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The U.S. military estimates that it has completed up to a quarter of its pullout from Afghanistan.  "U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) estimates that we have completed between 16-25% of the entire retrograde process," the command, which oversees operations in Afghanistan, said Tuesday.  CENTCOM also said it had removed the ...

TASHKENT/WASHINGTON - U.S. and U.N. envoys to Uzbekistan have praised the country's repatriation of Islamic State wives and children in the Middle East, saying other nations should follow suit as a part of a global effort to reduce the risk of IS reemergence in Syria and Iraq. "They have ...

ISLAMABAD - Officials in Afghanistan confirmed Friday that the United States had turned over another major military base to the local army as all U.S. and NATO troops are in the process of withdrawing from the country. The sprawling security installation is located in southern Kandahar province, and it used ...

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - The United States on Monday welcomed the Taliban’s declaration of a nationwide cease-fire in Afghanistan over this week’s Eid-al-Fitr festival, reiterating Washington’s call for the Islamist insurgency and Afghan leaders to negotiate an end to the “senseless violence.” Addressing a routine news conference, State Department spokesman ...

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - The United States on Monday welcomed the Taliban’s declaration of a nationwide cease-fire in Afghanistan over this week’s Eid-al-Fitr festival, reiterating Washington’s call for the Islamist insurgency and Afghan leaders to negotiate an end to the “senseless violence.” Addressing a routine news conference, State Department spokesman ...

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - The United States appears upbeat about the resumption of stalled peace talks between warring parties in Afghanistan, even as fighting escalates amid the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from the country.A senior U.S. official said Tuesday during a background briefing in Kabul that Washington's diplomatic ...

The U.S. and NATO formally began withdrawing their last troops from Afghanistan Saturday, according to White House and military officials, bringing America’s longest war closer to an end.   U.S. President Joe Biden set May 1 as the official date on which the remaining troops would begin pulling out, although ...

ISLAMABAD - The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan says the process of completely removing American troops from the conflict-torn country has already begun. Gen. Scott Miller told local reporters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, Sunday that all of his troops “are now preparing to retrograde” under orders he had ...

WHITE HOUSE - Declaring that "war in Afghanistan was never meant to be a multigenerational undertaking," President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that "it is time to end the forever war" and said he would withdraw all U.S. troops from that country by Sept. 11. Biden, in a televised speech, said ...

WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Joe Biden is set to speak Wednesday about his decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 — the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.  A senior administration official said ahead of the president’s remarks that ...