New Afghanistan pact means Americas longest war will last.
Deal ensures that President Obama will pass off the Afghanistan war and his new war in Iraq and Syria to his successor.. Islamic State (Isis) after the 2011 US withdrawal from Iraq, the accord is also a hedge against the resurgence of the Taliban and a recognition that 13 years of bloody, expensive war have failed to vanquish the insurgency.. Could we please not forgive Sarah Palin?. The Guardian view on Afghanistans new government: better late than never.
Obama to reveal Isis strategy ��� but pledges no Iraq war.
Obama went out of his way to stress that the new offensive would not represent the unravelling of his most prized foreign policy achievement, the extrication of his country from costly and bloody wars abroad, reiterating his administrations. The government is increasingly confident that a broad-based new government will be formed in Baghdad this week, and hopes that this will encourage the Sunni population in Iraq to support efforts to tackle Isis in Sunni-held areas.
ISIS Fighting Against Taliban: The Enemy of My Enemy Is ���?
In a surprising twist, reports are emerging this week that the Islamic State (IS) is making inroads into Afghanistan, and has engaged in fighting against the Taliban there. Afghan government officials confirmed on Monday that IS has been actively.
Hard National Security Choices
The Afghan National Security Forces have also reclaimed the central district of Maidan Wardak province for the first time in 13 years, TOLOnews reports, pushing the Taliban out of what was considered its provincial center. The AP notes that elsewhere.
Obama and Cameron warn Congress over Iran sanctions vote
The president also claimed that fresh sanctions legislation would be counter-productive because the international coalition against Iran would begin to splinter. ���[Iran] would be able to maintain that the reason that they ended negotiations was because.
Why Im staying in Afghanistan | World news | The Guardian
. foreigners remain. Emma Graham-Harrison talks to them about the war-torn country they have come to love.. But as British troops withdraw after a 13-year military occupation, and other Nato allies send their forces home, a small band of expats has stayed throughout the turmoil... Communist secret police, civil war militias, Taliban vice police and now Nato soldiers have all passed through its gates in the years since 1977, when Father Moretti first flew into the city.
Kabul suicide attack on UK diplomats leaves six dead - The.
Briton among casualties of Taliban attack on British embassy vehicle between Jalalabad and Kabul.. It will also give the international community an opportunity to demonstrate its continuing commitment to Afghanistan, as the majority of foreign combat troops withdraw after 13 years of war against the Islamist Taliban and their. As foreign troops withdraw, Taliban militants have intensified assaults on government troops, particularly in provinces in the east and south.
ISI cultivated Taliban to counter Indian interests
Musharraf said Pakistani spies in the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI) cultivated the Taliban after 2001 because Karzais government was dominated by non-Pashtuns, the countrys largest ethnic group, and officials who were thought to.
Taliban peace talks a threat to womens rights in Afghanistan, Oxfam warns
Afghan women are at risk of being excluded from peace talks with Taliban insurgents, leaving many fearful that, 13 years after a US-led force ousted the extremists from power, the men who banned them from schools and work could once again rein in their.
Afghans fleeing war now face brutal winter
This week the U.S. and NATO are formally ending their combat mission, 13 years after the invasion that toppled the Taliban in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.. at greater risk. The Sangin fighting began in June after Afghan forces replaced.
FPs Situation Report: Talibans year starts off badly; Tensions between the.
The Guardians Julian Borger: ���The number of strategic nuclear warheads deployed by the US and Russia actually increased last year, and both countries are spending many billions of dollars a year modernising their arsenals. Against. Al Arabiyas.
Kabul suicide attack on UK diplomats leaves six dead
���The right way going forward is to have a stable Afghan government that represents its people and I believe you see that in the recent round of Afghanistan presidential elections,��� the spokesman said.. It will also give the international community.
Afghan presidential candidate hints at parallel government.
Abdullah Abdullah says he may form his own cabinet and claims victory in crisis-hit poll after preliminary official results give large lead to his rival Ashraf Ghani.
News Roundup and Notes: February 10, 2015
Before the start of business, a curated summary of the most current national security developments.. Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq has called on the U.S.-led coalition to be ���more serious, more effective,��� saying that the Iraqi.
Afghan insurgents want peace deal, says ex-Taliban minister
Previous rounds of Afghan peace talks split the Taliban rank and file and the latest effort in Qatar collapsed in June when the government of President Hamid Karzai objected to the display of a Taliban flag outside its office in Doha and a plaque on the.. If I had power I would have been negotiating with Bin Laden 20 years ago and trying to draw Mr Assad towards peace now..build trust to begin with and the road after that is level.. Those that want war will have war.
Afghanistan: what will happen when the troops - The Guardian
It would be a challenge for any leader: balance the books after years of systemic corruption, battle a resurgent rebellion and form a government despite entrenched ethnic divisions. But Afghans new. There is real fear of gains being lost in the sphere of womens rights, with activists warning that women could be excluded from future peace talks with the Taliban, endangering their status and protection. Peace talks.. The Afghan War will be won by silver, not bullets.
Afghan president dismisses most of his ministers
Not long after the news conference, reports began circulating about Zahirs resignation. A senior government official said that the new administration had sought the generals resignation for some time and that it was not directly related to the most.
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A split between the White House and Senate threatens to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal. Senators on.. Which is that more than 13 years after 9/11, after spending trillions of dollars on what was billed as an all-out War on Terror, we are losing.
Talks could begin between Taliban and Afghan government after 13 years of war
After more than a decade of war, formal talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban will begin in the coming weeks, the countrys president has told key aides. According to a senior government official, President Ashraf Ghani believes meetings .
Beijing is becoming a US deputy in Afghanistan
But then something different happened as China began to provide some sort of mediating role and directly involved itself in Afghani politics by holding talks with both the Afghan government and the Taliban. As the US prepares to withdraw from.
The Guardian view on Afghanistan: war quickens as.
Afghan president Ashraf Ghani speaks during a ceremony at the parliament in Kabul on 20 January 2015. No man could be better prepared for the task of pulling Afghanistan out of the mire of war, poverty and backwardness.
US and Afghanistan reach deal to ensure American post.
Youre viewing the Guardians new website.. Years of furtive efforts to broker talks with the Taliban have not achieved any tangible results, and the insurgent group have vowed to keep fighting while there are any foreign boots on Afghan soil.. paves the way for a residual US force in Afghanistan on an open-ended stay, it represents a political victory for the Obama administration, which had vowed to a domestic US audience it would bring the war to a conclusion.
Afghanistan: the real danger now is that the world will forget.
But many international partners are disillusioned after 13 years of administrative corruption. Although Ghani represents a new start after Hamid Karzais discredited presidency, it is not clear yet whether this will be enough to��.
Afghanistan Conference: US, UK, Pledge to Support Fledgling Government
John Kerry speaks with Afghanistan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah during the London Conference on Afghanistan on Dec. 4, 2014.. The meeting took place a few months after a contested election in which both claimed victory.. About 12,000 NATO.
UK troops leave Camp Bastion, but Afghanistans future is.
The Taliban too have shown little sign of having been seriously damaged over the past 13 years. They have been mounting sustained attacks against the Afghan army in places in Helmand such as Sangin, where the British��.
Hamid Karzai blasts US and Nato over attacks as security.
They are Afghans. Where the Afghan president, the Afghan government can appoint the Taliban to a government job they are welcome, he said. But where its the Afghan people appointing people through elections to state organs then the Taliban should. Benedict Cumberbatch apologises after calling black actors coloured. Simon Tisdall: Afghanistan presidents criticism could be beginning of a dangerous countdown to April elections ��� and possible civil war.
The Guardian view on Afghanistan: the US and its allies.
The initial and legitimate reason for landing British, US and other troops back in 2001 was to eliminate the al-Qaida bases (and the Taliban government that refused to cooperate) in the country that had made 9/11 possible.. After the Soviets retreated from Afghanistan in 1989, it took just three years for their man, Mohammad Najibullah, to be toppled, and for the country to plunge into the abyss of all-out civil war after Moscow abruptly cut off all financial support.
UK troops hand over Camp Bastion to Afghan forces, ending.
January 2006: Camp Bastion is built near Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, five years after the start of the US-led war against the Taliban. The base acts as the headquarters for 28,000 International Security��.
Taliban leader invites Pakistan government to serious talks.
The Guardian Winner of the Pulitzer prize. Hakimullah Mehsud, the long-haired leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), told a BBC journalist he would guarantee the protection of government negotiators in order to start a discreet dialogue rather than trying to negotiate through the. He said the TTPs campaign would not end after the withdrawal of US combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year... Well, US had a chance.for the last 12 years!
Afghans hope for change after bloody year
Today, 13 years after the U.S.-led invasion toppled the Talibans brutal regime, and after billions of aid dollars flowed into one of the worlds poorest countries, making that same 460-kilometer (300-mile) trip would be like signing his own death.
Controversy over Taliban arrest overshadows Kerry.
Reports that the US arrest of a senior Taliban commander was carried out despite his being in the custody of the Afghan government threatened on Saturday to overshadow talks between the US secretary of state, John Kerry, and. While the US is keen to conclude the negotiations quickly, the Afghan president has said the pact can wait until after the countrys elections, which are due in April.. Before the US and the Soviets began their cold war struggle there.
Pakistan school massacre counters assertions Taliban crippled by U.S. drone.
Mr. Obama, who Monday marked the end of combat operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan after 13 years, also reaffirmed U.S. support for the government of Pakistan in ���its efforts to combat terrorism and extremism and to promote peace and.