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REUTERS 2021-08-18 19:25:12
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has met a Taliban commander and senior leader of the Haqqani Network militant group, Anas Haqqani, for talks amid efforts by the Taliban to set up a government. K...
-- 2021-08-18 19:22:33
At least three people were killed and more than a dozen injured after Taliban militants opened fire during protests against the group in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, two witnesses told R...
Reuters 2021-08-18 18:34:00
More than 2,200 diplomats and civilians have been evacuated from Afghanistan on military flights, a Western security official said on Wednesday, as the Taliban made first efforts to set up a governmen...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-18 18:22:19
Saudi Arabia will allow travellers vaccinated with Sinopharm or Sinovac vaccines only after receiving a booster dose of any vaccine approved in the Kingdom. The Consulate General of Bangladesh in Jed...
Forbes 2021-08-18 17:22:58
The Taliban, in a shocking blitzkrieg, have swept through Afghanistan in less than a month and the 300,000-man Afghan army is all but melting away in their path. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, as he f...
FE Online Desk 2021-08-18 17:18:51
The US has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank and stopped shipments of cash to the nation as it tries to keep a Taliban-led government from accessing the money,...
-- 2021-08-18 17:06:05
The world should give the Taliban the space to form a new government in Afghanistan and may discover that the insurgents cast as militants by the West for decades have become more reasonable, the head...
REUTERS 2021-08-18 16:55:09
In Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve, the Toyota 4x4 Landcruiser of tour guide and driver Sylvester Mukenye glides silently past a herd of grazing elephants, then past a pride of lions lying in the...
REUTERS 2021-08-18 16:44:25
Unidentified armed men have killed 37 civilians, including 14 children, in an attack on a village in southwest Niger, according to internal security service memos and a local official. The attack occ...
REUTERS 2021-08-18 14:21:11
Malaysia's king will name a new prime minister as soon as possible but the appointee will have to face a confidence vote in parliament to prove his majority, the palace said in a statement on Wednesda...
REUTERS 2021-08-18 12:03:56
Afghan women and girls who have won freedoms they could not have dreamt of under the last Taliban rule that ended 20 years ago are desperate not to lose them now the Islamist militant movement is back...
FE Online Desk 2021-08-18 11:00:31
On Tuesday an unprecedented discussion took place on an Afghanistan television channel: a female presenter interviewed a Taliban spokesperson about the group’s plans for the country, d...
-- 2021-08-18 09:34:53
Japan on Tuesday extended its state of emergency in Tokyo and other regions and announced new measures covering seven more prefectures to counter a spike in COVID-19 infections that is threatening the...
BBC 2021-08-17 23:56:12
President Joe Biden has said he stands "squarely" behind the US exit from Afghanistan as he faces withering criticism over the Taliban's lightning conquest of the war-torn country. "How many more Ame...
REUTERS 2021-08-17 21:49:39
The Taliban held their first official news conference in Kabul on Tuesday since the shock seizure of the city, declaring they wanted peaceful relations with other countries and would respect the right...
REUTERS 2021-08-17 19:16:27
More than 600 Afghan men, women and children, crouching and crammed up against each other on the floor of a US military plane, left Kabul after the city was seized by Taliban insurgents. A photograph...
-- 2021-08-17 19:00:54
Former US President George W Bush, who launched a "war on terror" in Afghanistan and elsewhere following the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, urged the US government to expedite help for Afghan refugees followi...
REUTERS 2021-08-17 18:59:51
Turkey is in talks with all parties in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, and views positively the messages the Islamist militants have sent since taking control of the country, Foreign Minister Mevl...
Reuters 2021-08-17 16:45:57
The Taliban have ordered their fighters to maintain discipline and not enter any diplomatic buildings or interfere with embassy vehicles, and for ordinary people to go about their business as usual, a...
-- 2021-08-17 14:17:19
India Tuesday evacuated all its diplomatic staff, including the Ambassador, from its embassy in Kabul on a special flight of the Air Force, some 36 hours after the Taliban seized the capital. "In vie...
-- 2021-08-17 13:34:09
A Taliban official has announced a general “amnesty” for all in Afghanistan and urged women to join its government. Enamullah Samangani, member of Islamic Emirate’s cultural commiss...
Reuters 2021-08-17 12:07:43
The Biden administration plans to begin administering COVID-19 booster shots to Americans as early as mid or late September, pending authorisation from the US Food and Drug Administration, a source fa...
REUTERS 2021-08-17 11:30:50
Military flights evacuating diplomats and civilians from Afghanistan restarted early on Tuesday after the runway at Kabul airport was cleared of thousands of people desperate to flee after the Taliban...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-17 11:20:32
The United States must do more to ensure the safety of Afghan journalists as the county falls under the control of the Taliban, including facilitating their safe passage out of the country and providi...
Reuters 2021-08-17 11:09:24
Covid-19 cases are set to "rise substantially" in Sydney in the coming weeks despite a prolonged lockdown, authorities said on Tuesday, warning soaring infections have already put hospitals under enor...
-- 2021-08-17 10:37:06
Russia's ambassador to Afghanistan praised the Taliban's conduct on Monday and said the group, still officially designated a terrorist organisation in Russia, had made Kabul safer in the first 24 ho...
Reuters 2021-08-17 10:36:34
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said she was deeply concerned about the situation in Afghanistan, particularly the safety of women and girls, and called on Monday for world leaders to take u...
REUTERS 2021-08-17 10:15:08
Frustration and anger at US President Joe Biden’s handling of evacuations from Afghanistan are mounting among administration officials, lawmakers of both parties and advocacy groups. As U...
-- 2021-08-17 10:14:10
President Joe Biden said on Monday he stood "squarely behind" his decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan despite searing images of chaos in Kabul that exposed the limits of US power and plung...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-08-16 18:38:32
Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban leader freed from a Pakistani jail on the request of the US less than three years ago, has emerged as an undisputed victor of the 20-year war, writes The Guardian. Wh...
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