Tag: Zalmay Khalilzad

U.S. officials have said for years the Taliban have gotten money, weapons and training from Russia.

While a large number of people have been killed and are fleeing the country, the U.S. and its allies, which came to Afghanistan to promote the protection of human rights and empowered women, are silent.

Objectively speaking ... Iran is concerned about the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, but it’s unlikely that Washington will be open to negotiation on this.

A major U.S. concern, however, is the militant Islamic State group gaining ground in Afghanistan with the Afghan security forces and the Taliban fighting each other.

What [U.S. envoy] Khalilzad has negotiated during nine rounds of talks over the last year is just window dressing, a peace agreement without peace.

There is significant progress ... [but] it is less clear how rapprochement between the conflicting parties [in Afghanistan] can be achieved.