"Over the last five to seven years at a minimum, we have been in a condition of strategic stalemate"
"The more gain on the battleground, the bigger the share on the negotiating table."
Here are a few of the highlights of the draft 2020 Democratic Party Platform.
Peace has not flowered in Afghanistan since the US agreed to leave.
Was invading Afghanistan and Iraq a good idea? Never much for public introspection, George W. Bush was always content to...
American forces are particularly unprepared to work with the host governments to establish effective security forces, an advisor mission that...
Clashes between Afghan forces and Taliban militants killed dozens nationwide over the past 24 hours, authorities said on Wednesday, even...
The U.S. military is apparently providing some form of "limited support" for the Taliban as part of the terror group's...
Overall, violence in Afghanistan is on a downward trend, the top U.S. military commander there says
"My fellow Afghans will soon celebrate this historic agreement," Sirajuddin Haqqani wrote in the New York Times. "Once it is...
"Our leadership hasn't conveyed any message about a ceasefire to us," said a Taliban commander.
The United States has reached a reduction of violence agreement with the Taliban that could lead to a U.S. troop...
'I think peace deserves a chance -- but it will demand that all parties comply with their obligations if we...
"We have the counter-terrorism capacity to get the guys we need to get ... It shouldn't be any different in...
'We are working to finally end America's longest war and bring our troops back home!'
"Mr. Pompeo should not shift the blame. Our stance is principled and united, and our policy is not shaky like...
Afghan National Defense and Security Forces personnel carried out 33 insider attacks during the fourth quarter of 2019, resulting in...
The Taliban launched more attacks across Afghanistan in during the last three months of 2019 than during the same period...
The surge in hostilities signals deadlock at stop-start peace talks involving U.S and Taliban negotiators
The U.S. Navy's elite SEAL Team 6 reportedly recovered two bodies from the wreckage site where a U.S. Air Force...
Iran's state TV broadcast a photo of an actor from 'Zero Dark Thirty' to illustrate a claim that the CIA...
The U.S. military dropped more munitions on targets across Afghanistan in 2019 than during any other year stretching back to...
Afghan forces used ground attacks and air strikes in multiple operations against the Taliban during the last 24 hours, killing...
Your friend and humble narrator is extremely skeptical that peace may be at hand.
'The Afghan military – and particularly the Afghan police – has been a hopeless nightmare and a disaster. And part...