Trump’s Challenge: Shatter Strategic Stalemate in Afghanistan

  • Pakistan’s role in providing ‘haven’ for terrorists criticized
  • India called upon to help bring stability to tense region

President Trump delivers his policy on Afghanistan. He speaks from the Fort Myer Army base in Virginia. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Faced with a resurgent Taliban and the growing threat from Islamic State, Afghan watchers have little confidence U.S. President Donald Trump’s new approach to the 16-year conflict in Afghanistan will do much to alter the dynamics of America’s longest war.