Ayaz Gul VOA News June 19, 2018 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A high-powered Afghan security delegation visited neighboring Pakistan on Tuesday for official talks on how to jointly push peace and reconciliation efforts in Afghanistan. Haneef Atmar, the Afghan national security advisor, led the team, which included the interior minister and the head of the Afghan spy
WASHINGTON, June 19 (Sputnik) – The nominee to take over as commander of the US-NATO mission in Afghanistan, Lt. General Austin Miller, said during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday that withdrawing forces from the war-torn country would be inimical to American national security interests. “My personal opinion is that withdrawal would have negative effects for
The Hill: Saber Rock appeared Tuesday morning on “Rising” on Hill.TV, where he accused the Afghanistan government of “censoring the facts” about the war to the U.S. He encouraged the U.S. to “stop supporting the fraud government of Afghanistan.” He added that the U.S. has remained loyal to one particular group in its 17-year war on the Taliban.
Mohammad Habibzada VOA News June 18, 2018 WASHINGTON — The Afghan Taliban attacked security forces in at least nine provinces Monday, making good on a threat to resume fighting, even as the government extended by 10 days a unilateral cease-fire. “The cease-fire was violated in some parts of the country, during which 12 of our soldiers
MOSCOW, June 18 (Sputnik) – Two militants affiliated with the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, outlawed in Russia) have been killed and one injured in an airstrike carried out by the Afghan forces in the country’s eastern Kunar province, local media reported Monday, citing the Afghan Defense Ministry. The airstrike was carried out in response
Press TV June 17, 2018 A bomb attack has killed at least 32 people in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar amid an announcement by the Taliban militants that they would not extend their temporary ceasefire with Afghan security forces and that fighting would resume in the crisis-hit country. The deadly explosion occurred outside the governor’s office
Bloomberg: “Black Hawks do not have the lift capability” of the Russian aircraft, [Pentagon Inspector] Fine wrote. The helicopters also “are unable to accommodate some of the larger cargo items the Mi-17 can carry, and in general it takes almost two Black Hawks to carry the load of a single Mi-17,” [Pentagon Inspector] Fine said. “Unlike
MOSCOW, June 17 (Sputnik) -The number of casualties after suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s Nanagarhar Province on Saturday has reached 36, local media reported on Sunday, citing officials. On Saturday, the explosion hit Rodat district of Nanagarhar province where a gathering of Taliban and Afghan security forces celebrating the ceasefire on the occasion of the Eid
MOSCOW, June 17 (Sputnik) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on all the parties to the conflict in Afghanistan to take steps to prevent efforts to ruin peace process in the crisis-torn state, the press service of the UN chief said in a statement. On Saturday, media reported that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said that
Michael Hughes: A U.S. drone operator amid the first ceasefire Afghanistan has ever witnessed decided to launch a projectile into Kunar province to vaporize a morally repugnant Pakistani Taliban leader. The point, however, is not whether the mission succeeded or if he on the receiving end of the strike were target-worthy. The point is what was