But to contend that Islamic State is responsible for suicide blasts Pakistan and Afghanistan is to declare that Taliban are responsible for Syria and Iraq.. ... Regarding Washington's motives for providing covert support to breakaway factions of Afghan Taliban, Pakistani..…
This was the in the 18 years for Afghanistan, since Taliban were ousted. ..…
The argument holds that Taliban will end up winning the war, take control over the government, and convert Afghanistan into another haven for al-Qaeda to plan terrorist attacks against United States, ala the 11 attacks... Taliban would agree not to make Afghanistan haven..…
O'Brien's appointment comes including weekend attacks on Saudi oil facilities, and efforts to help negotiate peace agreements Afghanistan and Taliban, and between Israelis and Palestinians... ..…
O'Brien comes aboard including attempts to Afghanistan with Taliban and between Israelis and Palestinians. ..…
American manager of these discussions, arranged for American from Afghanistan if Taliban would promise not to tolerate any part of Afghanistan becoming staging or training center for any organization. ... On Afghanistan, United States should do what it can to..…
On the eve of the anniversary of September 11, 2001, attacks and U.S of Afghanistan, United States and Taliban completed nine rounds of peace talks with no deal.. ... Under Trump administration's with Taliban, U.S would pull 5,400 troops out of Afghanistan within 135..…
The Gallup poll surveyed 2,291 American adults and found that 52% was not mistake to send troops to Afghanistan following Taliban's refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the terrorist attacks. ... On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced he had canceled peace talks with..…
Ryan Crocker, U.S to Afghanistan, was to think Washington could ever rely on assurances from Taliban about Qaeda... ... Roya Rahmani, Afghanistan's to United States, said Taliban's links to Qaeda are not just ideological... ..…
At the time, many within U.S apparatus see the withdrawal of U.S forces as tantamount to turning Afghanistan over to Taliban. Taliban praised those attacks at the time and provided Afghanistan for al-Qaida, the organization that launched them. ..…
One wonders as to whom Washington led US President Trump to believe that Taliban would concede iron-clad guarantees to United States on safe exit of US Forces from Afghanistan and that Taliban would not rollback all that United States had achieved in putting Afghanistan..…
We applaud President Trump's desire to bring our troops home from Afghanistan, and the news White House had planned secret meeting with Taliban leaders and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at Camp David prompts us to republish this column from July 30, 2018 explaining why negotiating with..…
CENTCOM commander further stated that he was not aware whether any of the planning for the recent wave of Taliban attacks Afghanistan came from Pakistan-based militants.. This is while US and Taliban negotiators struck just last week peace deal that could lead to major..…
source close to Taliban Afghanistan said the group will hold meeting to discuss all aspects of ongoing negotiations before issuing statement... ... The warring sides have held nine rounds of peace talks Qatar's Doha aimed at ending America's war, 2001 attacks New York, that al Qaeda..…
While al-Qaeda were welcomed Afghanistan Taliban have long sought to get rid of their troublesome guests. ... Perhaps one of the most embarrassing facts about U.S mission Afghanistan is that Taliban control more territory now than they have since U.S invaded in 2001. ..…
Along with this emergence of ISIS in some parts of Afghanistan is also major reason behind support of Tehran to Taliban. ... One of those hurdles could be the Peace Afghanistan, therefore China is struggling its best in the reconciliation process of Afghan Taliban to..…
IS-K uses suicide attacks, and in 2018 surpassed Taliban in the use of this tactic Afghanistan. ... In June 2015, Taliban sent letter to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State Syria, urging end to IS-K as Afghanistan. ..…
In Washington, Taliban insurgents are eager to stop fighting and that they could very easily prevent Afghanistan from being breeding ground for terrorism. ... The US, for its part, seeks Taliban guarantees that Afghanistan, will not be used as launchpad for terror..…
Rahmani, women's rights activist, remembers all too well what Afghanistan was like during the 1990s, under Taliban's rule, when women were beaten for leaving their homes and barred from attending school or holding jobs.. ... The group controls at least 10 percent of Afghanistan's..…
By terrorist organizations in return for withdrawal of, The framework involves Taliban agreeing to prevent territory Afghanistan from being used U.S troops, among other concessions. ... 2001, attacks, United States invaded Afghanistan. Taliban leadership lost control..…
The framework will be announced both Afghanistan and in United States, and as Taliban continue march of attacks. ... But Taliban also wield power over more according to the Office of Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. ..…
There has been no let-up Afghanistan even though Taliban and United States appear close to pact for U.S troops to withdraw in exchange for Taliban promise the country would not be used as base from. ... Members of Afghan security forces inspect the site of car bomb blast Kabul,..…
I know there will not be election, said Nabil, United Nations official, warning that disputed and election will create dangerous consequences for Afghanistan... ... The election comes as U.S and Taliban negotiators try to hammer out the details of agreement that would foreign troops..…
White House will also ask Khan to help Washington reach ceasefire with Taliban Afghanistan... ... In June, the United States and Afghanistan condemned Taliban over threats against Afghani media. ..…
Sanders does not seem to appreciate that Taliban is supremacist, organization that seeks complete domination of Afghanistan as Islamic state — there is reason why Taliban calls Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, not Taliban. ... American policymakers and..…
-based individuals have also sought to join Taliban Afghanistan, typically Taliban TTP Lashkar-e-Taiba out of desire to engage in combat against U.S forces. ..…
American Taliban after his capture on Afghanistan battlefield late 2001 has been released from prison... ... His release was opposed by the family of Mike Spann, CIA officer who was killed during uprising of Taliban prisoners Afghanistan shortly after interrogating..…
According to United Nations, Yemen is the country with most people in need of humanitarian aid. 5- Afghanistan. The Taliban militants remain entity despite the international attempt to rebuild Afghanistan. 4- Somalia. ..…
we now see that Taliban are coming back Afghanistan and there have not been big changes for women's lives -- especially in rural areas, says Khorsand. ... Reflecting on the popularity of such beliefs Herat, Khorsand says it makes no difference for Afghanistan if..…
On December 25, 1979, Soviet Union repeated the mistake, sending troops to Afghanistan to help PDPA regime to withstand the rising onslaught of West-funded fundamentalists. Afghanistan led to the emergence of Taliban.. To aggravate things for Afghan people, Al Qaeda got..…
TEHRAN - The Taliban militant group said peace talks with the US, have stalled over the key issue of timetable for American and other foreign troops to pull out of Afghanistan, Taliban demand... ..…
Washington Afghan government, US and international forces have been responsible for more civilian deaths Afghanistan in the first three months of 2019 than Taliban and ISIS, according to United Nations report out Wednesday... ..…
KABUL, Afghanistan, including Taliban.. The talks, were considered significant first step toward finding negotiated end to Afghanistan, America's conflict, and the eventual of U.S troops from the country.. Taliban had refused to hold direct talks with Afghan..…
The against Taliban was justified on the grounds that Taliban had somehow aided and abetted the al- Qaeda terrorists simply due to the fact that they were living Afghanistan under Taliban's rule.. ... Ever U.S has remained Afghanistan, attempting to prop up its..…
The decision on Friday, means that neither Taliban, Afghan, nor United States will face any investigation at the international court for alleged crimes. ... -backed forces drove Taliban from Afghanistan in 2001 at the start of war that has dragged on for 17 years.. ..…
it's coming about in the worst way United States is about to enter into peace negotiations with the very enemy it sought to destroy Afghanistan — Taliban.. ..…
But they want to secure commitment from Taliban that Afghanistan will not be home to terrorist groups planning attacks against United States.. So far, Taliban has refused to allow the government of Afghanistan to participate in the current negotiations. ..…
Terms of the negotiation include the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan within 18 months in exchange for commitment by Taliban not to permit terrorist attacks to emanate from Afghanistan. ... United States is indicating that it's willing to give up on what it was..…
Barnett Rubin, former US diplomat and expert on Afghanistan, 2010 and 2011, says Afghan government will soon be brought in to 'They will be involved at the next stage on political arrangements Afghanistan. ... Despite Trump's announcement of US troop drawdown from Afghanistan,..…
complete of U.S troops from Afghanistan will reduce the cost of war for U.S government, and it will also eliminate legitimacy of Taliban to fight against Afghan government. ... overthrow Taliban government, found Afghanistan and ensure Afghanistan achieve stable and..…
In 2017, Afghan struck Robow-like with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghanistan's notorious warlord who at one point or another supported just about every political issue and belligerent group Afghanistan, including Taliban. ... By terrorist groups, The end of January round of U.S.-..…
The US for Afghanistan, that the must call for intra- Afghan between Taliban and US-backed Afghan government, and ceasefire. ... United States was slow to condemn Taliban in the mid-1990s because Taliban seemed to U.S oil company Unocal to build two pipelines across..…
Taliban representatives, this week gathered with leaders of Afghan factions Moscow for two-day conference on Afghanistan's political future... ... The gathering was incongruous for another reason Taliban formed to fight Soviet of Afghanistan in the 1980s. ..…
The Trump administration's for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, on Monday announced the drafting of a framework for agreement with Taliban, against. ... Khalilzad signed on as a consultant for Unocal, in negotiating with Taliban on deal for trans- Afghanistan gas..…
U.S forces in 2001 toppled Afghanistan's Taliban leaders who had harboured Qaeda militants responsible for Sept 11 attacks on United States that killed about 3,000 people.. ... -led foreign forces training, advising and assisting their Afghan counterparts, Taliban control half of..…
Under the proposed, Taliban in turn would pledge to ensure Afghanistan is not used and would commit to enter into peace talks with group of Afghans including members of Kabul, foreign diplomats and Taliban representatives.. ... U.S troops have been Afghanistan since..…
Regionally focused terrorist groups also remained in 2018, including Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, while Pakistani Taliban continued to carry out attacks in the country.. In Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban and Haqqani network continued to launch attacks..…
Daesh terrorists, have been Afghanistan, clashing with both Kabul and Taliban militants and alarming neighboring nations, including Iran.. ... He noted Taliban are in control of 50 percent of Afghanistan and had sought the meetings with Iranian government.. ..…
Two months Khalilzad announced on November that he hoped peace deal could be reached with Taliban before next April's Afghanistan.. ... According to the information obtained by RSF, there is concern Afghanistan about this search for peace with Taliban that is being..…
In Afghanistan Taliban re-claim new territory daily. Iran's influence has increased due to our policies. ..…
This cooperation has occurred because Moscow claims to be concerned that Islamic State might supplant Taliban Afghanistan Russia regards Taliban as force that is not likely to threaten Central Asia if it enters Afghan government. In other words, and despite Russian to the..…
US-trained forces Afghanistan routed by Taliban, another sign the war is lost cause. US-trained forces Afghanistan routed by Taliban, another sign the war is lost cause US-trained forces Afghanistan... ..…
Ghani is denying Taliban is winning Afghanistan despite continuing wave of deadly militant attacks and signs the militants expanding areas under their control. ... The veteran is making stops Pakistan, Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates and Qatar, where Taliban maintain..…
SIGAR's report further examined the notorious drug Afghanistan, which Taliban have long profited from to finance their bloody militancy in the country that is reported to be producing about 85 percent of the world's opium.. ... Last year, US President Donald Trump decided for American..…
Of course, the fact is there are relatively few such fighters Afghanistan, and Taliban, has neither the capacity or intent to threaten US These folks want to Kandahar not Kalamazoo.. ..…
The economic weapons we use against Iran are not available to us against Taliban because Afghanistan has no economy to speak of and Taliban are receiving so much international support. ... In order to achieve that goal Afghanistan, we will have to deal with Pakistan's..…
The in this series, published seventeen years ago this week, reported on the start of United States's against Taliban Afghanistan. ... Moreover, the diversion from Afghanistan also helped prolong it, as Taliban regrouped and US-led coalition faced accumulating problems. ..…
Over the period, the number of areas under Taliban or insurgent control has risen, according to audit by the Pentagon's Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.. ... -Chinese both Afghanistan and in Middle East could continue. In 2018, even Taliban..…
Video 17 years of Afghanistan Taliban rejects possibility of negotiations with US. ..…
Haynes II, together with Justice Department attorneys, is trying to sort through the legal status of Taliban fighters, .. Complicating matters, Hamed Karzai, interim prime minister of Afghanistan, has drawn distinction between top Taliban leaders - such as Mullah Mohammed Omar -..…
Second, Afghanistan's ruling Taliban offered to hand over al-Qaeda's Osama bin Laden 2001--on the condition that Taliban leaders be provided with evidence of bin Laden's in September 11 attacks, and that bin Laden be handed over to another country for trial.. The Clinton administration..…
The study examines the wars that the US launched since September 11, 2001, first Afghanistan against Taliban then Iraq against Saddam Hussein and, after his fall, against Al Qaeda and then against Islamic State and therefore against Pakistani terrorists.. ..…
Taliban* sees the government of Afghanistan as government controlled by United States of America. ... Nevertheless, Taliban*, that Afghanistan still remains in the hands of United States. ..…
In response to Taliban, the peace marchers decided to camp out in front of the embassies of the foreign powers Afghanistan, to demand end to the war, and they appointed delegation to take their message to Taliban-controlled areas, as well.. ... Rather, Pakistan has to be..…
Afghanistan's Taliban will negotiate with Kabul only according to Russian diplomat.. By other members of bloc led by, Zamir Kabulov, Russia's for Afghanistan, announced Taliban's demands on Monday after hosting international summit on the country's crisis that was..…
U.S government did not invade Afghanistan because Taliban were somehow complicit in the 11 attacks. ... All the chaos, mayhem, death, and destruction Afghanistan for the 16 years is not because Taliban were in some way complicit in the 11 attacks.. ..…
Danesh conceded that Afghanistan continues to face security challenges, particularly from Taliban and growing Islamic State in the country.. ... John Allen, The great challenge to Afghanistan's future is not Taliban or Pakistani safe havens or even Pakistan. ..…
The great challenge to Afghanistan’s future is not the Taliban or Pakistani safe havens or even an incipiently hostile Pakistan. ... Currently, the most prominent and strongest terrorist group in Afghanistan is the Taliban. ..…
WASHINGTON, D.C — The Khorasan, branch of Islamic State in Afghanistan- Pakistan region, has declared victory over Taliban in the recent edition of its magazine, Dabiq.. ... -led NATO Afghanistan, told Pentagon reporters via video conference from Afghanistan Tuesday..…
Russians and their government observe the demonization of their country and their leader of Libya and Qaddafi, of Syria and Assad, and of Afghanistan and Taliban just prior to military assaults on these countries by West. ..…
In Afghanistan, Taliban are the rod of this global historic regression, and they are very close in their principles to America's Christian fundamentalists and Israel's Jewish fundamentalists... ..…
Across Afghanistan, Taliban fighters employed similar this month the capital of the south, and threatened to use it as springboard for attacks on the city. ..…
In the absence of Pakistani military, which was al-Qaida and its Taliban allies have had free rein to launch attacks against our troops Afghanistan and to reestablish terrorist training camps. Soon after Sept., cooperation between U.S military and intelligence agencies and Pakistani..…
American friendly fire kills Canadian Afghanistan. Canadian troops already face fierce Taliban resistance Afghanistan. ..…
President says Taliban does not pose long-term threat to KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban do not pose long-term threat to Afghanistan's, Sunday. Karzai spoke after the release of audio recording of Taliban Mullah Omar saying Afghan government did not have the..…
American in Middle East conflict, has assumed much importance as the administration tries to Arab backing in forcing Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to end their support of Osama bin Laden.. ..…