If Trump's now-canceled plan for secret talks with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents on U.S. soil was stunning, the date chosen was perhaps even more so.
Mike Pompeo said Sunday that Taliban "overreached" with their car bomb attack in a diplomatic area near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, killing an American soldier.
The Taliban defended their suicide bombing against an international compound in the Afghan capital that killed at least 16 civilians and wounded 119 people.
A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle filled with explosives outside the national military academy here, killing at least six people and wounding 16 others.