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Afghanistan says it thwarted Pakistani airstrike on Bagram Air Base

March 1, 2026 admin

Afghanistan thwarted attempted airstrikes on Bagram Air Base, the former U.S. military base north of Kabul, authorities said Sunday (March 1, 2026), while cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan stretched into a fourth day. The fighting has been the most severe between the neighbors for years, with Pakistan declaring that it’s in “open war” with…

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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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Watch: Trump says U.S. is trying to ‘get back’ Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan

September 19, 2025 admin

Donald Trump declared that the US is trying to retake Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase, which was abandoned to the Taliban in the chaotic 2021 withdrawal. He tied the plan to China’s growing nuclear weapons threat, calling the base a critical strategic outpost. Source link

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Polio Returns To Pakistan, Afghanistan As Vaccinations Stall

January 25, 2025 admin

Poliomyelitis was responsible for paralysing and killing up to half a million people every year before the development of the poliovirus vaccine in 1955. By 2000, through mass vaccination campaigns of oral polio vaccines, the world had almost eradicated poiliovirus barring a few regions. However, the global fight against polio has encountered a significant setback,…

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Taliban’s Latest Diktat To NGOs In Afghanistan

December 30, 2024 admin

In yet another draconian move to curtail women’s freedom in Afghanistan, the Taliban said it will close all national and foreign non-governmental groups in the country employing women. In a letter published on X on Sunday night, Afghanistan’s Economy Ministry warned that failure to comply with the latest order would lead to NGOs losing their…

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Opinion: A Murky Rivalry Is Brewing In India's Neighbourhood

December 30, 2024 admin

The Afghans are understandably furious. After more than two decades of unleashing terror on them from the mujahideen era through the Taliban times, Pakistan decided to bomb Afghan villages on Tuesday, killing some 46 people, including women and children. The villages allegedly sheltered the cadres of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). That’s ironic. The TTP is…

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Days After Pak Air Strikes, Soldier Killed In Clashes With Afghan Troops

December 28, 2024 admin

Peshawar: A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and seven others wounded in cross-border exchanges of fire with Afghanistan’s forces, a security source said Saturday, while hundreds of Afghans protested against the deadly air strikes that sparked the clashes. Sporadic fighting, including with heavy weaponry, erupted overnight between border forces on the frontier between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…

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New Russian Law Will Remove Taliban’s “Terrorist” Label, HTS Could Be Next

December 18, 2024 admin

Moscow: The Russian parliament has passed a law that would allow courts to suspend bans on groups designated as terrorist organisations by Moscow. The new law, passed by parliament’s lower house, the State Duma, paved the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the Afghan Taliban and potentially with the new leadership of Syria. It…

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14 Years On, The Arab Spring Morphs Into An Islamic Winter

December 16, 2024 admin

On December 17, 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian fruit vendor, set himself on fire to protest against local officials having confiscated his stall. His act ignited the flames of a pan-Arab anti-establishment mass uprising that came to be called the ‘Arab Spring’. On the eve of the 14th anniversary of that incident and in the…

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Afghanistan must participate in future climate talks: Taliban

December 1, 2024 admin

Matiul Haq Khalis, head of the National Environmental Protection Agency from Afghanistan, said Afghanistan must participate in future climate talks. File | Photo Credit: AP An Afghan environment official on Sunday (December 1, 2024) said the country must be allowed to participate in future global climate talks, after returning from COP29 in Baku where Taliban…

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