In light of the recent breakdown in peace talks between the U.S. and Taliban to end America’s longest war, most Americans think sending troops into Afghanistan 18 years ago was not a mistake, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired John Bolton, his third national security adviser, after months of disagreement over the direction of foreign policy.
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The Taliban on Tuesday vowed to continue fighting against U.S. forces in Afghanistan after President Donald Trump said talks with the insurgents were “dead,” and said Washington would regret abandoning negotiations.
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With a few tweets, President Donald Trump upended nearly a year of U.S.-Taliban negotiations on ending America’s longest war. He “called off” the talks and canceled a planned secret meeting between him and Taliban leaders at Camp David, set for Sunday, just days before the 9/11 anniversary.
Read moreSecretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that Taliban “overreached” with a car bomb attack in Kabul that killed an American soldier, leading President Donald Trump to call off closely-held Afghanistan peace talks planned for Camp David.
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Taliban loyalists are cheering the prospect of a deal with the United States that after 18 years of grueling conflict will see “defeated” American “invaders” finally go home.
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Another Taliban suicide car bomb rocked Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 10 civilians in a diplomatic area that includes the U.S. Embassy — the second such attack this week, as the Afghan government warned that a preliminary U.S.-Taliban deal on ending America’s longest war was moving dangerously quickly.
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The Taliban on Tuesday defended their suicide bombing of an international compound in the Afghan capital that killed at least 16 civilians and wounded 119 people, just hours after a U.S. envoy said he and the militant group had reached a deal “in principle” to end America’s longest war.
Read moreThe Taliban launched a large-scale attack on Kunduz, one of Afghanistan’s main cities, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 75 others, government officials said Saturday, even as the insurgent group continued negotiations with the United States on ending America’s longest war.
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Eighteen years after the assassination of revered anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, his only son is hoping to continue the mission by jumping into Afghanistan’s chaotic political fray.
Read moreU.S. and Taliban representatives held negotiations in Doha on Sunday, an American source close to the process said, as potentially decisive talks to enable Washington to draw down its military in Afghanistan stretched into the evening.
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The United States envoy negotiating with the Taliban for an end to America’s longest war departed Tuesday for Qatar to resume talks, the State Department said, amid concerns about a growing threat by an Islamic State affiliate.
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Afghanistan’s president on Monday vowed to “eliminate” all safe havens of the Islamic State group as the country observed a subdued 100th Independence Day after a horrific wedding attack claimed by the local IS affiliate killed 63 people and wounded nearly 200.
Read moreThe suicide bomber stood in the middle of the dancing, clapping crowd as hundreds of Afghan children and adults celebrated a wedding in a joyous release from Kabul’s strain of war. Then, in a flash, he detonated his explosives-filled vest, killing dozens — and Afghanistan grieved again.
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At least 14 people were killed and 145 wounded in a massive Taliban bomb blast Wednesday as fresh violence gripped Kabul even as insurgents appear to be closing in on a peace deal with the United States.
Read moreWith momentum apparently building for a breakthrough in talks between Washington and the Taliban, younger Afghans whose lives have been overshadowed by nearly 18 years of war are skeptical any deal will bring them peace.
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A roadside bomb tore through a bus in western Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 32 people, including children, a provincial official said.
Read moreAn Afghan soldier shot and killed two American service members in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Monday.
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The death toll from an attack against the Kabul office of the Afghan president’s running mate and former chief of the intelligence service climbed to at least 20 people on Monday, an official said.
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Newly unsealed court records confirm that Felix Sater, a former business associate of President Donald Trump, was an invaluable FBI source who used his ties to the criminal underworld to rat out New York’s organized crime families and gather intelligence on al Qaida and arms dealers in Afghanistan.
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