We Embark On New Era Of Relentless Diplomacy: US President
New York:, President Biden framed the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan as ending “a period of relentless war” and starting “a new era of relentless diplomacy.”...
Canada’s Trudeau Wins Third Term As PM
MONTREAL: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday acknowledged he will need to work with other parties after he fell short of winning a majority...
Saudi FM Calls on Indian PM Narendra Modi
RIYADH: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan in the capital, New Delhi, Monday to discuss...
Eight Killed In Russian University Shooting
MOSCOW: A student opened fire at a university in the Russian city of Perm on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding several, law...
UN Extends Its Political Mission in Afghanistan
United Nations Security Council members voted in unison on Friday to renew the political mission in Afghanistan. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)...
US Admits Strike in Kabul Killed 10 Civilians
WASHINGTON: A top general admitted the United States had made a “mistake” when it launched a drone strike against suspected Islamic State militants in Kabul,...
China Urges India To Refrain From Engaging in Nuclear Tests
Responding to India’s latest provocations, China has urged New Delhi to stick to the UN Security Council resolution and refrain from engaging in nuclear tests....
Germany Says It Will Grant Visas To 2,600 Afghans
Berlin: Germany has pledged to grant German residency permits to 2,600 Afghans who are deemed to be vulnerable or are in danger. Journalists, activists and...
Mullah Baradar Named Among 100 Most Influential People
WASHINGTON: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar – deputy prime minister in the Taliban’s newly announced caretaker government and the top figure in the Doha deal –...
Afghanistan Seeks CAA’s Permission To Operate Scheduled Flights
KARACHI: The new Afghan government has contacted the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Pakistan and sought permission for scheduled flights for Afghanistan Airlines Ariana and Kam...
World Should Restore Aid To Afghanistan: Amir Khan Muttaqi
KABUL: The Taliban thanked the world for pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency aid to Afghanistan. A donor conference in Geneva on Monday...
UN Promises Financial Aid For Afghanistan
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday urged the international community to engage with the Taliban and to provide a “lifeline” of desperately needed aid to...
Indian Troops Martyr Another Youth in IoK
SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred one Kashmiri youth in Rajouri district, today....
Russia Planning to Send Humanitarian Aid to Afghanistan
MOSCOW: Russia is planning to send food and medicine to Afghanistan soon as humanitarian aid, the RIA news agency cited Russia’s foreign ministry as saying...
France Not To Recognize Taliban Govt: FM Jean-Yves Le Drian
PARIS: The Taliban are lying and France will not have any relationship with its newly-formed government, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said late on Saturday...
USA Achieved Central Mission By Killing Osama Bin Laden: US President
Shanksville: President Joe Biden, speaking unexpectedly during a visit to the Pennsylvania site of one of the 9/11 plane crashes, again defended the widely criticized...
21st Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks Being Observed
NEW YORK: This day marks 21 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, during which thousands of New Yorkers lost their lives, and the area...
US, Chinese Presidents Discuss Economic Issues
WASHINGTON::The United States and Chinese leadership have discussed strategic communication and exchanges on China-U.S. relations and issues of mutual interest. According to a White House...
US Says Interim Taliban Govt Not Reflective Of What It Had ‘Hoped To See’
WASHINGTON: The interim Taliban government does not reflect what the international community and the United States hoped to see, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price...
WHO Chief Urges Halt to COVID Booster Shots
GENEVA: Rich countries with large supplies of coronavirus vaccines should refrain from offering booster shots through the end of the year and make the doses...
Israel Pours Troops Into West Bank to Hunt Down Prison Fugitives
RAMALLAH: Israel flooded the occupied West Bank with reinforcements on Wednesday in the manhunt for six Palestinians who have been on the run for three...
Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund To Head New Afghanistan Government
KABUL: Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund has been named as Afghanistan’s new acting head of state. The Taliban, who swept into Kabul on August 15 following...
Panjshir Valley ‘Completely Captured’: Taliban
KABUL: The Taliban said Monday they had captured the last pocket of resistance in Afghanistan, the Panjshir Valley, even as opposition fighters vowed to keep...
Taliban, Opposition Fight For Afghan Holdout Province Of Panjshir
Kabul: Taliban and opposition forces battled to control the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, the last Afghan province holding out against the group. Both sides...
UK Will Not Recognize Taliban: Dominic Raab
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Robb says we do not recognize the Taliban and urges other countries to do the same. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Robb...
Taliban Claim Taking Control Of Panjshir
Three Taliban sources said the group had on Friday seized the Panjshir valley, north of Kabul, the last province of Afghanistan holding out against it,...
Taliban Co-Founder Baradar To Lead New Afghanistan Govt
Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar will lead a new Afghan government set to be announced shortly, sources in the group said on Friday, as its fighters...
Sher Muhammad Abbas Named Afghanistan FM
KABUL: Taliban leader Sher Muhammad Abbas Stanikzai, head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar, has been named foreign minister of the Islamic Emirate of...
It’s possible’: General Mark Says US Can Work With Taliban To Fight IS
US Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said it was “possible” the United States will seek to coordinate with...
Nine Deaths Reported As Storm Ida Triggers State Of Emergency In New York and New Jersey
The governors of New York and New Jersey declared a state of emergency late on Wednesday as record-breaking rains from tropical storm Ida led to...
Taliban Likely To Appoint Hebatullah As Supreme Leader, Claims US TV
KABUL: The Taliban said that the discussions held on forming a new government have been finalized and they will soon make an announcement. Anamullah Samangani,...
Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda Security Chief Back in Afghanistan
KABUL: A senior al Qaeda commander who was Osama bin Laden’s security chief has apparently returned to Afghanistan after two decades living in Pakistan, according...
Biden Says He Was Not Expecting Sudden Departure of Ghani
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Tuesday mounted a fierce defense of pulling troops from Afghanistan as the “best decision for America,” a day after the...
UAE Announces To Resume Tourists Visas To Vaccinated People Against Coronavirus
The United Arab Emirates announced it will resume issuing visas to all tourists fully vaccinated against Covid-19, a month before Dubai hosts the delayed Expo...
Military Mission Ended in Afganistan: Blinken
WASHINGTON: The United States has completed withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan, ending the 20 years of invasion into the country. In press briefing in...
Afghanistan Got Complete Independence Today: Zabiullah
KABUL: Taliban say that they have taken control of the Kabul airport following withdrawal of the U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Talking to media at Hamid...
Pentagon Says US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Complete
WASHINGTON; The Pentagon announced that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was complete, concluding the 20-year war. Defense Department spokesman John Kirby and U.S. Central Command...
Pentagon Fears Another Attack at Kabul Airport
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon on Monday said U.S. operations in Afghanistan would end “soon,” and that it was looking into reports that ten Afghan civilians, including...
COVID Lockdown Extended For Two Weeks in NZ
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday extended a lockdown in Auckland by two weeks. New Zealand had been largely virus-free for months, barring...
Death Toll in Afghan Explosions Climbs To 170
KABUL: The United States pressed on into the final days of the chaotic airlift from Afghanistan amid tighter security measures and fears of more bloodshed,...
Taliban Proposed Turkey Run Kabul Airport: Erdogan
ISTANBUL: At the Taliban s proposal, Turkey may end up running the airport in the Afghan capital Kabul, with the Taliban themselves providing security, but a...
Death Toll in Kabul Airport Attack Rises to 110
KABUL: At least 13 U.S. service members, identified as 11 Marines, a Navy sailor and an Army soldier, died Thursday in a suicide bombing outside...
US Soldiers Killed In Kabul Blast Are Heroes: Joe Biden
Washington: US President Joe Biden ordered American military commanders to develop operational plans to strike ISIS-Khorasan assets, leadership and facilities as the death toll of...
60 Killed, 140 Wounded as Multiple Blasts hit Kabul Airport
KABUL: Three explosions struck near the main gate of Kabul airport Thursday, causing multiple casualties in what the US military labelled a “complex attack” that...
US Lawmakers Demand To Bring Ashraf Ghani To Justice Over Alleged $169-Million Escape
Washington: Two House Republicans — Reps. James Comer (Ky.) and Glenn Grothman (Wisc.) — penned a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland raising concerns about...
Taliban and Northern Alliance Agree Not To Attack Each Other
KABUL: In a major development that took place Thursday, the Taliban and the Northern Alliance have agreed not to attack each other, said sources. The...
Gunman kills 4 In Attack Near French Embassy In Tanzania
DAR SALAAM: A gunman killed three police officers and a private security guard on a rampage through a diplomatic quarter of Tanzania’s main city Dar...
Saudi Arabia Approves Sinovac and Sinopharm Vaccines
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has approved two further COVID-19 vaccines, Sinovac and Sinopharm. There are currently four vaccines approved for use in the Kingdom: Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech,...
News of Ukrainian Plane Hijack Proved Fake
News of the hijacking of a Ukrainian passenger plane from Afghanistan proved to be false. Eighty-three people were on board, according to the Russian news...
Afghan Security Official Killed in Firing at Kabul Airport
KABUL: One Afghan security official was killed and three others were injured in an exchange of fire between Afghan security forces and unknown individuals at...