Tag: Afghanistan

Afghanistan's Taliban delegation arrive for the agreement signing between Taliban and U.S. officials in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020.

‘No one left alive’: Taliban kills 24 in attack with insider help

Zach Halaschak · March 20, 2020 11:41 pm

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., walks to the Senate as an 11th-hour Republican rescue mission to keep President Donald Trump from a Senate defeat on his signature issue of building barriers along the southwest border seems near collapse, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 13, 2019.

National Security

Senate rejects Rand Paul’s offset plan for $104B coronavirus bill

Susan Ferrechio · March 18, 2020 6:21 pm

Beltway Confidential

International Criminal Court prepares legal war on the US

David Davenport · March 17, 2020 6:00 am

U.S. Army soldiers stand outside their armoured vehicle in a joint base with Iraqi army south of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017.

US troops begin leaving Afghanistan under Taliban peace deal

Tim Pearce · March 9, 2020 7:59 pm

President Donald Trump speaks accompanied by from left, Cookeville Mayor Ricky Shelton, Tennessee first lady Maria Lee, and Gov. Bill Lee, R-Tenn., tour damage from a recent tornado, Friday in Cookeville, Tenn.

Washington Secrets

White House Report Card: Taking charge of virus, buoyed by big jobs numbers

Paul Bedard · March 7, 2020 11:30 am

Afghanistan's Taliban delegation arrive for the agreement signing between Taliban and U.S. officials in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020.

Intelligence shows Taliban has ‘no intention’ of abiding by peace deal: Report

Zach Halaschak · March 6, 2020 9:37 pm

British soldiers with NATO-led Resolute Support Mission forces checks an ambulance at the site of an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, March 6, 2020. Gunmen in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul attacked a remembrance ceremony for a minority Shiite leader on Friday, wounding more than a dozen of people, officials said.

Gunman kills dozens in Kabul attack on ceremony attended by Afghan political officials

Zach Halaschak · March 6, 2020 7:33 pm

Beltway Confidential

Susan Rice and other hawks use sunk cost fallacy to justify staying in Afghanistan

Daniel DePetris · March 6, 2020 4:39 pm

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Four things that will make or break Trump’s get-out-of-Afghanistan plan

Jamie McIntyre · March 6, 2020 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Trump should make the International Criminal Court pay for its anti-American idiocy

Tom Rogan · March 5, 2020 8:34 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a statement on Iraq, at President Donald Trumpâs Mar-a-Lago property, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in Palm Beach, Fla.

Pompeo condemns ‘upsurge in violence’ by Taliban against government after etching deal with US

Joel Gehrke · March 5, 2020 8:19 pm

Supporters of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo walk towards the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, where lawyers were scheduled to discuss the next steps in the case of Gbagbo and ex-youth minister Charles Ble Goude, a day after both men were acquitted of crimes against humanity.

National Security

International Criminal Court greenlights investigations into Afghanistan war crimes

Carlin Becker · March 5, 2020 8:49 am