Slate: American officials received persistent, stark warnings that Afghanistan’s entrenched culture of official corruption would undermine their efforts to rebuild that country after the West’s military invasion 15 years ago, according to recently declassified diplomatic cables and internal government reports. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Mohammad Karim Amin, the chairman of Hizb-e-Islami’s peace talk’s delegation said on Sunday night that a delegation of party representatives will soon visit the U.S, but did not outline a timeframe. Amin said the delegation will continue with their peace efforts and will possibly talk with U.S officials over “removing of sanctions” against their leader,
The little-known story of secret negotiations between the Taliban and the US to a build a pipeline through Afghanistan. Al Jazeera: Unocal’s plans were to build two pipelines, one for oil and the other for gas, travelling through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India – a distance of well over 1,700km. Afghanistan was set to earn $400m
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) — Up to nine militants loyal to the extremist Islamic State (IS) outfit were killed as their hideouts were attacked by aircrafts in eastern Afghanistan Friday night, local government official said Saturday. The operations took place in Bandar village of Achin district in Nangarhar province. A vehicle of the armed
Bernard Shusman VOA News October 7, 2016 NEW YORK — Every day in a modest home in Queens, New York, more than 100 women of Afghan descent are crammed into makeshift classrooms. They are learning the basics of life in America, such as getting a driver’s license or reading and writing English, but they also can
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 6, 2016 The Pentagon says dozens of Afghan troops who had been visiting the United States for military training have gone missing since January 2015, presumably to live and work illegally in America. Defense Department spokesman Adam Stump told Reuters that the whereabouts of 44 Afghan troops are unknown. Since
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 5, 2016 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the Taliban to follow the recent example of an Afghan warlord and strike its own peace deal with the Kabul government. Speaking in Brussels at an international donors conference for Afghanistan on October 5, Kerry said that “there is a
Press TV October 5, 2016 The US military says one of its service members has been killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar. “The service member was killed conducting operations with Afghan forces when the patrol triggered an Improvised Explosive Device,” the Pentagon said in a statement on Tuesday. According to
Hasib Danish Alikozai VOA News / October 1, 2016 The international community is looking for signs of progress on key issues ahead of an international conference on Afghanistan in Brussels next week, said Ambassador Richard Olson, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. The European Union and the National Unity government of Afghanistan will
Michael Hughes: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on September 29 consummated a peace agreement with notorious warlord and internationally-designated terrorist Gulbidden Hekmatyar, who is renowned for being the only prime minister in history to bomb his own nation’s capital. The immediate and obvious question is: Why? Why strike a peace deal with an exiled war criminal who