Taliban not to attend Turkey-led talks on April 16: spokes...
April 13 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The Taliban is "not ready" yet to participate in the Turkey-led conference on the scheduled date of April 16, due to their "consultatio...
US officials to meet with NATO as Afghanistan deadline loo...
April 13 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg discussed the Russian military buildup near...
Malaysia in talks to double palm oil shipments to Afghanis...
April 12 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Malaysia, the world’s second-biggest palm oil producer, is in talks to boost exports of the tropical oil to Afghanistan, accordin...
Istanbul conference and the Afghan peace plan
April 12 ,2021
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By: Dr Moonis Ahmar
Following the Moscow conference and the Heart of Asia conference held in Dushanbe, the Istanbul peace initiative is scheduled to be hel...
State Department says preparations underway for Afghan con...
April 10 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The U.S. State Department on Thursday said preparations were underway for a conference in Turkey to help Afghan negotiators make progre...
Taliban attack on covert US base in Afghanistan complicate...
April 9 ,2021
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By: Barbara Starr, Zachary Cohen, Kylie Atwood and Kev
In one of the most significant attacks against US forces in Afghanistan recently, CNN has learned that the Taliban twice targeted one o...
President Ghani defends his peace plan
April 8 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Afghanistan, and the lasting peace and stability which are hoped to come to Afghanistan would need the guarantee of the UN Security Cou...
Afghanistan: A difficult road ahead, but change is inescap...
April 8 ,2021
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By: Abdallah Al Dardari and Zafiris Tzannatos
Afghanistan has made hard won gains in the last two decades, including the increase in education enrollments, expansion in health servi...
How liberal values became a business in Afghanistan
April 7 ,2021
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By: Ezzatullah Mehrdad
Over the last two decades, the United States injected millions of dollars and deployed over 700,000 troops aimed at counterinsurgency a...
Afghan president proposes three-phase peace roadmap: Repor...
April 6 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani will put forward a three-phase peace roadmap for Afghanistan during a proposed meeting in Tu...
US looks to build on secret portions of Taliban deal to re...
April 6 ,2021
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By: Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Afghan security forces at an outpost in Kandahar, on the edge of the Panjwai district, in January. The Taliban have overtaken much of...
Taliban claim shooting down helicopter in southern Afghani...
April 3 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A file photo shows an Afghan military military helicopter.
Taliban militants have claimed responsibility for the reported downing...
Getting wrong the right way to get out of Afghanistan
April 3 ,2021
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By: Jeffrey A. Stacey
With President Biden nears a decision on whether to keep American forces in Afghanistan, the president should be listening to Defense S...
Biden’s Afghanistan dilemma
April 2 ,2021
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By: Ian Prasad Philbrick
U.S. soldiers at a checkpoint in Afghanistan’s Wardak province
Is America’s longest war finally coming to an end?
Tha...
Russian FM to visit Pakistan to discuss Afghan peace, regi...
April 2 ,2021
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By: Kamran Yousaf
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will travel to Pakistan next week on a visit that appears to be focused on the Afghan endgame an...
Turkish officer assumes NATO-led office in Afghanistan
April 2 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Turkish Brigadier General Selcuk Yurtsizoglu on Tuesday assumed command of the NATO-led unit Train, Advise, Assist Command-Capital in A...
DoD spent hundreds of millions on air transport in Afghani...
April 1 ,2021
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By: Stephen Losey
The Defense Department lost out on an unknown amount in reimbursement costs by failing to ask coalition partners to repay the United St...
Afghanistan’s president says will step aside if election i...
April 1 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Ghani has resisted the proposal for a new transitional government in Afghanistan [File: Mariam Zuhaib/AP]
Afghanistan’s Pres...
The many pitfalls of the new US proposal for Afghan peace
April 1 ,2021
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By: Mohsin Dawar
Afgan President Ashraf Ghani, center, meets with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, center left, and their delegations, at the pres...
The Taliban think they have already won, peace deal or not
March 31 ,2021
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By: Adam Nossiter
Members of a Taliban red unit, an elite force, in Laghman Province’s Alingar district in Afghanistan, last year
The Taliban&...
PM Oli is paying Nepal faction leaders back with their own...
Ever since the Supreme Court revived the CPN-UML and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) on March 7, KP Sharma Oli, the UML ch...
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