Saturday September 11, 2011 marks the 20 th.Anniversary of the Twin Towers attack by the Al-Qaeda which led to the long-drawn out US-led “War on Terror”. The 8 trillion-dollar war was launched ostensibly to put an end to the...
Anatol Lieven, Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and a senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington DC, recommends that the Afghans be allowed to govern themselves under systems they are used to - systems...
The governments of India and the US are yet to comment on the composition of the cabinet of the caretaker government of Afghanistan formed by the Taliban on Tuesday. But media reports suggest that there are grounds for anxiety...
Colombo, September 4: The beleaguered Muslim community in Sri Lanka, under pressure from the government since the 2019 multiple suicide bombings in the island nation, is thankful to the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for not blaming the...
Colombo, September 2: The main question vis-à-vis Afghanistan now is: “Will the US recognize the Taliban government, now that the grueling 20-year war has ended, and the Taliban have got de facto control over Afghanistan?
Some say the US...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the US military intervention in Afghanistan had achieved nothing but tragedy and loss of life on all sides and showed it was impossible to foist foreign values on other nations.
Meanwhile, the UK government...
Colombo, September 1: With the last of American troops leaving Afghanistan by the August 31 deadline, the Taliban have achieved a key objective – ending the military occupation of the country by the world’s sole super power. But the...
Colombo, August 28: The US responded to the bombing of the Kabul airport’s outer perimeter by the ISIS-Khorasan Province (ISIS-KP) by killing its mastermind. In a drone attack staged on Friday, the US killed the man in Nangaharprovince, Capt....
The ISIS-engineered blasts near the Kabul airport on Thursday, in which 13 US soldiers were killed along with dozens of Afghan civilians, have brought a radical change in the situation in Afghanistan, which was poised to return to peace...
Colombo, August 26: Sir Edwin Arnold, a 19 th., Century Indologist, journalist, poet andauthor of the immensely popular Light of Asiaon the life of the Buddha, campaigned hard, both singly and in collaboration with the Ceylonese monk Anagarika Dharmapala,...
Sri Lankan Muslim political parties, whether before and after independence, have used religion as a marker only for limited purposes. Firstly, they use Islam to define their membership. Secondly, they use it to protect the religious and cultural identity...
Colombo,: To the amazement of the world, the Taliban were able to win the grueling 20-year war against Super Power United States. But the victory in war has not landed them on a bed of roses. The Taliban now...
