Taliban – Declan Hill – Investigative Journalist & Academic

26AugAugust 26, 2017

How NATO Covers-up Child Abuse in Afghanistan and Helps the Taliban

This is an appalling, grotesque - but true - story. As Donald Trump unveils a new military strategy in Afghanistan, here is a story that will have you twisting with rage but understanding why NATO is failing in that country. If you have not been paying attention to the western intervention in Afghanistan since 2001, you may only be familiar with the story promoted by the mainstream media: NATO troops are fighting, accompanied by honest, decent Afghan allies, against the terrible,...

Kunduz, Cubans & They Do Not Want to Die

Why are the armies trained by the American military so bad? Taliban fighters with a capture Humvee outside Kunduz, Afghanistan It is one of the key questions of current-day foreign affairs and yet few people ask it. We have interminable media discussions of the military strength of IS or the Taliban: yet little of why the local armies that are purportedly fighting against them are so ineffective? It is worth examining this question with the news this week that the Taliban have...

So We Lost

So we lost. We know now that more than ten-years after the invasion of Afghanistan - it will all end in failure. Like much connected with this odd war, there was no formal announcement, no hauling down of flags, rather the news came last month in a secret report written by NATO officials and leaked to the BBC which says that the Taliban will probably take over once western forces leave the country. The report was, in part, corroborated by the...