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Islamic State degraded in Afghanistan but still poses threat
Tribal elder Dawlat Khan still has nightmares about fighters from the local affiliate of the global Islamic State terror network who swept across his and other villages in eastern Afghanistan five years ago.
Local residents remove pieces of mortar shell fired by Afghan forces, which damaged their house at a village in Khyber, a district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering with Afghanistan, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/S.B. Shah) ISLAMABAD ...
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Russians sent 100,000 troops into Afghanistan - they still couldn't win
In December 1979, the Soviet Union launched a massive military intervention in Afghanistan, expecting a swift victory against a growing insurgency. Instead, the conflict turned into a brutal nine-year war that drained Soviet resources,
US President Donald Trump has once again questioned whether NATO allies would "be there" if the United States "ever needed them," baselessly claiming that the alliance's troops "stayed a little back" from the frontlines in Afghanistan. "I've always said ...
