Tolo News: Karzai said US wants to establish permanent bases in Afghanistan to project power in the region, while Pakistan wants to turn Afghanistan into a client state. “In my view their intention is to keep us divided and weak so they can carry on their objectives in this region,” Karzai said. “They have their global politics
William Gallo VOA News February 6, 2018 U.S. lawmakers grilled Trump administration officials Tuesday about the war in Afghanistan, saying the new White House strategy was inconsistent and was not producing results. The comments made at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing reflected growing frustration in Congress about the U.S.-led war, which is entering its
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 6, 2018 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Iran has joined Russia in accusing the United States of aiding Islamic State extremists in Afghanistan, charges Washington vehemently denies. “After witnessing Daesh and other organized terrorist groups losing their ground in Iraq and Syria, they are now relocating them to Afghanistan,” Iranian media quoted the
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 6, 2018 ISLAMABAD — The U.S. military says a new anti-Taliban air campaign has been expanded to northern Afghanistan near the border with China and Tajikistan to destroy insurgent revenue sources, training facilities and support networks. The airstrikes began in November under President Donald Trump’s new Afghan war strategy and initially
Press TV February 5, 2018 The US military is pulling its forces from a base in Iraq and shifting them to Afghanistan following the defeat of Daesh militants in the Arab country, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The news agency quoted Western contractors at the base as saying that US troops began the drawdown over the past week,
VOA News Mohammad Habibzada February 4, 2018 WASHINGTON — Widespread unrest in Afghanistan has kept thousands of children from receiving polio vaccines, Afghan officials claim. “During each polio vaccination drive, we target about 6 million children,” Mir Jan Rasekh, head of the Afghanistan Polio Eradication Public Awareness Program, told VOA. “But due to unrest, fighting, and
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — At least eight insurgents were confirmed dead as warplanes struck Taliban bastion in Wardoj district of Afghanistan’s northern Badakhshan province on Sunday, a local official said. “The warplanes for the first time over the past two years targeted Taliban main stronghold in Chakaran area of Wardoj district today morning killing
Tolo News: The Presidential Palace has said the aim of this is to bring reforms and to make way for younger officers to move up the ranks. Senate defense commission head Hashim Alokozay however said the move to pension off experienced military personnel comes at a bad time, given the fragility of the security situation in
Press TV February 2, 2018 China has been in talks with neighboring Afghanistan to help build a military base there, amid concerns about militants slipping into Chinese territory from the war-torn country, Afghan officials say. The military camp is to be constructed in northeast Afghanistan’s remote and mountainous Wakhan Corridor, where witnesses have reported seeing
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