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Abdullah abdullah. possibly a vote in support of bilateral agreements with the united states and nato to continue to support afghanistan as it transitions to running its own security at the beginning of next year. out of 102 parliamentarians, 7 voted against it. they will keep bolstering the operation resolute against the afghan security forces next year. the reality is the taliban is trying to match that. two significant attacks in kabul over the weekend and the attack on the british convoy. one is a british security worker, aide workers killed and a base handed over in helmand. that attack b...

A new plea from the family of british journalist being held hostage by isis. john cantlie's sister urging the group to contact her family. he was captured two years ago, and he's appeared in several propaganda videos. his sister said the channel of communication they had with isis has been lost. >> it is not true to say that there has been no attempt to engage with i.s. it is simply not accurate. this is frustrating for all parties, including those who are trying to assist us. >> the family says efforts to reopen dialogue have been ignored by the captors. two american journalists and two briti...

Mohammed, what about our diplomats or aide workers? >> are you open to any prisoner exchanges? israel does this routinely. there is precedent for this in the republican and democratic administration. >> i think this would have been a bad idea, even if private bergdahl had been captured heroically on the field of battle. of course, we don't leave any man behind. we continue to search, use intelligence, and if necessary, when we get actual intelligence, we send special operations forced to rescue them, but we don't just give away five senior leaders. these are high-level commanders, the equivale...

To go back into battle against us and begin to try to kill our people again out of revenge if nothing else, why do you set this sort of year -- this arbitrary year in which they're supposedly under detention of some kind or house arrest in qatar? >> well, look, it's exactly a year left for the u.s. fors before our withdrawal from afghanistan. even after the withdrawals, that doesn't mean we won't have diplomats there or aide workers, or individual americans. unfortunately the problem is that even if u.s. soldiers aren't being targeted, i don't think we have much of a promise that the taliban w...

People again out of revenge if nothing else, why do you set this sort of year -- this arbitrary year in which they're supposedly under detention of some kind or house arrest in qatar? >> well, look, it's exactly a year left for the u.s. fors before our withdrawal from afghan afghanistan. even after the withdrawals, that doesn't mean we won't have diplomats there or aide workers, or individual americans. unfortunately the problem is that even if u.s. soldiers aren't being targeted, i don't think we have much of a promise that the taliban won't continue to target americans in general even after ...