Biden’s rationale for extending America’s war in Afghanistan is weak

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Biden’s rationale for extending America’s war in Afghanistan is weak

President Joe Biden all but said during his first formal press conference on Thursday that the United States would likely extend its 20-year military campaign in Afghanistan for at least…

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Austin travels to Afghanistan as troop withdrawal deadline looms

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani (R) meets U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, in Kabul, Afghanistan March 21, 2021. Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS WASHINGTON – Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin traveled…

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Why Biden can’t ignore Iraq and Afghanistan

When President Joe Biden gave his first foreign policy address two weeks ago, he didn’t once mention the words “Iraq” or “Afghanistan.” But events in those two countries over the…

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Op-Ed: Biden should finish Trump’s exit from Afghanistan

When President Trump took office in 2017, the war in Afghanistan was 16 years old. The original mission, meant to punish the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks and their Taliban…

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How Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Afghanistan could derail Biden’s foreign policy

President-elect Joe Biden may want his administration to focus on long-term issues like the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, rebuilding alliances, and America’s relationship with China, but some key near-term foreign…

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Trump’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq, explained

President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw more US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, bringing a few thousand more service members home but still falling short of his promise to…

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White House Orders Thousands Of U.S. Troops Withdrawn From Afghanistan And Iraq

The American troop presence will decline in Afghanistan from 4,500 to 2,500, and in Iraq from 3,000 to 2,500. Senior military leaders reportedly oppose the move. (Image credit: Qassim Abdul-Zahra/AP)…

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Did the Trump administration know about possible Russian bounties on US troops in Afghanistan?

The past few days in American politics have been dominated by revelations that Russia may have paid Taliban militants to kill US troops in Afghanistan in 2019 — and that…

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Trump’s decision to sanction the ICC over Afghanistan war crimes, explained

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday sanctioning members of the International Criminal Court, the global judicial body investigating American troops for possible war crimes during the Afghanistan…

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Taliban leverages pandemic to burnish image as violence in Afghanistan surges

Decades of war, political chaos, desperate poverty, and now coronavirus. A perfect storm has gathered over one of the world’s most benighted nations, Afghanistan, where ordinary citizens are facing a…

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