The youth were rightfully feeling disheartened by the ongoing challenges in their country: war, opposing local and foreign groups in conflict, ISIS, Taliban, U.S./NATO forces, capitalism, climate-change related drought, inequality, racism, rhetoric with no action, societal and personal..…

The fact is that even as talks were going on, attacks from both sides continued as usual, leading Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to claim to that the coalition forces had killed 1,000 Taliban fighters in the 10 days. In fact, US NATO forces killed more civilians Afghanistan in the half..…

Bush demanded Taliban arrest bin Laden and hand him over for prosecution under threat of U.S and NATO invasion. ..…

These CIA-backed forces have violated laws of war designed to protect civilians by engaging in torture and killings with near impunity, pushing people toward the Taliban. Central to the US/NATO coalition’s security strategy, these militias carry out approximately seven times as many..…

As US and NATO and then Afghan forces increased in number Taliban strength and attacks increased commensurately. ... As US and NATO forces withdrew from the fighting in 2013 and 2014 the Taliban turned their focus on the Afghan security forces. ..…

Washington and its NATO allies ousted Taliban and brought Hamid Karzai to power, funnelling in billions of dollars of aid to rebuild the war-ravaged country.. ... NATO pulled its combat troops at the end of 2014, with Taliban insurgency raging. ..…

A full peace agreement to end more than 18 years of war would depend on “intra Afghan” talks involving officials and civil society leaders as well as further agreement on issues including the remainder of the roughly 14,000-strong U.S. forces as well as thousands of other NATO troops. . However..…

And finally, just as the US announced it is nearing a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan, a car bomb in Kabul took the lives of ten civilians as well as a US soldier and a Romanian soldier serving under NATO. The Taliban took credit for the attack. The US soldier was the fourth to..…

The Taliban took credit for car bomb that killed two NATO service members, including American, day after U.S officials had the basis for deal with the terrorist group.. ..…

Trump's casual comments about wiping Afghanistan off the map will likely unsettle Afghans, who have fought against the Taliban alongside their U.S. and NATO partners for years. ..…

Talks between Khalilzad and Taliban have focused on U.S and NATO troop withdrawal and guarantees from Taliban that Afghanistan would not again become haven for terrorists to plan global attack like 11. ..…

-backed peace process with Taliban Qatar.. United States has about 14,000 troops Afghanistan as part of NATO-led mission that is training and assisting the security forces in their fight against Taliban militants and other extremist groups such as Islamic State and Al-Qaeda.. ..…

Result of Afghan-Russian war — rise of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda and installation of Taliban regime. . After the Breakup of the Soviet Union . (1) Citing humanitarian reasons, U.S. and NATO intervened in the Libyan, Bosnian and Kosovo conflicts, providing aerial bombardments that..…

Result of Afghan-Russian war — rise of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda and installation of Taliban regime. . After the Breakup of the Soviet Union . (1) Citing humanitarian reasons, U.S. and NATO intervened in the Libyan, Bosnian and Kosovo conflicts, providing aerial bombardments that..…

The Afghanistan Taliban now fighting the US/NATO forces are also Pashtuns, though some non-Pashtuns have also reportedly joined their ranks. ... However those aspects of the psyche and behaviour pattern of Afghans, which are directly relevant to the current Afghanistan Taliban’s..…

While Khalilzad may be able to speak for the US troops and seek to secure US interests, he does not speak for any other party not Afghan, nor the regional stakeholders, nor the countries making up NATO-led mission. In the view of Saleh, 'then Afghan government must be their interlocutor, and not..…

The president promised to withdraw troops from Syria, open negotiations with Taliban Afghanistan, and praised the in spending by NATO allies. ..…

-led NATO troops is on the table after Washington secured earlier assurances from Taliban that they would not allow groups such as al-Qaeda and Islamic State to attack United States and its allies.. ..…

At the peak of NATO in 2011, around Bin Laden was killed Pakistan, there were more than 130,000 soldiers from 50 nations fighting Taliban and building up Afghan army, so it could stand on its own.. ..…

Now it seems only a matter of time until the Taliban will be back in power with the US and allied NATO forces gone. . Richard Haass, a former senior US State Department planner, commented: “The Taliban have concluded that it is only a matter of time before the United States grows..…

Austin Scott Miller, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Miller was one of the Taliban's targets, and while he was uninjured, three Americans in attendance were wounded, and three Afghans were killed. . ..…

The result is disastrous for NATO – as the number of civilian victims increases, so the Taliban gain ground. . ..…

I do know that today it would be very difficult for to survive without our and our coalition partners assistance, noting that Afghan government might crumble under the pressure by Taliban... The death toll for Afghan soldiers has skyrocketed since 2015, when Afghan security forces took over from..…

The US, along with number of fellow-NATO members, invaded Afghanistan in 2001, toppling Taliban in control of most of the country at the time, and it has failed to restore in the country plagued by militancy and terrorism... ..…

According to Guardian, Afghanistan's Nato-led force said Afghan government forces and US advisers came under fire from Taliban fighters in Garmsir district and called in air strike. ..…

The US, along with number of fellow- NATO members, invaded Afghanistan in 2001, toppling Taliban in control of most of the country at the time, and it has failed to restore in the country plagued by militancy and terrorism.. ... By our partners has to be to encourage the, The aim of..…

The top US military officer said while there was no military solution to Afghanistan, Washington and its allies in NATO military alliance were trying to use all their military, political and economic potentials in bid to convince Taliban that it was time to come to the negotiation table.....…

Taliban's resurgence has alarmed Afghan government. Both the US military and NATO have announced plans for sending thousands of additional troops to the country to help check Taliban advances. ..…

The commander of U.S and NATO troops Afghanistan along with Afghan officials have expressed concerns about Russian support to Taliban terrorists fighting American-backed troops.. ... And their narrative goes something like this that Taliban are the ones fighting Islamic State, not Afghan..…

There has been a rise in Taliban-perpetrated violence since the U.S. and NATO forces transitioned from a combat mission to a train, advise, and assist role in January 2015, placing the ANDSF in the lead of security operations. ..…

The report added, Taliban also rushed in to take advantage of the space created by NATO closing hundreds of combat outposts across the country, clawing back hard-won ground in the south, north, and east... ..…

Reportedly, refusal by Taliban Kabul to extradite bin Laden, was the main reason that prompted Americans to launch Afghanistan ... April meeting of NATO Ministers in Estonian capital has reconfirmed that the alliance is determined to pursue policy of Afghanization of the country�s..…

The decision, U.S and NATO officials said, has allowed Taliban to regroup, rearm and recruit at bases in southwestern Pakistan. Violence Afghanistan is at its highest levels since 2001 Taliban and other al-Qaida-allied groups control large swaths of the south and NATO..…

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's surging violence left three Canadian soldiers and 21 suspected Taliban militants Wednesday. NATO was facing escalation of militant operations, and dismissed suicide and bomb attacks as militarily insignificant.. ..…

KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO will double the number of soldiers in southern Afghanistan seeking to quash the violence since Taliban's, NATO force commander said Sunday. ..…