Afghans wait outside a hospital in Kabul for news of friends and family injured in a Taliban attack (AFP Photo/ABDUL SHAHMIM TANHA)/ At least four people were killed and a dozen injured when gunmen stormed a crowded government building in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday following a suicide ...
Speaking to the BBC, Taliban negotiator Abbas Stanikzai defended the group's role in bloodshed across the country in recent weeks/ Speaking to the BBC, Taliban negotiator Abbas Stanikzai defended the group's role in bloodshed across the country in recent weeks (AFP Photo/KARIM JAAFAR)/ The ...
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan — Fearing Taliban threats, President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan has mostly campaigned for re-election via Skype, reaching voters outside Kabul through “virtual rallies.” But on Tuesday, the president risked a 35-mile trip from the capital to neighboring Parwan Province for ...
JALALABAD/KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber and gunmen wounded at least nine people, including a child and a woman, in an attack on a government building in eastern Afghan on Wednesday, officials said./ FILE PHOTO: Members of a Taliban delegation, led by chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani ...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had no more than 20 minutes to study a draft accord between the United States and the Taliban on pulling thousands of U.S. troops out of his country, but upcoming elections could put him back at the heart of talks to end decades of war./ FILE PHOTO: Afghan ...
President Trump calls off peace negotiations with the Taliban after the group admits to a deadly attack in Afghanistan; Benjamin Hall reports./ Tuesday, killing at least 48 people and wounding dozens in the deadliest single day since a peace agreement with Taliban insurgents was declared dead./ ...
Afghan police inspect the site of the suicide attack in Parwan province - AP/ Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in two blasts Tuesday - one at a campaign rally for the president and the other in Kabul - with The first attack saw a motorcyclist detonate a ...
Election commission workers prepare ballot boxes and election materials for the presidential election scheduled for Sept 28, at the Independent Election Commission compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. Afghan officials say around 100,000 members of the country's security forces ...
Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani gestures during his election campaign rally in Kabul/ KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had no more than 20 minutes to study a draft accord between the United States and the Taliban on pulling thousands of U.S. troops out of his country, ...
Iran held talks with a delegation from Afghanistan’s Taliban, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, a week after peace talks between the United States and the Islamist insurgents collapsed. Iran said in December it had been meeting with Taliban representatives with the knowledge of the Afghan ...
Iran held talks with a delegation from Afghanistan’s Taliban, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, a week after peace talks between the United States and the Islamist insurgents collapsed./ FILE PHOTO - Members of a Taliban delegation, led by chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (C, ...
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A U.S. service member was killed in Afghanistan on Monday, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said, after the collapse of talks between the United States and Taliban to end the nearly 18-year old war. It said the service member was killed in action but did not ...
05PM [Updated: Wed Sep 18, 2019 03:05PM ]/ The file photo shows Head of the Political Office of the Taliban Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai speaking at a conference arranged by the Afghan diaspora in Moscow, Russia, February 5, 2019. (By Reuters)/ The Taliban says its “doors are open” to resuming ...
Afghan security forces keep watch at the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 17, 2019. (Photo by Reuters)/ An explosion has hit a campaign rally attended by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in the country’s northern province of Parwan, leaving at least two dozen people dead. Wahida ...
36PM [Updated: Mon Sep 16, 2019 10:36PM ]/ Members of Taliban's Qatar-based political bureau have visited Tehran and held talks with Iranian officials on the latest developments of the Afghan peace process, including the breakdown of US-Taliban negotiations. The delegation has reportedly ...
founded Seraphim Space in 2015 and recently celebrated its 10th anniversary./ As CEO of the world’s leading global space investor, Mark Boggett can see anything up to 200 diverse opportunities land on his desk every month. Since the pioneering space tech fund was launched a decade ago, the ...
The stories you don't know about some of the world's best – and little-known – brands/ From helping scale Purplebricks to co-founding TAUK, Steph Vass is challenging how the property industry works./ After Steph Vass finished her GCSEs she began to annoy her mother, who ran the family’s ...
Israeli security forces inspect the Hamida Mosque after it was vandalised by Israeli settlers/ The marks of the attack on Hamida Mosque, near Deir Istiya in the occupied West Bank, are still scattered on the ground outside. Charred furniture, lecterns and smoky curls of carpet are piled around ...
have veered so far to the right that they are starting to eat their own. MAGA conspiracy theorists have frequently claimed that athletes and celebrities are secretly trans, but now they are If you’re not chronically online, you may be unaware that “transvestigation” is a transphobic conspiracy ...
About 23 of them have since left for other destinations, authorities say/ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says there will be an investigation into the "mysterious" arrival of a chartered plane carrying 153 Palestinians from Gaza into the country. The group arrived at OR Tambo ...
Alaa Abdel Fattah celebrated with his mother, Leila Souief (left), and his sister, Sanaa Seif (right), following his release from prison in September/ British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah was stopped from flying to the UK by Egyptian passport control earlier this week, his ...
) and European stocks followed Wall Street and Asia lower as markets opened on Friday, selling off as a global aversion to risk grips markets and Rachel Reeves appeared to U-turn on plans to hike income tax. London stocks wavered and British bond yields sold as traders digest more uncertainty ...
This image released by the Mammoth Lakes Police Department shows the Pack Fire burning on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, in Mono County, Calif. (Mammoth Lakes Police Department via AP)/ in a picturesque California county along the Nevada state border has damaged 15 structures, prompted evacuations and ...
Meny Godard's body was taken into Gaza after Hamas killed him alongside his wife/ Israel has identified the hostage body returned by Hamas on Thursday as that of Meny Godard, who was 73 when he was killed in the 7 October attacks. Red Cross vehicles collected his body hours after Hamas issued a ...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a solid plan to manage the country's soaring debt and it involves a growing reliance on money-market funds and stablecoins. Speaking at the Treasury Market Conference, Bessent how the department is thinking about long-term borrowing, noting that the ...