The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army post near a military academy in the Afghan capital of Kabul that reportedly killed 11 soldiers and wounded 16 others.
Pakistan once again denied accusations that it harbors jihadists, this time shifting the blame towards Hollywood, saying America’s movie maker is “the biggest hub of pornography and terrorism,” reports Dawn.
Contents: New massive Taliban attack in Kabul Afghanistan kills 95; Trump doubles down on war on Taliban in Afghanistan
On Sunday, Pope Francis denounced the “terrible terrorist massacre” carried out by Islamic militants of the Taliban in the Afghan capital of Kabul Saturday. After his usual midday prayer of the Angelus in the Vatican Sunday, the Pope turned to
An ambulance laden with explosives blew up near a security checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, killing at least 95 and injuring at least 150 more, officials said.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has officially deemed as terrorists six jihadists accused of lending support to the Afghan Taliban and its al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network, two deadly groups allegedly harbored by Pakistan.
WASHINGTON, DC – Russian and Iranian military aid to the Taliban is granting the jihadist group the option to delay or move ahead with any peace negotiations and ultimately gain more influence under a potential power-sharing arrangement with Kabul, indicated an analyst on Thursday.
The Obama administration “issued policy guidance authorizing” the U.S. to waive a ban that prohibits the American military from funding Afghan security forces accused of engaging in the ancient custom of child rape and other gross violations of human rights, according to a watchdog agency.
The Pakistani government has rejected Afghan officials’ claim that the Haqqani Network, considered one of the most dangerous Pakistan-based terrorist groups, carried out an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan this weekend.
U.S. Army officials are weighing the implementation of an effort that may expand the American military footprint in Afghanistan by at least 1,000 to beyond the nearly 14,000 already there, as they are focused on pressuring the terrorist group to negotiate peace with Kabul, a major tenet of the Trump administration war strategy.
Pakistan has urged the Afghan Taliban and its al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network allies to go back to Afghanistan and join the “political mainstream” there in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s request that Islamabad take “decisive action” with the jihadist groups, Breitbart News has learned.
Contents: Multiple Afghanistan Taliban terror attacks leave ‘victory’ plans in tatters; Sunday’s attacks throw new doubts into claims of ‘victory’ in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — As gunmen went on a nighttime rampage through Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel on Saturday, Aziz Tayeb posted a desperate plea on Facebook — “Pray for me. I may die.”
KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban assault on the Intercontinental Hotel in Afghanistan’s capital killed at least six people, including a foreigner, and pinned security forces down for more than 13 hours before the last attacker was killed on Sunday, with the casualty toll expected to rise.
The supreme leader of the Afghan Taliban rubber stamped Pakistan-based “exploratory talks” on re-engaging in peace negotiations to end the more than 16-year-old war in Afghanistan, reports Reuters, signaling that the jihadist group’s battlefield successes in days of yore may be gone.
The Afghan National Army (ANA) would not last more than six months, and the Kabul government would collapse, if the United States were to withdraw its financial and military support, declared Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
U.S. President Donald Trump “thanked” Qatar for allegedly turning over a new leaf by taking “action to counter terrorism and extremism in all forms,” the White House revealed this week in a readout of a recent call between the American commander-in-chief and the Muslim country’s emir.
Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS), the country’s top intelligence agency, has detained a government employee for allegedly spying on behalf of state-sponsor of terror Iran, a move that appears to confirm that the pro-Taliban Islamic Republic has been expanding its covert operations in the U.S.-backed nation.
Pakistani officials have continued to protest President Donald Trump’s decision to cut over one billion in military funding in response to Islamabad’s sluggish response to fighting terror within its borders. In a call to an American commander this week, one official claimed that the “entire Pakistani nation felt betrayed” by Trump.
The Afghan government, funded in part by the American taxpayer, has refused to award contracts to exploit the country’s lucrative mining industry to Pentagon-supported international companies, including U.S.-based contractors, according to the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a watchdog agency.
The Trump administration’s unprecedented airstrike campaign against the Taliban’s top funding source, opium and heroin, may be driving the group to look for new ways to fund its terror operations in southern Afghanistan.
The government of Pakistan has released the father-in-law of the head of the Pakistani Taliban, himself a prominent jihadist voice, on bail shortly after losing billions in U.S. aid for not doing enough to combat terrorism.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry claimed to annul its alliance with the United States after the Trump administration reportedly suspended an estimated $1 billion in security aid for refusing to take decisive action against jihadists who are fighting American troops and their allies in Afghanistan.
The United States military wants to ramp up its campaign against the Taliban, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), and other jihadist groups in Afghanistan beyond the fighting season and into the winter months, declared the top American commander in the Middle East and South Asia.
President Donald Trump lashed out at Pakistan on Twitter just a few minutes past 7:00 a.m. Eastern time on New Year’s Day, expressing frustration at Islamabad’s inadequate efforts against terrorism and implying that U.S. foreign aid will be terminated as a result.
At least 40 people were killed and dozens more wounded in multiple blasts at a Shiite cultural center in Kabul on Thursday, officials said, in the latest deadly violence to hit the Afghan capital.
The U.S. military under President Donald Trump has intensified its involvement in Afghanistan this year, resulting in a record number of airstrikes targeting jihadists, an unprecedented offensive against the Taliban’s lucrative opium business, and a low number of successful terrorist attacks in the last few months of 2017.
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S.-NATO coalition in Afghanistan has pulverized 25 Taliban labs used to process opium and its deadly heroin derivative, depriving the narco-jihadists of $80 million in illegal drug proceeds in the first three weeks of an unprecedented counternarcotics air campaign.
American airstrikes have obliterated more Taliban labs in Afghanistan used to process opium and its deadly heroin derivative, dealing a $4 million blow to the narco-jihadist group’s economic engine, purportedly shows a video released by U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A).
The U.S. military and their Afghan counterparts have decimated high-ranking jihadi leaders in Afghanistan in recent weeks, including the commander of the Taliban’s deadly “Red Unit” and the second in command of the al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) faction.
The Pentagon wasted more than $62 million on procuring, operating, and maintaining inspection equipment intended to prevent illegal cross-border activity known to fuel the Taliban’s pocketbook in Afghanistan, revealed an American watchdog agency.
Taliban jihadists “cannot win” under the level of pressure U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy is applying on the terrorist group, declared Gen. John Nicholson, the top commander of American-NATO forces in Afghanistan, this week.
Many Al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked jihadists are living in luxury, enjoying the comforts of an indoor swimming pool, sun-splashed patios, large-screen televisions, king size beds, conjugal visits, and lavish gym facilities, courtesy of Saudi Arabia’s deradicalization center.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. John Nicholson, said Tuesday that “well over” 1,000 U.S. advisers would accompany Afghan battalions and commando units onto the battlefield.
The number of American troops fighting jihadists and training their Afghan counterparts to secure their own country has reached “approximately 14,000,” boosting the overall U.S.-NATO military footprint to more than 20,000, affirmed Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the Director of the Joint Staff (DJS).
The estimated production of opium and area under poppy cultivation has already reached unprecedented levels this year in Afghanistan, according to the United Nations.
The much-needed “tidal wave of air power” that a U.S.-supplied fleet of 159 new Black Hawk helicopters is expected to bring to the Afghan military’s war against the Taliban and other jihadists will not be fully operational until 2022, reports the Washington Post (WaPo).
The number of U.S.-NATO-led coalition troops primarily fighting the Taliban and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Afghanistan is expected to reach an estimated 25,000 troops next year, including 16,000 American service members.
Bowe Bergdahl deserves to go to prison for his crimes. The fact that he won’t spend a day in confinement, however, while decorated officers who stand on ethical principles will, weakens our military and casts doubt on the fairness of our military justice system.
Taliban jihadists in Afghanistan reportedly hacked off an 85-year-old woman’s limbs before murdering her on charges of cooperating and supporting the country’s government.
