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President Donald Trump and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani have voiced support for US companies developing Afghanistan’s vast trove of minerals, in what Trump sees as payment for the US’s role in the drawn out war. The two leaders met in New York on Thursday, where they discussed how American companies can help “quickly develop Afghanistan’s […]
A government watchdog tasked with studying the effects of reconstruction in Afghanistan finds US forces to be ill-equipped to train the Afghan National Police. One military official even used “Cops” to learn law enforcement techniques. The title of the critical review, issued by the special inspector general for reconstruction (SIGAR), is “Reconstructing the Afghan National […]
Thomson Reuters KABUL (Reuters) – A leaked memo from an staff member in Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s office this week has set off a storm of criticism and accusations that the note lays bare systematic favoritism to Ghani’s own Pashtun ethnic group. The undated memo, about appointments in the Administrative Office of the President (AOP), […]
British troops could once again march into the ‘graveyard of empires’ as US President Donald Trump packs on the pressure for a coalition surge in Afghanistan – despite a yawning black hole in Britain’s defense budget. Prime Minister Theresa May is under pressure to follow the White House U-turn on ending ‘the good war’ in […]
Published time: 22 Aug, 2017 02:06 Edited time: 22 Aug, 2017 02:39 Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the US is ready to help negotiate a peace deal between Taliban militants and the Afghan government that would give the Taliban “political legitimacy.” Read more “Our new strategy breaks from previous approaches that set artificial calendar-based […]
Donald Trump is expected to announce his long-overdue military strategy for Afghanistan Monday evening according to the White House. Trump made a decision after a “sufficiently rigorous” review process, defense secretary Jim Mattis confirmed. The president will “provide an update on the path forward for America’s engagement in Afghanistan and South Asia” at 9pm (ET) […]
Caught between the Taliban, Islamic State and US airstrikes, Afghan civilians have been forced to flee their homes to the outskirts of Jalalabad, where they found refuge inside an unfinished university building. Around 1,500 internally displaced people (IDPs), including hundreds of women and children, are now seeking refuge in the area, many of them from […]
Clearly frustrated by the Pentagon’s ineffective strategies, Donald Trump has vowed to fire some of his top generals and aggressively gain ground in Afghanistan. But will the US president be able to prevail in a 16-year war where his two predecessors failed? Dragging on longer than the Vietnam and Iraq campaigns, Afghanistan is becoming yet […]
REUTERS/Omar Sobhani KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Helmand provincial police chief says an errant U.S. airstrike confirmed by the Pentagon killed 12 Afghan National Police personnel and wounded two others. Abdul Ghafar Safi said Saturday the death toll in Friday’s airstrike was determined after a site inspection of the compound in Gereshk District of Helmand province. The […]
Thomson Reuters Even by Trump standards, the optics were bad. Six Afghan girls and their chaperone were denied entry to the United States—twice!—where they were scheduled to take part in the FIRST Robotics Challenge in Washington. Denying this team of teenagers the opportunity to participate in a robotics competition seemed indefensible, making them poster girls […]
