EXPLAINER: Afghanistan’s unending struggle from USSR to USA & civil war
- 20-Aug-2021
“This hasn’t been a 20-year war. It was one-year war fought 20 times,” said an exasperated US military top official of the ad-hoc and inconsistent policies, fraught with corruption and wrought in human rights abuse, played out in Afghanistan, ever since the President Bush administration US invaded the country two decades ago. While it’s not […]
Violence rages in Syria as Kerry and Lavrov reach provisional deal on ceasefire
- 22-Feb-2016
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and the sides were closer to a ceasefire than ever before.