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.
American taxpayer money has been mismanaged in Afghanistan to such an extent that it is nearly impossible to determine what percentage of the nearly $117 billion that the United States has spent on reconstruction efforts can be written off as waste, fraud, and abuse, a U.S. watchdog agency indicated.
Russia appears to have provided their former enemy the Afghan Taliban with “improved weaponry” as U.S. and Afghan officials have suggested, video footage obtained by CNN purportedly shows.
Former Navy SEAL and ex-Blackwater CEO Erik Prince talked about the Trump administration’s new strategy for Afghanistan on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.
Contents: Massive car bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, targets Hazaras, kills 36; Brief recent generational history of Afghanistan; Kabul bombing puts America’s Afghanistan policy into further confusion
A Taliban jihadist killed about 29 people and wounded 40 others in a suicide car bombing Monday that targeted Afghan intelligence staff onboard a bus in the country’s capital of Kabul, but it ended up murdering and wounding civilians, including women and children.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis told Congress this week that Pakistan will not receive some $50 million in outstanding military reimbursements from the 2016 fiscal year because the Pakistani government has not done enough to fight the Taliban and its allies, such as the Haqqani network.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. President Donald Trump, unimpressed by the Afghanistan war options presented to him during a White House meeting with his full national security team Wednesday, suggested they may have to go back to the drawing board to craft a strategy that does not mirror the failed ones employed by his predecessors, said an administration official.
The final fatality tally for jihadi attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan increased to 1,639, primarily fueled by victims who succumbed to their injuries, reveals an updated Breitbart News count of terror incidents during the period. With a
