Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan said Wednesday that negotiations for a lasting truce with Afghanistan had "failed to bring about a workable solution", warning it would take steps to protect its people. Pakistan and Afghanistan have been holding negotiations in Istanbul aimed at securing peace after the South Asian neighbours' deadliest...
Dozens die in Kabul airport blasts; Islamic State claims responsibility
Islamic State struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport in a suicide bomb attack on Thursday, killing scores of civilians and at least 13 U.S. troops, disrupting the airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans desperate to flee. Hours after the twin blasts, a third explosion was reported.
UAE helps 28,000 flee Afghanistan: official
The UAE and Qatar have been instrumental staging posts for evacuation flights for Western countries' citizens as well as Afghan interpreters, journalists and others
Confusion over Ukraine jet ‘hijacking’ in Kabul
Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister Yevgeny Yenin told the independent Hromadske radio station that a Ukrainian plane had been "hijacked" in Kabul and flown to Iran "with a group of unknown passengers on board, instead of evacuating Ukrainians." But his comments were then denied by the foreign ministry.
Taliban inherit $1 trn trove of minerals
China could take lead to tap the untapped minerals including some that could power the world’s transition to renewable energies.
Bahrain allows use of airport for Afghan evacuees
Bahrain has announced that it is “allowing flights to make use of Bahrain’s transit facilities” amid the evacuations of Afghanistan.UAE agrees to temporarily host 5,000 Afghans
The move comes following a request from the United States to help out Afghan evacuees.
Afghan evacuees touch down in UAE
About 5,000 Afghan nationals believed to be at risk due to the current crisis will be resettled in the UK.
IMF suspends Afghanistan’s access to SDR resources
The IMF is expected to complete a $650 billion allocation of Special Drawing Rights, the fund’s unit of exchange based on dollars, euros, yen, sterling and yuan, on Monday, to its 190 member countries in proportion to their shareholdings in the fund.
Afghanistan will be ruled by a council: Taliban leader
The insurgent group has made no official statement on the structure of their government even as a key Taliban member held talks on Wednesday with former Afghan president Hamid Karzai. A member of The Taliban delegation that arrived from Doha said that the delegation will hold consultations with local and...
Turbulent economy under Taliban
Ahmady explained that the Taliban would have access to only 0.1-0.2 percent of the country’s foreign reserves of $9 billion, especially given the sanctions the global community has placed on Afghanistan.‘Complete stop’: New Turkish wall confronts fleeing Afghans
A concrete wall, topped with barbed wire and surrounded by trenches, is being erected along Turkey's border with IranUAE hosting Afghan ex-president ‘on humanitarian grounds’
Ghani fled Afghanistan on Sunday as the Taliban closed in on Kabul, before the insurgents walked into the Afghan capital unopposedFacebook blocks Taliban’s WhatsApp accounts
Taliban had set up Whatsapp hotline to receive complaints
Iran, Turkey anticipate refugee crisis as Taliban takes over Kabul
Both already host large refugee populations — 3.6 million Syrians in Turkey and 3.5 million Afghans in IranQatar to Taliban: Adopt ceasefire
It is the clearest call to date from Qatar, which hosts the Taliban's politics office, for the militants to halt their lightning advance across Afghanistan
Afghan general takes Taliban fight to social media
36-year-old Sadat commands 20,000 men and remains optimistic of a win against Taliban.
NATO chief calls for negotiated settlement with Taliban
Jens Stoltenberg said the situation in the country is deeply challenging amid UN's warning that more civilians could die
Doha: Afghan gov’t, Taliban to meet again after inconclusive talks
Senior representatives of the Kabul government including head of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah flew in for two days of intensive talks
Turkey offers to secure Afghan airport after US, NATO forces
Ankara is seeking "financial, political and logistical support" from the US and the NATO to carry out the fraught task amidst the ongoing Taliban advances in the country.
Mercenaries: The sinister export from Colombia’s conflict
Some 26 Colombians have been accused of taking part in the pre-dawn murder of president Jovenel Moise Participation of Colombian mercenaries highlights the lucrative transnational mercenary market Some fight in Yemen or Afghanistan, others guard oil pipelines in the United Arab Emirates; and yet more turned up in Haiti this...Rumsfeld, Iraq war architect, dead at 88
Rumsfeld and vice president Dick Cheney were emblematic of what was seen as excesses in Bush's "war on terror" He had been the youngest person ever to become defense secretary in 1975 at the age of 43 Donald Rumsfeld, the cocksure and unrepentant defense secretary who led the United States...
