U.S. War in Afghanistan

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks, which it said were carried out after the police in the area refused to surrender.

U.S. interests in Afghanistan are enduring and will need to be safeguarded into the future.

CENTCOM Commander McKenzie told reporters U.S. withdrawal plans aim for 4,500 troops in Afghanistan on a “October, late October, November time frame.”

Talks were expected to start on August 20, but are now postponed indefinitely say Afghan officials.

The next step may very well be intra-Afghan talks, but the Taliban have spent the first half of the year bludgeoning the Afghan security forces.

The shuffle is meant to tighten Taliban leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhunzada’s control over the movement's military and political arms.

"I found it very worrisome. I didn't find that there was a causative link there," Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command said.

A series of media reports, citing U.S. intelligence sources, allege that President Trump was briefed on an alleged Russian operation offering bounties for dead Americans in Afghanistan.

In just over 10 weeks, amid a pandemic, a dozen attacks deliberately targeted healthcare workers or services in Afghanistan. 

U.S. policy toward Afghanistan has been short-sighted and ill-conceived for decades.

Beyond highlighting the ongoing connections between the Taliban and al-Qaeda, the report exposes fragility in the U.S.-Taliban agreement.

"We don't have any information about the missing American," a Taliban spokesman says.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but Afghan officials have blamed the Taliban.

The UN says more than 500 civilians were killed in the first three months of 2020 and urged a ceasefire so the country can focus on fighting COVID-19.

The U.S. military has refused to address the Taliban's specific complaint but has said that it is abiding by the agreement.

The Taliban have not claimed responsibility for the latest attacks which Kabul says they carried out on Afghan forces.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened a $1 billion cut to Afghanistan funding if Afghanistan’s leaders can’t settle their feuds.

Top U.S. diplomats dealing with the Afghan conundrum have urged unity and progress; but the political impasse in Kabul persists.

The U.S.-Taliban deal was touted at the time as the best chance at ending Afghanistan's endless wars.

Ghani's decree on the release came as the U.S. State Department issued a statement saying that the level of violence is "unacceptable."

After 18 years of war, Australian troops will withdraw from Afghanistan amid a hoped-for peace.

Afghans have been cautiously hopeful about the peace process, but they are not willing to agree to a peace “at any cost.”

The investigation targets the Taliban, Afghan, and U.S. forces for war crimes.

The deal promises intra-Afghan talks to start March 10 and the release of Taliban prisoners; Kabul has rejected the latter and is scrambling to build a team for the former.