The following is an excerpt from Gallup. Months after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the country’s economic prospects remain grim, with some estimates placing 97% of Afghans below the poverty line by mid-2022. The latest Gallup data from Afghanistan offer […]
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The following is an excerpt from Gallup News. Gallup surveys conducted before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 showed the image of U.S. leadership was stronger across much of NATO than it had been in years, after languishing at low
Sharyl Attkisson interviews John Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). Sopko is the leading US oversight authority on Afghanistan reconstruction. Congress created the SIGAR office to provide independent and objective oversight of the billions in American taxpayer dollars
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Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John F. Sopko joins the Atlantic Council on Jan. 27 to discuss lessons learned and share ideas put forward by Americans involved in the Afghanistan conflict to learn from the mistakes of the past. The program entitled “Lessons
Last August, during the chaotic exit from Afghanistan, a suicide bomber attacked an entry point to the Kabul airport, where thousands were trying to flee the Islamic Extremist Taliban. That blast killed 13 American service personnel, including 11 Marines. This
The following is an excerpt from Defense One. Project Dynamo’s latest set of evacuation flights got another 47 Americans and legal permanent residents out of Afghanistan last month. Despite that success and others, the group has not been included among the larger
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Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller broke the rules and took to social media to publicly demand accountability for the botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Grammy-nominated Five for Fighting’s John Ondrasik’s new docu-music video that was released on January 3, was pulled down by YouTube on January 7, and then reinstated later that day with an apology from YouTube. John Ondrasik’s statement: “After receiving widespread criticism on
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