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Category Archives: US-Afghanistan Relations

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What’s Next for the US in Afghanistan?

16th September, 2021 · admin

Patsy Widakuswara VOA News September 15, 2021 WHITE HOUSE — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered to Congress this week an unwavering defense of the Biden administration’s exit from Afghanistan, in which he outlined the administration’s priorities for the country going forward. Here are those priorities and the challenges in meeting them. Assisting Americans and

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Posted in Refugees and Migrants, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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U.S. Senators Move to Designate Taliban as Foreign Terrorist Entity

15th September, 2021 · admin

Michael Hughes AOPNEWS September 15, 2021 A group of American senators, led by intelligence panel vice chair Marco Rubio, introduced legislation on Wednesday directing the U.S. Secretary of State to designate the Taliban movement as a state sponsor of terrorism as well as an illegitimate regime. The move comes as the U.S. and international community

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Posted in AOP Reports, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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US Envoy, Taliban Blame Ghani for Scuttling Peaceful Transfer of Power Plan

15th September, 2021 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News September 15, 2021 ISLAMABAD – The U.S. peace envoy for Afghanistan says he secured a last-minute deal with the Taliban in mid-August to keep the insurgents outside Kabul while they negotiated a political transition. But, he says, President Ashraf Ghani’s decision to flee the country scuttled that plan. Afghan-born envoy Zalmay

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Posted in Political News, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Tajikistan summons US ambassador over Biden’s offensive remarks

15th September, 2021 · admin

Press TV September 15, 2021 Tajikistan has summoned the US ambassador over the offensive remarks President Joe Biden made about Tajik people during his recent visit to Pennsylvania. The Central Asian country took offense to a jibe Biden used to deflect criticism from his handling of the chaotic US withdrawal from neighboring Afghanistan. In a statement, Tajikistan’s

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Posted in Central Asia, Other News, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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US Spots ‘Potential Movement’ of al-Qaida to Afghanistan

15th September, 2021 · admin

Jeff Seldin VOA News September 14, 2021 WASHINGTON – There are growing indications that supporters of both the al-Qaida and Islamic State terror groups have their sights set on Afghanistan, emboldened by the Taliban takeover of the country late last month. Initial reports over the past week or so have highlighted an uptick in chatter

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Arab-Afghan Relations, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Proud Boys-Linked ‘Afghan Refugee Hunting Permit’ Found at Michigan Campus

14th September, 2021 · admin

Newsweek: The stickers were apparently advocating for the murder of Afghans as tens of thousands of refugees are to set to be housed in the U.S. after they were evacuated from Kabul in August, prior to the Taliban retaking the country. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Refugees and Migrants, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Afghan-American community, White terror |
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Top US diplomat justifies America’s defeat in Afghanistan

13th September, 2021 · admin

Press TV September 13, 2021 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is defending US “legacy” in Afghanistan after American forces’ defeat in the country and the swift takeover of the Taliban. The US top diplomat appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to justify the Biden administration’s chaotic handling of withdrawal from the war-ravaged country.

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Posted in Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Afghans Find Themselves Unable to Work or Attend School in US

13th September, 2021 · admin

 After undergoing the traumatic experience of leaving their home country, thousands of Afghans are relieved to be in the United States. Many are finding, however, that they have been granted temporary status, forbidding them to work or attend school. VOA’s Carolyn Presutti takes a look at how evacuees are coping with the lack of

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Posted in Refugees and Migrants, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Afghan-American community, Asylum, Escape from the Taliban |
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Stranded Afghan Pilots Begin Leaving Uzbekistan

13th September, 2021 · admin

VOA News September 12, 2021 Some Afghan pilots who have been held in Uzbekistan for about a month began leaving Sunday for the United Arab Emirate, Reuters reported. A U.S.-trained Afghan pilot told Reuters that one group would depart Uzbekistan on Sunday for the UAE under a U.S.-brokered deal, despite Taliban demands that they return

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Posted in Central Asia, Refugees and Migrants, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Asylum, Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Relations |
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Trump censures Biden, says US ‘surrendered in defeat’ in Afghanistan

11th September, 2021 · admin

Press TV September 11, 2021 Donald Trump has denounced US President Joe Biden’s hasty withdrawal of America’s military assets from Afghanistan, censuring the ‘ineptitude’ of the current administration in Washington that has “surrendered in defeat.” In a video message at the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the former president of the United States said

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Posted in Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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