Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 27, 2019 Jamila Afghani, an Afghan women’s rights activist, says women in her country should have a voice in decisions that affect them and that their concerns must be addressed in any peace deal with the Taliban. “Afghan women must be able to meaningfully participate in decisions that affect them,”
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 27, 2019 At least three police officers have been killed and 12 wounded in a Taliban suicide bombing in Afghanistan. A police spokesman said the July 27 explosion targeted a district police headquarters in southeastern Ghazni Province. He said the Taliban, who control much of the province, used a stolen
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 26, 2019 ISLAMABAD — A key presidential candidate in Afghanistan urged President Donald Trump on Friday to test the U.S. military power against Russia instead of threatening the “oppressed” Afghans. Politicians and the public in the war-ravaged country continue to express their anger at Trump for claiming his military plan,
Tolo News: The ongoing negotiations between the US and the Taliban are a “charade” designed simply to provide the US a “face-saving way out of Afghanistan,” former CIA deputy director Michael Morell said as quoted by Axios. The president [Donald Trump] has said the Taliban is tired. That’s not true. The Taliban controls more territory than at
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 25, 2019 KABUL — More than 50 people have been killed in a wave of attacks across three Afghan provinces, including the capital, Kabul, despite renewed momentum in peace efforts to put an end to the country’s nearly 18-year war. Three blasts in eastern Kabul on July 25 left
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 24, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan say a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-packed vehicle into a NATO military convoy in Kabul Wednesday, killing one Croatian soldier and wounding two others. The early morning attack occurred near a military base on the northern outskirts of the Afghan capital. Croatian officials
Tolo News: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan who is on a three-day visit in Washington said that he will meet with the Taliban after returning to Islamabad and that he will get the group to the negotiation table with the Afghan government. “Taliban delegation wanted to meet me few months back… It is because I always maintained
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 23, 2019 WASHINGTON — Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, is on his way to Kabul at the start of his latest peace mission as the war in the country has heated up in recent weeks. Running through August 1, the trip includes a visit to Qatar and
USA Today: President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States could wipe Afghanistan “off the face of the Earth” in a matter of days but noted that he has chosen instead to draw down U.S. forces after nearly two decades of fighting there. Trump described the duration of the war in Afghanistan as “ridiculous” during his
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 22, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump has held out the possibility of restoring aid to Pakistan as Islamabad is “helping us a lot now” to find a way out of the war in neighboring Afghanistan. Speaking after a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on July 22, Trump said