Kathygannon
@kathygannon.bsky.social
I am a journalist who has covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for more than 35 years, while also dipping into Central Asia, Iraq, Yemen, Iran and Lebanon during the 2006 war. I authored I is for Infidel. For more pls see www.kathy-gannon.com
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November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The latest fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been fierce, but it's not new and unlikely to end until the disputed Durand Line, which separates the two nations, is replaced by an internationally recognized border.
The same is true of Pakistan and India.
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The same is true of Pakistan and India.
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Region Beset with Border Battles; "Lines" not Borders Feed the War Machine in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
As fighting escalates between Pakistan and Afghanistan a cacophony of militant groups on both sides of the border are gaining space.
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October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The latest fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been fierce, but it's not new and unlikely to end until the disputed Durand Line, which separates the two nations, is replaced by an internationally recognized border.
The same is true of Pakistan and India.
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The same is true of Pakistan and India.
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Returning to Afghanistan presents countless opportunities to support Afghan women, but not if these countries, as it was the case with India at the press conference in Delhi, deprioritize women’s rights.
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India what were you thinking allowing women journalists to be excluded from a press conference with Afghanistan's Foreign Minister?
Neither silence nor isolation has done anything to aid Afghan women.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Returning to Afghanistan presents countless opportunities to support Afghan women, but not if these countries, as it was the case with India at the press conference in Delhi, deprioritize women’s rights.
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Please join the 11th Annual James Foley Freedom Run #IRunForJim and the #FoleyFamily including Diane/John and Martha who have become like family to me and my Son.
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October 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Please join the 11th Annual James Foley Freedom Run #IRunForJim and the #FoleyFamily including Diane/John and Martha who have become like family to me and my Son.
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Hallelujah: Israeli hostages are coming home and Israeli bombs that have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians have stopped but to ignore history’s lesson that there can be no peace without justice is certain to deny both Israelis and Palestinians lasting peace. open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
Holding both Israel and Hamas accountable for their crimes key to justice and lasting peace
Hallelujah: Israeli hostages are coming home at long last and the Israeli bombs that have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians have stopped
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October 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Hallelujah: Israeli hostages are coming home and Israeli bombs that have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians have stopped but to ignore history’s lesson that there can be no peace without justice is certain to deny both Israelis and Palestinians lasting peace. open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
Sure America used Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base for renditions, torture and the illegal detainment of hundreds, perhaps 1000s of Afghans, but it never belonged to America to "take back".
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Trump says he might "take back" Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base
First the Air Base never belonged to America; Second Trump isn't interested in the base as much as making money and countering China's investments in Afghanistan
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September 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Sure America used Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base for renditions, torture and the illegal detainment of hundreds, perhaps 1000s of Afghans, but it never belonged to America to "take back".
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Silence Is Not An Option
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Normalizing the most grotesque behavior; U.S. is partner with Israel's Netanyahu to ethnically cleanse Gaza
The consequences of this lack of accountability will reverberate world wide for generations
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September 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Silence Is Not An Option
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Loving this !! More of this please. Of course America is going back to the Stone Age so it will have to come from the rest of the world 🌍 🌎 #SystemicRacismIsRealAndWrong #WomensRightsAreHumanRights
August 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Loving this !! More of this please. Of course America is going back to the Stone Age so it will have to come from the rest of the world 🌍 🌎 #SystemicRacismIsRealAndWrong #WomensRightsAreHumanRights
Mariam was killed by Israel along with four other journalists for telling the story of the horrors Israel is inflicting on Gaza and Gazans.
Yes the photos are graphic . Imagine that is your life . Imagine those are your children.
Please don’t look away
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Yes the photos are graphic . Imagine that is your life . Imagine those are your children.
Please don’t look away
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Photos by journalist Mariam Dagga
Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist for The Associated Press, chronicled the stream of wounded and dead that every day flowed into southern Gaza’s main hospital, where she was often based.
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August 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Mariam was killed by Israel along with four other journalists for telling the story of the horrors Israel is inflicting on Gaza and Gazans.
Yes the photos are graphic . Imagine that is your life . Imagine those are your children.
Please don’t look away
apnews.com/photo-galler...
Yes the photos are graphic . Imagine that is your life . Imagine those are your children.
Please don’t look away
apnews.com/photo-galler...
Israel has slaughtered another four journalists in Gaza
How is this allowed to continue?
No accountability
Just a continuation by Israel of the slaughter
This must stop
How is this allowed to continue?
No accountability
Just a continuation by Israel of the slaughter
This must stop
August 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Israel has slaughtered another four journalists in Gaza
How is this allowed to continue?
No accountability
Just a continuation by Israel of the slaughter
This must stop
How is this allowed to continue?
No accountability
Just a continuation by Israel of the slaughter
This must stop
BBC News hour carried a portion of an essay I wrote after returning to Afghanistan after nearly three years.
I was grateful they asked to use it
It’s at about the 22:17 mark but only if you have a moment
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I was grateful they asked to use it
It’s at about the 22:17 mark but only if you have a moment
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BBC Audio | Newshour | Ukraine marks 34 years of independence with defiant message
President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country is not a victim, but a fighter
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August 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
BBC News hour carried a portion of an essay I wrote after returning to Afghanistan after nearly three years.
I was grateful they asked to use it
It’s at about the 22:17 mark but only if you have a moment
bbc.com/audio/play/w...
I was grateful they asked to use it
It’s at about the 22:17 mark but only if you have a moment
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Just ask the tens of thousands of Afghans living in refugee hell in Pakistan abandoned by their “foreign friends” who urged, even aided their evacuation from Afghanistan following the return in 2021 of the Taliban.
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The Road to hell is paved with good intentions
Ask Afghans evacuated to Pakistan, who are now living in refugee hell
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August 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Just ask the tens of thousands of Afghans living in refugee hell in Pakistan abandoned by their “foreign friends” who urged, even aided their evacuation from Afghanistan following the return in 2021 of the Taliban.
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wrote this nearly three weeks ago. Repeating to add the latest Israeli murder of our PALESTINIAN COLLEAGUES fills me with such sadness and anger
This must stop.
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This must stop.
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To our Gaza colleagues: Forgive us, even as I am ashamed to ask
We as non-Gazan journalists have done too little to tell your stories, demand our leaders speak out, hold Israel accountable, forcing you instead to finally plead for our help
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August 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
wrote this nearly three weeks ago. Repeating to add the latest Israeli murder of our PALESTINIAN COLLEAGUES fills me with such sadness and anger
This must stop.
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This must stop.
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I want to say it as clear and unambiguous as possible: The U.S. and Israeli administrations are killing Gazans through starvation, knowingly and intentionally, lying to push forward their agenda to clear Gaza of Gazans either by death or relocation.
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America buries report revealing no evidence of routine Hamas looting to allow Israel to starve Palestinians
Reuters investigative team reveals USAID said no evidence of massive looting by Hamas. NYTimes also reporting similar. The killing by starvation is calculated, intentional and genocide.
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July 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I want to say it as clear and unambiguous as possible: The U.S. and Israeli administrations are killing Gazans through starvation, knowingly and intentionally, lying to push forward their agenda to clear Gaza of Gazans either by death or relocation.
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From the always kind @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
From the always kind @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social
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I want to say it as clear and unambiguous as possible: The U.S. and Israeli administrations are killing Gazans through starvation, knowingly and intentionally, lying to push forward their agenda to clear Gaza of Gazans either by death or relocation.
open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
America buries report revealing no evidence of routine Hamas looting to allow Israel to starve Palestinians
Reuters investigative team reveals USAID said no evidence of massive looting by Hamas. NYTimes also reporting similar. The killing by starvation is calculated, intentional and genocide.
open.substack.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I want to say it as clear and unambiguous as possible: The U.S. and Israeli administrations are killing Gazans through starvation, knowingly and intentionally, lying to push forward their agenda to clear Gaza of Gazans either by death or relocation.
open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
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Just to say Lord Thomson of Fleet and I both had our start in my hometown of Timmins, a lovely mining town in northern Ontario. I worked at the Timmins Daily Press and he bought it.
He went on to be a media mogul and i got to witness history and meet so many truly extraordinary people. Yaay me
He went on to be a media mogul and i got to witness history and meet so many truly extraordinary people. Yaay me
On Being Canadian: From Timmins to Afghanistan, More than Not Being American - Policy Magazine
On the frontlines of conflict, where I have spent much of my career, regardless of the war I was covering or with which side I was speaking, being Canadian
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July 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Just to say Lord Thomson of Fleet and I both had our start in my hometown of Timmins, a lovely mining town in northern Ontario. I worked at the Timmins Daily Press and he bought it.
He went on to be a media mogul and i got to witness history and meet so many truly extraordinary people. Yaay me
He went on to be a media mogul and i got to witness history and meet so many truly extraordinary people. Yaay me
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A U.S. citizen who was arrested for filming an ICE raid at Home Depot is suing the federal government for $1 million— and I hope he gets every penny.
THIS‼️ When being transported, Garcia heard agents boasting about how many ‘bodies’ they had gotten that day and saw them celebrate with high fives.
THIS‼️ When being transported, Garcia heard agents boasting about how many ‘bodies’ they had gotten that day and saw them celebrate with high fives.
July 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
A U.S. citizen who was arrested for filming an ICE raid at Home Depot is suing the federal government for $1 million— and I hope he gets every penny.
THIS‼️ When being transported, Garcia heard agents boasting about how many ‘bodies’ they had gotten that day and saw them celebrate with high fives.
THIS‼️ When being transported, Garcia heard agents boasting about how many ‘bodies’ they had gotten that day and saw them celebrate with high fives.
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