Press TV July 5, 2017 One US soldier has been killed and two others have been wounded in a fresh attack on foreign forces in southern Afghanistan. The US military said on Wednesday that Hansen B. Kirkpatrick, an army soldier, was killed two days earlier when he and other troops came under indirect fire in Helmand
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 5, 2017 Afghan officials say six civilians have been killed by a roadside bomb in the western province of Farah. Mohammad Naser Mehri, a spokesman for Farah’s provincial governor, said the bomb was detonated in the Momin Abad area of the Shiba Koh district on July 4 as the victims
Tolo News: A U.S. congressional delegation on Tuesday warned that Washington will change its approach towards Pakistan if Islamabad fails to tackle militants effectively. The five-member bipartisan delegation which comprises senator John McCain and fellow senators Lindsey Graham, Elizabeth Warren, David Perdue and Sheldon Whitehouse arrived in Kabul on Tuesday after holding discussions with Pakistani officials
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 3, 2017 Influential U.S. Senator John McCain (Republican-Arizona) says peace in Afghanistan or elsewhere in the region is not possible without the involvement of Pakistan. McCain, a former U.S. presidential candidate, said on July 2 during a visit to Islamabad that “we will not have peace in the region without
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 3, 2017 Afghan officials say at least four Afghan civilians were killed early on July 3 when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in the southern province of Kandahar. Zia Durrani, a spokesman for Kandahar’s provincial police chief, said two women and two men were killed by the explosion
Press TV July 2, 2017 Pakistan’s military has begun erecting fencing along the country’s porous border with Afghanistan in order to stop cross-border infiltration and improve security in the region. According to a high-ranking Pakistani security official, in the first phase, at least 43 border posts have been constructed in the northwestern tribal region along the border. Sixty-three
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 2, 2017 An Afghan official says the Taliban have attacked a local militia, killing 13 pro-government fighters. The local forces were on their way to take part in a security operation when they were ambushed in the Chemtal district of northern Balkh Province, Munir Ahmad Farhad, spokesman for the Balkh
Michael Hughes: Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz claimed that war was simply a continuation of state policy – an instrument to be applied with other means – be they diplomatic, economic or otherwise. It was partly a caution against making military conflict an end in itself, although that is exactly what the United States appears to be
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 1, 2017 Afghan officials say at least 13 militants, including five Islamic State (IS) fighters were killed in air strikes across the country in the past 24 hours. The air strikes took place in southeastern Paktika and northern Jowzjan and Sar-e Pul provinces, the Interior Ministry said in a statement
TRT World:Over the past few years, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai has often lashed out at the US government in the news. He says the US has made mistakes in his country, and he’s struck back at allegations that he’s working behind the scenes to destabilise the government of his successor, Ashraf Ghani. In April, he made