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Taliban Target Provincial Afghan Cities In Response To US Strikes
Taliban terrorists have switched strategy from targeting rural areas of Afghanistan to attacking provincial cities, in response to increased U.S. air strikes after the United States said it was ending its longest war, three terrorist commanders said.
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Donald Trump's South Asia Strategy Working: US Secretary Of State
US President Donald Trump's South Asia strategy is working, his top diplomat asserted today stating that many of the Taliban terrorists now see that they cannot win militarily.
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11 Afghan Soldiers Killed In Latest Attack In Kabul
Terrorists on Monday raided a military academy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, killing 11 soldiers, the fourth major attack in a spate of violence over the past nine days that is putting a new, more aggressive U.S. strategy under the spotlight.
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US Hits 'Taliban Where It Hurts' By Bombing Drug Labs
US Forces have launched airstrikes on drug-making laboratories in Afghanistan as part a new joint strategy with the Afghan military to cut off funding for the Taliban, authorities said Monday.
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President Trump To Address Nation On New Afghan Strategy
President Donald Trump will announce his decision on America's strategy in Afghanistan in an address to US troops and the nation Monday night, almost 16 years after the war began.
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With US General Under Fire, Afghans Fear Being Abandoned By Trump
Afghans are alarmed by widespread reports that President Donald Trump has threatened to fire Gen. John Nicholson Jr., the highly regarded U.S. military commander in this war-torn country, and that Trump has also delayed choosing a new military and political strategy Afghans have awaited anxiously for the past six months
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Donald Trump, Frustrated By Afghan War, Suggests Firing US Commander: Officials
President Donald Trump's doubts about the war in Afghanistan has led to a delay in completing a new US strategy in South Asia, skepticism that included a suggestion that the US military commander in the region be fired, US officials said on Wednesday.
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Indira Gandhi Persuaded Zia-ul-Haq To Join Regional Strategy During Afghan Crisis: CIA
Worried over Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi tried to persuade then Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq in 1980 to join an Indian-sponsored regional strategy to effectively deal with the "occupation", according to a declassified CIA report.
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Barack Obama Expects 'Shift' in Russia's Syria Strategy
US President Barack Obama said today he expected a gradual shift in Russia's strategy on Syria as it counted the cost of keeping President Bashar al-Assad in power.
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Afghanistan Harnesses Anti-Taliban Militias as Insurgency Spreads
The commander known as Pakhsaparan, or the "wall breaker", barked out commands at his bandolier-draped fighters, part of a patchwork of anti-Taliban militias in northern Afghanistan seeking to augment hard-pressed Afghan forces in a strategy fraught with risk.
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United States Struggles to Resolve Afghan Election Crisis
The United States struggled Friday to find a path out of a presidential election crisis in Afghanistan that has jeopardized chances for a democratic transfer of power, a central plank of President Barack Obama's strategy to leave behind a stable state after the withdrawal of most U.S. troops at year's end.
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Pakistan army battles legacy of mistrust in Taliban heartland
In a Pakistan army base high in the mountains on the Afghan frontier, a general explains a strategy for fighting the Taliban he calls simply "WHAM".
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US, Afghanistan reach deal on strategic pact
The US and Afghanistan reached a deal on Sunday on a long-delayed strategic partnership agreement that ensures Americans will provide military and financial support to the Afghan people for at least a decade beyond 2014, the deadline for most foreign forces to withdraw. The pact is key to the US exit strategy in Afghanistan because it establishes ...
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US, NATO ready plan to hand off frontline combat
The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending. Top military and diplomatic officials from the US and NATO allies are meeting this week to finalize the combat handover program and a strategy...
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No change in Afghan strategy: Hillary Clinton
The Obama administration said Monday the war strategy in Afghanistan remains intact despite the mass killing of Afghan civilians on Sunday, allegedly by an American soldier. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the episode "inexplicable" but insisted it won't force the U.S. to change course.
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Taliban Target Provincial Afghan Cities In Response To US Strikes
Taliban terrorists have switched strategy from targeting rural areas of Afghanistan to attacking provincial cities, in response to increased U.S. air strikes after the United States said it was ending its longest war, three terrorist commanders said.
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Donald Trump's South Asia Strategy Working: US Secretary Of State
US President Donald Trump's South Asia strategy is working, his top diplomat asserted today stating that many of the Taliban terrorists now see that they cannot win militarily.
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11 Afghan Soldiers Killed In Latest Attack In Kabul
Terrorists on Monday raided a military academy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, killing 11 soldiers, the fourth major attack in a spate of violence over the past nine days that is putting a new, more aggressive U.S. strategy under the spotlight.
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US Hits 'Taliban Where It Hurts' By Bombing Drug Labs
US Forces have launched airstrikes on drug-making laboratories in Afghanistan as part a new joint strategy with the Afghan military to cut off funding for the Taliban, authorities said Monday.
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President Trump To Address Nation On New Afghan Strategy
President Donald Trump will announce his decision on America's strategy in Afghanistan in an address to US troops and the nation Monday night, almost 16 years after the war began.
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With US General Under Fire, Afghans Fear Being Abandoned By Trump
Afghans are alarmed by widespread reports that President Donald Trump has threatened to fire Gen. John Nicholson Jr., the highly regarded U.S. military commander in this war-torn country, and that Trump has also delayed choosing a new military and political strategy Afghans have awaited anxiously for the past six months
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Donald Trump, Frustrated By Afghan War, Suggests Firing US Commander: Officials
President Donald Trump's doubts about the war in Afghanistan has led to a delay in completing a new US strategy in South Asia, skepticism that included a suggestion that the US military commander in the region be fired, US officials said on Wednesday.
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Indira Gandhi Persuaded Zia-ul-Haq To Join Regional Strategy During Afghan Crisis: CIA
Worried over Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi tried to persuade then Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq in 1980 to join an Indian-sponsored regional strategy to effectively deal with the "occupation", according to a declassified CIA report.
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Barack Obama Expects 'Shift' in Russia's Syria Strategy
US President Barack Obama said today he expected a gradual shift in Russia's strategy on Syria as it counted the cost of keeping President Bashar al-Assad in power.
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Afghanistan Harnesses Anti-Taliban Militias as Insurgency Spreads
The commander known as Pakhsaparan, or the "wall breaker", barked out commands at his bandolier-draped fighters, part of a patchwork of anti-Taliban militias in northern Afghanistan seeking to augment hard-pressed Afghan forces in a strategy fraught with risk.
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United States Struggles to Resolve Afghan Election Crisis
The United States struggled Friday to find a path out of a presidential election crisis in Afghanistan that has jeopardized chances for a democratic transfer of power, a central plank of President Barack Obama's strategy to leave behind a stable state after the withdrawal of most U.S. troops at year's end.
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Pakistan army battles legacy of mistrust in Taliban heartland
In a Pakistan army base high in the mountains on the Afghan frontier, a general explains a strategy for fighting the Taliban he calls simply "WHAM".
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US, Afghanistan reach deal on strategic pact
The US and Afghanistan reached a deal on Sunday on a long-delayed strategic partnership agreement that ensures Americans will provide military and financial support to the Afghan people for at least a decade beyond 2014, the deadline for most foreign forces to withdraw. The pact is key to the US exit strategy in Afghanistan because it establishes ...
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US, NATO ready plan to hand off frontline combat
The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending. Top military and diplomatic officials from the US and NATO allies are meeting this week to finalize the combat handover program and a strategy...
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No change in Afghan strategy: Hillary Clinton
The Obama administration said Monday the war strategy in Afghanistan remains intact despite the mass killing of Afghan civilians on Sunday, allegedly by an American soldier. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the episode "inexplicable" but insisted it won't force the U.S. to change course.
