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Extreme weather in Afghanistan leaves 17 people dead, authorities say

March 29, 2026 admin

Severe flooding, a landslide and thunderstorms in parts of Afghanistan have left 17 people dead and 26 injured over the last 24 hours, authorities said Sunday (March 29, 2026), the latest casualties from extreme weather in the country this season. The number of casualties could increase as crews from the country’s National Disaster Management Authority…

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Afghanistan releases American national Dennis Coyle after more than year

March 24, 2026 admin

Afghan authorities on Tuesday (March 24, 2026)released American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with Afghanistan’s Taliban-run foreign ministry saying the release came on the occasion of Id al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. A statement from the Ministry said the academic…

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Afghanistan launches military strikes on Pakistan in retaliation for earlier airstrikes

February 26, 2026 admin

Afghanistan’s military launched an attack on Thursday (February 26, 2026) on Pakistan to retaliate for Pakistani airstrikes on Afghan border areas earlier in the week, claiming to have captured more than a dozen Pakistani army posts in the latest escalation of violence between the volatile neighbours. Pakistan’s government, which had described Sunday’s airstrikes as an…

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Pakistan Afghanistan conflict: Country wary of militant attacks after Afghanistan air strikes

February 25, 2026 admin

A soldier of Afghan Taliban forces stands guard close to the Torkham border of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. Pakistani and Afghan Taliban forces traded cross-border fire near a key northwestern crossing, killing a woman and two children on the Afghan side of the border, officials said February 24, 2026…

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CDF Asim Munir tells Afghan Taliban to choose between TTP and Pakistan

December 21, 2025 admin

Pakistan’s Chief of Defense Forces and Army Chief Gen. Asim Munir. File Photo credits: Inter Services Public Relations via AP Chief of Defence Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir has asked Afghanistan’s Taliban regime to choose between Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Pakistan, saying that a majority of militant groups infiltrating across the border comprise Afghan nationals….

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Watch: After the Delhi and Islamabad blasts, is a fresh conflict brewing in the region? | Worldview

November 14, 2025 admin

After the deadly bomb blast in Delhi, a blast in Islamabad. Six months after Operation Sindoor was launched, are tensions in South Asia rising again? And what are the diplomatic impacts of the investigation’s international trail? Source link

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Watch: Where do India-Afghanistan ties stand under Taliban rule?

October 29, 2025 admin

What is the situation inside Afghanistan? We are joined by Dr. Nilofar Sakhi, a faculty member at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. She is also the president of the Andiana Foundation, a US-based think tank, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Source link

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Pakistan, Afghanistan to hold second round of talks in Turkiye to ease border tensions

October 25, 2025 admin

Trucks loaded with goods are parked near the closed Spin Boldak border crossing with Pakistan, after the border was shut for nearly two weeks following clashes between Afghan and Pakistani forces, in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on October 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP “Officials of Pakistan and Afghanistan are set to hold the second round…

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Rare test win for Zimbabwe in easy defeat of Afghanistan

October 22, 2025 admin

Zimbabwe won a Test by an innings for only the third time when they defeated Afghanistan by an innings and 73 runs at Harare Sports Club on Wednesday (October 22, 2025), with two days to spare. Afghanistan batted after Zimbabwe won the toss and were all out for 127. Zimbabwe made 359 in reply with…

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U.N. mission appeals to Taliban to restore internet access across Afghanistan

September 30, 2025 admin

The outage, reported the previous day, was the first nationwide shutdown since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021 and was part of their professed crackdown on immorality. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters The United Nations mission in Afghanistan urged the Taliban on Tuesday (September 30, 2025) to restore internet and telecommunications access across…

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