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Andrew Wilder spoke to SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124 about recent events in Afghanistan. Wilder explained the necessity for brokering a political solution with the Taliban and providing more U.S. troops for training Afghan National Security Forces to defeat terrorist organization like ISIS and al-Qaeda.
Andrew Wilder, vice president of the Asia Program at the United States Institute of Peace, and Michael Kugleman, a South Asia specialist at the Wilson Center, shared insights from Washington. RFE/RL Media Manager Muhammad Tahir moderated our discussion from the same town. I contributed from Prague.
“The review is an opportunity to send a message that, yes, the U.S. is going to send more troops, but it’s not to achieve a forever military victory,” said Andrew Wilder, an Afghanistan expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace. “Rather, it’s to try to bring about a negotiated end to this conflict.”
Andrew Wilder, vice president of Asia Programs and an Afghanistan expert at the United States Institute of Peace, echoed those comments about the Afghan government's interest in focusing on ISIS to get international attention. “The existential threat ...
While President Obama's decision to keep 8,400 troops in Afghanistan is seen by some critics as a sign of political failure, it is being endorsed as a crucial necessity by a range of U.S. experts and former officials, including a long list of former ambassadors and senior generals who served in Afghanistan.
President Obama will hand off the 15-year-old war in Afghanistan to a third president, he said Wednesday, acknowledging that he will fall short of his campaign-era promise to extract the U.S. from punishing ground wars overseas.
President Obama announced Wednesday that he will keep roughly 3,000 more U.S. troops in Afghanistan than previously announced – prolonging America’s role in a war that already has lasted more than a decade. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
The U.S. military conducted an airstrike inside Pakistan that likely killed Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan, amounting to a potentially significant blow to a militant group that has become resurgent recently against Afghan and coalition forces, U.S. officials said Saturday.
The U.S. military launched a drone strike against Taliban leader Akhtar Mohammad Mansour on Saturday, the Pentagon said, dealing a potential blow to the group whose insurgent assaults pose a major obstacle to U.S. hopes for ending the war in Afghanistan.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry suggested that Afghanistan's national unity government could continue beyond September, a step that could irk the opposition even as he attempts to avert a brewing political crisis.