President Donald Trump has decided to pull a significant number of troops from Afghanistan, a US official told AFP on Thursday, with some reports suggesting as many as 50 percent could leave the war-torn country. “If you’re the Taliban, Christmas has come early,” a senior foreign official in the Afghan ...
The death toll from a suicide bombing targeting a convoy of security forces outside Kabul early Tuesday jumped to 12, officials said, with several civilians killed in the latest Taliban-claimed attack near the Afghan capital. “Twelve people including four members of the security forces were killed,” ministry of interior deputy ...