US Extends Best Wishes on Independence Day
WASHINGTON: United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said he looks forward to advancing shared US-Pakistan goals of security, stability and prosperity in South...
Independence Day Celebrated In Pakistani Embassy in New Delhi
NEW DELHI: The 75th Independence Day of Pakistan is being celebrated all over the world. A special Independence Day celebration was also held at the...
US Mobilizes Troops To Kabul For Embassy Staff Drawdown
Faced with unexpectedly rapid military gains by the Taliban, the United States decided to dramatically scale down its embassy in Kabul and send about 3,000...
Taliban Capture Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province
The Taliban's advance in Afghanistan has accelerated and they have also captured the important province of Kandahar. The number of Taliban-held Afghan provinces has risen...
Six Dead Including Suspected Gunman in UK Shooting
LONDON: Six people, including the suspected gunman, died Thursday following a “serious firearms incident” in the southwestern English city of Plymouth, police said, with reports...
Afghan Govt Offers Share In Power To Taliban
KABUL: Amid rapid gains by the Taliban and taking control of the 10th provincial capital of Afghanistan, the Ghani administration has offered the Taliban a...
Helicopter Crashes in Russia
MOSCOW: A helicopter with 16 people on board, most of them tourists, crashed in the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia s far east on Thursday, the local...
India Shuts Last Consulate in Afghanistan And Evacuates Citizens
KABUL: India sent a military plane to northern Afghanistan on Tuesday to pull out its citizens, officials said, as fighting raged between Afghan security forces...
No Regrets About Withdrawing Troops From Afghanistan: Biden
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has said he has no regrets about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. Speaking to reporters and reporters at the White House,...
COVID-19 Vaccination Declared Mandatory for US Army Personnel
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has made Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for U.S service members by mid-September, an effort by the Biden administration to...
No Ceasefire Deal With Afghan Govt: Taliban
KABUL: A spokesman for the Afghan Taliban told Arab TV that there was no ceasefire deal with the Kabul government. According to Arab TV, the...
US, UK Ask Their Citizens To Leave Afghanistan Immediately
The United States and Britain have instructed their citizens to leave Afghanistan immediately in view of the deteriorating situation of the country. Due to the...
Saudi Airports’ Rankings Improve Among World’s Top 100 for 2021
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s airports continued to advance on the list of world’s 100 top airports, despite the impact of the pandemic, according to the Skytrax...
Saudi Arabia To Receive Umrah Pilgrimage Applications From Monday
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia will begin receiving Umrah pilgrimage applications from abroad for vaccinated pilgrims from tomorrow. An official of the Saudi Hajj and Umrah Ministry...
Pakistan Regrets not Being Invited to UNSC Meeting on Afghanistan
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistani Ambassador to the United Nations Munir Akram during a press briefing said that Pakistan regrets that it was not invited to participate...
US Urges Iran’s New President To Resume Nuclear Talks
The United States has called on Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi to return to talks on reviving a historic nuclear deal. US State Department Spokesman...
Security Council To Discuss Afghan Situation Tomorrow
WEB DESK: Tomorrow’s Security Council meeting will consider the intensity of Taliban attacks in Afghanistan and the occupation of several districts by militants. The Security...
10 Killed in Texas Road Crash
TEXAS: Ten people were killed and 20 people were taken to area hospitals after a van crashed on Highway 281 near Encino, Texas, Wednesday afternoon,...
Shutdown, March To Mark Black Day in IIOJK Today
SRINGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, complete shutdown will be observed and a march will be conducted towards the Lal Chowk in Srinagar,...
Officer Dead, Suspect Killed in Violence Outside Pentagon
WASHINGTON: A Pentagon police officer died after being stabbed Tuesday during a burst of violence at a transit center outside the building, and a suspect...
RSS Protests in India Against KPL
Cricket in India has once again fallen victim to RSS extremism. In India, RSS activists took to the streets against the Kashmir Premier League. The...
Firefighters Continue to Efforts To Control Wildfires
ANKARA: Firefighters continue to fight wildfires on Turkey’s southern coast for the third day in a row. According to Turkish media, the affected villages have...
Kandahar Airport Hit By Rocket Fire as Afghanistan Fighting Rages
A key airport in southern Afghanistan has come under rocket fire as government forces struggle against Taliban assaults on several major cities. Flights out of...
Turkey Fire Kills Three, Injures 100 Others
Ankara: Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires in villages and resorts on Turkey’s Mediterranean and Aegean coasts. Three people have died and dozens have been...
Hundreds of Monkeys Clash For Food in Thailand
Most people will associate gang fights with movies and shows but they have become a reality on the streets of Thailand. However, the brawl is...
“Won’t Allow Anyone To Use Afghan Soil Against China”: Taliban
BEIJING: China told a visiting Taliban delegation on Wednesday it expected the insurgent group to play an important role in ending Afghanistan’s war and rebuilding...
One Dead, Several Injured After Explosion Hits German Chemicals Site
One person has been killed and four others are missing after an explosion rocked an industrial park housing several chemical companies in Germany’s western city...
Biden Announces To End Combat Operations in Iraq
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden declared US relations with Iraq would enter a new phase with American troops exiting combat operations in the country by year-end...
Saudi Arabia To Welcome Foreign Umrah Pilgrims Starting Aug 9
MAKKAH: Saudi Arabia has announced the resumption of Umrah service for pilgrims abroad from August 9 following a successful Hajj season, state press agency SPA...
Indian Govt Spied Kashmiri Hurriyat Leaders Through Pegasus
Modi also spied on 25 Kashmiri leaders through Israeli spy software Pegasus. The phones of four members of the family of senior Hurriyat Conference leader...
Indian Forces Martyr Two Kashmiri Youth In IoK
SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred two Kashmiri youth in Bandipora district. The...
US Appreciates Pakistan On FATF Progress
WASHINGTON: The US State Department spokesperson Ned Price while briefing the media in Washington on Monday said that Pakistan s role in the Afghan peace process...
Talks Between Taliban, Afghan Officials End Without Progress
Two days of talks between Afghanistan and the Taliban in Qatar ended without clear progress. No ceasefire was announced on Eid. The parties have agreed...
Hajj Sermon 2021: O believers, Fear Allah Almighty By Obeying His Commands
MECCA: Sheikh Bandar Bin Abdulaziz Baleelah, urged people to follow Prophet’s (PBUH) teachings regarding pandemics, saying that the Prophet (PBUH) had asked people to not...
Annual Hajj rituals begin today with arrival of pilgrims in Mina
Annual Hajj rituals begin in Makkah today (Sunday) with the arrival of pilgrims in Mina. Due to coronavirus pandemic, no foreign pilgrims have been allowed...
Europe’s Flood Toll Surpasses 120
WEB DESK: Emergency workers in western German and Belgium rushed Friday to rescue hundreds of people in danger or still unaccounted for as the death...
Taliban Take Over Key Border Post
KABUL: The Taliban continued with their onslaught against the Afghanistan government Wednesday, as a spokesperson of the group said they had captured the important Spin...
UAE Opens Israel Embassy After Normalisation Deal
TEL AVIV: The United Arab Emirates opened an embassy in Israel Wednesday, housed in Tel Aviv’s new stock exchange building, in the latest normalisation move...
Taliban Warn Turkey Against Extending Troops in Afghanistan
KABUL: The Taliban on Tuesday warned Turkey against extending its presence in the country when US-led forces leave the country, insisting the decision was “reprehensible”....
U.S. West Scorches Under Heat Wave, Death Valley Reaches 130 Degrees
DEATH VALLEY: A brutal heat wave punishing the U.S. West pushed temperatures toward all-time records for a third day on Sunday, as Death Valley in...
50 Killed In Covid Ward Fire At Iraq Hospital
NASIRIYAH: At least 50 people died in a fire in the coronavirus isolation ward at an Iraqi hospital, the second such deadly inferno in a...
Kashmiris Observing Kashmir Martyrs Day Today
Islamabad: Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and world over are observing Kashmir Martyrs Day today to pay homage to martyrs...
Lightning Strikes Kill 76 People in India
NEW DELHI: Several people reportedly taking selfies near a historical fort in northern India were among 76 killed by lightning strikes during the early stages...
Afghan Taliban Claim To Control Chinese Border Via Iran Border Crossing
KABUL: Taliban fighters have seized control of a key district in western Afghanistan that includes an important border crossing with Iran, Afghan security officials said,...
Biden Says Kabul’s Fall to Taliban ‘Not Inevitable’ as Fighting Rages
WASHINGTON: Joe Biden on Thursday defended the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, saying it was “not inevitable” that the country would fall to the...
Afghan Govt, Taliban Hold Talks in Tehran
TEHRAN: The Taliban delegation and a group of Afghan politicians in Tehran agreed during their meetings on Wednesday and Thursday that war was not the...
Indian Forces Martyr Four Kashmiris in IoK
SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh acts of state terrorism, martyred four more Kashmiri youth in two districts...
Three Killed in Iran Gas Pumping Station Blast
TEHRAN: An explosion caused by a gas leak at a pipeline pumping station killed three workers and injured four in southwestern Iran on Tuesday, Iranian...