Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, alongside military commanders welcomed the corpses and payed their last respect to the fallen heroes as their family members and relatives watched in agony. Bodies of the 13 US service members killed on Thursday, August 26 in Afghanistan by an ISIS-K terror attack, were flown to Dover Air … Read more
The US airstrike came after a suicide bomber from the Islamic State group on Thursday targeted US troops stopping huge crowds of people from entering Kabul’s airport The United States said it destroyed an explosive-laden vehicle with an airstrike in Kabul on Sunday, hours after President Joe Biden warned of another terror attack in the … Read more
An explosion was on Sunday heard in Kabul Airport. EKOHOTBLOG reports that an explosion was heard near Kabul airport, witnesses said on Sunday, and television footage showed black smoke rising into the sky but there was no immediate word on any casualties. READ ALSO: Another Attack Likely Soon At Kabul Airport – US According to Reuters, … Read more
Scores of Afghan civilians were killed in the Kabul bombing Thursday, along with 13 US troops… US military commanders believe that another terror attack like the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport is “highly likely in the next 24-36 hours,” President Joe Biden warned Saturday. After a briefing from his national security team, Biden said … Read more
…it followed Thursday’s attack that killed scores of people including 13 US servicemen. The United States urged its citizens Friday to “immediately” leave the gates around Kabul’s airport, where a suicide bomber this week targeted crowds trying to flee Taliban rule. Earlier Friday, the Pentagon said that the high-risk Kabul airlift operation to evacuate Americans … Read more
Obama made his reaction known via his verified Facebook page. Former President of the United States, Barack Obama, has reacted to the recent bombing near the Kabul Airport in Afghanistan. The Bombing left 13 troops of the United State and over 60 Afghans dead. The bombing has generated lots of comments and reactions as people … Read more
Tens of thousands of people have been flown out of the country since August 13, two days before the Taliban seized control of Kabul, the Afghanistan capital. The Federal Government has said that there is no Nigerian in Afghanistan that needs to be evacuated, following the takeover of the country by the Taliban group. According … Read more
Two explosions ripped through crowds seeking evacuation, followed by an assault by Islamic State gunmen More than 100 people were killed, including at least 13 U.S. service members and 90 Afghans, at the Kabul airport Thursday when two blasts ripped through crowds trying to enter the American-controlled facility, disrupting the final push of the U.S.-led … Read more
Sadat became a minister in Ashraf Ghani’s cabinet in 2018 but he left in 2020 owing to disagreements with him. He then fled Afghanistan and relocated to Germany. An Afghanistan former Minister, Syed Ahmad Shah Sadat, who served under the recently deposed Ashraf Ghani’s cabinet, has been seen working as a pizza delivery person in … Read more
In Kabul, the Taliban said earlier on Tuesday that all foreign evacuations from the country must be completed by August 31 Joe Biden, the president of the United States, has said Washington is on pace to finish evacuations from Afghanistan by August 31, but left open the chance of extending the deadline, saying reaching that … Read more
Instead, thousands of soldiers have poured back in to manage the frantic airlifting of foreigners and Afghans — many who fear reprisals for working with Western nations — out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The Taliban on Monday warned that there would be dire “consequences” if the United States and its allies extend the presence of troops … Read more
Britain’s Sky News had on Saturday aired footage of at least three dead bodies covered in white tarpaulins outside the airport Britain said on Sunday that seven Afghans have died in the chaos near Kabul airport as the British defence secretary expressed support for extending Washington’s end-of-the-month deadline to permit the evacuation of so many … Read more
He said that as he was speaking, troops were loading 120 families on to a plane to depart, with another 138 set to leave a few hours later. Touching photos of desperate Afghanistan mothers throwing their babies over barbed wire fences at the Kabul airport and begging British paratroopers to take them to safety have surfaced … Read more
Ghani has been badly criticised by former ministers for leaving the country suddenly as Taliban forces entered Kabul on Sunday. Ashraf Ghani the former President of Afghanistan has finally spoken days after leaving his country to flee from the Taliban militants. Recall that Ghani ran for his life as Taliban forces entered Kabul … Read more
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella organization for several militant groups, confirmed its former deputy Maulvi Faqir Muhammad, known for his close ties with al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, was also freed by the Taliban. Report has emerged that several hundred militants from groups like Islamic State (ISIS), and the Pakistani Taliban has been freed from Afghan … Read more
The United States says its military flights had evacuated 3,200 people from Kabul so far, including 1,100 on Tuesday alone. Planes carrying hundreds of evacuees from Kabul arrive in the United Kingdom and Germany as Western nations step up evacuation efforts and the Taliban promises women’s rights, media freedom and amnesty for government officials in … Read more
The Taliban took effective control of Afghanistan on Sunday when president Ashraf Ghani fled and the insurgents walked into Kabul with no opposition Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday wrote “I fear for my Afghan sisters” in an op-ed published in The New York Times in the wake of the Taliban’s stunning takeover. “We … Read more
…remained vague on other details, however, implying people already knew the rules of Islamic law the Taliban expected them to follow. The Taliban has announced a “general amnesty” for government workers across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government, trying to calm nerves as thousands rushed to Kabul airport to get out of the … Read more
The Taliban swept through Afghanistan last week, claiming most of its large provinces before closing in on Kabul on Sunday and demanding an unconditional surrender of the government. The exiled Afghanistan President, Ashraf Ghani, has been indicted in a report to have fled the falling country with four vehicles and a helicopter stocked with cash. … Read more
According to AP, the Taliban, a militant group that ran the country in the late 1990s, have again taken control. The Taliban has given new name to Afghanistan after its fighters swept into the capital, Kabul. Kabul is a bustling metropolitan city of six million but has turned into a male dominated city without police … Read more