Tag: Afghanistan

The amendment, passed by voice vote without debate, would prohibit any 2018 funding to be used in the Pentagon's efforts to equip the Afghan National Army after a Pentagon auditor announced a criminal probe of the uniform purchases this week. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

National Security

House bars Afghan uniform purchases in defense bill

Travis J. Tritten · July 27, 2017 7:41 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's team mocked CNN for featuring footage of the Taliban weaponry. "It is impossible to take videos that show obsolete weapons of unidentifiable origin seriously," the Foreign Ministry said. (Ibrahim Laleli/DHA via AP)

Russia rips CNN for report about arming Taliban fighters

Joel Gehrke · July 26, 2017 7:20 pm

John Sopko said he is recommending a review of all organizational clothing and individual equipment contracts in Afghanistan after the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan approved purchases of proprietary camouflage clothing that were ill-suited to the terrain while free Defense Department-owned patterns were available. (AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini)

National Security

Criminal probe opened over $28 million in alleged Afghan uniform waste

Travis J. Tritten · July 25, 2017 8:30 pm

Trump and Modi strike an alliance against terrorism, North Korea

Trump and Modi strike an alliance against terrorism, North Korea

sue-ghosh, shekhar-tiwari · July 22, 2017 4:01 am

A U.S. military official said the strike was conducted by a U.S. drone and struck a group of friendly Afghan forces who were gathered in a compound. (iStock)

National Security

US kills at least 9 Afghans in friendly fire airstrike

Jamie McIntyre · July 21, 2017 4:33 pm

John Bass is currently the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and is a former ambassador to Georgia. Former President Barack Obama nominated Bass to both positions.
(AP Photo/Adem Altan, Pool)

Trump chooses longtime diplomat John Bass as ambassador to Afghanistan

Josh Siegel · July 20, 2017 11:28 pm

The meeting was a chance for the president to hear first-hand about world hot spots, including North Korea, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Afghanistan, according to Pentagon officials. (Department of Defense photo)

National Security

Trump briefed on world hot spots at Pentagon session

Jamie McIntyre · July 20, 2017 8:13 pm

Students from across the world meet during the FIRST Global robotics challenge in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ahead of the Trend

Ahead of the Trend: The robots are coming. And these kids are ready for them.

Kristen Soltis Anderson · July 19, 2017 2:15 pm

Let's cut off the whining just as swiftly as Belichick might cut off a pair of sleeves. (Twitter/@OmarKelly)

Beltway Confidential

Liberals freak out over Bill Belichick wearing a pro-military shirt

Emily Jashinsky · July 14, 2017 8:27 pm

Abu Sayed was the third leader of the group's Afghanistan franchise, ISIS-Khorasan, killed by U.S. forces over the past year. (Wikipedia Commons)

National Security

Pentagon says it has killed another top ISIS leader in Afghanistan

Travis J. Tritten · July 14, 2017 8:06 pm

One holdup appears to be a White House initiative backed by chief strategist Steve Bannon to use private contractors to train and equip Afghan forces in the future. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

Jim Mattis: New Afghanistan strategy isn’t finished yet

Jamie McIntyre · July 14, 2017 3:58 pm

Without Trump's action, the Afghan girls' team might never have made it. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Beltway Confidential

Trump gives Afghan girls the chance of a lifetime

Tom Rogan · July 13, 2017 9:07 pm