Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Wednesday he supports talks between the Taliban and top former government officials, and that he was “in talks to return” home after seeking refuge in the United Arab Emirates. “I support the government initiative of ongoing negotiations with Abdullah Abdullah and former President Hamid Karzai. I want the …
Major news outlets for the past few months have focused on the drawdown of our nation’s longest war: Afghanistan. While the conflicts are different, there are parallels. Vietnam Veterans created grass roots Vet Centers as early as the 1970s. Each operation had U.S. involvement for about two decades. Both countries had a low initial amount …
Major news outlets for the past few months have focused on the drawdown of our nation’s longest war: Afghanistan. While the conflicts are different, there are parallels. Vietnam Veterans created grass roots Vet Centers as early as the 1970s. Each operation had U.S. involvement for about two decades. Both countries had a low initial amount …
Sgt. Bowe R. Bergdahl DOD In 2017, President Obama released Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five Guantanamo prisoners, Mullah Norullah Nori, Mohammed Nabi Omari, Mohammed Fazl, Khairullah Khairkhwa and Abdul Haq Wasiq. At the time VOA reported that the five Taliban commanders released by the United States in a prisoner swap to win the freedom …
Joseph L. Galloway, author of We Were Soldiers Once and Young has died. I first met Joe Galloway during the Gulf War in Ryad Saudi Arabia. I had dinner with Joe several times and attended the daily 5 o’clock Follies News Briefing. He had as little opinion as I did of the vast majority of …
Note, in a press conference, Col Wu Qian spokesman for Xi and China’s MOD when asked whether China will be the first to recognize the Taliban, responded 2 August: China and Afghanistan are traditional friendly neighbors. In President Xi Jinping’s phone call with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on July 16, he stressed that China would …
NOTE: “We don’t have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone but certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban, and obviously we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport,” White House …
