MONITORING (SW) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken will testify at least twice in Congress next week as lawmakers examine the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, after Senate and House of Representatives committees promised aggressive investigations.
MONITORING (SW) – Our war in Afghanistan is over, said the top US envoy for the war-torn country as Washington moves diplomatic mission from Kabul to Doha, Qatar.
MONITORING (SW) – The US has said it is aware of civilian casualties report following an unmanned airstrike in the Afghanistan capital Kabul on Sunday.
MONITORING (SW) – US President Joe Biden confirmed Thursday that attacks outside Kabul airport in Afghanistan which killed at least 13 American soldiers were carried out by the ISIS-K terrorist group, the Afghan affiliate of Daesh/ISIS, and promised to respond with “force and precision.”
KABUL (SW) – The top US diplomat in Kabul told Salam Watandar in an exclusive interview Washington was not giving up on peace drive despite ensuing Taliban led advances on towns and villages.
MONITORING (SW) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration will launch a new program to resettle certain Afghans as refugees in the United States, reported Reuters.
MONITORING (SW) – In its latest report, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said on Friday.
MONITORING (SW) – The United States will to continue to carry out airstrikes to support Afghan forces facing attack from the insurgent Taliban, a regional U.S. commander said on Sunday as U.S. and other international forces have drawn down troops in Afghanistan.
MONITORING (SW) – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday that the Afghan security forces’ first job was to make sure they could slow the Taliban’s momentum before attempting to retake territory, as Afghan forces plan to consolidate forces around strategically important parts of the country.
KABUL (SW) – The U.S. President Joe Biden assured Afghan President Ashraf Ghani of diplomatic and humanitarian support on Friday.
MONITORING (SW) – The U.S. carried out airstrikes across Afghanistan in the last several days as part of an effort to support the Afghan security forces fighting Taliban insurgents, the Pentagon has said.
KABUL (SW) – A number of leading foreign diplomatic missions in Kabul on Monday called for an ‘urgent end’ to the Taliban offensives in Afghanistan.
