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Pentagon Raises Eyebrows With ‘In-Your-Face’ Afghanistan Tweets

18th May, 2018 · admin · 5 Comments

Taliban fighters on the run following Afghan-led offensive in #Farah province, #Afghanistan. Video shows U.S. airpower (MQ-9s) in support. #AFGStrong #ForAFG @ResoluteSupport @MoDAfghanistan @DeptofDefense @usairforce pic.twitter.com/NxXNJMgRkE — USForces Afghanistan (@USFOR_A) May 16, 2018 William Gallo VOA News May 17, 2018 WASHINGTON — The black-and-white aerial footage shows a line of purported Taliban insurgents slowly walking along

Afghanistan Attacks Threaten Health System Gains

18th May, 2018 · admin

Reuters: Deteriorating security is forcing Afghanistan to spend more money on trauma care, rather than investing in women and children’s health, its health minister said Thursday. Click here to read more (external link).

My week with John ‘Mick’ Nicholson, Trump’s top general in Afghanistan

17th May, 2018 · admin · 3 Comments

Al Jazeera: It was in my first year in Afghanistan that I first met John ‘Mick’ Nicholson, then a Lieutenant General working on US policy in Kabul, but a soldier who knew what was going on at the sharp end of the conflict having fought in the deadly Korengal Valley. Mick, as he was happy

Pakistan Envoy: No Country Can Accuse Us of Not Taking Action Against Terrorists

17th May, 2018 · admin · 3 Comments

Madeeha Anwar VOA News May 16, 2018 WASHINGTON — Pakistan is the one country in the region that has done the most against terrorism, and no country can accuse Pakistan of not doing enough against terrorism and extremism, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s outgoing ambassador to the U.S., told VOA. “Al-Qaida, if you don’t hear about it

Afghan Forces ‘Push Back Taliban’ From Western City Of Farah

16th May, 2018 · admin · 3 Comments

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 16, 2018 Afghan government forces have pushed back the Taliban from Farah city, the capital of Farah Province in western Afghanistan, close to the Iranian border, Afghan officials say. The attack, the first major assault targeting a provincial capital since the Taliban announced its annual spring offensive, began early on

Residents of Helmand Begin 400-mile Walk to Kabul

16th May, 2018 · admin

VOA News / May 15, 2018: A grass-roots movement for peace by some residents that began in April as a sit-in in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province now has become a march for peace from Helmand to capital city, Kabul. The group has reached neighboring Kandahar province where it told reporters their calls for peace are

China Tries to Bring Pakistan, Afghanistan Closer

16th May, 2018 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News May 15, 2018 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — China has proposed hosting a new round of three-way talks with Pakistan and Afghanistan this month to continue with its diplomatic push in helping the two neighboring countries improve their strained bilateral ties. Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing told an unofficial conference of government representatives

Government Forces, Taliban Battling In Farah City In Western Afghanistan

15th May, 2018 · admin · 5 Comments

RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan May 15, 2018 Afghan and NATO warplanes have bombed Taliban positions after insurgents attacked Farah city, the capital of Farah Province in western Afghanistan, close to the Iranian border, Afghan officials say. The attack — the first major assault targeting a provincial capital since the Taliban announced its annual spring offensive

Gunmen Storm Afghan Government Building, Killing 9

13th May, 2018 · admin · 1 Comment

Ayaz Gul VOA News May 13 ,2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials say a group of gunman, including suicide bombers, stormed a government building in the eastern Nangarhar province Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding 39 others. A government spokesman told VOA the attack in the provincial capital of Jalalabad began with a suicide car

Clerics: Terrorism in Afghanistan Violates Islam

13th May, 2018 · admin

Nafees Takar VOA News May 12, 2018 Religious scholars from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indonesia declared terrorism and suicide attacks in Afghanistan and the region as unethical and against the principles of Islam as they gathered at a one-day conference in Bogor, Indonesia, to address violence in Afghanistan. Friday’s conference was held months after more than

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Pentagon Raises Eyebrows With ‘In-Your-Face’ Afghanistan Tweets

Afghanistan Attacks Threaten Health System Gains

My week with John ‘Mick’ Nicholson, Trump’s top general in Afghanistan

Pakistan Envoy: No Country Can Accuse Us of Not Taking Action Against Terrorists

Afghan Forces ‘Push Back Taliban’ From Western City Of Farah

Residents of Helmand Begin 400-mile Walk to Kabul

China Tries to Bring Pakistan, Afghanistan Closer

Government Forces, Taliban Battling In Farah City In Western Afghanistan

Gunmen Storm Afghan Government Building, Killing 9

Clerics: Terrorism in Afghanistan Violates Islam