Afghanistan

From RT. There was also the school shooting (link, link) in Russia on Sep. 26 where 6 adults and 11 children where killed by a gunman sporting Nazi symbols.

Kabul school struck by suicide bombing​

30 Sep, 2022 07:31

At least 19 people have been killed in the western part of the Afghan capital

Taliban authorities reported on Friday that at least 19 people had been killed and 27 others injured in a suicide attack on an education center in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The blast went off when the Kaaj school in Kabul’s 13th district was preparing for entrance exams, city police spokesman Abdul Nafy Takor tweeted. He described the death toll as preliminary.

“Our teams have dispatched at the site of the blast to find out more details,” the Taliban-appointed official told the media.

Afghanistan’s TOLO News outlet said the attack happened at around 7:30 am local time. It’s report described ambulances taking victims to hospitals

Footage purportedly shot at the school, which was shared on social media, showed bloodied bodies covered by sheets and distraught people at the scene.

The facility is in Kabul’s Dashti Barchi neighborhood, where members of the Shiite Hazara minority live, AFP reported. They have been persecuted and targeted for years, including by bombing attacks.

While no group immediately claimed responsibility for the latest bombing, the terrorist organization, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) has launched multiple such attacks in the past.

The Taliban and IS are hostile towards each other. Their fighting has been a major cause of violence in Afghanistan since the Taliban retook control of the country last year, following a decades-long guerilla war against a US-backed government in Kabul.
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This documentary is (was) out in certain theatres and is set to stream on Disney+ in Canada in the next few days. It deals with the final nine months of the United States' 20-year war in Afghanistan. I haven't seen it yet so I don't know what it's like but, it looks interesting judging by the trailer (osit).
RETROGRADE captures the final nine months of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives: one of the last U.S. Special Forces units deployed there, a young Afghan general and his corps fighting to defend their homeland against all odds, and the civilians desperately attempting to flee as the country collapses and the Taliban take over. From rarely seen operational control rooms to the frontlines of battle to the chaotic Kabul airport during the final U.S. withdrawal, Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman’s latest film offers a cinematic and historic window onto the end of America’s longest war, and the costs endured for those most intimately involved.
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Retrograde — Dogwoof Releasing

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There is a new documentary coming out next month (Sept., 2025) about the Afghanistan War. It's titled "Bodyguard of Lies". The title comes from a quote by Winston Churchill: "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies".
Bodyguard of Lies is the first unvarnished documentary on the Afghanistan War, exposing the falsehoods told to Americans and the secrets kept. The film reveals the staggering cost of deception: thousands of lives lost, trillions spent, and a truth buried for decades.
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It's meant to be streamed on Paramount+, if anyone here subscribes to that.
 
Something is brewing between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The latter arguing over intrusion through the border to bomb the former.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2027278522486771975

Summary for this new round of tension in this region:

  • The post accurately reports a sudden escalation in the 2026 Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict, where Pakistan's defense minister declared "open war" on February 27 after airstrikes, prompting Afghan retaliation claiming 55 Pakistani soldier deaths.
  • Border tensions trace back to February 21, when Pakistan targeted Taliban militants in Afghan provinces like Nangarhar and Khost, reviving disputes over porous frontiers and cross-border incursions that have simmered since the Taliban's 2021 takeover.
  • Afghanistan's Taliban-led government, through spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid, announced the launch of "large-scale offensive operations" against Pakistani military bases and installations along the Durand Line as retaliation for earlier Pakistani airstrikes.
  • These operations reportedly lasted four hours, during which Afghan forces claimed to have captured multiple Pakistani posts and inflicted significant casualties.

  • The Afghan Ministry of Defense subsequently declared the operations complete at midnight local time on February 26, stating that all assigned objectives had been achieved and hostilities ceased on orders from the armed forces' chief of staff.

  • Following Pakistan's subsequent airstrikes on Kabul, Kandahar, and Paktia, Mujahid acknowledged the attacks but claimed no casualties resulted from them.

  • No further direct response to Pakistan's "open war" declaration has been issued by Afghan officials as of the latest reports.
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Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, on X :

'It would be fitting, on the occasion of the blessed month of Ramadan—which is a month for self-discipline and the promotion of unity in the Islamic World—that Afghanistan and Pakistan resolve their differences through good neighborliness and dialogue.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is prepared to provide every possible assistance to facilitate dialogue and promote mutual cooperation.'
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You think China is maybe pulling some strings? Maybe to postpone Iran-America/Israel war? Or something along those lines?
 
Ian said:
In what sense? Like a type of distraction?
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distraction yes - also for me the question is who benefits from this at this particular time !

as of yet ive not had the time to fully go into the full context- several things that cross my mind are that Pakistan has nuclear weapons... and the proximity to Iran ...
 
Both are Iran's direct neighbours and Iran has called on them to deescalate. It is also noteworthy that the Indian president is currently visiting Israel, while Pakistan blames Afghanistan of having become a "colony of India".

I think last summer Pakistan was among those most clearly on the side of Iran. Though how this war or conflict with Afghanistan can help Iran I don't know. Seems to be unrelated, other than a general destabilization in the region.
 
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