#Afghanistan president calmly prays amid rocket attack

#Afghanistan president calmly prays amid rocket attack

“#Afghanistan president calmly prays amid rocket attack” Unsettling footage shows the Afghan president calmly praying with a group of men Tuesday as rockets exploded around them. President Ashraf Ghani was worshipping in the presidential palace compound in Kabul to celebrate the start of Eid al-Adha, a Muslim holiday, around 8 a.m. when at least three…

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#Coming to terms with a national shame

#Coming to terms with a national shame

“#Coming to terms with a national shame” It’s a hard thing to reconcile: the dream of national destiny with the reality of national shame. My father struggled with it. As a Muslim in a fracturing India who lived through the trauma of partition in 1947, he has walked—literally—through fire to what he was told would…

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#War in Afghanistan did little good at too-high price

#War in Afghanistan did little good at too-high price

“#War in Afghanistan did little good at too-high price” Fifteen years ago, I wrote a column in these pages supporting our war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. I had hope for the Bush administration’s democracy-promotion and nation-building projects. When I returned from Iraq in 2005, having served as an infantryman in the New York Army National…

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#AP reporter spars with State Department over Afghanistan

#AP reporter spars with State Department over Afghanistan

“#AP reporter spars with State Department over Afghanistan” State Department spokesman Ned Price was briefly left tongue-tied Tuesday after another verbal sparring match with Associated Press correspondent Matt Lee. Lee, who tangled with Price back in February over the Biden administration’s approach to the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany — even…

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#Biden will own ‘ugly images’ of Afghan withdrawal aftermath

#Biden will own ‘ugly images’ of Afghan withdrawal aftermath

“#Biden will own ‘ugly images’ of Afghan withdrawal aftermath” The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee accused the Biden administration Sunday of not properly preparing to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan and warned that the president would be responsible for the fallout. “When we fully withdraw, the devastation and the killings and women…

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#Afghan president to visit Biden, talk US troop withdrawal

#Afghan president to visit Biden, talk US troop withdrawal

“#Afghan president to visit Biden, talk US troop withdrawal” Afghanistan’s president will visit the White House on Friday to discuss the withdrawal of US troops in September with President Biden, as ​fighting continues between Afghan forces and Taliban militants. ​Biden will host Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and the chairman of the High Council for National…

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#US has withdrawn over half of its forces from Afghanistan

#US has withdrawn over half of its forces from Afghanistan

“#US has withdrawn over half of its forces from Afghanistan” The US has withdrawn more than 50 percent of its forces from Afghanistan, the Pentagon estimated Tuesday. The announcement came from US Central Command, which estimated that it had “completed greater than 50 percent of the entire retrograde process.” Specifically, the Pentagon said it had “retrograded…

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