Ayaz Gul VOA News October 28, 2021 ISLAMABAD — The United States announced Thursday it is providing nearly $144 million in new humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, where millions of people could face acute hunger this winter unless aid arrives soon. National Security Council spokesperson Emily Horne said in a statement the U.S. assistance will be directed
Javid Ahmad via WSJ: The collapse of the Afghan republic was no accident. It was the culmination of many collective failures, but at the heart of the tragedy was the role played by one country: Pakistan. Pakistan has long followed a dual-track approach in Afghanistan, hosting the Taliban on its soil while ostensibly working as
8am: The foreign minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, has warned of the military presence of the United States in the region, calling on the neighboring countries of Afghanistan not to permit US military base and NATO on their soil. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 28, 2021 A U.S. senator and veteran of the war in Iraq has proposed the creation of a nonpartisan commission to examine every aspect of the war in Afghanistan. Senator Tammy Duckworth (Democrat-Illinois) on October 27 touted the Afghanistan War Commission Act, which would establish an independent commission to look
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News October 27, 2021 ISLAMABAD — Zalmay Khalilzad, the senior U.S. official who led the negotiations with the Taliban, blamed, for the most part, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s “intransigence,” the Afghan elite’s “selfishness” and Afghan soldiers’ lack of will to fight for the rapid Taliban military takeover of the country in August. “We
Press TV October 27, 2021 Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi has expressed grief over the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, saying the United States is certainly involved in the ongoing insecurity in the war-torn country. Raeisi made the remarks during separate meetings with the visiting foreign ministers of Pakistan and Tajikistan in Tehran on Tuesday, as high-ranking
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. October 27. 2021 A senior Pentagon official said it is unclear whether the Taliban has the capability to fight the Islamic State extremist group effectively, even if it is clear that the two groups are “mortal enemies.” Colin Kahl, undersecretary of defense for policy, told a congressional committee on October 26 that the
Press TV October 26, 2021 By Syed Zafar Mehdi With the last US troops beating a hasty and humiliating retreat from Afghanistan, the war has entered a new phase, where Americans and Daesh terrorists find themselves on the same side. The resurgence of Daesh terrorist group, on the back of the US exit, has created
Tolo News: Talking to CBS News, Khalilzad said the US military tried many times to strengthen its position on the battleground, but it failed. “The negotiation was a result of–based on the judgment that we weren’t winning the war and therefore time was not on our side and better to make a deal sooner than
Masood Farivar VOA News October 23, 2021 As recently as last week, the U.S. immigration service was using six officers to process about 14,000 humanitarian requests for Afghans seeking relocation to the United States following the Taliban takeover of the country in August. That’s what the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service recently told congressional staff,