In no manner does the government of Afghanistan condone this destructive and divisive debate, ment from Afghan Office of National Security Council said on Thursday.. ..…

Defense Department’s own metrics suggest that Afghanistan’s insurgents are nowhere near losing. ... It can’t win, yet it can’t leave for fear that the government in Kabul would collapse and Afghanistan could once again become an oasis for terrorists who threaten the United..…

Last week, Senator Rand Paul offered an amendment in committee that would withhold all American funding of Afghan forces until a “U.S government watchdog in Afghanistan could verify those forces were not using children as child soldiers or sex slaves.” . ..…

FILE PHOTO Blackwater USA Chief Executive Erik Prince testifies before House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on security contracting Iraq and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill Washington October 2, 2007. ... Trump has prompting fears among some diplomats that he could reverse course..…

Her co-winner, Alexievich, 70, won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature for her portrayal of the lives of Soviet women during World War Two, as well as the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the Soviet military adventure in Afghanistan. . She lived in exile for many years because of her..…