President Donald Trump inherited an Afghanistan war in much worse shape than the one Barack Obama took over from George W. Bush, a conflict he made his own soon after taking office in 2009.
Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday that, without more U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan, the situation will “continue to deteriorate” and the U.S. will lose the gains already made there.
President Donald Trump is deciding between two rival ideas – one more “kinetic” and the other “less kinetic” – for U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, according to a senior White House official.
On Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily, SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam asked Deputy Adviser to the President Dr. Sebastian Gorka about proposals to send more troops into Afghanistan.
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American senior and foreigner policy advisers are reportedly proposing urging President Donald Trump to boost the U.S military footprint in Afghanistan by at least 3,000 troops to force the resilient and resurgent Taliban to negotiate peace with the Afghan government.
United States-backed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani welcomed the return to the country’s capital of a notorious U.S.-designated global terrorist known as the “Butcher of Kabul” who has urged his alleged Taliban “brothers” to “stop this pointless holy war” in Afghanistan, therefore ending “all reasons for the presence of foreign troops.”
On Thursday, a Defense Department official told the Senate that the Pentagon has nearly completed its review of U.S. war plans in Afghanistan and will offer a set of recommendations to President Donald Trump next week.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) alleges that it captured the opium-rich Chaprahr district in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province from the Taliban, following clashes between the two groups that left dozens dead, including a nine-year-old girl.
The United States and NATO are contemplating deploying additional troops to Afghanistan as security conditions primarily fueled by clashes with the Taliban continue to deteriorate.
The American government placed a revised version of the U.S. counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan “on hold for more than two years” while cultivation and production of opium and its deadly heroin derivative has reached historic levels in the war-ravaged nation, reports a watchdog agency.
It is hard to argue that the U.S.-backed Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) lack the will to defend their country when they have incurred a historic number of fatalities in the past year, primarily at the hands of a resurgent Taliban, the most potent jihadist group in Afghanistan.
The United States will deploy about 6,000 American soldiers to Europe and Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Army.
Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan is growing stronger with the resurgence of the Taliban in recent years and “remains a direct threat” to America more than a decade and a half after the United States began targeting both terrorist groups in response to 9/11, an expert tells House lawmakers.
Jihadists from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan have attacked Taliban militants in the northern part of the country over the lucrative opium trafficking business, reportedly revealed a spokesman for the governor of Jawzjan province where the clashes took place.
Royal Marine Alexander Blackman – better known as ‘Marine A’ – will be released from jail tonight, weeks after having his murder conviction overturned.
The Islamic State’s branch in Afghanistan is likely involved in the lucrative trade of opium and its deadly heroin derivative despite its claims to the contrary, experts tell Breitbart News.
An estimated 300 U.S. Marines are heading to a Taliban stronghold in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand, one of the deadliest regions of the ongoing war for coalition forces located along the Pakistan border, reports Marine Corps Times.
U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster urged Russia, Pakistan, and other countries in the region over the weekend not to lend support to the Afghan Taliban in their efforts to “perpetuate” the already very long war in Afghanistan.
The U.S. military using the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal to target Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in Afghanistan is “an immense atrocity against the Afghan people,” proclaimed the former president of the country.
The Kabul-based ministry of interior (MoI) has refuted claims by the police chief of Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province that Russian military officers are training Afghan Taliban jihadists “in tactical maneuvers and planting of mines,” reports TOLO News.
On the eve of the dropping a massive 21,600-pound bomb in Afghanistan targeting Islamic State (ISIS) fighters from Iraq and Syria hiding in an underground network in that country, Trump announced on Wednesday he is sending National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster there to assess the situation for troops on the ground.
An American special forces soldier was killed while combating Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in their Afghanistan stronghold, located in the eastern part of the country along its border with Pakistan, revealed the U.S./NATO-led international coalition.
Russia has dismissed accusations by the top American commander in Europe that Moscow may be supplying Taliban jihadists in Afghanistan as they continue to fight against the U.S.-NATO-led coalition in the war-torn country.
Taliban jihadists have reportedly conquered the strategically important city of Sangin in Helmand province, allowing the terrorists to connect to the group’s birthplace Kandahar province.
The Kabul government has expressed support for the United States’ call for more foreign troops in Afghanistan as security conditions continue to deteriorate in the war-devastated country, primarily at the hands of the Taliban.
Taliban jihadists generated $15 million for terrorist activities in 2016 from harvesting Afghanistan’s “green gold,” pistachios, over 32,000 hectares in the Kushki Kuhna district of the country’s western Herat province.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A top Republican lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives has reintroduced a bill for the American government to officially designate “untrustworthy ally” Pakistan as a state-sponsor of terrorism, insisting that Islamabad has long “aided and abetted enemies of the United States.”
The Afghan Taliban and the Islamic State branch in the region do not consider each other rivals, the national security adviser (NSA) to the president of Afghanistan told the Times of India (TOI), echoing other assessments of the relationship between the two Sunni jihadist groups.
A five-member Afghan Taliban delegation reportedly visited China last month at the behest of Beijing, which has been participating in efforts to bring the terrorist group to the negotiating table with the Afghan government.
Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) have dramatically reduced the number of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in Afghanistan by nearly 80 percent, from a peak of nearly 3,000 to about 700 now, according to the American military.
China has once again denied reports that its military has carried out patrols inside its war-ravaged neighbor Afghanistan.
Suicide bombers linked to the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) faction of the Pakistani Taliban killed at least seven people, including a child, and injured dozens of others inside a court complex in Pakistan’s volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, a jihadist hotbed on the country’s border with Afghanistan.
President Trump’s choice of H.R. McMaster for National Security Adviser sent two important messages to everyone familiar with General McMaster’s background.
A former Georgia Republican congressman, who was one of President Donald Trump’s strongest campaign surrogates, told Breitbart News that the President needs to reform how The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the State Department distribute foreign aid.
Russia, which no longer denies its engagement with the Taliban jihadists fighting American service members and the Islamic State, recently expressed dismay towards the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.
A mob of up to 300 armed men in eastern Afghanistan’s Nuristan province reportedly “lynched” a young couple. The mob allegedly forced police officers, who had arrested the married woman and her lover for eloping, to surrender the accused adulterers over to the angry horde.
Pakistan has launched a concerted campaign to push Afghan refugees out of the country, a move considered the “world’s largest unlawful” removal of refugees, according to a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report that warns the move may further strain conflict between the two neighboring countries.
The 2017 terrorism forecast for the United States and the rate at which Americans are being radicalized at home is “alarming,” according to a monthly assessment by the House Homeland Security Committee.
A U.S. Army Special Forces soldier was severely wounded in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, according to the top U.S. and NATO troop commander in the country.
