Afghan War
Blinken calls foreign ministers; US wants Pakistan, India to not allow their rivalry to further strain tense situation in region.
Updated 17 Aug, 2021 12:40pm
Says she has sent a letter to PM Imran asking him to admit Afghan refugees and has been trying to reach out to global leaders.
Published 17 Aug, 2021 11:13am
“Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation-building," the US president says.
Updated 17 Aug, 2021 06:47pm
It seemed that in Iraq and in Afghanistan, the focus was on recruiting and training people but not on building institutions.
Updated 17 Aug, 2021 08:21am
We know what happened to someone’s dream of sowing socialism in Afghanistan.
Updated 17 Aug, 2021 08:17am
The world will be keenly looking especially at how the Taliban react towards girls’ education.
Updated 17 Aug, 2021 07:52am
Videos on social media show hundreds of people running across the tarmac as US troops fire warning shots in the air.
Updated 17 Aug, 2021 09:22am
Russia's embassy in Kabul says Ghani had to leave some money behind as it would not all fit in.
Updated 17 Aug, 2021 09:35am
“Any Central Bank assets the Afghan govt have in the United States will not be made available to the Taliban," says official.
Updated 17 Aug, 2021 09:31am
• Moeed says Pakistan to stand by world community • NSC endorses Biden’s decision, calls it logical end to conflict • Opposition
Updated 17 Aug, 2021 07:28am
Pakistani envoy terms Indian decision "most regrettable"; UNSC pushes for talks to form new Afghan government.
Updated 17 Aug, 2021 09:07am
Expresses “deep regret” as he concedes Britain is unlikely to be able to evacuate all its Afghan allies from Kabul.
Published 16 Aug, 2021 10:58pm
Says Biden administration's endorsement of Trump's decision to withdraw troops was "indeed a logical conclusion to this conflict".
Published 16 Aug, 2021 08:02pm
Leaders from Australia, UK, Iran, Qatar and elsewhere air their concerns, urge new leadership in Kabul to protect human rights.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 10:16pm
Thousands of Afghans pack into the airport, pushing onto planes in desperate attempts to flee the country.
Updated 17 Aug, 2021 04:53am
"We hope that all Afghan leaders will make efforts [for peace] in the larger interest of the country," he says.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 03:30pm
Conservative media as well as left-leaning critics in the US have taken aim at the abruptness of the US withdrawal.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 09:36pm
Here is a recap of landmark events in the war-torn country since Taliban's first regime was toppled in the 2001 US-led invasion.
Published 16 Aug, 2021 11:43am
“We will not allow anyone to use our lands to target anyone, and we do not want to harm others," says Taliban spokesperson.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 11:02pm
Afghanistan's economy continues to flounder but this fact remains unnoticed.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 07:49am
A future Afghan govt that upholds people's basic rights and that doesn’t harbour terrorists is a govt we can work with, he says.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 07:45am
Says they want to open a new chapter of peace, tolerance, peaceful coexistence.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 10:32am
There is a clear victor and the victor will now decide the terms of an inclusive arrangement in the country.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 08:13am
Karzai, Hekmatyar, Abdullah negotiating with Taliban, says official.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 10:24am
The meeting will ponder over the rapidly changing situation in Afghanistan and possible challenges for Pakistan.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 07:38am
He did not say where he had travelled to, but leading Afghan media group Tolo news suggested he had gone to Tajikistan.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 12:28am
Blinken says images of helicopters ferrying personnel to Kabul airport not evocative of American retreat from Vietnam.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 07:41am
Quality of life did improve, modernising under the occupation, even as millions of dollars poured into Afghanistan fed corruption.
Published 15 Aug, 2021 04:12pm
Haibatullah Akhundzada is the supreme leader while Mullah Omar's son Mullah Yaqoob heads the military commission.
Published 15 Aug, 2021 01:21pm
Despite about $89 billion budgeted for training the Afghan army, it took the Taliban little more than a month to brush it aside.
Published 15 Aug, 2021 01:02pm
