The negotiators appear to avert their gaze despite the recurrent harm to their interests and, not least, to their soldiers (as in the attack on the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, the help given the Shiites in attacking U.S. forces in Iraq, the aid to the Taliban in Afghanistan , the subversion..…
AQ's global network includes remnants of Afghanistan and Pakistan, al-Nusrah Front Syria, other AQ-linked extremists Syria, AQ in Arabian Peninsula, AQ in Islamic Maghreb, Jama'at Nusrat al- Islam wal- Muslimin, al-Shabaab, and AQ in Indian Subcontinent.. ..…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said President Hassan Rouhani plans to invite all Arab states of the Persian Gulf, including Saudi Arabia, to join Tehran’s peace initiative, called “Coalition for Hope: Hormuz Peace Endeavor'. . . . . Afghan Anti-Taliban Raid..…
Ghani, lashed out at the Taliban’s political office in Qatar, saying that the group had shown no commitment to peace despite having protection in the Gulf country and freedom of movement. . “The Taliban’s honeymoon in Qatar needs to be ended,” Mr. Sediqqi said. . . ..…
Yes, Assad is monster and what of Nusra Front and the even more Islamic State — are they not equally deplorable, and, frankly, more of transnational threat to U.S.. ..…
The following year, U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke conveyed a similar message to Saudi officials, telling them that “private donations from the Gulf were the chief source of Taliban financing.” . ..…
The fact that Afghans have continued to resist the invaders, despite the overwhelming military force opposing them, is inspiration, to the other resistance forces in West and Muslim world, and to Gulf Arabs. ... reality it's keeping Taliban alive, gambling on the eventual collapse of..…
Bush, in 2004, which brought within the jurisdiction of the federal courts the hundreds of prisoners who had been captured as enemy combatants during the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan and held at the United States Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. . ..…
Last week, US envoy to the peace talks with Taliban militants Zalmay Khalilzad described the latest round of the negotiations held in Persian Gulf state of Qatar as the most productive session... ..…
Sunday, Pompeo said Iran was behind the attacks on the tankers in the Gulf of Oman and that Tehran instigated an attack that injured four U.S. soldiers in Kabul though the Taliban claimed responsibility. . ..…
Sunday, Pompeo said Iran was behind the attacks on the tankers in the Gulf of Oman and that Tehran instigated an attack that injured four U.S. soldiers in Kabul though the Taliban claimed responsibility. . ..…
Rather than going to the Afghan people, writes Horton, such funds end up in “corrupt officials’ private bank accounts in the Persian Gulf.” . Or worse: Sometimes they finance the Taliban, the very enemy the U.S. military is ostensibly trying to defeat once and for all. ..…
Some believe (or at least hope) that if Iraqis and Afghans create solid institutions, they can learn to fend for themselves against groups such as the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) or the Taliban. The same capacity-building strategies have shaped U.S. relations with its Gulf Arab..…
Those talks included Khairullah Khairkhwa, the former Taliban autocrat of the western Afghan city of Herat, and Mohammad Fazel, a former Taliban militant leader. . Both Taliban figures were among the five that the Obama administration released from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2014 in..…
The report comes amid efforts to find a peaceful end to the 17-year war, which have accelerated since the appointment in September of US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is to begin another round of talks with the Taliban on Monday in the Gulf state of Qatar, where they maintain a political..…
And just like the last time, in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, the elected, internationally backed Afghanistan government was left on the sidelines, fuming. . . . Taliban representatives, after six days of talks with Trump administration officials during which the two sides discussed a..…
Presumably the United States should occupy Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, most of the Gulf, and the Balkans, at least. . Moreover, the Taliban is Washington’s enemy only because Washington is there. ..…
Suhail Shaheen, spokesman for Taliban's in Gulf Arab state of Qatar, confirmed the participation. ..…
Iran’s military spending as a percentage of GDP is among the lowest in the Middle East, and less than half of that of Israel, even though its population is ten times greater.41 But by taking down both Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, the U.S. effectively made Iran the dominant power in the Persian..…
I think that at the beginning they were arrogant, said Sohail Shaheen, Taliban spokesman, referring to American-led armies that toppled Taliban 2001, attacks, Osama bin Laden... Shaheen spoke to NBC News Doha, the capital of Gulf Arab of Qatar, where U.S and Taliban negotiators..…
However, under the circumstances where even the US, not to mention other parties, have already had discussions with the Taliban (in the US case, bilateral meetings in the Gulf), India is hard-pressed not to attend lest its interests become marginalized as a result of its absence. . ..…
For example, almost 800 men and boys were rendered to further US detention at Guantánamo Bay. . At the time of their transfer, these prisoners were referred to as “Taliban and al-Qaeda captives.” ..…
They include Taliban fighters being held at U.S naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and several top al-Qaida figures in undisclosed locations around the world.. ..…
The plan to knock the internet offline and isolate the in the villa had backfired, effectively giving al-Shabaab early warning that SEALs were on their way.. ..…
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee and former Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan, Abdul Rauf Khadim, was named the deputy governor. . ..…
Rauf is a former senior Taliban commander who spent six years in the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay after being captured by American forces in 2001, BBC reports. . ..…
Keeping the Taliban at bay, he said, will be a “difficult task” unless the U.S. continues to provide more fire power, he said. . The Taliban staged attacks on Afghan army troops in Kabul on Wednesday and Thursday, killing 10 soldiers. ..…
Bowe Bergdahl -- a possible deserter -- in return for the release of five dangerous Taliban detainees who had been held in Guantanamo Bay. ..…
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is considering gambit to restart peace talks with Taliban Afghanistan that would send Taliban detainees from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Afghanistan, U.S and Afghan officials told The Associated Press.. Under the proposal, some..…
He ordered the removal of supposed 9-11 mastermind Mullah Muhammed Omar from Federal Bureau of Investigation Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, releasing Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay and promising them in Afghanistan government.. ... The first condition was the unilateral release..…
Al-Fayfi, who is in his mid-30s, had been captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan following the 2001 toppling of the Taliban there. He was held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, until early 2007, when he was released to Saudi Arabia. ..…
It's almost as perverse as the Bush administration's decision to eliminate Iran's two great enemies in the Gulf, Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan. ..…
Pentagon has plans for tribunals and chamber for suspected al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists American at Guantanamo Bay naval base Cuba, where about 680 other detainees captured during Afghanistan are held. ..…
Robinson, 57, had expressed concern over what she termed the disproportionate number of civilian casualties in U.S air strikes Afghanistan and the treatment of Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners held by United States at Guantanamo Bay Cuba.. ..…
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