Afghanistan

Afghanistan damge from earthquake
International News

Afghanistan Hit by Massive Earthquake Magnifying Existing Crisis

July 3, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the early morning hours of June 22, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck the southeastern region of Afghanistan reportedly killing in excess of 1,000 people. This natural disaster will only compound the […]
Afghanistan protest against US theft
International News

Afghanistan Funds Seized by Biden Administration

February 18, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe While the administration of President Joe Biden is consistently escalating tensions between the Russian Federation and the United States over the status of Ukraine, the people of Afghanistan are condemning the expropriation […]
Afghanistan withdrawal by the Pentagon portrayed in Global Times
International News

Post-occupation Afghanistan Seeks to Build International Relations

September 19, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe After twenty years of direct military engagement and over four decades of destabilization, the United States has left a trail of devastation in Afghanistan. The crises of food deficits, economic underdevelopment and […]
Women will continue the decades long fight to protect their rights.
Domestic News

Afghanistan and the Texas Fanatics

September 9, 2021 fwstaff
By David Sole The United States government suffered a humiliating defeat as it finally withdrew from Afghanistan on August 31, 2021. For over 20 years, 1979 to 2001 the CIA and State Department financed and […]
Oct7-antiwar demo1_taken by Kim DeFranco
Editorials

United States Withdraws from Afghanistan After Humiliating Defeat

August 29, 2021 fwstaff
Fighting Words Editorial We welcome the defeat of U.S. imperialism in the Central Asian state of Afghanistan in the aftermath of a two decades-long occupation. This completely unnecessary war since 2001 was initiated under the […]
July 4 Veterans for Peace display on Michigan war dead from Afghanistan and Iraq at Grand Circus Park
Domestic News

Leaving Afghanistan: Why Not Iraq and Syria?

July 23, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe President Joe Biden announced several months ago that the United States would end its two decades-long occupation of the Central Asian state of Afghanistan. Since the attacks on the World Trade Center […]
International News

Protesters: ‘Stop all U.S. wars!’

October 12, 2018 fwstaff
  By Fighting Words staff A Yemeni child was among those who addressed a protest in New York City on October 7, the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Activists from Yemen, Syria, […]