Kabul, August 28 (AP): The Taliban deployed extra forces around Kabul's airport Saturday to prevent large crowds from gathering after a devastating suicide attack two days earlier, as the massive U.S.-led a
London, August 28 (PTI): Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will attend the UK-hosted United Nations Climate Change Conference scheduled for November in Glasgow, Scotland, it was confirmed by the organisers on Sa
Beijing, August 28 (PTI): China and the US discussed the rapidly evolving situation in Afghanistan during their first round of military-level talks after President Joe Biden came to power in January this year,
Washington, August 28 (IANS): The global coronavirus caseload has topped 215 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.48 million and vaccinations soared to over 5.12 billion, according to the J
Cairo, August 28 (IANS): An Egyptian archaeological mission has unearthed remains of a residential and commercial town dating back to the Greco-Roman era in the coastal city of Alexandria.
During the excavat
Washington, August 28 (IANS): After 53 years in prison, Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, has been recommended for parole, according to the media.
Beijing, August 28 (AP): China's defence ministry protested Saturday the passage of a US Navy warship and Coast Guard cutter through the waters between China and Taiwan, a self-governing island claimed by C
Washington, August 28 (PTI): The US military has said that it carried out a drone strike in Afghanistan, killing an Islamic State "planner", a day after President Joe Biden promised to retaliate for t
Los Angeles, August 28 (IANS): The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) said a total of 42,100 residents have been evacuated due to the raging wildfires across state, with 7,000 more
Washington/New Delhi, August 27 (IANS): The Talibans new self-proclaimed chief of security in Kabul, Khalil Haqqani of the Haqqani Network with close ties to Pakistans ISI, was designated as a terrorist by the
Kabul/New Delhi, August 27 (IANS): Chaotic scenes at the Kabul airport may be masking a greater worry for the West: Unintended export of Islamist terrorists out of Afghanistan in the garb of evacuees.
There
Geneva, August 27 (AP): The UN refugee agency is gearing up for as many as half a million people or more to flee from Afghanistan in a worst-case scenario in the coming months.
UNHCR says the situation in Af
Nur-Sultan, August 27 (IANS): Four servicemen were killed and dozens injured in a series of explosions at an ammunition deport in the Kazakh city of Taraz, authorities said on Friday.
At a press briefing her
Washington, August 27 (AP): US President Joe Biden vowed Thursday to complete the evacuation of American citizens and others from Afghanistan despite a deadly suicide bomb attack at the Kabul airport.
He als
Wellington, August 27 (IANS): The last flight by a New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) C-130 Hercules aircraft evacuating people from Afghanistan's capital Kabul has in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Prime Mi
New Delhi, August 27 (IANS): In his first comments on Kashmir, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid has said that Pakistan and India should sit together to resolve all their outstanding issues because both are n
Seoul, August 27 (AP): UN human rights investigators have asked North Korea to clarify whether it has ordered troops to shoot on sight any trespassers who cross its northern border in violation of the country
Istanbul, August 27 (AP): The Taliban has asked Turkey to operate Kabul airport but no decision has been made yet, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday.
The Taliban have made a request for us t
Kabul, August 27 (IANS): All the gates of the Kabul airport were closed on Friday following the deadly twin bombings a day earlier that killed 90 people, including 13 US personnel, and the crowds outside have b
Kabul/New Delhi, August 27 (IANS): At least 90 people, mostly Afghan civilians, and 13 US military personnel have been killed and more than 150 injured due to the devastating twin bomb attacks on the Hamid Karz