Ayaz Gul VOA News July 4, 2019 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Pakistan announced Thursday Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit Washington for talks with President Donald Trump on July 22. Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal said Khan is undertaking the visit at the invitation of Trump. “The agenda of the meeting is being developed through diplomatic
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 2, 2019 KABUL — An all-Afghan peace summit has been set for July 7-8, although the talks in Qatar will apparently be held without the official participation of the Afghan government. The summit was announced on July 1 as negotiators from the United States and the Taliban were trying
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 2, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump has described Afghanistan as a “lab for terrorists,” saying in a television interview that if the United States withdrew its military forces from the country, he would still leave a “very strong intelligence” presence behind. “I call it the Harvard of terrorists,” Trump said
Michael Hughes: Members of the Taliban and Afghan government are supposedly set to begin negotiations within the next two weeks but it is hard to imagine how they will overcome what appear to be irreconcilable differences over the very nature and structure of the country’s future political system. Taliban officials have openly stated they refuse to
Press TV July 1, 2019 Scores of people have been wounded with fatalities feared after a bomb-laden truck rocked Kabul, followed by gunmen battling special forces in an area housing military and government buildings. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the rush-hour explosion early Monday, which sent a plume of smoke into the air above the Puli Mahmood Khan neighborhood
Press TV June 30, 2019 American forces in Afghanistan tied to the 82nd US Airborne Division will become the first infantry Army battalion to employ pocket-sized drones on their impending deployment to the war-torn country. Soldiers with the Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat team were issued Black Hornet Personal Reconnaissance System in the spring and received training
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan June 30, 2019 KABUL — U.S. and Taliban negotiators are holding a new round of talks in Qatar to try to put an end to the war in Afghanistan, amid continued attacks by the militant group on Afghan officials and security forces. The seventh round of talks with Zalmay Khalilzad,
Ayaz Gul VOA News June 29, 2019 ISLAMABAD – The Taliban has killed dozens of government forces in its latest battlefield attacks in Afghanistan as the insurgent group opens a new round of peace negotiations with the United States in Qatar to discuss a political settlement to the deadly Afghan war. Officials in northern Baghlan
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 29, 2019 Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. peace envoy for Afghanistan, is opening a new round of talks with the Taliban in Doha as Washington bids to speed up the process to end the 18-year conflict in the war-torn country. Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the Taliban’s political office in Doha,
The New York Times: The New York Times obtained a rare copy of that draft constitution — a 14-page document that was confirmed by people close to the Taliban, including some former officials who worked on the draft. It remains the only known official codification of the movement’s political vision. The draft shows flashes of sophistication,