Aug 17, 2021, at 03:42 am
Lahore: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Sirajul Haq has said the "peaceful taking over" of Kabul by Taliban insurgents was actually a defeat of the US and a victory of Afghan people and the Islamic world.
Explosion heard at hotel in Barcelona, police rule out terrorist attack
Aug 17, 2021, at 01:45 am
Madrid/UNI/Sputnik: A blast occurred on Monday at a hotel in Barcelona, though the Catalonian police have ruled out a terrorist attack.
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul with cars filled with cash: Reports
Aug 16, 2021, at 11:43 pm
Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who stepped down to prevent further violence in his country, was fleeing Kabul escorted with cars filled with cash, the Russian embassy said on Monday, adding that some cash was left in the airport.
Afghanistan Air Forces plane crashes in Uzbekistan: Reports
Aug 16, 2021, at 11:34 pm
Tashkent: An Afghanistan Air Forces plane has crashed in Uzbekistan's Surkhandarya region, media reports said on Monday.
Afghanistan has broken shackles of slavery, Pakistan PM Imran Khan says as Taliban captures Kabul
Aug 16, 2021, at 11:09 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan PM Imran Khan on Monday said Afghani people had “broken the shackles of slavery” while describing the Taliban’s seizure of power in the war-torn nation.
Afghanistan crisis: Desperate scenes at Kabul airport as people cling to moving C-17 aircraft
Aug 16, 2021, at 10:02 pm
Kabul: Scenes of desperation were witnessed at Kabul airport on Monday as hundreds of people, who are desperate to leave Afghanistan, clung on to a moving US Air Force C-17 aircraft on the tarmac.
Afghanistan: Guterres urges restraint as Taliban reach Kabul; UN Security Council set to meet Monday
Aug 16, 2021, at 09:49 pm
New York: As the crisis in Afghanistan deepens by the hour, with reports that insurgent forces reached the country’s capital, Kabul, earlier on Sunday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the Taliban and all other parties “to exercise utmost restraint to protect lives and ensure that humanitarian can be addressed.”
Aug 16, 2021, at 09:38 pm
Beijing: The Chinese government on Monday said it hopes to see the Taliban implement what it promised to “ensure the smooth transition of the situation in Afghanistan."
Taliban govt will include non-Taliban Afghans: Spokesperson Shaheen
Aug 16, 2021, at 04:02 pm
Kabul: Taliban spokesman Sohail Shaheen has said the Taliban government will include non-Taliban Afghans.
War in Afghanistan is over: Taliban
Aug 16, 2021, at 03:31 pm
Kabul: Taliban insurgents have declared that the 'war' in Afghanistan is over after they entered Kabul on Sunday and took control over the Presidential Palace.
US Embassy in Kabul evacuated: Ned Price
Aug 16, 2021, at 02:46 pm
Washington: The US Embassy in Kabul has been evacuated as Taliban continued to take total control over the country after entering Kabul city on Sunday, officials said.
Allow people to leave Afghanistan: 60 nations urge Taliban
Aug 16, 2021, at 02:25 pm
Washington: More than 60 countries, including the US, UK, and Australia, have issued a joint statement where they have urged the Taliban insurgents to allow safe and orderly departure of foreign nationals and Afghans who wish to leave the country.
Malala Yousafzai 'in complete shock, deeply worried about women' as Taliban take over Afghanistan
Aug 16, 2021, at 06:03 am
As the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai expressed shock and worry for the safety of women, minorities and human rights advocates.
We don't want anybody bilaterally recognise Taliban govt in Afghanistan: Boris Johnson
Aug 16, 2021, at 05:56 am
Kabul/London: British PM Boris Johnson gave a strong message to Taliban insurgents as they take control of Afghanistan after capturing capital city Kabul on Sunday, saying that nobody should bilaterally recognise the government in the war-torn nation that might soon be formed.
The people of Afghanistan do not deserve this: Kabul-born writer Khaled Hosseini
Aug 16, 2021, at 05:37 am
Kabul: Hours after Taliban entered Kabul city and took control of Afghanistan after months of bloody clashes since the foreign troops started leaving the war-torn country, celebrated US-based Afghan writer Khaled Hosseini said the people of the country did not deserve the situation the nation is currently facing.
Taliban takes control over Afghanistan Presidential Palace as Ashraf Ghani flees: Reports
Aug 16, 2021, at 03:52 am
Kabul: Taliban insurgents, who entered Kabul on Sunday after days of clashes with the Afghanistan security forces and capturing of several key cities, have now taken control over the Presidential Palace, hours after President Ashraf Ghani fled the war-torn nation, media reports said.
US, Afghan govt likely to shift blame on Pakistan over Afghan crisis, says Pakistani Senator
Aug 16, 2021, at 03:15 am
Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: Pakistan is concerned that the United States and the failed Afghan government will attempt to shift the blame over the situation in Afghanistan on Islamabad, Saleem Mandviwalla, chairman of planning committee in the country's Senate, told Sputnik on Sunday.
US to recognize Afghan government that respects human rights, fights terrorists: Antony Blinken
Aug 16, 2021, at 02:16 am
Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: The US government will agree to work with an Afghan government that does not disregard human rights and does not support terrorists, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a briefing on Sunday.
Afghanistan: Ashraf Ghani leaves country
Aug 16, 2021, at 12:56 am
Kabul: Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday left his nation as Taliban insurgents entered Kabul city, media reports said.
Several senior Afghan officials arrive at Kabul Airport to escape from war-torn nation: Reports
Aug 15, 2021, at 11:24 pm
Kabul: Several high-ranking Afghanistan officials have reached the Kabul airport to fly out of the city as Taliban terrorists are fast approaching it.
Pakistan: Grenade attack on mini-truck leaves 12 people dead in Karachi
Aug 15, 2021, at 10:17 pm
Karachi: At least twelve members of an extended family, all women and young boys, died as a grenade attack on a mini-truck occured on the outskirts of Pakistani city of Karachi on Saturday, media reports said.
Taliban enter Kabul; Ghani likely to step down : Report
Aug 15, 2021, at 10:06 pm
Kabul/IBNS: Taliban terrorists entered the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday as the United States evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter, according to media reports.
Aug 15, 2021, at 08:45 pm
Kabul/IBNS: The Taliban continued to rapidly capture territory in Afghanistan. In the North, the two remaining Provincial capitals of Balkh (Mazar-e-Sharif) and Faryab (Maimanah) fell (Aug. 14).
Taliban seizes Jalalabad, one of biggest cities of Afghanistan: Reports
Aug 15, 2021, at 04:11 pm
Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: The Taliban Islamist movement has captured the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan, the capital of the Nangarhar province and one of the biggest cities in the country, the Associated Press news agency reported on Sunday, citing a regional lawmaker.
Russian Defense Ministry confirms crew of firefighting plane crashed in Turkey died
Aug 15, 2021, at 04:18 am
Moscow/Sputnik: Five crew members from the Russian military and three Turkish specialists who were on board of the Russian Be-200 aircraft died in a crash in Turkey, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday.
UN experts urge Israel to ‘protect and encourage’ Palestine rights defenders
Aug 14, 2021, at 11:39 pm
New York: UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts expressed deep concern on Friday over Israeli military interference in the work of a well-known, independent Palestinian child rights organization, in the occupied West Bank.
Afghanistan: Taliban terrorists capture Logar
Aug 14, 2021, at 11:27 pm
Kabul: The Taliban terrorists have captured central Logar province and detained a number of officials in the region, media reports said on Saturday.
Afghanistan: UN chief urges Taliban to halt offensive immediately, negotiate ‘in good faith’
Aug 14, 2021, at 11:15 pm
The UN Secretary-General on Friday called on Taliban militants to “immediately halt” their offensive against Government forces and return to the negotiating table in good faith, “in the interest of Afghanistan, and its people.”
End ‘rampant’ police brutality, promote tolerance: UN human rights experts
Aug 14, 2021, at 11:09 pm
New York: Expressing alarm over “rampant police brutality against peaceful protesters worldwide”, more than 40 UN-appointed human rights experts on Friday called for an end to the violence, urging Governments to promote dialogue, tolerance and diversity.
DR Congo: ‘Widespread and systematic’ violence linked to clashes over gold
Aug 14, 2021, at 11:01 pm
New York: Rival armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are carrying out horrific sexual attacks against women and girls, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned on Friday.