To be sure, the “forever war” in Afghanistan is ending on a sombre note. The US has barely managed to avoid a humiliating defeat. The final legacy will be that there are limits to American power. India will do well to bear this mind as it consorts with the Quad. In the final analysis, India’s Afghan policy failed due to […]

Afghan-chessboard is difficult. Now, with the US president’s latest Afghan-move, the chessboard is going to be more difficult, and more complex. It’s now neither a Stunning Queen Sacrifice nor a Bishop Endgame. Is it a Desperado Sacrifice or a Rook and Pawn Endgame? It’s difficult to ascertain now. US President Joe Biden has officially announced that US troops will leave […]

Over two decades of war, the Pentagon had fended off the political instincts of elected leaders frustrated with the grind of Afghanistan. But President Biden refused to be persuaded. President Biden used his daily national security briefing on the morning of April 6 to deliver the news that his senior military leaders suspected was coming. He wanted all American troops […]

At peak, there were 130,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan as part of UN-authorized International Security Assistance Force KABUL, Afghanistan In line with US President Joe Biden’s announcement, all American troops will depart from Afghanistan by September later this year, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US. Deployment of foreign troops began in […]

Nearly a dozen civilians and military personnel were killed and as many were wounded in Taliban attacks and other security incidents in the country in the last 24 hours. In the Southern Kandahar province, at least four civilians were killed in a roadside bomb blast in Shah Wali Kot district on Thursday evening, the provincial police spokesman Jamal Nasir Barikzai […]

President Biden’s decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by September would be a historic achievement closing a 20-year chapter of U.S. history that saw more than 2,300 troops killed and cost upward of $1 trillion. But big questions remain about what Afghanistan will look like when U.S. troops are gone, as well as how the United States […]

Three police officers were killed in a car bomb attack that targeted an outpost in the Zinda Jan district in the western province of Herat province on Friday evening, the provincial governor Sayed Waheed Qatali said on Saturday. The explosion that happened in the Bazarak area in the Zindajan district was followed by Taliban attacks on the district from three […]

The last two decades of conflicts in Afghanistan has taken tens of thousands of lives from civilians to security force members and from international troops to the Taliban. In this report, TOLOnews has summed up overall casualties inflicted to all parties to the conflict as well as civilians in Afghanistan. The findings show that civilians have paid a high price […]

Twenty Afghan security force members were freed from a Taliban prison during an operation by Afghan National Defense and Security Force (ANDSF) members in Khashrod district of Nimroz province on Friday night, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Saturday. According to the MoD, 17 of them are Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and three others are Afghan National Police (ANP) […]

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Friday there could be an increase in the number of troops in Afghanistan in order to complete a safe withdrawal of all foreign forces by September 11. Addressing a press conference Friday, Kirby said: “It is not out of the realm the possibility that for a short period of time, there will have to […]