Afghanistan asks for explanation after Trump claims US could wipe it 'off the face of the Earth'

Washington (CNN) - Afghanistan has demanded the United States clarify remarks made by President Donald Trump, who said the country "would be wiped off the face of the Earth" if he wanted to win the war in Afghanistan.

Fallout from the President's remarks rippled through a tense and confrontational meeting in Kabul between the US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, according to two sources familiar with their conversation.

During the meeting, Afghan officials said Trump's comments were "unacceptable," given the relationship between the US and Afghanistan. At one point in his Oval Office remarks, Trump referred to dropping America's largest non-nuclear bomb on Afghanistan in 2017, and said that dropping more of them would be the "easy solution" to ending the conflict there.

Afghan officials also told Khalilzad that Trump should show more respect for Ghani's leadership. The State Department declined to comment, but previously unplanned follow-up meetings will take place in Kabul on Wednesday. - Read More

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