Afghanistan

Earlier this week the Swedish government deported 50 Afghan migrants, the largest deportation of its kind in a single day.

Buttigieg ignored a question from Breitbart News over whether he still supported pulling out U.S. troops in Afghanistan within a year.

American forces did conduct a series of airstrikes this week against scores of Taliban narco-jihadis who heavily rely on lethal opium and its heroin activities to continue waging war.

Retired Army Col. Doug Macgregor told Tucker Carlson on Tuesday that there should be an end to global police missions.

A rocket attack was launched in central Kabul near the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attack. It was the first major terrorist attack in Kabul since President Donald Trump announced that negotiations with the Taliban are “dead.”

U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton, stepped down on Tuesday, nearly a year-and-a-half after he took the post in April 2018.

China’s Global Times regime newspaper used the 18th anniversary of the jihadist attacks on America on September 11, 2001, to call America a “disgrace” and complain Washington has prevented “greater achievements” in “global governance” since.

The Afghanistan-based Taliban and its global jihadi ally al-Qaeda remain formidable and more geographically dispersed today than during any other time since the 9/11 attacks.

CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert went after President Donald Trump after he cancelled a planned meeting with Taliban officials over the weekend. 

Fully integrating Afghanistan into China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will require the construction of rail lines through the southern part of the South Asian country, home to the Taliban’s primary stronghold and the nation’s top opium-producing region.

Green Beret Rep. Mike Waltz said Trump made the right call over the weekend when he decided to call off peace talks with the Taliban.

President Donald Trump said Monday that talks with the Taliban about peace in Afghanistan were over, citing recent attacks.

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he had canceled a secret meeting with major Taliban leaders at Camp David. He said that the Taliban was trying to “build false leverage” in the ongoing peace talks.

President Donald Trump and top aides are expected to debate next week how many refugees they will invite to the United States in 2020 — and progressives fear the refugee number may be zero. 

Mayor Pete Buttigieg does not appear to have engaged in combat during his six months deployed in Afghanistan, despite months of ignoring multiple media requests about the issue, including from Breitbart News.

Army Sergeant First Class Dustin B. Ard, 31, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, died of wounds sustained in combat in Zabul Province, Afghanistan.

VILLEURBANNE, France (AP) – Police detained an Afghan man seeking asylum in France after one person was fatally stabbed and nine others injured Saturday outside a subway station in a suburb of Lyon, authorities said. The reason for the attack was unclear.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won a Nobel Peace Prize for giving terrorists unelected seats in Congress, disregarding the rejection of the Colombian people.

On Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” President Trump stated that the U.S. will keep a presence of 8,600 troops in Afghanistan if a deal with the Taliban is reached. Trump said, [relevant remarks begin around 10:20]

A Marine veteran who lost his legs during combat in Afghanistan was able to make it to the top of a Utah mountain thanks to the help of his fellow Marine.

The prospective peace pact between the United States and the Taliban may prompt thousands of members of the narco-jihadi group to defect to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) faction in Afghanistan, the Times reported Tuesday.

Tuesday on “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) issued a warning about the United States withdrawing from Afghanistan. Graham applauded Trump’s efforts to lower the cost of the war in Afghanistan, but said pulling troops out will result in

The Taliban maintained on Monday that a peace agreement with the United States to end the nearly 18-year-old war in Afghanistan is coming soon.

U.S. President Donald Trump stressed this week that there would be no complete withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan, saying the United States would “always” have to keep an eye on the Taliban.

Clandestine Afghan militias paid and supported by the CIA present an “obstacle” to U.S. peace-seeking efforts intended to end America’s longest war, according to a study released on Wednesday.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged during an interview with CBS This Morning on Tuesday that the Islamic State has regained strength in the Middle East and elsewhere, even though their “caliphate” of stolen Syrian and Iraqi territory has been destroyed.

The demise of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) caliphate in Iraq and Syria is reportedly pushing some members of the jihadi organization into countries with substantial Muslim populations.

Corrupt leaders in Afghanistan may still be inflating the number of Afghan troops receiving U.S.-funded salaries with so-called “ghost,” or nonexistent personnel, an audit revealed this week.

“We’ve been a peacekeeper there, in a way, for 19 years and at a certain point you have to say, ‘That’s long enough,'” Trump said.

Afghanistan’s president this week vowed to take “revenge” and “eliminate” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) safe havens in the country after the group killed 63 civilians at a wedding, including children.