Civilian Casualties Escalate Amid Resurgence of War in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan - Just weeks into the announcement of the new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan, a sudden surge in casualties ...
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Dramatic Cut in Red Cross Activities Sparks Worries in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan - In a major blow to the delivery of humanitarian services in one of the most vulnerable areas ...
UN: Afghanistan Recorded Highest Number of Child Casualties in 2016
Afghanistan set a gruesome record last year: more than 3,500 children were killed in the country, the highest number since ...
Afghan Gov’t Hastily Moves to Arm Shiite Civilians, Prompting Concerns
(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- Though Afghanistan is an impoverished country, it is awash with weapons, the result of unceasing wars and ...
US Missile Malfunctions, Causing Casualties After Insurgents Attack Kabul Airport
A U.S.-fired missile malfunctioned after insurgents attacked the international airport in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, causing casualties, the NATO-led Resolute ...
Report: US Ill-Prepared for Army, Police Force Building in Afghanistan
The United States was utterly ill-prepared for reconstructing security forces in Afghanistan, a country that has been suffering from war ...
US Intensifying Afghanistan Air Campaign Certain to Boost Insurgency
French military theorist Roger Trinquier famously posited that the sine qua non of victory against an insurgency is the unconditional ...
US Is Sending 4,000 Additional Troops To Afghanistan
U.S. authorities signaled on Thursday that some 4,000 additional troops will be deployed to Afghanistan in the near future. The ...
Trump Undermines Afghan Security by Fueling Indo-Pakistani Rivalry
The doctrine referred to by national security scholars as "strategic depth" is the driving force behind why Islamabad supports extremist ...
US Seeks To Reengage With Central Asia To Address Afghan Crisis
Central Asia is in the middle of a major geopolitical shift: China is spreading its influence over the region that ...
Senator McCain Introduces Plan for Afghanistan to Pressure Trump
U.S. Senator John McCain decided not to wait for the Trump administration to roll out its new policy for Afghanistan ...
Trump Strategy to Exploit Afghan Deposits Rests on Faulty Foundation
President Donald J. Trump has reportedly been at odds with his military chiefs over the way forward in Afghanistan because ...
US Looks To Afghanistan To Counter China’s Rare Earths Monopoly
Soviet mining experts in the 1980s discovered that Afghanistan was rich in natural resources such as iron, copper, gold, cobalt, ...
US Support for Warlords Continues to Destabilize Afghanistan
Warlordism grew to new heights in Afghanistan after the CIA channeled around $1 billion to malign actors for their help ...
US Diplomatic Surge In Afghanistan Is Poised To Make It Worse
To say the U.S. does not have a stellar track record when it comes to Afghan politics would be an ...
Trump’s ‘Maintenance’ Strategy Unlikely to Break Afghan Stalemate
Historians often quip that Afghanistan is a graveyard of big empires. From Alexander the Great to the British Empire and ...
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