Ayman al-Zawahiri is dead – or so we are told. Al-Qaida’s chief and successor to the slain Osama bin Laden, he was deemed the chief ideologue and mastermind behind the audacious September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. On July 31, he was supposedly killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, while […]
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In recent months, the situation between Pakistan and Afghanistan has increasingly mirrored that of the past few years, when the Afghan Taliban (representatives of the banned group in Russia), fighting against the government in Kabul, used Pakistan as their rear. And this has been evidenced by recent intensified clashes between separate Afghan Taliban groups and […]
Taliban fighters violently dispersed dozens of female protesters in Kabul. About 40 Afghan women marched through the capital city demanding rights, before the Taliban broke the protest march up by firing into the air. This women’s protest march occurred almost a year after the Taliban seized power. The protesters chanted demands for “bread, work and freedom”, carrying a banner reading[Read More...]
The Taliban (an organization banned in Russia), which seized power in Afghanistan a year ago, have pledged a tough fight against drugs, saying the cultivation, transportation and distribution of opium poppies are punishable by death. However, many experts had already raised doubts as to whether the Islamists would succeed in tackling the international drug business, […]
Pendant plus de deux décennies, de l'Afghanistan à l'Irak, de la Libye à la Syrie, quel type de droits de l'homme les États-Unis ont-ils défendus ? Les conflits américains au Moyen-Orient et au-delà sont-ils des guerres de nécessité ou des guerres de choix ? Rejoignez-nous pour "Le bilan humain de l'ingérence des États-Unis" sur CGTN Français.
Pendant plus de deux décennies, de l'Afghanistan à l'Irak, de la Libye à la Syrie, quel type de droits de l'homme les États-Unis ont-ils défendus ? Les conflits américains au Moyen-Orient et au-delà sont-ils des guerres de nécessité ou des guerres de choix ? Rejoignez-nous pour "Le bilan humain de l'ingérence des États-Unis" sur CGTN Français.
In a blog entry, reflecting on the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Bali, Indonesia on July 7-8, the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, seems to have accepted the painful truth that the West is losing what he termed “the global battle of narratives”. “The global battle of narratives is in full swing and, […]
The insistence that there is a noble way of fighting war, one less bloody and brutal, has always been the hallmark of forces self-described as civilised. Restraint characterises their behaviour; codes of laws follow in their wake, rather than genocidal impulses. Killing, in short, is a highly regulated, disciplined affair. The failed wars and efforts […]
Kit Knightly Last week we wrote about the new “polio outbreak” reported in the UK and around the world, and how it was likely yet another constructed narrative designed to sell yet more vaccines. After all, it was reported that the market for polio vaccines had “stagnated” through 2021, and the first-ever vaccine granted approval …
Régis Le Sommier est un des plus grands reporters de guerre français. Comme directeur adjoint de Paris Match, il a interviewé plusieurs fois Bachar el-Assad, s'est rendu l'an dernier chez les Talibans en Afghanistan et a couvert le conflit en Irak. Ancien correspondant aux États-Unis, il a également interviewé Bush et Obama. Il raconte tout cela dans son dernier ouvrage La Vérité du terrain. Avec lui, une question que nous nous posons : peut-on parler aux dictateurs ? 0:00 - Générique 0:51 - (...)
