The United States is expected to spend nearly $6 trillion through 2018 on government-wide costs related to the wars waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria since 2001, reveals a study by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
Author: Edwin Mora
Taliban Celebrates: ‘150,000 Americans Couldn’t Kill Us’
The Taliban can withstand U.S. President Donald Trump’s offensive to coerce the terrorists to lay down their arms and accept peace with the Kabul government, a commander loyal to the jihadist group argued to The Guardian.
Pakistani Bride ‘Inadvertently’ Killed 17 with Poisoned Milk Intended for Husband
An unhappily married Pakistani woman claims the 17 people she murdered were unintended victims of a botched plan to poison her husband and end her arranged marriage so that she could be with her boyfriend.
Russia: Authorities in Muslim-Majority Chechnya Investigating Torture of Gay Man
Investigators in the Muslim-majority Russian province of Chechnya are reportedly investigating one the many incidents allegedly involving the torture of gay men held in government-run “concentration camps” in the autonomous region.
Uzbek Jihadists Fueling Much of Afghan Islamic State’s Strength
Uzbekistan is one of the top two countries that has produced most of the jihadists currently fighting and killing U.S. troops and their allies in Afghanistan on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in the region, according to Pentagon and Af…
Islamic State Loses Last City, Bastion of ‘Caliphate’ in Syria
The end of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) caliphate that once expanded across vast swathes of two countries is within reach now that the jihadists lost the last-remaining city under their control in Syria and its final stronghold in Iraq alon…
McMaster’s War: U.S. Casualties Rising as Afghan Taliban Control Reaches ‘Record High’
The number of terrorist attacks and the number of provincial districts under the control or influence of jihadist groups in Afghanistan, primarily the Taliban and to a lesser extent the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), have reached unprecedented levels unde…