Press TV August 27, 2017 At least 13 people have been killed and several more injured in a Taliban bombing attack on a convoy of troops in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. “A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-filled car as the Afghan National Army convoy passed a small market in Nawa District of Helmand,” said the spokesman
Noor Zahid VOA News / August 27, 2017 WASHINGTON — U.S. forces in Afghanistan have once again vowed to defeat the Islamic State militant group. the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan told VOA. “We can defeat and will defeat IS in the future,” General John Nicholson, commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, told
The Washington Post: “Nation-building” has become something of a lightning rod in foreign policy for both parties. Obama often said that “nation-building begins at home.” There is not a great rhetorical distance from that narrative to “Make America Great Again.” In reality, nation-building is the only strategy that is likely to produce the elusive exit from
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News August 26, 2017 Afghan officials raised the death toll from a suicide attack on a Shi’ite mosque in Kabul Friday to at least 28 people.More than 50 others were wounded during Friday prayers. Women, children and two police officers were among the victims. Mourners gathered Saturday to bury the dead inside
Press TV August 25, 2017 A bomber has set off his explosives at a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and other assailants have stormed the building, killing at least 20 people. The Daesh Takfiri terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack that took place when many Muslim worshipers had gathered at the mosque for Friday
Press TV August 25, 2017 The best case scenario for peace in Afghanistan is the withdrawal of US forces from the country and multilateral negotiations between main stakeholders — Iran, Pakistan, Russia, and China — to establish a consensus government, Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan says. Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party,
Steve Herman VOA News August 24, 2017 WHITE HOUSE — Russian and U.S. officials traded accusations on Thursday over their respective policies in Afghanistan, pointing fingers of blame at each other. In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed regret that the main focus of U.S. President Donald Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy is “regulation by methods
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 24, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan, in its formal comprehensive response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s South Asia strategy, rejected allegations it is harboring Taliban insurgents who are staging deadly attacks against American forces in Afghanistan. The rebuttal was issued Thursday after a meeting the National Security Committee of top civilian and
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 24, 2017 Terrorist attacks have riveted attention in the United States and Europe, but those regions accounted for only a tiny percentage of fatalities from such attacks last year, a new report has found. The report issued on August 23 from the University of Maryland and based on its Global
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 23, 2017 In an address to the nation, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has hailed the new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan and called on neighboring Pakistan to change its approach toward his country, saying an unstable Afghanistan does not benefit anyone. Ghani said on August 23 that the new U.S. strategy