Tag: Afghanistan

President Trump appears at an event.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s Taliban dealing is already destabilizing Africa

Michael Rubin · February 21, 2019 9:39 pm

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan talks to journalists during a press conference at the second day of a NATO defense ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

Shanahan vows allies will be involved in any troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

Diana Stancy Correll · February 14, 2019 9:08 pm

Acting Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan greets an Afghan commando at Camp Commando, Afghanistan on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019.

Yes, let’s leave Afghanistan

David Nelson · February 13, 2019 5:00 am

Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad speaks in D.C.

US special envoy wants to nail down Afghan peace agreement by July

Diana Stancy Correll · February 8, 2019 11:12 pm

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks as Sen. Ed Markey, (D-MA) right, listens during a news conference announcing Green New Deal legislation in Washington, D.C.

Beltway Confidential

AOC’s ‘Green New Deal’ would run up massive debt. That’s how we already pay for perpetual war

Jack Hunter · February 8, 2019 10:39 pm

President Trump gives his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, at the Capitol in Washington.

Trump: ‘Great nations do not fight endless wars’

Joel Gehrke · February 6, 2019 3:26 am

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. smiles as he listens to a question during his public address at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, Friday April 25, 2014, in Cambridge, Mass. Fighting to move beyond his father's shadow, Paul is crafting new alliances with the Republican Party establishment during a Northeast tour that began Friday in Boston. The 51-year-old Kentucky Republican, son of libertarian hero and former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, headlined an afternoon luncheon hosted by top lieutenants of former presidential nominee Mitt Romney _ a private meeting that comes as Paul weighs a 2016 presidential bid of his own.

Beltway Confidential

Rand Paul said US weapons would end up in terrorists’ hands. You should have listened to Rand Paul

Jack Hunter · February 5, 2019 11:54 pm

Afghan president Ashraf Ghani delivers a speech during the United Nations Conference on Afghanistan.

Afghan president insists his government will be ‘decision-maker’ in peace deal with Taliban

Diana Stancy Correll · February 5, 2019 9:39 pm

U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Joseph Votel speaks at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in Washington.

Top commander denies peace deal reached with the Taliban

Jamie McIntyre · February 5, 2019 12:17 pm

President Donald Trump announces a deal to temporarily reopen the government, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, in Washington.

Senate warns Trump not to rush US forces out of Syria, Afghanistan

Joel Gehrke · February 4, 2019 11:14 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, speaks as he attends a conference on Afghanistan bringing together representatives of the Afghan authorities and the Taliban in Moscow, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018.

Russia accuses US of taking ‘egotistical approach’ to Taliban talks

Joel Gehrke · February 4, 2019 9:44 pm

President Trump speaks during an event on human trafficking in the Cabinet Room.

Weekly Trump report card: Fighting back and bolstered by jobs

Paul Bedard · February 2, 2019 11:00 am