Perhaps the real reason for the recent failure of the peace negotiations between Taliban, Afghan and the US can be found Secretary Pompeo's remarks on CNN's State of Union show this past weekend... ..…
Last month’s meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedov was more than a mere photo opportunity. The implications of deeper Afghan-Turkmen bilateral ties could have a . . ..…
And from what the Afghan Taliban commander has seen, there appears to be more than “flickers” of al Qaeda’s presence in Libya, the description given by NATO commander Admiral James Stavridis. ... They call themselves the ghuraba’a, or “strangers”, after a famous jihadi poem celebrating..…
Trump, longtime of Afghan and the billions of dollars it costs, has would like to reduce the number of U.S forces to about 8,600 from around 14,000 currently. ..…
In the 1980s, however, the US had taken an an active role in the Afghanistan opium trade, funding Pakistani agents who assisted Afghan fighters in exporting opium between the two countries. . ..…
The Afghan puppet government is one assassin’s bullet away from collapse. ..…
It would be the first major attack in the Afghan capital since President Donald Trump abruptly called off US-Taliban talks on the brink of an apparent deal to end America's longest war lasting almost 20 years. . ... Zarif: US Pushed by Netanyahu into Afghan War . TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian..…
Zarif: US Pushed by Netanyahu into Afghan War . TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reminded the US that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contributed to the launch of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan before he tried bringing about the Washington-led war on Iraq. . ...…
Zarif: US Pushed by Netanyahu into Afghan War . TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reminded the US that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contributed to the launch of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan before he tried bringing about the Washington-led war on Iraq. . ...…
Mr Bolton, not to be left behind in the battle of Tweetosphere, has given his own version of events, insisting that it was he. ..…
But Trump's insistence that he wanted to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, and conclusion that there would be no military victory by either side there, had led Pompeo and Khalilzad to believe that United States should negotiate its own exit with Taliban, even while using that leverage to force eventual..…
Bolton, former US ambassador to United Nations and Fox News commentator, had opposed State Department plan to sign Afghan peace with Taliban insurgents, believing the group's leaders could not be trusted.. ..…
Based on what we can divine from press reports, the terms of that prospective Afghan deal would mirror those of the 1973 Paris Accords in one important respect. ... In 2019, almost no one expects Afghan security forces to hold off a threat consisting of both the Taliban and ISIS. ..…