Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News September 2, 2018 U.S. forces in Afghanistan say they targeted and killed the leader of Islamic State Khorasan Province last month in eastern Afghanistan. ISKP is the branch of IS operating in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the vicinity. Abu Sayeed Bajaur, also known as Abu Saad Orakzai, is the third ISKP leader
VOA News Jeff Seldin September 1, 2018 Russia is not giving up on efforts to destabilize Afghanistan and drive divisions between the United States and its coalition partners, according to the outgoing commander of U.S. forces in the country. The commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan and of Operation Resolute Support, General John Nicholson, is scheduled to
Press TV | September 1, 2018: The NATO military alliance has confirmed the arrival of hundreds of British troops to the Afghan capital, Kabul. The deployment was announced in July by British Prime Minister Theresa May.
VOA News | September 1, 2018: The longest-serving NATO commander in Afghanistan is stepping down Sunday. Before his confirmation in 2016, U.S. General John Nicholson told Congress the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan has “largely defined” his service. Nicholson has served about six years in the war-torn country since Sept. 11, 2001, and, as VOA Pentagon correspondent
Ariana: The U.S. military and intelligence officials are at odds over the direction of the war in Afghanistan, creating a new source of friction as President Trump and his team seek a way to end the 17-year-old conflict in the country, the Wall Street Journal reported citing American officials. An escalation in U.S. airstrikes has failed
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 31, 2018 Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has killed five border police and wounded three others in the eastern province of Nangarhar. Attullah Khoghyani, spokesman for Nangarhar’s provincial governor, told RFE/RL that a vehicle was carrying the police officers when the bomb was detonated on August 30 in the
VOA News August 30, 2018 WASHINGTON / NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Since the beginning of 2018, Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province has experienced more than 70 terror attacks, killing 260 and injuring over 500, according to an Afghan watchdog organization that monitors violence and civilian casualties around the country. A large number of those killings have been the
Brad Taylor via Bloomberg: Erik Prince thinks 6,000 mercenaries can do what 110,000 troops could not. That’s a deadly mistake. Taking a close look Blackwater’s role in Iraq shows why: profit over policy. While the company was initially formed with vetted Navy SEALs, over time the need to ramp up operations led to the firm
MOSCOW, August 30 (Sputnik) – Five officers of the Afghan Border Police Force were killed in a roadside mine explosion in the country’s eastern province of Nangarhar on Thursday, Afghan media reported, citing local officials. The incident took place at about 11:30 a.m. local time (07:00 GMT), when a border police car hit the mine
Tolo News: “Pakistan and Pakistan’s military were involved in the plan to attack Ghazni; Pakistan provided all sufficient aid to them and it’s very clear,” said MoI spokesman Najib Danish. “There has been an intelligence weakness in Ghazni,” said Mohammad Radmanish, deputy spokesman for the ministry of defense. Prior to the attack, Afghan security officials visited