After 13 years of war, American and British combat troops have left Afghanistan’s largest Province, Helmand, effectively bringing to an end what has arguably been the bloodiest fighting in the international military intervention since the War on Terror entered Afghanistan 2001. However, as Operation Enduring Freedom’s boots on the ground withdraw at an emphatic rate across the country, the intelligence and information war continues through the US State Department and USAID ‘s counter-terrorism initiatives. Supposedly neutral humanitarian agencies in the country continue to be manipulated in the name of counter-terrorism, a resource that has been pivotal to the military’s counter-insurgency …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
