Implications of Soleimani killing on Afghan security
January 11 ,2020
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By: Ihsanullah Omarkhail
If Iran goes to war with the United States in retaliation for the killing of Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, it will lose, as the...
Afghan military helicopter crash kills 2
January 10 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
An Afghan military helicopter crashed on Wednesday in the country's western Farah province, killing the two pilots on board, a defense...
Afghan peace talks at risk amid rising US-Iran confrontati...
January 9 ,2020
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By: Niala Mohammad & Rikar Hussein
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (L) and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
The escalation between the United States and Iran over...
Regional confrontations spark fears of proxy war in Afghan...
January 8 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Hundreds of people in western Herat province on Tuesday took out to the streets, expressing worries over the recent tension between US...
Afghanistan fears violence in region after Iranian general...
January 6 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Afghanistan has expressed concern over a possible increase in violence in the region after the killing of an Iranian general in Iraq on...
Killing of Soleimani puts Afghanistan in tight spot
January 6 ,2020
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By: SAM Report
The assassination of a top Iranian commander by the US has put neighboring Afghanistan in a precarious situation to walk a tight rope o...
Withdraw from Afghanistan, ceasefire or not
January 6 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
About 14,000 American soldiers were absent from their family Christmas dinner tables this holiday season. But they could be back with t...
US combat deaths in Afghanistan highest in years
January 3 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Seventeen service members died in Afghanistan in 2019, the highest number since 2015, according to a year-end tally compiled by the Dep...
Taliban unbound?
January 1 ,2020
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By: Touqir Hussain
After having fought a flawed war in Afghanistan for 18 years — termed by scholars Samuel Moyn and Stephen Wertheim as “the...
US GENERAL DEFENDS AFGHAN WAR, SAYS OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED
December 21 ,2019
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By: SAM Staff
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley defended the 18-year war in Afghanistan, saying that the war in Afghanistan has achieved its o...
Photos released inside US Bagram air base’s passenger term...
December 18 ,2019
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By: SAM Staff
Photos released by the Pentagon on Thursday show the wrecked interior of the unfinished passenger terminal at Bagram, a massive US base...
Afghanistan becoming America’s 21st century Vietnam
December 18 ,2019
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By: SAM Report
The US-Taliban talks for ending war in Afghanistan resumed after a three month hiatus in Doha recently. The talks restarted after a sur...
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