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After aligning with Trump to approve raising the coronavirus stimulus payments to $2,000 per American, the House also voted 322- 87 to override Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a $740 billion military spending bill, which passed both chambers of Congress earlier this month.  Trump objected to …

“A young military man working in Afghanistan told me that elections in Afghanistan are far more secure and much better run than the USA’s 2020 Election,” Trump tweeted on Saturday. “Ours, with its millions and millions of corrupt Mail-In Ballots, was the election of a third world country,” he added, …

According to The Intercept, “Beginning in December 2018 and continuing for at least a year, Afghan operatives believed to belong to an elite CIA-trained paramilitary unit known as 01, in partnership with U.S. special operations forces and air power, unleashed a campaign of terror against civilians.” This unit carried out …

The severe lack of accounting of the military toys provided to Kabul was exposed in a new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) tasked with providing so-called end-use monitoring (EUM) needed to ensure the provided equipment was utilized exactly as …

It’s been almost 20 years now since the United States and its allies entered Afghanistan as part of the ‘war on terror’, but even after all that time, it shows no signs of ending.  Nor, arguably, has there been any respite for Afghanistan’s people, despite a commitment towards peace between …

“I expect if [the US) are reducing at some stage, we will come down,” Ben Wallace told Sky News. But London will continue to work with Afghanistan’s government and Washington to ensure the country’s security. Wallace noted that fundamentally, the US is not 100 percent pulling out of Afghanistan. The …

In a statement made to reporters, acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller announced that President Donald Trump has ordered that the number of US forces in Afghanistan be sharply reduced from 4,500 to 2,500 by January 15, 2021. Miller also noted that US forces in Iraq would be reduced from …

In a press briefing on Tuesday, Miller said the troop withdrawals will take place before January 15, 2021. “I celebrate this day as we continue the president’s consistent progress in completing the mission we began two decades ago,” Miller told reporters, adding that the withdrawal decision was a “collaborative” one …

President Donald Trump broke Republican convention when he campaigned on an anti-war platform, promising an end to the US’ “forever wars” in the Middle East and calling George W. Bush’s war in Iraq “the worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country.” After firing a host of …

“I’ll say it once again: we have no need to fight the American presence [in Afghanistan],” Putin said in an interview aired on the Rossiya-1 TV channel. The president was responding to a reporter’s question about assertions in US media, using anonymous sources, insisting Russia had paid bounties to Taliban …