This is really important –
Snr US admin official on call said withdrawal of remaining US forces from Afghanistan will not be conditions based. The President has reached the conclusion that ‘conditions based’ withdrawal is a recipe for staying in Afghanistan forever. will begin May 1, be completed by 9/11
In the past, there have always been conditions – if this agreement is reached, if fighting in that province slows down, yatta yatta. Those conditional allowed the military and others to say “The time is not right.” This time, we’re getting out. Period.
And I think there will be an almost immediate withdrawal of some troops.
At least seven members of Afghanistan’s persecuted Hazara ethnic group were brutally murdered in the country’s restive east. AP/File
JALALABAD: At least seven members of Afghanistan’s persecuted Hazara ethnic group were brutally murdered in the country’s restive east, officials said on Thursday, in the latest attack to target the largely Shia minority.
The group of migrant Hazara labourers had their hands bound behind their backs and were shot to death on Wednesday night, according to Nangarhar provincial council member Ajmal Omar.
Juma Gul Hemat Nangarhar’s provincial police chief confirmed the murders, adding that four people had been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation.
3 Female Media Workers Killed on Way Home From Work in Eastern Afghanistan
JALALABAD, Afghanistan Three female media workers were shot dead in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, government officials said, amid a wave of killings that is spreading fear among professional workers in urban centers.
Zalmai Latifi, head of local broadcaster Enikas TV, said the three women were recent high school graduates aged between 18 and 20 who worked in the station’s dubbing department.
Government sources said the women were killed on their way home from work and witnesses said gunmen shot the women in the head before fleeing. A fourth woman was injured and a hospital spokesman said she had been admitted to hospital and was fighting for her life.
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At least seven Afghan civilians were shot and killed by a group of gunmen overnight in the country’s east and a physician died when a bomb attached to her rickshaw exploded on Thursday, provincial officials said.
The Islamic State group in a statement claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying its fighters had detonated a so-called sticky bomb placed on the vehicle of a woman. The statement claimed she worked for the Afghan intelligence service in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province.
Gen. Juma Gul Hemat, provincial police chief in Nangarhar, said the shooting attack victims were workers at a plaster factory in the Sorkh Rod district. Police arrested four suspects, he added.