Ayaz Gul VOA News November 17, 2018 ISLAMABAD — The U.S. special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, has held another round of marathon discussions with Qatar-based Taliban officials to push for a politically negotiated settlement to the 17-year war. Khalilzad’s three days of meetings with the Islamist insurgency concluded on Friday and both sides were
“We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.” -Lord Palmerston, speech in House of Commons, 1848 Michael Hughes November 16, 2018 The Russian government escalated its involvement in the 21st Century’s version of the Great Game by
Press TV November 16, 2018 A study has revealed that the United States has spent nearly $6 trillion on wars that directly contributed to the deaths of about half a million people since the September 11, 2001 attacks. The “Costs of War” study was conducted by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
By Freshta Shikhani and Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 15, 2018 The mountain paths leading out of Jaghori, a district in the remote highlands of central Afghanistan, teem with trucks and cars crammed with men, women, and children. Despite freezing conditions, others make the journey by foot, trudging alongside the hastily formed convoys
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 15, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Fresh Taliban attacks have killed more than 40 government troops in Afghanistan’s western Farah province, which borders Iran. Officials said Thursday most of the casualties occurred in the embattled Bala Buluk district where insurgents staged a major offensive against a police base late at night. A top
The Hill: The situation in Afghanistan is murky no longer – because it has, to a large extent, spiraled out of control. Rather than seeking a win-win scenario in which the United States might forge a deal with the Taliban for a more peaceful country, U.S. officials instead seem hell-bent on delivering to the Taliban everything
1TV: Tadeen Khan, the acting police chief of Kandahar province, has promised revenge after his brother General Abdul Raziq was assassinated last month. “You did it for Punjab (Pakistan’s ISI) as you bear the burden of serving them,” Khan told 1TV of the killing which was claimed by the Taliban. “I am warning them that we
Tolo News: Heads of Afghanistan’s security institutions on Wednesday rejected claims that the battles in Uruzgan and Ghazni provinces, and others, were an “ethnic war”, but said that regional countries and terrorists are trying to manipulate these battles in order for them to look like this. Interior minister Wais Ahmad Barmak said regional intelligence agencies and insurgent
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 12, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Russia said Monday the Taliban has secretly held 10 rounds of talks with the United States, other than the officially announced recent contact between the two sides in Qatar on how to end the war in Afghanistan. There have been only two publicly known meetings U.S. officials
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan November 12, 2018 Dozens of people have been killed in violence across Afghanistan, including in a suicide bombing in Kabul targeting a protest by members of the mainly Shi’ite Hazara minority, officials say. The Islamic State (IS) militant group claimed responsibility for the suicide blast on November 12 that killed at