Donald Trump has sent 3,000+ troops into Afghanistan to continue fighting the Taliban even though American combat against the Taliban “officially stopped” in 2014. The United States still has around 8,000+ special forces in Afghanistan and with the news of more soldiers coming, the Taliban have responded. They claimed that if America sent more troops in, that Afghanistan would become… Read more »
The Afghan Taliban has warned Donald Trump is “wasting” American soldiers’ lives after the US president approved sending thousands more troops to the war-ravaged country. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said Afghanistan would become a “graveyard” for the US on Tuesday after dismissing Trump’s strategy as vague and offering “nothing new”. “If America doesn’t withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, soon Afghanistan will become another graveyard for this superpower in the 21st… Read more »
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)Taliban and ISIS forces launched a joint attack on a village in northern Afghanistan, killing 50 people including women and children, local officials claimed. The village, in the Mirzawalang area of Sar-e-Pul province, came under attack by militants from the two groups, Mohammad Noor Rahmani, the head of Sar-e-Pul provincial council said. Zabiullah Amani, a provincial spokesman, said… Read more »
(CNN)Like two US Presidents before him, Donald Trump has a plan to win the United States’ longest-running war. In a long-awaited speech this month, Trump made it clear the US will remain a major actor in Afghanistan for years to come — doubling down on the conflict with a likely troop increase — but he also called on other countries in… Read more »
In announcing last week that more U.S. forces were headed to Afghanistan, President Donald Trump remarked that “the American people are weary of war without victory.” He’s right about the weariness. But that very weariness is encouraged by the widespread belief that Afghanistan is the kind of war in which there is going to be a moment of victory, if only the… Read more »