In 2002, UK comedian and 3-time Edinburgh Fringe First winner Henry Naylor (2018 Hollywood Fringe Best International nominee for “Echoes”) went to the Afghan War Zone with photographer Sam Maynard to conduct research for Naylor's Edinburgh Fringe play “Finding Bin Laden.”
tulsi gabbard. we read them. our coverage continues right now. have a great weekend. i ll see you sunday morning. happening now breaking news, directing to live. the white house denies a bomb shell report that president trump directed his tllawyer to e to congress about a trump business project. lawmakers warn if true the buzz feed allegations would amount to obstruction and clear case for impeachment. second summit after the president talks to north korea s nuke lawyer negotiator he will meet next month. is the timing to coincidence and is there enough progress to warrant the second summit? endangering the speak after trump bars her use to visit the afghan war zone. pelosi accuses the
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well, call it the long good-bye. today nato members are grappling with a plan to leave afghanistan and complete the most significant combat operation in its 62-year history. today we re doing a deep dive into nato s afghan mission. it began in 2001 as an effort to the secure the capital of kabul but was expanded two years later ultimately leading to operations across country. currently, nearly 130,000 troops from 50 nations, 5-0, are serving the afghan war zone. but for the most part, when we say nato forces, we usually mean the united states. 90,000 of the troops serving under the nato-led security force are from the united states. the next largest contributors are britain with 9,500 troops. germany, 4,700 troops and italy, 4,000 and nearly 3,300 from france. at the 2010 summit in lisbon, an exit plan getting all nato forces out of afghanistan by the
spring offensive. that threat follows this deadly attack in kabul but a taliban suicide bomber two hours after president obama left afghanistan and the taliban claiming it s just a sign of things to come. let s go straight to nick payton walsh in kabul. when the taliban says spring offensive, tell us exactly what that means. reporter: well, something they were talking about two weeks ago but today their statements shortly after barack obama left made it clear they consider it a new operation ahead of them. something they called al faruq, an arabic term referring between a person who can distinguish between good and evil. many targets, principally foreigners, those assisting foreigners, afghan security forces and a variety of other tactics which, of course, this kind of statement is try to design fear through the afghans working with the nato campaign here. we saw this morning a suicide bomber driving a car laden with explosives into the gates of something called the greenvi