The Associated Press reports on a horrific suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan, which killed 16 and wounded 39 at a funeral for victims of previous Taliban violence.
(Reuters) – Three American contractors were killed and a fourth was wounded by an Afghan soldier at the military airport in the capital Kabul, an Afghan air force official told Reuters on Thursday.
The Pajhwok Afghan News reported the Taliban captured Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) leader Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim along with 45 supporters. The United States detained Khadim at Guantanamo Bay, but released him to Afghanistan in 2007.
Since 2008, the world has become a significantly more dangerous place. In every region, new threats have emerged or old ones have reasserted them. The scorecard is clear: the bad guys are winning and America’s interests are being undermined daily.
The outgoing head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. General Michael Flynn, is not leaving quietly. The Daily Beast characterizes his departing comments as “slamming” and “unloading on” President Obama’s foreign policy, which Flynn sees as a timid, confused, politicized approach to a global threat that should be met with a Cold War-style campaign against an enemy as committed to “the destruction of freedom and the American way of life” as the Soviet Union ever was.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) , Feinstein said she is one democrate who does not support a “rapid pull out of american troops.” from Afghanistan because it will cause the Taliban and al Qaeda to
The continuing flare-ups on Saudi Arabia’s northern border with Iraq has led some to believe that the Islamic State is set on an eventual push towards the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
John Sundahl, former love interest to Britney Spears, and the man who assisted her with her public battle with alcohol addiction, has been killed in Afghanistan. Sundahl, 44, was reportedly working as a private contractor to shuttle officials across the
In a move that some are describing as purely symbolic, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened a preliminary investigation into war crimes committed by Israel during the summer 2014 Gaza war.
Many Afghans believe they will be worse off now that the U.S.-led coalition has ended its combat mission and the majority of its troops have been withdrawn.
Gen. John Campbell, the top commander of U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, said that a “younger piece” of the Taliban in Afghanistan may seek to join forces with the Islamic State despite the ideological differences between the two jihadist groups.
Afghan officials have confirmed that the Islamic State is operating in Afghanistan less than a month after the U.S.-led coalition formally ended its combat mission there.
German officials asked the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) organization to cancel a rally scheduled on Monday due to the terrorism attacks in Paris, France.
President Obama’s defenders are floating a theory that he didn’t have to say anything in Paris because the U.S. military has already spoken for him in Iraq and Afghanistan. There’s so much wrong with this dopey bit of excuse-making that it’s hard to know where to begin.
On Saturday, assorted jihadist Twitter and YouTube accounts released a video with Pakistani Taliban members pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS). To prove their loyalty, the men beheaded a man they claim was a Pakistani soldier.
The Taliban have been offered posts in the new Afghan government but have turned them down, the BBC understands.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Obama should be willing to “re-examine” his December 2016 deadline for withdrawing all U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan.
The last year was a bad one for international peace and security. Sure, there were bright spots in 2014. Colombia’s peace process looks hopeful. The last round of Iran’s nuclear talks was more successful than many think. Tunisia, though not yet out of the woods, showed the power of dialogue over violence. Afghanistan bucked its history and has, notwithstanding many challenges, a government of national unity.
The U.S.-led international force formally ended its 13-year combat mission in Afghanistan during the bloodiest year of the war, the longest in American history.
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will conduct a number of interviews and talk about the most important news of the week including UKIP leader Nigel Farage being named the Times of London “Man of the Year,” the ongoing war on cops taking place throughout the country, and the War in Afghanistan.
Since June of this year, the United States military has been stockpiling gear from Afghanistan at a strategically-located depot in Kuwait. The gear will be sent across the border into Iraq to fight against the severely underestimated Islamic State (ISIS, Daesh,
The Hill‘s Editor-in-Chief Bob Cusack said that President Obama has “clearly been at odds with senior leaders at the Pentagon” on Afghanistan on Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. Regarding Obama’s statement that Afghanistan won’t be a source
Friday at the Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe Bay, HI, President Barack Obama told U.S. troops that Afghanistan will no longer be a source of terrorist attacks. “We’ve been in continuous war now for over 13 years,” Obama said. “Next
U.S. troops in Afghanistan will remain vigilante on Christmas Day against an insurgent threat that “persists” even after the United States ended its 13-year combat mission there, an American soldier told Breitbart News.
Taliban jihadists are pushing into districts in southern Afghanistan that were secured by the U.S. military, now that foreign forces have left the area, reports The New York Times.
