Elections in Afghanistan were better than the 2020 US presidential vote, US President Donald quoted a military official as saying. In a series of tweets on Saturday, Trump branded Joe Biden as a “fake President” and called the…
KABUL, Iran and Somalia, a leading American newspaper reported on Tuesday. President Donald Trump, following his defeat to Democratic runner Joe Biden in this month’s election, is set to leave the White House in January. The New York Times, citing…
US defence secretary Mark Esper has been fired by outgoing president Donald Trump. Trump announced the action in a tweeted, hailing the secretary’s services in his administration. “I am pleased to announce that Christopher Miller, the director of…
As his electoral rival President Donald Trump’s chances continue to fade, Joe Biden leads by more than 28,000 votes in Pennsylvania. A win in the state would hand Biden the electoral votes he requires to find his way…
Claiming prematurely that he has won the 2020 election, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday alleged fraud and promised challenging official state results. Results from the bitterly-contested race could take days to resolve. However, Trump asserted his victory…
President Donald Trump has returned to the White House, leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. After 72 hours of hospitalisation, the president posed for a mask-less photo-op on the White House balcony and asked his supporters not…
US President Donald Trump has been flown to hospital for treatment after testing positive for coronavirus, according to a media report on Saturday. He tweeted "going well, I think!" after his arrival. US media say his symptoms include…
US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus — a month until the November 3 election. "We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!"…
KABUL to less than 4,000 in the next couple of weeks. “Very shortly, we’ll be down to less than 4,000 soldiers. And so we’ll be out of there, knowing that certain things have to happen,” the US leader told a…
KABUL and Iraq within days, international media reports say. Sputnik quoted a senior administration official as saying the US president would the withdrawal announcement in the next few days. Under the February 29 peace pact with the Taliban, all international…
KABUL. In an explosive report on Monday, The New York Times contradicted Trump’s assertion that he had not been informed by the intelligence community of the Russian bounties. The influential newspaper quoted unnamed officials as saying the claim had…
KABUL. "We are acting as a police force, not the fighting force that we are, in Afghanistan," he tweeted on Wednesday, a day after he issued a similar statement at a White House media briefing. "After 19 years, it is…
KABUL. But he had not set a target date yet for the full military pullout from that country, the president told a White House media briefing on Tuesday. Reuters quoted the US leader as saying: “We’re there 19 years and,…
KABUL as of a policeman. “We’ve been there for many years, we’re like a police force. We’re not fighting in Afghanistan, we’re a police force in Afghanistan and at some point, they’re going to have to be able to take…
President Donald Trump has tested negative for Covid-19, but one of a military members at his office has been diagnosed with the virus, says the White House. “We were recently notified by the White House medical unit that…
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KABUL may overrun the Afghan government after the pullout of foreign troops from the country under a peace pact signed last week, says the US president. Speaking to journalists at the White House on Friday, Donald Trump asked countries to…
It is time to bring home US troops after 19 years of war in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump told a campaign rally in North Carolina on Monday night. Saturday’s peace pact signed with the Taliban in Doha was in line with…
US President Donald Trump has congratulated his Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani on fresh developments in the peace process. Ghani tweeted: “I received a phone call from President Donald Trump, congratulating me … important developments with regard to the…
KABUL immediately. Soon after the US and the Taliban inked a historic peace deal in Doha, Trump told reporters "Everybody's tired of war." Under the agreement, Washington has promised to start drawing down its forces from the war-devastated country if…
KABUL. Representatives from the United States and the Taliban are all poised to sign a keenly-awaited peace agreement with the militant movement in Doha today. On Friday, Trump called the imminent agreement a “powerful path” to ending America’s longest war,…
KABUL. The two sides also voiced stout support for an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process in the war-devastated country. A joint statement, issued at the end of President Donald Trump’s visit to India on Tuesday, said the process…
KABUL. If a peace deal was signed with the Taliban, the US would cut the number of its troops in Afghanistan to 8,600, the president told journalists in New Delhi. “From there we will make a decision as to what…
US President Donald Trump, soon after his arrival in India on a two-day visit, said the Afghan peace agreement had drawn tremendous support. The US and the Taliban, are optimistic of signing a landmark peace deal in Doha.…
