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The Diplomat
April 17, 2018
The war in Afghanistan is not being waged on the battlefield alone: If we are to emerge as a strong and independent democracy, the campaign for Afghanistan's economy must stand on equal footing with the counterterrorism campaign. In fact, they are one and the same. We can't build schools duringÃâà...
menshealth.com
April 17, 2018
On Jan. 21, 2011, Marine Lance Corporal Ferreira had just completed a raid on a cold night in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. He jumped off a roof and landed on a concealed IED. "I looked down and saw that my [lower] legs were gone," he told MensHealth.com. "I saw a mangled boot. But I had soÃâà...
BBC News
April 2, 2018
As part of these new "links", some Taliban expected sophisticated weapons from Russia that could dramatically turn the Afghan war in their favour - anti-aircraft guns and missiles that could challenge US air supremacy; similar to the surface-to-air Stinger missile the US provided to the Afghan resistanceÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 1, 2018
Activists pitched tents at the site of the attack, where Afghan men, women and children are holding a sit-in hunger strike. "Many people like me have lost several members of their families in this brutal war that has taken away our right to live peacefully," said Bashir Jan, who lost his uncle and three cousins inÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 30, 2018
Khial Bibi has lost five children and a husband to the war ravaging Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, a Taliban stronghold that has been the scene of deadly militant attacks and bloody gunbattles with government forces for years. "We want the violence to stop," the elderly Bibi says inside aÃâà...
Akron Beacon Journal
March 30, 2018
Louis, 30, died Tuesday because of heart complications, according to his grandmother. Despite living a relatively short life, she said, he made a tremendous impact on the world and those around him. An Afghanistan War veteran, Sgt. Louis did two tours in the U.S. Army and was strongly affected by hisÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 30, 2018
Speaking at the Atlantic Council, Neller said the US forces do not have a big role in Afghanistan's war, but they remain in the country to provide advice and training to the Afghan forces. “We want to remain in Afghanistan because it was a safe haven for those that attacked our country in 9/11 and I think youÃâà...
WTVC
March 28, 2018
He did one tour in Iraq and another in Afghanistan. "My first deployment just a lowly Lance Corporal didn't know where I was going, what I was doing and it's scary starting out," Daniel said. "It's just the fear of the unknown." His second deployment was in 2011-2012 . He says in that deployment he saw a lot more combat.
Albany Times Union
March 25, 2018
Just months after the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan declared the war against the Taliban and other insurgents a stalemate, Dunford — chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — said he can see a shift. "What we're already starting to see is, I think, momentum is going to favor the Afghan forces," DunfordÃâà...
New York Times
March 24, 2018
In one sign of a creep back in, Russia has taken to spreading disinformation in Afghanistan, mirroring the influence tactics employed in the Ukraine war, and in election meddling in the United States. “Italian forces flee after a fight with the Taliban,” read one recent headline on the Dari-language service ofÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 24, 2018
After five days criss-crossing Afghanistan, meeting with everyone from the Afghan president to the new American trainers on the ground, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. headed home Friday with a palpable sense of optimism. Just months after the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan declared the warÃâà...
Brookings Institution
March 23, 2018
Although it infrequently finds front-page news, America's longest war—now in its 17th year—continues in Afghanistan. While Afghan security forces have taken the lead on the ground, the ongoing and evolving mission still involves an important American and coalition role. Last summer, President TrumpÃâà...
ABC News
March 22, 2018
The U.S. has a role to play in setting the conditions for members of the Taliban to lay down their weapons and move back into Afghanistan's society, the top U.S. commander for the war said Thursday. Noting that integration talks are already going on behind the scenes, Gen. John Nicholson said U.S. andÃâà...
Prospect
March 22, 2018
Several factors distinguish a trade war from mere friction. Governments start viewing trade as a conflict between nations, rather than a beneficial process to manage. They assume that bullying is preferable to multilateral rules. They put a premium on doing damage rather than deterring bad behaviour.
The Hill
March 22, 2018
We are well into the 17th year of the United States military commitment in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history. We've got 15,000 troops in the country, and we're spending $45 billion a year to sustain this effort and support the Afghan government. You might assume Congress would beÃâà...
Foreign Affairs
March 21, 2018
Every day, 15,000 U.S. forces deployed in Afghanistan fight Washington's longest war. In 2018, their mission will cost Americans $45 billion in defense spending alone, almost enough to build U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico twice. Trump, who had campaigned on gettingÃâà...
New York Times
March 12, 2018
With the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in its twilight, American officials are tracking foreign fighters veering to provinces in Afghanistan's north and east. Meanwhile, Al Qaeda remains a persistent and deadly threat across the country, a senior American general told senators last week.
fox6now.com
March 11, 2018
YOUNTVILLE, Calif. — The Army veteran who killed three women after a siege in California had long dreamed of serving his country in the military, but his skill as a marksman led to dangerous missions in Afghanistan that left him anxious and wary when he came back home, according to people who knewÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 10, 2018
The U.S. is bolstering its military presence in Afghanistan, more than 16 years after the war started. Is anyone paying attention? Consider this: At a Senate hearing this past week on top U.S. security threats, the word "Afghanistan" was spoken exactly four times, each during introductory remarks. In theÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 8, 2018
The U.S. has been fighting in Afghanistan for more than 16 years, and mostly against the Taliban, a group that exists in large part due to the intelligence services of Afghan neighbor Pakistan. Steve Coll's new book "Directorate S" is perhaps the definitive story of the war's aftermath and tense U.S. relationsÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 6, 2018
'We all need to invest in the peace instead of war. We want to work with US and Afghanistan in a cooperative framework. Let's, collectively invest in peace and bring the closure to this perpetual conflict instead of wining it', he added. In response to a question, he appreciated President Ghani's offer toÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 6, 2018
War is a reality of life in Afghanistan, but it's not all-consuming, say a delegation of Afghan women leaders who recently visited Washington. The country is also undergoing significant social and cultural shifts around gender and leadership. Judy Woodruff talks with Shaharzad Akbar, a senior advisor toÃâà...
Politico
March 6, 2018
For Army Gen. John "Mick" Nicholson, the war in Afghanistan is deeply personal. The top commander in charge of President Donald Trump's revamped strategy to “fight to win” has spent much of the last decade-plus fighting the Taliban and other militant groups, forging deep bonds with Afghan leaders.
Chicago Tribune
March 5, 2018
Pakistan, Iran and Russia are thought to maintain ties to militant proxies inside Afghanistan in case the war-ravaged country collapses. Miller, now a senior foreign policy expert at Rand Corp., said peace would require heavy lifting by the Trump administration, which has yet to appoint a top diplomat for theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 2, 2018
... and Afghan government. Away from the bombs and the bullets, there is another war being fought in Afghanistan, one of propaganda and the winning of hearts and minds. ... The Afghan Taliban is yet to respond to the government's offer of unconditional peace talks to end 16 years of war. On WednesdayÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
February 28, 2018
It was Afghanistan's most significant peace overture to the large, fractious militant organization that currently controls more territory than at any time since the 2001 U.S.-led military invasion, but whose political aims have become unclear as the war has devolved into a bloody stalemate and its top leadersÃâà...
The National Interest Online
February 25, 2018
The United States has now been at war in Afghanistan for over sixteen years, at a cost of over $1 trillion; Atlantic Senior Editor Krishnadev Calamur noted last month that the Taliban “now controls . . . more territory than at any point since the U.S.-led invasion”; and the United Nations Office on Drugs andÃâà...
War on the Rocks
February 23, 2018
Attempts to end the war have but established new antagonisms, new conditions of conflict, new forms of warfare. The conflict generates these antagonisms rather than the reverse, forcing us to face the real origins of violence: Afghanistan's relations to the state system from which it emerged. These thesesÃâà...
Defense One
February 21, 2018
General Bunch also explained the immense scope of U.S. bombing efforts: “Anybody that is an enemy of Afghanistan, we're going to target them.” Consider the audacity of such a statement. This flag officer, planning for future operations in America's longest war, openly admits the bombing of ETIM is totallyÃâà...
Secrecy News (blog)
February 7, 2018
Walter Jones (R-NC) asked Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis about the growing restrictions on information about the war in Afghanistan. “We are now increasing the number of our troops in Afghanistan, and after 16 years, the American people have a right to know of their successes. Some of that, I'mÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
February 6, 2018
The costs now are still significantly lower than during the high point of the war in Afghanistan. From 2010 to 2012, when the U.S. had as many as 100,000 soldiers in the country, the price for American taxpayers surpassed $100 billion each year. There are currently around 16,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
New York Times
February 1, 2018
After 16 years of war in Afghanistan, experts have stopped asking what victory looks like and are beginning to consider the spectrum of possible defeats. All options involve acknowledging the war as failed, American aims as largely unachievable and Afghanistan's future as only partly salvageable.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
CHAPARHAR, Afghanistan — There was no military curfew in the villages, but, as a precaution, the farmers still informed the local police outpost that they would be in their fields before dawn, with lanterns and shovels, to channel water to their crops. In a chaotic war of many players on both sides and withÃâà...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
On Monday, the war in Afghanistan marked its 6,000th day. Ending violence in Afghanistan appears, at times, to be a forlorn dream, but the recent developments suggest the U.S. policymakers might actually get the job of striking the perfect balance between military strikes with comprehensiveÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
A United States Army veteran who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan was deported to Mexico after his application for citizenship was denied because of a felony drug conviction, his lawyer and immigration officials said. Miguel Perez-Montes, 39, was flown on Friday from Gary, Ind., to Brownsville, Tex.,Ãâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
For America, the war in Afghanistan is now almost 17 years old and is officially the longest in its history. True, the fighting in Vietnam went on longer, but since war was never declared it is classed as a conflict. Unlike Vietnam, the battle in Afghanistan has not come to define America. Yet today there are USÃâà...
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