Russian Bounties

'Low to moderate confidence.'

The military's investigation into the bounties is still open.

U.S. intelligence officials believe a foreign government paid “bounties” to the Haqqani network, a terrorist group led by a senior Taliban official, to carry out an attack just outside Bagram Airfield in December

The information in the initial report of Russian bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan appears to have been based on human intelligence collected in the field from both cooperative sources and through custodial debriefings of captured Afghan militants

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said he warned his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that there would be "an enormous price to pay" if Moscow is offering bounties to kill U.S. soldiers or other Western troops in Afghanistan

The Kremlin was secretly warned by the U.S. State Department of potential blowback if it paid bounties for American troops killed in Afghanistan, people familiar with diplomatic channels said

President Donald Trump on Monday would not say whether he's confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin over reports Russia paid Taliban-linked Afghan militants bounties to kill U.S. service members

The question of whether any U.S. troops were killed as a result of the alleged bounties remains unanswered.

U.S. officials say the United States acquired intelligence suggesting that Russia may have paid bounties to Taliban-affiliated militants to kill U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, but stress that intelligence was not conclusive

The Russian military intelligence agency, the GRU, reportedly used middle men to pay Taliban-linked militants in Afghanistan.

"It certainly is going to reopen a wound ... It makes it sound like [Robert's death] was avoidable but so many of these kids have been killed over there."

The head of the Taliban's political office in Doha and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a video conference to discuss the Afghan peace process

President Donald Trump was briefed on intelligence related to possible Russian bounties on US troops in Afghanistan, both The New York Times and Associated Press reported, though they each gave a different timeline

House Armed Services Committee leaders have pressed the Pentagon for a briefing by Tuesday on reports that Russian spies have been paying insurgents in Afghanistan to kill U.S. troops

"We don’t need to go to war, but we also cannot be allowing a country to do this to us"

Three NATO officials say they had been briefed on intelligence that Russian operatives were secretly offering cash bounties to Taliban-linked militants for U.S. casualties in Afghanistan