{"id":18569,"date":"2026-02-12T03:48:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=18569"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:48:48","slug":"u-s-state-department-official-we-are-formulating-trump-administrations-policy-on-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/02\/12\/u-s-state-department-official-we-are-formulating-trump-administrations-policy-on-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. State Department Official: We are formulating Trump administration&#8217;s policy on Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: S. Paul Kapur, the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, stated that various U.S. agencies are currently working on formulating the Trump administration&#8217;s policy towards Afghanistan.<br>He made the remarks during a hearing of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, which was published on the committee&#8217;s website on Wednesday night.<br>Speaking before U.S. lawmakers in a session titled &#8220;U.S. Foreign Policy in the Region,&#8221; Mr. Kapur added that developing the White House&#8217;s new policy regarding Afghanistan requires further assessments and approaches.<br>According to the Assistant Secretary, U.S. lawmakers will be informed of this policy in due course. However, he did not provide further details regarding the new U.S. policy towards Afghanistan.<br>It appears the U.S. administration under Donald Trump is seeking to change the country&#8217;s policies and approaches towards Afghanistan compared to the past four years.<br>This comes at a time when, in recent months, official and unofficial U.S. delegations have visited Afghanistan at least three times, and prisoner exchanges between Kabul and Washington have also been successfully conducted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: S. Paul Kapur, the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, stated that various U.S. agencies are currently working on formulating the Trump administration&#8217;s policy towards Afghanistan.He made the remarks during a hearing of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, which was published on the committee&#8217;s website on Wednesday night.Speaking before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18571,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569\/revisions\/18571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}