Karzai objects to peace talks with Taliban in Doha after Kabul, Bagram attacks
The many obstacles to a resolution of the conflict in Afghanistan were sadly obvious this week as Afghan and international officials tried to mark ...
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US, Taliban agree to hold talks on ending war in Afghanistan; Obama says process won’t be easy
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban and the U.S. said Tuesday they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in ...
Scrapping equipment key to Afghan drawdown
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Facing a tight withdrawal deadline and tough terrain, the U.S. military has destroyed more than 170 million pounds ...
U.S. to launch formal peace talks with Taliban
The Obama administration will start formal peace talks with the Taliban on Thursday in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, the first direct political ...
Michael Hastings, iconoclastic war correspondent, dies at 33
Michael Hastings, a brash war correspondent whose revealing portrait of the inner circle surrounding Army Gen. Stanley A.
Taliban says it killed 4 U.S. troops
Four soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the same day the Obama administration announced it hopes to jumpstart peace talks with ...
U.S. military team in Jordan planning ways to deal with Syria’s chemical weapons
Months before the Obama administration said it had concluded that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against rebels, the Pentagon began ...
Giving arms to Syrian rebels is a bad idea
In Syria, the Obama administration seems to be stumbling back to the future: An old-fashioned proxy war, complete with the usual shadowy CIA ...
Al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq defies boss over Syria fight
BAGHDAD — The leader of al-Qaeda’s Iraq arm defiantly rejected an order from the terror network’s central command to stop claiming control over the ...
Syrian war is a fight the U.S. should avoid
The Post argued that U.S. security interests require a “more robust . . . intervention” in the Syrian civil war [“No time for half-measures,” ...