Al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban, the jihadi allies responsible for the September 11, 2001, attacks on the American homeland, have grown stronger in the last 16 years despite the thousands of U.S. military casualties from the ongoing fight against the terrorist groups.
Beijing has indicated that it will continue to take advantage of America’s efforts to stabilize Afghanistan, supporting its ally Pakistan as it harbors the Afghan Taliban while mining Afghanistan’s resources.
The United States will deploy 3,500 American troops to Afghanistan as part of President Donald Trump’s strategy to end the 16-year-old war, bringing the number of U.S. service members there to more than 14,000, according to American officials.
The United States military has apologized for offending Afghan Muslims by air dropping anti-Taliban leaflets that contained an image of a dog, along with Quranic verses found on the jihadist organization’s flag.
United States-Backed Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), which includes military and police units, reportedly seized about 1,260 kilograms of hashish that unnamed smugglers loaded on five camels to transport to an unknown location.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that his administration will pressure Islamabad to stop harboring Islamic terrorists has reportedly induced Pakistan to postpone a visit by a top U.S. diplomat.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy to end the war in Afghanistan is “determined” to pressure the Taliban into reconciliation and a political settlement with the Kabul government by making the jihadists realize they cannot win, declared the top American commander in the war-ravaged country, echoing the State Department and the Pentagon.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan this week urged the Taliban to enter peace talks with the Afghan government after President Trump announced his new strategy to “kill terrorists.”
U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told reporters that President Donald Trump’s administration will win in Afghanistan by allowing the country to “be Afghanistan” rather than trying to “create a state in the U.S. image.”
American troops in Afghanistan are still fighting the Taliban under an authority granted by former U.S. President Barack Obama in June 2016 that allows American service members to aggressively target the jihadists, Breitbart News has learned.
Additional U.S. service members are expected to start deploying to Afghanistan within days to weeks as part of President Donald Trump’s newly unveiled strategy to ultimately end the conflict and eradicate the jihadi threat stemming from the country.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a statement on Wednesday declaring he “very strongly opposes” the strategy announced by U.S. President Donald Trump because it is “against peace and the national interest of Afghanistan.”
The Taliban has once again targeted members of the Afghan security forces while they collected their pay, killing at least seven people, including two women and a child, and injuring more than 40 others, mostly civilians, in the jihadist group’s stronghold of Helmand province, located along the Pakistan border in southern Afghanistan.
Retired Lt. General Jerry Boykin, executive vice president of the Family Research Council, discussed with Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday President Trump’s Afghanistan policy speech, describing it as “one of the three most impressive speeches he’s given.”
Although President Trump’s speech on Monday night did not include any specific troop numbers for Afghanistan, Fox News claims an unnamed senior official told them 4,000 more troops have been approved for the mission. Other sources have said the exact number will be closer to 3,800.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani responded positively to President Donald Trump’s speech announcing a new strategy on his country’s war on Tuesday, thanking America for its “enduring commitment … in this global conflict.”
U.S. President Donald Trump, while announcing on Monday his new strategy for dealing with the nearly 16-year-old war in Afghanistan, failed to explicitly address the historic levels of opium production there, a lucrative source of funding for the Taliban, the country’s leading terrorist organization.
Former Navy SEAL and former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince said President Trump has “signed up for what he’d been opposing” in Afghanistan on Tuesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily.
A spokesman for the Afghan Taliban issued a response to President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new strategy for the Afghan war on Tuesday, vowing that “Afghanistan will become another graveyard for this superpower” without complete withdrawal.
During a town hall on CNN on Monday, House Speaker Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) expressed support for President Trump’s Afghanistan strategy. Ryan said, “I’m pleased with the decision. I’m actually pleased with the way he went about making this decision.” He
During a speech on Monday, President Trump announced a shift in the US’ policy in Afghanistan to one based on conditions on the ground instead of timetables and declared that the US isn’t nation-building again. The president warned of the
President Trump is expected to announce a new plan for Afghanistan that will involve several thousand more U.S. troops, as well as putting more pressure on its neighbor and supposed U.S. ally Pakistan.
With former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon out of the White House, globalists and hawkish interventionists in the Trump administration are reportedly wasting no time in pushing for a bigger U.S. military footprint abroad.
What remains is for the U.S. to fight for its own strategic priorities in Afghanistan. Anything less, or more, will be unsustainable, militarily and politically.
Some pilots from the U.S.-backed Afghan Air Force (AAF) claim to have received deaths threats from Taliban terrorists, prompting alarm among the American military, reports Reuters.
Amid the left’s historical purge, the National Parks Service is making clear the statues at Gettysburg battlefield are not going anywhere.
The Afghan Taliban, in an open letter to U.S. President Donald Trump, advises the commander-in-chief to ignore U.S. officials who are trying to push him to prolong the nearly 16-year-old war and suggest that he disregard any private contractor plan to end the conflict.
As the American left targets historical icons for destruction, one is reminded of the way the Taliban destroyed centuries-old Buddhist statues.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and the Taliban, an al-Qaeda ally, stand accused again of joining forces to carry out a deadly terrorist attack in Afghanistan that left up to 50 mostly Shiite civilians dead and hundreds of others in captivity
The Pakistani branch of the Taliban, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has published the first edition of a propaganda magazine aimed at persuading women to engage in jihad on their behalf.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians are expected to flee Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) holdouts in Iraq as U.S.-backed local forces intensify the pressure against the jihadist group, according to the United Nations.
The U.S. is reportedly deploying dozens of additional Marines to join an estimated 300 others in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, an opium-rich Taliban hotspot located along the Pakistan border.
The Taliban and its affiliate the Haqqani Network, two terrorist groups fighting American troops and their allies in Afghanistan, have established bases in neighboring Pakistan with the knowledge of Islamabad, suggested U.S. National Security Adviser HR McMaster in an interview with MSNBC.
Contents: Dozens of Shia Muslims in Afghanistan killed in fourth Taliban victory in 3 weeks; Did ISIS team up with the Taliban in Sar-e-Pul massacre?; Trump’s review of the Afghanistan war seeks solution where none exists
The influence of state sponsor of terrorism Iran is growing in Afghanistan, where mutual disdain towards the United States has brought together the Shiite Islamic Republic and the Sunni Taliban, two unlikely bedfellows.
Terrorist attacks in Afghanistan over the last two days have left over 30 people dead, including two American service members killed in Taliban birthplace Kandahar and 29 others murdered at a mosque by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
President Donald Trump’s administration has resuscitated the U.S.-backed efforts to combat the deadly opium crop and its heroin derivative in Afghanistan, triggering an increase in interdiction and eradication activity after counternarcotics operations nearly disappeared over the last few years.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wasteful spending and fraud involving the billions in American taxpayer funds devoted to the nearly 16-year-old war in Afghanistan can be fatal, warned the chief of the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a watchdog agency.
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Friday that they have filed terrorism and murder charges against a suspected member of Afghanistan’s Taliban whom they accuse of participating in an attack in which an American soldier was killed.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton looked at Russia’s effort to undermine the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam.
