Mohammad Habibzada VOA News November 21, 2018 An increase in casualties among Afghan military and police forces has prompted the Afghan government to intensify military campaigns against the Taliban and other militant groups, Afghan security officials say. Last week, Taliban insurgents killed and wounded about 80 members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 21, 2018 Afghan authorities are working to identify those responsible for a suicide bombing that killed at least 55 people and wounded scores more who were attending a religious gathering in Kabul. The victims included religious scholars from all over Afghanistan, invited by the Ulema Council to celebrate the birth
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan November 20, 2018 A suicide bombing at a large gathering of Afghan religious clerics in Kabul has killed at least 40 people, officials says. Health Ministry spokesman Wahid Majrooh told RFE/RL that another 60 people were wounded in the November 20 blast, which targeted a gathering at a wedding hall
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 20, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan summoned Tuesday the top U.S. diplomat in the country to formally protest President Donald Trump’s allegations that Islamabad had sheltered al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, despite receiving billions of dollars in U.S. assistance. Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua told American charge d’affairs Paul Jones that Trump’s “baseless
Press TV November 19,2018 The Taliban militant group says it has failed to reach any agreement with the United States after three days of talks in Qatar, citing dissatisfaction with a deadline set by Washington’s Afghanistan envoy to end the war. The Taliban leaders met US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad at their political headquarters in
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 19, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan sharply criticized President Donald Trump Monday for questioning Pakistan’s anti-terror efforts, saying Washington is making Islamabad “a scapegoat” for U.S. “failures” in Afghanistan. In an interview that aired Sunday on the U.S. network Fox News, Trump defended his decision to withhold hundreds
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 18, 2018 U.S. General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Taliban “are not losing” and there is no “military solution” to ending the war in Afghanistan. Dunford’s remarks came amid U.S. and Afghan attempts to launch peace talks with the Taliban, which controls more territory
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan: Afghan police officers who have lost legs in the line of duty have returned to their unit to fight the Taliban in Uruzgan Province. But some officers say they haven’t been paid their salaries or received any medical support.
IPD: As Washington seeks to stabilize the situation in Afghanistan, it has sought various avenues to change the course of the war. Despite exhausting a variety of resources and billions of dollars, Washington’s policies have yet to address the root cause of the war: Pakistan’s pivotal role in the Taliban’s insurgency. Instead, Washington has acknowledged Pakistan’s
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 17, 2018 The death toll among Afghanistan’s security forces since 2015 is close to 29,000, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has revealed, providing a figure far higher than anything previously acknowledged by the government. Ghani disclosed the figure during a video appearance this week before the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies