The United States and the Taliban have signed a peace agreement aimed at ending the 18-year war in Afghanistan. The signing could help President Donald Trump fulfill a key campaign promise to extract America from its “endless wars.” Under the agreement, the United States will begin withdrawing thousands of troops in exchange for Taliban commitments […]
POMPEO TO SIGN HISTORIC PEACE AGREEMENT WITH THE TALIBAN…
Secretary of state Mike Pompeo is soon traveling to sign a historic peace deal with the Taliban, President Donald Trump said in a statement Friday. Defense secretary Mark Esper will be signing a joint declaration affirming the administration’s partnership with the Afghan government in concert with the Taliban peace deal. The president described the ceremonies […]
U.S., Taliban Announce Peace Deal to Be Signed Next Week…
The United States and the Taliban reached an understanding in recent weeks on a reduction of violence in Afghanistan, the State Department said Friday, and plan to sign a peace agreement on Feb. 29. U.S. negotiators and Taliban representatives have been meeting in Doha, Qatar, to try to hammer out a deal that would see […]
NYT Publishes Taliban ‘Terrorist’ Op-Ed, All Hell Breaks Loose…
Several Afghanistan experts, including the former commanding general of U.S. forces in the region and the chairman of the violence-plagued country’s biggest and most influential news media outlet, expressed outrage Thursday after the New York Times published the uncontradicted peace-talk musings of a man who is arguably one of the world’s most accomplished terrorists. “It’s […]
Trump Administration Signals Afghanistan Drawdown Is Close…
Multiple signs are currently pointing toward a U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan. What they’re saying: Defense Secretary Mark Esper said today that he’s comfortable with a smaller U.S. troop presence, national security adviser Robert O’Brien said he’s “cautiously optimistic” an announcement is forthcoming, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the Afghan president to fill him […]
Former Navy Diver Kidnapped in Afghanistan…
An American contractor was captured by Taliban-aligned militants in Afghanistan last week, triggering a country-wide recovery effort, Newsweek has learned. Mark R. Frerichs of Lombard, Illinois, was kidnapped last Friday in Khost, a province located in the southeastern part of the country that borders the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, an underdeveloped region between Afghanistan and […]
Pentagon Identifies U.S. Soldiers Killed by Roadside Bomb…
Twenty-nine-year-old Virginia Staff Sgt. Ian McLaughlin and 21-year-old Illinois Pfc. Miguel Villalon have been identified as the pair of U.S. servicemen killed in Afghanistan on Saturday. An improvised explosive device struck the vehicle McLaughlin and Villalon were traveling in, killing both men. The Taliban immediately took credit for the attack in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province. McLaughlin, […]
At Least 61 U.S. Soldiers Deployed to Former Soviet Base Near Afghan Border After 9/11 – Where Ponds GLOWED Green – Have Been Diagnosed or Have Died from Cancer, and the DoD KNEW It Was TOXIC
Special forces operators who arrived at a base in Uzbekistan immediately after 9/11 found glowing green ponds and black goo oozing from the ground, and the toxic site has been linked to dozens of cases of cancer in veterans, documents reveal. Karshi-Khanabad, known as K2, was a former Soviet air base just a few hundred […]
Treating Pakistan as a Friend Was a Critical Error: U.S. Officials in Afghanistan Papers…
US officials in the Bush and Obama administrations believe the treatment of “Pakistan as a friend” in the country’s trillion-dollar 18-year-long Afghanistan war was a “critical error”, The Washington Post has revealed in its “secret history” of the conflict. On Monday, the American daily published US government papers in an extensive report, ‘The Afghanistan Papers’. […]
The Afghanistan Papers Show the Swamp at Its Worst…
On Monday, the Washington Post published its story on the Afghanistan papers: 2,000 pages of interview notes of those involved in the war effort. It details the widespread deception and futility that characterized the war in Afghanistan. SIGAR, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, compiled these interviews and adjacent data into seven reports. SIGAR […]
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