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Express.co.uk
April 16, 2018
As a consequence, the bombs “were not aimed at changing the balance of power on the ground in Syria”, as said by Zalmay Khalilzad, a former US ambassador to the UN. Members of the Trump administration, including US defence secretary Jim Mattis, suggested that the focus of the strike had to beÃâà...
Global Voices Online
April 6, 2018
For many living in the part of Eurasia where Persian and Turkic languages dominate, the festivities of Nawruz beginning March 21 mark not just the start of spring, but New Year itself. In Afghanistan, however, the occasion is not universally celebrated, and the holiday's pagan roots are a point of conjectureÃâà...
Rudaw
April 6, 2018
KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, and US Special Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk. Composite photo: Rudaw via KRG/AP. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and Special Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk separately expressed theirÃâà...
Iranian
March 29, 2018
The men included Bush's Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, John Bolton, Zalmay Khalilzad, the White House liaison to the Iraqi opposition; William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standardmagazine,Ãâà...
Columbia Journalism Review
March 28, 2018
The US Ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, told media in June the Security Council was considering “further steps” in Zimbabwe, an oblique reference to possible intervention. The Security Council had just condemned the violence in a unanimous and unprecedented vote. And, in any case, thereÃâà...
UN Dispatch
March 28, 2018
Instead, by her actions and demeanor she embraced an approach to the UN favored by most Republicans, from Jeanne Kilpatrick to her immediate Republican predecessor Zalmay Khalilzad. To be sure, she has emphasized budget cuts and UN reforms, as do most Republicans. But Haley still embracedÃâà...
NationofChange
March 21, 2018
The US ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, went around putting great pressure on one candidate after another to withdraw from the presidential race so as to ensure the victory for Washington's man, the incumbent, Hamid Karzai in the October election. There was nothing particularly subtleÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 11, 2018
For example, in Iraq's first election in 2005, then-Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad complained bitterly in his memoirs that the Iranian regime provided substantial resources to illiberal, sectarian Shiite groups. America's policymakers, however, were concerned with being perceived as “interfering” in internalÃâà...
The Hindu
March 3, 2018
One of the early priorities of the post-Taliban provisional government led by Hamid Karzai and advised by American Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad was to reach out to the remaining Taliban factions and they got positive signals from them. A compromise would have averted a full-scale prolonged war.
Daily Sabah
February 19, 2018
To get an authentic aggressive U.S. view, I asked a few questions to the Afghan-born Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq. It is important to understand people like Khalilzad, one of the "Beiruti Boys" from Afghanistan, to get an insight into the U.S. war-diplomacyÃâà...
gulfnews.com
February 14, 2018
Books like Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, by Steve Coll, and The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World, by Zalmay Khalilzad, hit the best-seller lists here. “There was this hugeÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
January 4, 2018
Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and the United Nations, expressed support for President Donald Trump's tough line against Islamabad and said the administration is likely studying various methods to put pressure on Pakistan for what he called its lack of cooperation in the fightÃâà...
Kurdistan24
October 25, 2017
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Kurdistan 24) – Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US ambassador to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the United Nations, described how Iran was outmaneuvering the US in Iraq. Speaking at a Hudson Institute conference on Monday, Khalilzad explained, “Iran very cleverly uses its counter-terrorism”Ãâà...
Kurdistan24
October 11, 2017
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Kurdistan 24) – Former US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, called on the US to become “very actively engaged” in negotiating the dispute between Erbil and Baghdad that has followed the independence referendum. Speaking to Kurdistan 24, Khalilzad suggestedÃâà...
Kurdistan24
October 10, 2017
In 2005, Negroponte left Iraq to become the first Director of National Intelligence (a new, post-9/11 agency, intended to better coordinate US intelligence), and Zalmay Khalilzad replaced Negroponte as US Ambassador to Iraq. Khalilzad, in turn, told Kurdistan 24 of his great affection and regard for the late Kurdish leader andÃâà...
ABC News
August 27, 2017
"If our goal is stalemate, we've achieved it,” former NATO Ambassador Douglas Lute told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos in an interview on "This Week" Sunday that also included Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and the United Nations under PresidentÃâà...
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
The United States' former ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, said on Wednesday night that the United States has made some mistakes in its policies towards Afghanistan in recent years. However, the diplomat said efforts are ongoing to reform these mistakes. In a debate onÃâà...
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
The United States' former ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, said on Wednesday night that the United States has made some mistakes in its policies towards Afghanistan in recent years. Share this post. More socials. Related stories. TOLOnews 6pm News 18 April 2018. 18 APRIL 2018Ãâà...
Chatham House
December 31, 1999
In 2006, US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad endorsed Maliki as prime minister by claiming, 'Maliki has deep concerns about expanding Iranian influence in Iraq.' Then, in 2010, US Ambassador Christopher Hill argued, 'in an Iraqi body politic that is attempting, albeit haltingly, to move toward a nationalistÃâà...
APA
December 31, 1999
President of Gryphon Partners and Khalilzad Associates, former US ambassador to the United Nations (2007-2009) Zalmay Khalilzad said that China has already the second big economic power, and this country's military power is increasing day by day. "But China fails in becoming the main dominantÃâà...
Atlantic Council (blog)
December 31, 1999
On March 13, US President Donald J. Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after a little more than a year on the job. Trump announced in a tweet that he is nominating Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Mike Pompeo as Tillerson's replacement. The position requires Senate confirmation.
The National Interest Online
December 31, 1999
The Bush administration, following the advice of such blind guides as Zalmay Khalilzad, placed the manifestly corrupt Amid Karzai in power to rule over the post–Taliban turmoil. Unfortunately, the Trump administration continues to send troops into what Dostum reminds us has been, since Alexander theÃâà...
The New Yorker
December 31, 1999
Three and a half years later, with the help of U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, a Taliban delegation again began negotiating an agreement with the government in Kabul. But Khalilzad's bosses in Washington declined to provide security guarantees to Taliban who joined the peace process.
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