BY Rebecca Kheel AND Ellen Mitchel Calls for an end to so-called forever wars are being bolstered this week by a bombshell report detailing how U.S. officials lied when they claimed progress in the 18-year …
The assault on Bagram base came despite the resumption of US-Taliban talks days before in Qatar. 12 Dec 2019 US officials have announced a “brief pause” in talks with the Taliban after the armed …
Beijing ‘resolutely opposes’ resolution, which among others seeks to sanction Communist Party leader in Xinjiang. The Uighur Act of 2019 requires the US president to condemn abuses against Muslims and call for the …
A near-term trade deal was already looking unlikely after Trump signalled it could wait until late next year. The Uighur bill, which Beijing called a malicious attack on China, requires the US president to …
GENEVA: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks in Tehran with a Taliban delegation led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, one of the group’s founders, the official IRNA news agency reported on …
The Presidential Palace said Washington is engaged in discussions with the Taliban in consultation with the Afghan government. Discussion between the US and Taliban has begun again in Qatar, but in an unofficial …
Afghanistan’s pollution may be even deadlier than its war, now 18 years long. Yousuf fled with his family from his home in eastern Afghanistan eight years ago to escape the war, but he couldn’t …
Three days earlier, President Ghani announced that the three Haqqani Network members would be “conditionally” released. A source said that the prisoner exchange of captured Haqqani Network members Anas Haqqani, Hafiz Rashid and Mali …
China responded on Tuesday to a decision by the World Bank to reduce funding for vocational training centres in the troubled western region of Xinjiang, by saying the bank’s review of its projects had …
U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has predicted that American troops, already in Afghanistan for 18 years, would remain in the country “for several more years.” In an …
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