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KABUL – The Afghan delegation in Washington was told that the US will provide 37 Black Hawk helicopters and two A-29 Super Tucano fixed-wing attack aircraft to Afghanistan, TOLOnews reported Monday. The US officials also assured the Afghan delegation that 200 US contractors, mostly working with the military aircraft, will …

KABUL – The US has reiterated its commitment to continue providing critical security assistance to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) amid escalating Taliban violence in the country. US Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin in a meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Washington stated: “The United States …

KABUL – The United States has cautioned the Taliban that the world will not accept a government imposed by force in Afghanistan as an intelligence report warned that the current setup in Kabul could collapse within six months after the American withdrawal. At a Tuesday afternoon news briefing in Washington, …

SIGAR, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, wrote in its latest report that Afghan women have made significant progress since 2001. The report noted improvements in health, education, access to justice, political participation and economic participation, and said that they had made significant progress in these areas. Health: …

KABUL – A report of the NATO Defence College in Rome has said in a major new report that Pakistan doesn’t want the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, pushing Taliban to make concessions for a political deal but outside players like India are against an interim government. The 104-page report is …

KABUL – The head of US Central Command, Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, said on Sunday that the US will seek to “keep pressure” on Daesh and Al Qaida, the Military Times reported. “One thing I probably need to emphasize is we will still do everything we can to keep pressure …

Two years after the start of the first round of talks between US diplomats and Taliban representatives, the horrific eclipse of the Taliban’s return to power and, in a worse scenario, the group’s domination of Afghanistan and the return of the Islamic Emirate is feared the most. Of all the …

KABUL – US Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin on Thursday said the US military has already begun conducting combat operations and surveillance in Afghanistan from outside the country’s borders, but he did not mention whether the United States military will still conduct airstrikes in the country to defend population centers …

KABUL – Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that Pakistan has refused to give its military bases to the US amid the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. In an interview with Geo News, FM Qureshi said Pakistan wants a stable Afghanistan, but there are some elements who do …

KABUL – The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said this week that it has “completed between 16-25 percent of the entire retrograde process.” CENTCOM said in a statement United States Department of Defense has retrograded the equivalent of approximately 160 C-17 loads of material out of Afghanistan and has turned over …