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US ‘destabilizing’ policies spawn terrorism in region: Iran

EghtesadOnline: Iran has censured US President Donald Trump’s new strategy in Afghanistan, saying Washington must stop interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and abandon its “destabilizing” policies in the region.
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Publish Date:26/August/2017 | 09:07

Trump Leans on Afghanistan Tactics That Failed Under Bush, Obama

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy -- more troops, pressure on Pakistan and diplomatic outreach to the Taliban -- relies on tactics his predecessors tried without success to get out of America’s longest-running war.
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Publish Date:22/August/2017 | 05:40

Trump Struggles to Move Past Bannon With Afghanistan Plan

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on Monday in danger of becoming increasingly isolated from the Republican establishment he needs to enact his agenda and the grassroots activists inspired by just-departed chief strategist Stephen Bannon.
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Publish Date:22/August/2017 | 04:32

Trump Afghan Strategy Poised to Fail, Pakistan Premier Says

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy for the nation’s longest-running war in Afghanistan will meet the same fate as the plans of his predecessors, according to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. Failure.
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Publish Date:28/August/2017 | 04:36

Trump Offers Open-Ended U.S. Commitment to Shore Up Afghanistan

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump announced an open-ended commitment to Afghanistan that will put as many as 4,000 more U.S. troops into the nation’s longest-lasting conflict and keep American forces there as long as it takes to deny terrorists a haven and bring about a political settlement with the Taliban.
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Publish Date:22/August/2017 | 04:30

Trump's Afghanistan Speech Kicks off Post-Bannon White House Era

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump will make a prime-time speech about Afghanistan and South Asia on Monday as he looks to get his presidency back on track following the departure of chief strategist Stephen Bannon and a week of tumult over his response to white-nationalist violence.
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Publish Date:21/August/2017 | 05:36

Trump's Afghanistan Retreat Ends Without a Decision by the President

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump has yet to decide the future U.S. role in Afghanistan, even after spending hours in a retreat at Camp David where his defense and foreign policy team made the case to continue fighting a war Trump has long questioned.
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Publish Date:19/August/2017 | 04:19