U.S. Reps. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, and Brad Wenstrup., R-Cincinnati, were among the House Armed Services Committee lawmakers who signed the October 5 letter released Wednesday that expressed concerns over the “dangers of a premature drawdown” if troops are pulled out at the end of 2015.
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“If we came down to 1,000 – there is no counterterrorism structured force in those numbers”, Campbell said. “The hospital was mistakenly struck”. In August I attended the inauguration of the new Joint Training and Evaluation Centre.
Afghanistan would once again, Campbell said, become a sanctuary for “al-Qaida and other terrorists bent on attacking our interests and citizens overseas and at home”.
The American troops, wearing night-vision goggles, left the airport and killed the assailants before returning, the official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief media about the fighting. “International humanitarian law is not about “mistakes”.
“Georgia is one of our closest partners and we are moving steadily closer together”, Stoltenberg said. He assured the MSF president the Pentagon probe would “provide a transparent, thorough and objective accounting of the facts and circumstances of the incident”, Mr. Earnest said.
A man with the army jacket and gun is a Taliban fighter. That’s not too surprising: The Taliban had set up headquarters there in Kandahar.
Back on Capitol Hill, General Campbell stated the obvious.
The US has said it would drop troop levels in Afghanistan from 9,800 to near 1,000 stationed at the USA embassy in Kabul by the end of 2016. “This will be done on the basis of a detailed security assessment, which we expect in the coming weeks”. No decisions have been made. They will ensure that, our forces can move quickly and effectively if they need to deploy. “This has been going on and on and on”, Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., said.
The setbacks have been a strategic and public relations nightmare for Obama, whose ability to keep his promises to end USA involvement in the wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan are now in doubt.
I wanted to ask you about Iran’s activities in Afghanistan.
Moscow denies Western accusations that it has mainly targeted Assad opponents, insisting its strikes have hit the infrastructure of the so-called Islamic State (IS) and other militant groups. The USA ground war began there in 2001, and the Taliban capitulated Kandahar shortly after the Marines landed and took control of the airport. A major defeat like Kunduz could send tremors through Afghanistan’s military, which has been plagued by low morale and high absenteeism since the beginning of its fight against the Taliban in 2001. “What that means to China and Pakistan”.
The developments in northern Afghanistan prompted Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday. As Gen. Campbell said in his testimony to Congress, it was a PR win for the Taliban.
Russian Federation already has troops stationed in Tajikistan, under an arrangement by the Collective Security Treaty Organisation.
The Russian newspaper Kommersant reported Russian forces could be redeployed to the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border as soon as a request was received from President Rahmon.
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“And the situation [is] now complicated further by Russia’s military actions in Syria”.
