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In These Times
August 10, 2017
However, in an investigation published earlier this year, Lauren Chadwick of the Center for Public Integrity found that, according to official U.S. government documents, at least 17 high-ranking foreigners – including five generals– trained through IMET between 1985 and 2010 were later accused and inÃâà...
The Independent
July 28, 2017
One in five of those strikes is against Isis-K, despite it controlling only slivers of mountainous territory. The battle is lopsided, but each day the frontline here in Achin district moves back only slightly. Both local intelligence officials and the US military believe that Isis-K is replenishing its stock of fighters almostÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
July 23, 2017
Both local intelligence officials and the U.S. military believe that ISIS-K is replenishing its stock of fighters almost as quickly as it loses them. A sense that this may be an ... That took place in neighboring Konar province, indicating that the fighting has spread at least that far. Most of ISIS-K's fighters areÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
July 6, 2017
Featured image: US Army paratrooper in Afghanistan's Konar province (Photo: Spc. Lorenzo Ware/US Army. .... “As one high-ranking Afghan official recently lamented, thinking undoubtedly of the first use in his land of the largest non-nuclear bomb on the planet, 'Is the plan just to use our country as aÃâà...
