Tolo News: The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an interview with ABC news said that the civil war in Afghanistan is in “no one’s interest.” “Ultimately, it is in no one’s interest in Afghanistan, whether it’s the Taliban or anyone else and certainly not the people of Afghanistan, for the country to descend
1TV: Former US President Donald Trump slammed the Biden administration on Sunday for delaying withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Biden earlier this week announced that he will withdraw US troops from Afghanistan by September 11. This comes as the US-Taliban agreement signed during Trump era requires the withdrawal to be completed by May 1.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 17, 2021 The U.S. military is likely to increase its troop presence in Afghanistan temporarily in order to ensure a safe withdrawal of all forces from the country by September 11, the Pentagon said on April 16. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby declined to provide specifics, but said that troops currently
Tolo News: The last two decades of conflicts in Afghanistan has taken tens of thousands of lives from civilians to security force members and from international troops to the Taliban. Figures by Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission indicate that 31,113 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in the past 13 years and 62,662 more were wounded.
The Guardian (UK): The longest, most pointless and unsuccessful war that Britain has fought in the past 70 years – its intervention in Afghanistan – is to end in September. I doubt anyone will notice. Nations celebrate victories, not defeats. What has the US and UK intervention achieved? The military theorist Gen Sir Rupert Smith,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 16, 2021 Human Rights Watch (HRW) is urging the United States to commit to expanded support for human rights in Afghanistan amid what it calls “fears of increased insecurity” fueled by its announced plan to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan later this year. The U.S. government “should boost assistance for
Michael Hughes AOPNEWS | April 15, 2021 *Breaking News* The US military will be able to focus more resources on perceived challenges in the Indo-Pacific region after exiting Afghanistan, a senior Biden administration official told reporters on Thursday. Biden, in a major address on Wednesday, announced that U.S. troops would exit Afghanistan by September 11,
Steve Herman VOA News April 15, 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit Thursday to Kabul where he told Afghan leaders that while the United States will soon begin withdrawing its remaining troops from the country, it remains committed to Afghanistan. “The partnership is changing, but the partnership is enduring,” Blinken said as
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 14, 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says it is time for the United States and its NATO allies to withdraw from Afghanistan as U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to announce the withdrawal of U.S. troops by September 11 — 20 years to the day after the Al-Qaeda attacks
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 13, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden will withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks, sources told The Washington Post and Reuters. The decision, which Biden is expected to announce on April 14, will bring an end to America’s longest war. The