The U.S. President Donald Trump has said the United States is looking to make a deal to end the 19-year long war in Afghanistan. President Trump made the remarks after concluding a meeting with the senior U.S. officials on Friday. He said in a Twitter post “Just completed a very good meeting on Afghanistan.” Furthermore,
Saturday, August 17, 2019 Asadabad (BNA) Eight Taliban associates were killed in an air strike in east of the country last night. The insurgents were suppressed in their strongholds in Manogi district while organizing a series of terrorist attacks. ANA senior commander in east of the country told BNA, eight Taliban associated group were killed
US President Donald Trump and Pompeo were joined for the talks by Vice President Mike Pence, national security adviser John Bolton, Defense Secretary Mike Esper, Joint Chiefs Chairman General Joseph Dunford and CIA Director Gina Haspel regarding the Afghan peace process. President Donald Trump was briefed on Friday by top national security advisers on the
The brother of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada was killed in a blast at a mosque in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Friday, media reports said. Foreign media outlets quoted Taliban sources as saying Hafiz Ahmadullah, the younger brother of the Taliban leader, was among four people killed in the blast on the outskirts
Nine people were injured in a bomb blast that took place outside a home in this capital city of eastern Nangarhar province late Friday, the governor’s house said in a statement. The statement said the blast occurred in front of a home in Karez Kabir area of Jalalabad at around 8pm. Zahir Adil, the provincial
Only a tangle of razor wire marks the entrance of a remote Afghan army checkpoint that may soon be shuttered as the government closes vulnerable outposts after years of losses to Taliban fighters and desertions. The post in Wardak province west of Kabul has been hit before, and its sagging blast walls and teetering sandbags
Dozens of people were wounded with fatalities feared as a powerful car bomb rocked Kabul early on Monday and gunmen battled special forces in an area housing military and government buildings, officials said. The rush-hour explosion sent a plume of smoke into the air above the Puli Mahmood Khan neighbourhood of the Afghan capital and
KABUL -- Kabul students picked through the debris of shattered schools on Tuesday (July 2) looking for books, backpacks and other possessions, a day after a massive bomb ripped through the Afghan capital. Five schools were damaged in a Taliban attack Monday (July 1) that targeted a Defence Ministry building but also shredded a mosque
HAZNI -- A Taliban car bomb in Ghazni on Sunday (July 7) killed at least 12 people and wounded many more -- including dozens of children -- in a massive blast. Sunday's suicide car bombing targeted an intelligence unit, Ghazni provincial governor's spokesman Mohammad Arif Noori told AFP. Twelve people were killed, said Wahidullah Mayar,
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Pentagon on Tuesday identified the two US service members killed in Afghanistan earlier this week. Pfc. Brandon Jay Kreischer, 20, of Stryker, Ohio, and Spc. Michael Isaiah Nance, 24, of Chicago died Monday from combat-related wounds, the Department of Defense said in a news release. Kandahar police told CNN on Monday