#Afghan

1/ On Afghan war casualties:Entire @nytimes project to track casualties stemmed from Kabul/DC's decision to classify figures....yet this year, Afg govt has resumed sharing. Its figures are higher than NYT!By

Thread:Hon VP @AmrullahSaleh2 instd of blaming on the eve of our delegation visit to , appreciate the efforts that we r trying carry out for an Afghan-led peace process.

Thomas Joscelyn

1. The Taliban released a statement accusing the Afghan government & U.S. of violating the Feb. withdrawal agreement. The Taliban notes (correctly) that nothing in the accord prohibited them from

Michael Kugelman

MichaelKugelman

Some thoughts on the Pakistan factor in the war in Afghanistan (I hope to write a more detailed analysis later). There's long been much debate on the extent to which

It’s like people can’t accept that Hazaras are systematically targeted in Afghanistan without taking personal offence. This isn’t about you. This is about the Hazara people being ostracised, time and

سیمپ ماستار سوپریم

You Americans have hardened my heart more than you can even imagine, at this point I hope this entire country burns to the ground. Some mfs don’t expect you to

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

Short thread about Afghanistan´s different types of turbans, locally known as "lungee" or "mandeel". Check it out! Pashtun militiamen from Helmand province. Picture shows two Mujahedeens: right one wearing

🌹 Newly Minted 🌹

Remember when Calavera in Oakland got boycotted for wage theft? Remember when Flora Restaurant killed a homeless guy with a baseball bat and nobody boycotted cuz there are so many

Dog Who Bites 🌉

1. These threads glorifying the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan pop up like clockwork complete with orientalisms like calling every Afghan who resisted the invasion a "religious extremist" & conflating Afghan

Do you notice how the US description of mass murders in Afghanistan is in the passive voice, avoids blaming the terrorists who commit those murders, and then shifts rapidly to

Dr. Dawood Azami 🌱داود اعظمي

#Taliban posted a rare interview with a #Shia-#Hazara Taliban official, Mawlawi Mehdi, "governor" of Balkhab district in northern Sari-Pul province (calling him a Shia from the Hazara Brothers.)He is the

Dr. Jonathan Schroden

Welcome to #AFGPanel! Since our last panel, we’ve seen the #Taliban engage in & then withdraw from direct talks on prisoner exchanges w/#Afghanistan’s govt; the govt then began unilateral releases

Afghan Historians

AfghanHistorian

Twenty-three years ago today, Najibullah Ahmadzai was assassinated in Kabul. @AfghanHistorian will remember Dr. Najib because he was President of Afghanistan from 1987-1992. We hope to share more of his

susannah george

Local politicians in contested provinces across Afghanistan told us that as violence has increased, fewer and fewer people are visiting government offices to lodge complaints, instead they are increasingly turning

PAK-AFG BORDER FENCING:Pakistan is about to reach a new milestone in its fight against terrorism. The fence on the 2,640km (1,640-mile) land border between Pak-Afghan that passes through rugged mountains,

USS Theodore Roosevelt now has 550 cases of Cornavirus. They only had 95 cases when CAPT Crozier's pleas for help were ignored and he was relieved of command. USS T.