KABUL (Pajhwok): The outgoing US leader is trying to speed up withdrawals from Afghanistan , Iran and Somalia, a leading American newspaper reported on Tuesday. President Donald Trump, following his defeat to Democratic runner Joe Biden in this...
KABUL (Pajhwok): 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 to the White...
KABUL (Pajhwok): 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...
KABUL (Pajhwok): 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...
KABUL (Pajhwok): 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...
KABUL (Pajhwok): 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...
KABUL (Pajhwok): President Donald Trump says his administration will bring down the number of US troops in Afghanistan 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...
KABUL (Pajhwok): US President Donald Trump is expected to announce further troop drawdowns from Afghanistan and Iraq within days, international media reports say. Sputnik quoted a senior administration official as saying the US president would the...
KABUL (Pajhwok): President Donald Trump received a written briefing in February on alleged Russian bounties offered to the Taliban for killing US troops in Afghanistan . In an explosive report on Monday, The New York Times contradicted Trump’s...
KABUL (Pajhwok): President Donald Trump, determined to crush terrorists, has reaffirmed his administration’s intention to bring US soldiers back home from Afghanistan . "We are acting as a police force, not the fighting force that we are, in...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Seeking an end to the ongoing conflict, US President Donald Trump on has reiterated his interest in a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan . But he had not set a target date yet for the full military pullout from that country, the...
KABUL (Pajhwok): US President Donald Trump has said the Afghans must be able at some point to take care of their country, calling America’s role in Afghanistan as of a policeman. “We’ve been there for many years, we’re like a police force. We’re not...
KABUL (Pajhwok): 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 a member...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more American lives than the 18-year conflict in Afghanistan -- the longest war in US history. The coronavirus fatalities in the US rose to 2,479 on Sunday, the Newsweek reported on Monday, citing...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban 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...
KABUL (Pajhwok): 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 his...
KABUL (Pajhwok): 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...
KABUL (Pajhwok): President Donald Trump says his administration plans to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan immediately. Soon after the US and the Taliban inked a historic peace deal in Doha, Trump told reporters "Everybody's tired of war."...
KABUL (Pajhwok): President Donald Trump says he will honour a major campaign promise with the signing of a historic peace deal with the Taliban on ending the conflict in Afghanistan . Representatives from the United States and the Taliban are all...