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Pakistan minister says top Taliban leaders ‘born and trained’ in Pakistan

Featured WIB land September 2, 2021 0

Poulomi Ghosh Hindustan Times, New Delhi Pakistan interior minister Sheikh Rashid has recently said in an interview that Pakistan has taken care of the Taliban for a long time. “All top Taliban leaders were born and brought up in Pakistan. This has been our ‘service’ that we trained them and many more might be studying,” Sheikh Rashid said in an... Read more

Al-Qaeda congratulates Taliban for ‘historic victory’ in Afghanistan

Featured WIB land September 1, 2021 0

Amman — The al-Qaeda terrorist network congratulated the Taliban this week for its “historic victory” against the United States, which just ended a 20-year presence in Afghanistan and flew its last soldier out of the country.

Russian military completes exercises in Tajikistan near Afghan border

Featured WIB land September 1, 2021 0

A Kyrgyz special forces soldier guards the “Golovnoy” watershed, where the first clashes between Tajik and Kyrgyz border guards began near the Tajik border, near the village of Kok-Tash, on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) Moscow — Russian tanks completed military exercises in Tajikistan on Wednesday, following the withdrawal of US troops... Read more

China changes its mind on family size, allows couples to have three children

Featured WIB land WIB politics August 31, 2021 0

After 36 years of a policy that fueled human trafficking and infanticide, destroyed homes and robbed people of their agency and human rights, the Chinese Communist Party has changed its mind. Six years after abandoning its one-child policy, China’s government has now decided it’s lawful for couples to have three children.

Taliban pins ‘surrender or die’ letters on the homes of those who helped the U.S.

Featured WIB land August 31, 2021 0

Taliban fighters from the Fateh Zwak unit at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Amit Chaturvedi Hindustan Times, New Delhi The United States has finally ended its mission in Afghanistan after two decades, but those who are left behind in the country now being run by the Taliban are facing a... Read more

The Taliban reduced the world’s supply of heroin by two-thirds the last time they were in power

Featured WIB land WIB politics August 31, 2021 0

In a few months, farmers in Afghanistan will begin planting the fall poppy crop, eventually blanketing the dusty countryside in resplendent white, pink and red flowers.

Pakistani border forces open fire on Afghans trying to cross border, kill multiple people

Featured WIB land August 27, 2021 0

A Pakistani soldier stands guard as stranded Afghan nationals return to Afghanistan at the Pakistan- Afghanistan border crossing point in Chaman on August 15, 2021, after the Taliban took control of the Afghan border town in a rapid offensive across the country. (-/AFP via Getty Images/TNS) Islamabad — Pakistani border forces on Friday fired at a... Read more

18,700 Afghan evacuees have arrived at US army base in Germany

Featured WIB air August 27, 2021 0

A total of 18,700 evacuees from Afghanistan have arrived at the US Ramstein Air Base in south-western Germany on some 76 military transport flights, according to a spokesperson for the base on Friday.

Britain vows to continue Kabul evacuation after ‘barbaric’ slaughter of a dozen US troops

Featured WIB land August 26, 2021 0

Medical and hospital staff bring an injured man on a stretcher for treatment after two blasts, which killed at least five and wounded a dozen, outside the airport in Kabul on August 26, 2021. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images/TNS) Sam Blewett, Geraldine Scott, Ted Hennessey and Edd Dracott, PA PA Media London —... Read more

Russia and China want to strengthen cooperation on Afghanistan crisis

Featured WIB land WIB politics August 25, 2021 0

A military transport plane launches off while Afghans who cannot get into the airport to evacuate, watch and wonder while stranded outside, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 23, 2021. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Beijing/ Moscow — China and Russia want to work together more closely as the crisis mounts in Afghanistan. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged views... Read more