United States Secretary of Defense James Mattis has stepped down from his position.
A delegation of the United States Department of Defence, led by Defence Secretary James Mattis and US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford, met with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and discussed several bilateral issues.
India and the US Thursday held the first edition of the two-plus-two talks, aimed at further strengthening bilateral defence and security collaboration as well as boosting their global strategic partnership, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense James Mattis will hold talks with their Indian counterparts Sushma Swaraj and Nirmala Sitharaman on September 6, in New Delhi. Officials in Washington have termed the upcoming dialogue a ‘major opportunity’ to enhance the US engagement with India on critical diplomatic and security priorities.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a three-nation visit, on Saturday met with United States Secretary of Defense James Mattis in Singapore.
Several rockets have been fired close to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul just hours after U.S. Defence Secretary James Mattis landed in Afghanistan’s capital to hold talks with President Ashraf Ghani.
United States Defence Secretary James Mattis arrived in Kabul with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, to discuss ways to implement President Donald Trump’s strategy of winning the war in Afghanistan with President Ashraf Ghani.
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