic implications. One major misjudgment underlying the “ending endless wars” mantra was that withdrawing affected only Afghanistan. To the contrary, the departure constitutes a major, and deeply regrettable, U.S. strategic realignment. China and Russia, our main global adversaries, are ...

Since Kabul fell to the Taliban Sunday, critics have flayed President Biden for diminishing America’s global standing, empowering the Taliban and their al Qaeda partners, cold-shouldering U.S. allies, and abandoning Afghans who risked their lives to work with Americans. Add one more likely consequence of the cack-handed U.S. withdrawal: ...

Is Afghanistan destined to return to barbarism? Some hope that the hasty and haphazard U.S. withdrawal won’t lead to Taliban rule or that the jihadist group will govern more gently than before. That optimism is misplaced, and the disaster likely to come will have global consequences. Many observers fear ...

American forces have left Afghanistan. Now what? President Biden has yet to settle on the outlines of an approach. What should the U.S. seek to achieve? Who are its partners? As he mulls these questions, the president should take note of a July 16 conference, hosted by the government ...