Tolo News: “The Taliban has never been hit harder than it is being hit right now. Killing 12 people, including one great American soldier, was not a good idea. There are much better ways to set up a negotiation. The Taliban knows they made a big mistake, and they have no idea how to recover!” said
1TV: US presidential hopeful Joe Biden has said that Afghanistan is three countries and it cannot be put together. Speaking at a debate, Democratic Biden, who is a former US vice president, claimed that Pakistan owns three provinces in the east of Afghanistan. “Pakistan owns the three counties — the three provinces in the east. They’re
Press TV September 14, 2019 A team of negotiators from the Afghan Taliban has traveled to Russia days after the collapse of year-long negotiations between the US and the militant group. Taliban’s Qatar-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Russia’s TASS news agency on Friday that the group’s delegation had met with Zamir Kabulov, President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for Afghanistan,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 14, 2019 President Donald Trump says he can now confirm that Hamza bin Laden, the son of the deceased Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, has been killed by a military operation along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. “The loss of Hamza bin Laden not only deprives Al-Qaeda of important leadership skills and
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 13, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told an election rally Friday that more than 2,000 Taliban fighters have been killed over the past week and insisted his elected office is where the insurgent group must come to seek a decisive political settlement to the conflict. Ghani’s assertions came
The Washington Post: Thursday’s democratic debate in Houston took place less than a week after President Trump unexpectedly called off peace talks with the Taliban, following landmark meetings between American and Taliban representatives in Qatar that had raised hopes for an end to nearly 18 years of war in Afghanistan… On Thursday, debate moderator David Muir kicked
Tolo News: A spokesman of the Taliban political office in Qatar, Suhail Shaheen, has said that the US President Donald Trump’s decision to call off negotiations with the group was “surprising” and “astonishing” to the group as they were preparing for the signing of a peace deal which was “finalized in principle” when they heard about
Associated Press: The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday issued a subpoena to the Trump administration’s envoy to the U.S.-Taliban talks, demanding that he testify at an open congressional hearing next week. Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., complained that the Trump administration was keeping Congress and the American people “in the dark” about negotiations
Press TV September 12, 2019 US President Donald Trump has threatened to hit the Taliban harder than ever, following the collapse of peace talks between Washington and the militant group. Speaking at a memorial service marking the September 11, 2001 terror attack, Trump said he stood by his campaign promise to end the 18-year US
By Nafisa Hoodbhoy VOA News September 10, 2019 WASHINGTON – The renewed tension with India has pushed Pakistan to move some of its troops from the border region with Afghanistan to the Indian Line of Control (LOC), leaving fewer resources to contain the cross-border infiltration of militants along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, a senior Pakistani army