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☆ Foreigners, some trained by the US, are fighting on both sides in Ukraine, seeking cash and adventure
  + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The war in Ukraine has drawn foreign fighters to the armies on both sides. While Russia is recruiting mercenaries, Ukraine has become a magnet for volunteers who want to fight Russian aggression or find adventure. By mid-2022, after Ukraine formed its International Legion of Defense, 20,000 volunteers from 52 nations had joined, according to the Ukrainian government. A new study by Italian researcher Matteo Pugliese found a bewildering array of backgrounds and motivations among the members of Ukraine's International Legion, a battalion-sized force. Ukraine's International Legion of Defense has drawn volunteers from all over the world.
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☆ US-trained Afghan commandos are fighting in Ukraine. Some are there for the pay. Others are there for revenge.
  + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Antonio Giustozzi | World Politics Review | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Afghan commandos who fled the Taliban are being recruited to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine. Former Afghan commandos in Iran that I spoke to largely confirm the rumors, though I found less evidence to support the claim of Wagner's role. After the Taliban takeover, only about 1,000 Afghan commandos were evacuated to the US, while a few others made it to Europe and Turkey. Afghan special forces in Kunduz City. A US Special Forces soldier patrols with Afghan Commandos.
☆ An Afghan refugee who lifted his wife and toddler onto a C-17 military plane to flee Kabul tells the harrowing story of how they arrived safely in the US
  + stars: | 2021-08-23 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Thousands of Afghan refugees have evacuated Kabul amid the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. He was one of thousands who flooded the airport that Sunday evening, desperate to flee the country in fear of a Taliban government. Rahmatullah Alizadah/Xinhua via GettyThe Taliban's swift capture of Kabul triggered a collapse of the Afghan government and forced a frenzied evacuation of Americans and Afghan refugees amid the US's military pullout of the 20-year war in Afghanistan. Transit in Qatar and arrival to the USThe American C-17 aircraft landed in an air base in Qatar. Afghan refugees in the US are being housed at military bases in Virginia, Wisconsin, and Texas before being resettled across the country.
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