Trump says ‘bad things’ will happen if Afghanistan does not return Bagram air base Reuters Exclusive | U.S. in Talks With Taliban on Returning Counterterrorism Forces to Afghan Base The Wall Street Journal Trump warns Afghanistan over return of strategic Bagram Air Base to US control Fox News Why Trump wants the U.S. to ‘get back’ the Bagram Airfield from the Taliban NBC News …
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Taliban Rebuffs Trump’s Effort to Regain Air Base in Afghanistan – The New York Times
Taliban Rebuffs Trump’s Effort to Regain Air Base in Afghanistan The New York Times Trump: US trying to get Bagram Airbase ‘back’ from Taliban in Afghanistan Fox News Trump admin has been quietly pushing to retake Afghan base from the Taliban for months, sources say CNN Trump suggests U.S. troops could return to Afghan base over China concerns NPR Afghanistan rejects US return to …
Read More »Trump suggests US troops could return to Bagram base in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that he is working to reestablish a U.S. presence at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, four years after America’s chaotic withdrawal from the country left the base in the Taliban’s hands. Trump floated the idea during a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as he wrapped up a state …
Read More »The ‘Economic Storm’ of Crises That Is Battering Afghanistan – The New York Times
The ‘Economic Storm’ of Crises That Is Battering Afghanistan The New York Times ‘Worst thing I’ve ever seen’: 4 years later, GOP veterans say Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal still haunts them Fox News Opinion | Even this old U.S. enemy shouldn’t be permanent The Washington Post Four years after U.S. withdrawal, human rights violations and food insecurity dominate Afghan life 90.5 WESA Today in History: …
Read More »Iraq and Afghanistan veteran launches Democratic campaign against Sen. Susan Collins in Maine
Graham Platner, a 40-year-old Army and Marine veteran who served four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, launched his campaign for the Senate in Maine on Tuesday, joining a growing Democratic primary field seeking to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Platner, an oyster farmer who was born and raised in Sullivan, Maine, will run on a platform of universal …
Read More »Afghanistan has its ‘sharpest surge’ ever of child malnutrition, UN agency says
Facebook Tweet Email Link AP — Afghanistan is seeing its sharpest-ever surge of child malnutrition, the World Food Programme said Monday, adding it needed $539 million to help the country’s most vulnerable families. Almost 10 million people, a quarter of Afghanistan’s population, face acute food insecurity. One in three children is stunted. The WFP said the rise in child malnutrition …
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