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The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on U.S. policy in Afghanistan, featuring testimony from two officials from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.…

Special Inspector General John Sopko and others discussed a report on reintegrating former fighters and their families back into Afghanistan. Topics included peace talks between the Afghan…

The U.S. Institute of Peace hosted a discussion on the U.S.-Taliban peace process and the potential for sustainable talks. Afghan Ambassador to the U.S. Roya Rahmani delivered the keynote…

Dan Schilling recalled the efforts of Medal of Honor recipient John Chapman, killed during a rescue mission in Afghanistan in 2002. Mr. Schilling is the author of Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor…

Viewers responded to reports that President Trump had cancelled peace talks with the Taliban.

Viewers responded to reports that the U.S. had reached a potential peace deal with the Taliban.

Katie Bo Williams spoke by phone about the potential peace deal between the U.S. and the Taliban.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Joseph Dunford held a news conference at the Pentagon. Among the issues addressed included the National Defense…

Michael O’Hanlon from the Brookings Institution talked about the possibility of U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The program began with an update on the war in Afghanistan from…

Pamela Constable gave an update by phone from Kabul on the Afghanistan war and the possibility of U.S. troop withdrawal from that country.

Michael O’Hanlon talks about the war in Afghanistan, how it got to be America’s longest and what could happen in the future under President Trump’s leadership. This program is available as…

John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), talked about the latest report on security sector assistance in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan Special Inspector General John Sopko talked about his latest report on U.S. reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.

Matt Farwell talked about American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan. In this book, Mr. Farwell told the story of former U.S. Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who was…

The U.S. Institute of Peace hosted a discussion on the status of the Afghanistan peace talks as a sixth round of negotiations between U.S., Afghan and Taliban leaders had started days…

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko testified at a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee hearing on reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. He warned that…

The State Department’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad discussed the country’s ongoing peace efforts at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, DC.…

Matthew Hoh, an Iraq War veteran and former State Department official, talked about his Counterpunch.com article, “Time for Peace in Afghanistan and an End to the Lies.”

At the daily State Department briefing spokesperson Robert Palladino said the agency would express its displeasure after a top Afghan official accused the Trump administration of trying to…

U.S. Army veteran Eileen Rivers talked about her book, Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan.