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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 …

The administrative building located in Ghani Khel district was hit by a vehicle-borne bomb on Saturday. The building was housing some military facilities as well, local authorities said. Footage from the scene indicates that the building was effectively reduced to rubble during the attack. The bomb left a large crater …

The reductions will happen “very soon,” Trump said. While the Pentagon confirmed the pending withdrawal of some troops earlier this week, this is the first time the US president had mentioned specific numbers. The numbers did not necessarily correspond with those provided by US Central Command chief General Kenneth McKenzie …

The report comes amid Trump’s row with Pentagon’s top brass, who he accused of doing the bidding for the US military-industrial complex. In a widely-publicized remark on Monday, Trump said that top people in the Pentagon might not be “in love” with him “because they want to do nothing but …

American Institute of Gallup conducted a study of the degree of emotion. Belarus and Afghanistan were the two countries which, according to the survey, experiencing less positive emotions. The inhabitants of Latin America, for comparison, the positive things in life much more. The authors of the study asked respondents to …

The attack resulted in 13 police officers were killed. In the Afghan city of Puli Khumri in an attack by terrorists on a police station killed 13 militiamen and injuring 55 people. According to the Ministry of internal Affairs of Afghanistan, at the police station was attacked at least 8 …

As a result of explosion one person was lost, eight more got wounds. “The explosion occurred in a mosque in the district Sultanhan in the area Mohmand Gift”, – said the press service of the Governor of Nangarhar. According to the newspaper, the explosion in Eastern Afghanistan, one person died …