U.S. in talks with Taliban for release of Americans held in Afghanistan, source says
The Taliban say they are demanding the release of three people including Muhammad Rahim, the only Afghan national left at Guantánamo Bay.
The great paradox: strategic thinking in an unstrategic world
Much of my 2025 will be devoted to co-authoring a book with my great English friend, David Richards. The title is "The Great ...
Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan escalate amid border clashes
Pakistan carried out airstrikes inside Afghanistan, which Islamabad blames for harboring extremists who have been waging an ...
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Who’s Afraid of America First?
Asia can teach the world about adapting to Trump.
US moves 11 Guantanamo detainees after two-plus decades without charge
The latest release brings the total number of men detained at Guantanamo to 15. It held approximately 800 at its peak.
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Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation
To convey the impact of the two decades of conflict in Afghanistan itself, Rasmussen recounts the stories of half a dozen or so Afghans who came of age during the U.S. invasion, young men and women ...
Opinion - Ukraine isn’t fighting a ‘forever war.’ The US shouldn’t forsake it.
If Trump withholds assistance from Ukraine to force President Volodymyr Zelensky toward a cease-fire dictated by Moscow, the ...
War or peace? Trump inherits turbulent US-China ties
The United States and China appear destined for a military conflict, with bellicose rhetoric on both sides, an escalating ...
Was the Las Vegas Bombing a Case of the Afghan War Coming Home?
Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger was clearly shaken by what he saw in Afghanistan. In the last few days of his life, the ...