The committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statement, extraneous material for the record subject to the limitation and the rules. Ambassador wells, miss friedman, welcome. Welcome to members of the public and the press, as well. We are glad to have our friends from cspan with us today, as well. We meet this morning so the committee can conduct oversight of the Trump Administrations policy towards afghanistan and ill now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. For months weve been attempting to get some visibility into the ongoing peace negotiations without success. We all want peace. We all want the fighting in afg to end, but Congress Needs to know when a potential deal looks like, members on both side need to have the chance to ask questions and offer views. In the last few weeks weve seen the afghan reconciliation proseses is go off the rails in a spectacular fashion. We learn trade president ial tweet that the administration wa
Are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our two International Incheon thomas certainly glad to have you with us now syrian progovernment forces have entered the kurdish held Northern Region of africa however they were immediately pushed back by turkish artillery fire or war correspondent gaza have reports. This was a demonstration hundreds of pro Assad Militia fighters with tanks armor brazenly riding into africa with smiles cheers and cameras. All those rumored talks and deals which would see the syrian army really and afrin have yielded nothing so far instead these militias just went in and the kurds the y. P. G a jubilant for Syrian Government has responded to the call of duty and sent military units on the state to deploy along the border and take part in defending the units youre serious thirty three and. The turks well see for yourself and koreas response was explosive loaded and delivered in artillery shells but why did. It go on warned that this would happen no
A source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. He also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could to the provincial capital. This is the video i shot just days after the operation. At first it seemed like another footnote in the war. But after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. Then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. I found a short reference to the operation in it. The operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties 15 deaths and 13 injured . Fifteen dead. How could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and Afghan Military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world . The report said that the international and Afghan Security forces denied civilian casualties. I knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if id any chance of finding out the truth. In 2009, eight years into the war in afghanistan, the United Nations started t
A source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. He also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could to the provincial capital. This is the video i shot just days after the operation. At first it seemed like another footnote in the war. But after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. Then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. I found a short reference to the operation in it. The operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties 15 deaths and 13 injured . Fifteen dead. How could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and Afghan Military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world . The report said that the international and Afghan Security forces denied civilian casualties. I knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if id any chance of finding out the truth. In 2009, eight years into the war in afghanistan, the United Nations started t
I was in afghanistan at the time of the operation. A source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. He also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could to the provincial capital. This is the video i shot just days after the operation. At first it seemed like another footnote in the war. But after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. Then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. I found a short reference to the operation in it. The operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties 15 deaths and 13 injured . Fifteen dead. How could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and Afghan Military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world . The report said that the international and Afghan Security forces denied civilian casualties. I knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if id any chance of finding out the truth. In 2009, eight years into t