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How Is President Trump's Security Strategy Working In Afghanistan?

8:10am September 26, 2017

Last month, Trump announced his new Afghan strategy. NPR's Tom Bowman is making his first trip back to Afghanistan since that announcement, and discusses what he's seeing with Mary Louise Kelly.

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Afghan President Is In Favor Of Trump's Strategy To End The War

10:18am September 21, 2017

President Trump announced that his administration will take a new approach toward U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan. Mary Louise Kelly talks to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani about the plan.

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Putting Afghan President Ghani's Comments In Context

6:48am September 21, 2017

by Tom Bowman

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani laid out a specific goal — having his security forces control 80 percent of the country in four years. Is that doable?

News Brief: Natural Disasters Strike Mexico And Puerto Rico

6:05am September 21, 2017

Assessments of Mexico's quake and the hurricane in Puerto Rico. A vote on the GOP's latest attempt to gut the Affordable Care Act could come soon. President Trump meets with his Afghan counterpart.

President Trump and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shake hands during a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday. Trump will address the General Assembly on Tuesday.

Trump's U.N. Speech To Call For Other Countries To Step Up To World's Threats

11:30pm September 18, 2017

by Scott Horsley

In his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump will defend his "America First" creed as a basis for countries to cooperate without losing sight of their own self-interest.

Mourners carry the coffin of one of six Afghan employees of the Red Cross killed in an attack in a remote northern province in February.

In Their Own Words: Why Armed Fighters Attack Aid Workers

3:07pm September 14, 2017

by Malaka Gharib

In the first study of its kind, researchers ask members of al-Shabab, the Haqqani network and the Taliban to explain why they attack the humanitarians trying to help them.

Pakistan's prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (shown here Aug. 1), says that U.S. sanctions against Pakistan will only hurt its efforts to fight militants in the region.

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Prime Minister Abbasi: Degrading Pakistan Hurts U.S. Fight Against Militants

5:27pm September 12, 2017

by Diaa Hadid

Pakistani leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi says his country has "taken on terrorism" and "defeated terrorism." President Trump has accused Pakistan of harboring militants from neighboring Afghanistan.

The International Committee of the Red Cross flew its flag at half-mast outside its orthopedic center in Kabul on February 9, after gunmen killed six Afghan employees delivering relief supplies in the snowbound north. Another shooting this week took the l

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Red Cross Worker Slain In Afghanistan: 'All She Wanted To Do Was Help'

5:42pm September 11, 2017

by Sasha Ingber

Lorena Perez was a physiotherapist. On Monday, a patient in a wheelchair shot and killed her. The motive is not yet known.

Taliban Attacks U.S. Afghan Base In Response To Leaflets

11:21pm September 07, 2017

Earlier this week, the U.S. Army dropped leaflets in Afghanistan with images that offended many Muslims in the country, and the Taliban responded with an attack on an American air base.

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Erik Prince, then-chairman of the Prince Group LLC and Blackwater USA, testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in 2007.

4 Insights About Blackwater Founder Erik Prince

2:51pm August 31, 2017

by Ryan Lucas

In a recent series of television interviews and op-eds, Prince has waged an active public campaign for his plan to reshape the war in Afghanistan.