Press TV April 17, 2017 Afghan people have staged a demonstration in the capital, Kabul, to protest the recent move by the United States to drop its largest bomb, known as the mother of all bombs, in the country. On Thursday evening, Washington dropped its biggest non-nuclear bomb, the so-called GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast
Michael Hughes: ISIS is the primary enemy of external actors while, inside Afghanistan, the Taliban have a higher probability of capturing Kabul and beheading any government officials insane enough not to have fled. Hence, dropping a 21,600 pound bomb on ISIS caves in Nangarhar – as was down by the U.S. on April 13 – does
Ayaz Gul VOA News April 16, 2017 ISLAMABAD — U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster arrived in Kabul Sunday for talks with Afghan leaders on security matters and to assess the situation for American troops on the ground. McMaster’s visit follows calls by U.S. military commanders for adding “a few thousand” more troops to the existing
Press TV April 15, 2017 Afghanistan’s former President Hamid Karzai has slammed the government in Kabul over a recent US bombardment of suspected Daesh terrorists, saying allowing the US military to use its largest conventional bomb in the country was tantamount to treason. “If the government has permitted them to do this, that was wrong
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News April 15, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials say the number of militants known to have been killed by a huge U.S. bomb Thursday has nearly tripled. Officials say at least 92 militants died in the blast – up from 36 reported Friday. The area is still being cleared, so the death toll
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 14, 2017 Washington is planning to skip a conference on reconciliation in Afghanistan that Russia is hosting on April 14, acting U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said. “We don’t plan to participate in these regional talks,” Toner said on April 13. “It was unclear what the purpose was” of
Noor Zahid VOA News April 13, 2017 Afghan religious leaders on Thursday strongly refuted pro-Taliban remarks by a top Pakistani religious and political leader, classifying them as an “intelligence spin.” In response to recent remarks by Maulana Fazl-ur-Rahman, leader of Pakistani’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), a conservative religious party accused of maintaining links with various militant
Press TV April 14, 2017 Afghanistan’s former President Hamid Karzai has blasted the US for dropping its largest non-nuclear bomb in the Asian country, saying Washington is using his country as a “testing ground” for its new weapons. “I vehemently and in strongest words condemn the dropping of the latest weapon, the largest non-nuclear #bomb, on
VOA News April 14, 2017 Afghanistan says a massive bomb dropped Thursday by a U.S. warplane killed 36 members of Islamic State group and destroyed a large cache of weapons. A statement released by the Afghan defense ministry Friday said there were no civilian casualties in this attack. The 10,000-kilogram GBU-43 bomb, known as “the
VOA News April 13, 2017 The U.S. military says it has dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on an Islamic State underground complex in Afghanistan. A Pentagon statement said a GBU-43 bomb was dropped Thursday on an IS tunnel complex in the Achin district of the Nangarhar province near the border with