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German troops may leave Afghanistan if US forces withdraw: Report
Dec 29, 2018 03:43Former German Defense Chief General Harald Kujat has warned that a probable American military withdrawal from Afghanistan may jeopardize German troops and force them to leave.
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Taliban to US: Leave Afghanistan or face Soviet-style defeat
Dec 27, 2018 13:49The Taliban militant group has warned the United States it would face the same fate as the Soviet Union in the 1980s if it did not leave violence-wracked Afghanistan.
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Iran eyes close military ties with Afghanistan
Dec 27, 2018 03:25Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani expressed the country’s readiness to enhance military and defense cooperation with Afghanistan.
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“Iran talking to Taliban ‘to aid Afghan security’”
Dec 26, 2018 08:05Iran’s top security official has confirmed that the country has been holding talks with the Afghan Taliban in coordination with Kabul to help relieve rampant insecurity in Afghanistan.
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Pakistan foreign minister in China discusses US troop pullout from Afghanistan
Dec 25, 2018 16:45The foreign ministers of China and Pakistan have discussed "new changes" to the situation in Afghanistan amid plans by the United States to withdraw about half of its 14,000 troops based in the war-torn country.
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Blast, gunfire rock govt. compound in ongoing attack in Afghan capital
Dec 24, 2018 10:30Several people have been injured as militants detonated a car packed with explosives before storming a Kabul government compound in an ongoing attack in the Afghan capital.
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Afghanistan: Ghani replaces top security chiefs amid rising Taliban insurgency
Dec 23, 2018 15:16Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has replaced two of the country's top security chiefs with staunch anti-Taliban officials in the wake of intensified assaults by the militant group across the war-ravaged country.
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NATO vows continued engagement in Afghanistan amid US troop pullout plan
Dec 22, 2018 04:03NATO has emphasized its commitment to maintaining its armed forces in Afghanistan despite Washington’s announcement of its intent to pull out thousands of US troops from the war-torn country.
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US to withdraw half of its 14,000 troops from Afghanistan
Dec 21, 2018 04:10US President Donald Trump has ordered the start of withdrawing some 7,000 troops from Afghanistan, about half of the total number of American boots on the ground in the war-torn country.
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China, Afghanistan, Pakistan agree on joint anti-terror efforts
Dec 16, 2018 05:05China has pledged to help Afghanistan and Pakistan put into effect a memorandum of understanding signed by the three sides on security cooperation aimed at curbing militancy and ending longstanding suspicions between Kabul and Islamabad over security issues.