Tag: Afghanistan

Magazine - Life & Arts

My darkest day in Afghanistan

Trent Reedy · March 29, 2019 4:00 am

An Afghan security force member walks at the site of suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, in this 2018 file photograph.

Taliban Five part of peace talks with US as rift grows between US, Afghan governments

Jerry Dunleavy · March 28, 2019 2:59 am

Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad approaches the microphone to speak on the prospects for peace, Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Zalmay Khalilzad’s Afghanistan dealing empowers Pakistan and undermines Trump

Michael Rubin · March 27, 2019 7:43 pm

Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad speaks on the prospects for peace, Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington.

US diplomat heading to Afghanistan after peace talks controversy

Joel Gehrke · March 26, 2019 10:31 pm

Spc. Joseph P. Collette (right) and Sgt. 1st Class Will D. Lindsay (left) are pictured.

2 US soldiers killed in combat in Afghanistan identified by Pentagon

Jerry Dunleavy · March 24, 2019 12:50 am

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks to reporters after making a campaign stop at the home of Dubuque County Recorder John Murphy in Dubuque, Iowa on Saturday, March 16, 2019.

Beto O’Rourke pressed by Afghanistan vet as aides drag him away

Daniel Jativa · March 23, 2019 12:36 am

FILE - In this March 13, 2009, file photo, Zalmay Khalilzad, special adviser on reconciliation speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Beltway Confidential

Zalmay Khalilzad’s behavior is worse than simply acting as Afghanistan’s viceroy

Michael Rubin · March 22, 2019 3:27 pm

U.S. forces in Asad Khil near the site of a U.S. bombing in the Achin district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 17, 2017.

National Security

Two US service members killed in Afghanistan

Jerry Dunleavy · March 22, 2019 12:11 pm

Magazine - Life & Arts

Bulldozing an unexploded bomb

Trent Reedy · March 22, 2019 4:00 am

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., left, welcomes Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan to testify on the Department of Defense budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019. Shanahan told the committee that allies need to pay their fair share, but compensation comes in many forms, including providing support for war in places like Afghanistan.

Beltway Confidential

The State Department is putting ego above security in Afghanistan

Michael Rubin · March 20, 2019 7:45 pm

In this Jan. 10, 2019 photo, Afghanistan national security adviser Hamdullah Mohib, left, shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi before proceeding to their meeting at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound in Beijing. Hamdullah Mohib is blasting U.S. talks with the Taliban, saying the Trump administration has alienated the Afghan government, legitimized the militant network and is crafting a deal that will never lead to peace.

Top Afghan official refuses US demand to apologize for barbs against Trump envoy

Diana Stancy Correll · March 20, 2019 3:29 pm

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National Security

Marine Corps says new Afghan war documentary ‘Combat Obscura’ shows possible crimes too late to prosecute

Jamie McIntyre · March 19, 2019 9:24 pm