WASHINGTON: A powerful US Congressional committee has said that India, which is a regional partner to Afghanistan and a major defense partner of the US, is well-suited to assist Kabul in its border security. In a report attached along with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2018, the all-powerful Senate …
Read More »
By Rahmatullah Nabil and Melissa Skorka-Islamabad has shown no sign it is genuinely willing to end support for proxies like the Haqqani network. With the Trump administration considering how to break the stalemate between Taliban-allied groups and the government of Afghanistan, terrorists detonated a car bomb in Kabul on May …
Read More »
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: A member for the US-based organization, named New America Research Center blames the United States administration for being “the biggest obstacle” against a peaceful solution in Afghanistan, according to a report published by the local Weesa newspaper. Anand Gopal claims that during the past 16 years, the …
Read More »
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The NATO member countries have taken a formal decision, based on extension of its mission and deployment of additional troops in Afghanistan in a bid to train and assist Afghan forces beyond 2017. Following the meeting of defense ministers, NATO Secretary General Gen. Jens Stoltenberg said the …
Read More »
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The United Kingdom’s Defense Secretary, Michael Fallon has announced that Britain has taken a formal decision to deploy 100 more soldiers to Afghanistan in a bid to help, and train the Afghan security forces. While talking to media on his arrival to NATO info-icon defense ministers meeting …
Read More »
Treading carefully More than 16 years after the fall of their government, the Taliban say they are willing to allow girls to study, but residents on the ground say the group has done little, if anything, to re-open girls′ schools in areas under their control. Ali M. Latifi reports from …
Read More »
US President Donald Trump and Indian PM Narendra Modi have urged Pakistan to ensure its territory is not used to launch terror attacks. They issued their call in a statement released by the White House shortly after the two met in Washington DC. It comes after attacks in recent years …
Read More »
WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump today agreed to continue strengthening coordination for ensuring peace and stability in Afghanistan as they expressed concern over rising instability in the war-torn country caused by terrorism. Trump thanked the Indian people for their “contributions to the effort in Afghanistan, …
Read More »
Defense Secretary James Mattis told a congressional panel late Monday President Donald Trump will get options presented to him “very soon” on how to deal with the conflict in Afghanistan, including whether to send more U.S. troops there amid the worsening violence. Mattis stressed that the Afghanistan matter should be …
Read More »
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The European Commission has announced humanitarian assistance of over €44 million to help people in need in South-West and Central Asia, who continue to face the consequences of years of conflicts and displacement, as well as recurrent natural disasters. In a statement, the European Commission said that …
Read More »
Afghanistan Times