Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News March 1, 2020 Less than 24 hours after the United States signed a landmark agreement with the Afghan Taliban in Doha, its implementation has already hit its first speedbump. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced in Kabul Sunday that his government has made no commitment to release thousands of Taliban prisoners, a
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 1, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump says American troops will “immediately” begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan following the signing of a historic agreement with the Taliban that could end the country’s 18-year war. “Today — They will start immediately,” Trump told reporters at the White House on February 29 when
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 29, 2020 ISLAMABAD – The United States and the Taliban signed a landmark agreement Saturday in Doha, Qatar, setting the stage for ending a nearly 19-year-old war in Afghanistan and bringing back home thousands of American troops deployed there. U.S. chief negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the
The Washington Post: On Saturday night — right at midnight — the United States’ agreement with the Afghan Taliban is scheduled to take effect. While the agreement says the United States will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, we know nothing of what it says about military contractors. But contractors have provided the lion’s share of
Tolo News: Foreign ministers and representatives of almost 30 countries and international organizations in the region arrived in Doha on Friday to attend a planned signing ceremony for the US-Taliban deal, according to the political office of the Taliban in Qatar. The signing is expected to happen on Saturday following a so-far successful weeklong period
Press TV February 27, 2020 The current situation in Afghanistan is very similar to what transpired in Vietnam prior to the US withdrawal, says Professor Dennis Etler, an American political analyst who has a decades-long interest in international affairs. Etler, a professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, made the remarks in an
TRT: … Pakistan is “the main actor” in the ongoing Taliban talks because “key people” participating in the negotiations are “under the influence of Pakistan”. Some of the exiled Taliban leaders have allegedly lived in Pakistan since the US occupation of Afghanistan. In the wake of the Taliban talks, Pakistan quietly released Mullah Abdul Ghani
1TV: Top US military leaders claimed ignorance on whether a peace agreement expected to be signed on Saturday contains secret annexes. Earlier, Time magazine reported that the deal contains secret annexes including on US keeping counterterrorism forces in Afghanistan. Click here to read more (external link). Related 48 hours to hold US-Taliban peace agreement signing
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 26, 2020 ISLAMABAD – A bombing in the Afghan capital, Kabul, Wednesday injured at least nine civilians, the first significant incident of violence during the weeklong reduced fighting period agreed to between U.S.-backed Afghan security forces and Taliban insurgents. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said the improvised explosive device
Al Jazeera: Two decades after its invasion of Afghanistan, the United States has come to the inevitable conclusion that it must end its military intervention there. The Americans may have finally learned their history lesson: all empires, from the Persian and the Mongol to the British and Soviet, have suffered defeat in Afghanistan. It is