Russian envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov warned on Tuesday that if the Taliban is not welcomed into Afghan politics and given enough influence to satisfy its leaders, “their takeover of the country will become a very real prospect.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday demanded funding from the United States for a force of Turkish troops that could prospectively guard the airport in Kabul after U.S. forces complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan.
EU member Lithuania has seen more than 2,000 arrivals since the start of the year across the border from Belarus.
Afghanistan on Sunday recalled its ambassador from Pakistan over the alleged abduction of the envoy’s daughter by unknown assailants in Islamabad on July 16, Afghanistan’s Khama Press reported Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in June offered U.S.President Joe Biden “the use of Russian military bases in Central Asia for information gathering from Afghanistan,” Russia’s Kommersant newspaper reported on Saturday. “Putin proposed at June 16 talks with Biden in Geneva
The editor-in-chief of the Global Times, a Chinese Communist Party propaganda newspaper, published a commentary Monday in defense of the Afghan Taliban, insisting it is not a terrorist group and antagonizing it is of “no benefit to China at all.”
British spy chiefs fear Taliban triumph in Afghanistan will create a “victory narrative” for radical Islam and inspire terrorist attacks in the West.
The unprecedented number of U.S. drug overdose deaths last year exceeded the fatalities in the world’s top five deadliest war zones.
China expects Afghanistan’s Taliban terror group to “be committed to friendly relations with all neighboring countries,” according to remarks made by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a joint press conference with Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin in Dushanbe on Wednesday.
Former U.S. President George W. Bush criticized the Western withdrawal from Afghanistan on Wednesday, using an interview with a German broadcaster to outline his fears Afghan women and girls will “suffer unspeakable harm.”
Afghanistan’s Taliban “won’t easily fall into the trap” allegedly laid by U.S. media to coerce the Sunni Islam-based terror group into publicly denouncing China’s genocide against Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s westernmost region of Xinjiang, China’s state-run Global Times argued Monday.
Key national security and anti-fraud safeguards may be wiped out in the rush to processing pending U.S. special visa applications from Afghans who aided America’s war effort, Dan Cadman, an immigration law enforcement expert at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
China wants to serve as “a mediator, or a ‘guarantor of security'” on the Afghanistan issue, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Sunday, in response to the Taliban’s growing dominance of most of the country.
A spokesman for the Taliban terror group implied to Afghanistan’s Tolo News on Monday the jihadist organization “maintains ties with al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.”
A 20-year-old Afghan migrant has been arrested by police in Hamburg after allegedly attacking four people in the outdoor area of a local restaurant with a knife. The incident is said to have taken place on Sunday evening in the
Monday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) reacted to President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
The Taliban terror group captured Islam Qala, a strategic border town linking Afghanistan with Iran, on Thursday, the BBC reported on Friday.
President Biden is considering granting 2,000 additional visas to vulnerable Afghan women who may be evacuated to wait out the process.
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that it has quickly become clear that the withdrawal from Afghanistan is a mistake and that “We could be walking away from the idea that we can keep al-Qaeda out of
(AFP) — The U.S. and French defence chiefs signed a new “roadmap” for cooperation between their special operations forces Friday as both seek to build international efforts to counter non-state threats like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
A delegation of the Taliban terror group met with representatives of the Russian foreign ministry in Moscow, where one delegate claimed the Taliban currently controls about “85 percent of Afghanistan’s territory,” Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Friday.
A Taliban spokesman told an Asian magazine this week that the jihadist organization considers China a “friend” that it “welcomes” to do business in Afghanistan, and vowed not to help a Uyghur terrorist group most experts believe does not actually exist.
Boris Johnson and General Carter are among those who have voiced concerns about the legacy of 20 years of war in Afghanistan.
Before the withdrawal, the U.S. had a major base in a country that bordered China; now it will not. So don’t pretend pulling out will help.
Tajikistan asked the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) — a Russian-led military alliance of former Soviet republics — for help in securing its border with Afghanistan on Wednesday citing advances by the Taliban terror group following a Western troop withdrawal from Kabul.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki addressed President Joe Biden’s decision to fulfill former President Donald Trump’s pledge to withdraw United States military forces from Afghanistan, stating, “We’re not going to have a ‘mission accomplished’ moment in this regard. It’s a 20-year war that has not been won militarily.”
Afghan security officials on Wednesday denied Taliban claims, and reports from some local observers, that Badghis province has been completely conquered by the advancing Islamist insurgency.
China’s Hubei province and its capital, Wuhan — the origin location of the Chinese coronavirus — are currently “heavily burdened with imported cases” of the disease, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Wednesday.
The Islamic regime in Iran hosted members of the Taliban “political office” in Qatar on Wednesday for negotiations with the legitimate government of Afghanistan, an attempt to elevate Iran’s influence in the country as American troops withdraw.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) stated that America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan will result in large stores of rare earth minerals and critical minerals “that are going to power the electronics, the
President Biden is racing to evacuate tens of thousands of Afghans awaiting U.S. visas for aiding the American war effort.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin told his Tajik counterpart, Emomali Rahmon, on Tuesday that Russia would offer his country “necessary support” in the face of a growing threat of Taliban attacks on the nation’s border with Afghanistan.
Looters ransacked an air base in Afghanistan after the U.S. military handed control of it over to the Afghan government on Friday.
Dozens of women in Feroz Koh, capital city of Afghanistan’s central Ghor province, took up arms and marched on Sunday to show their defiance against the advancing Taliban.
The government of Tajikistan confirmed Monday that over 1,000 members of the Afghan military had crossed the border fleeing Taliban attacks in the north of the country, ceding critical Afghan territory to the jihadist group.
Representative Mike McCaul (R-TX) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that President Joe Biden would own the problems of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
The House approved a bipartisan bill this week to fast track special visas that would help Afghans facing reprisals for working alongside the departing U.S. military to migrate to America by waiving a required medical exam until after they enter the United States.
Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point reported Thursday that a “Chinese-speaking hacker group” is conducting an “ongoing cyber espionage operation” against the government of Afghanistan.
Psaki said Biden was not referring to Afghanistan when he refused to answer questions about Afghanistan. FALSE. President Biden literally said, “I’m not going to answer any more questions about Afghanistan.”
China’s state-run Global Times published an interview Friday with Hamid Karzai, whose 13-year term as president of Afghanistan was defined by widespread corruption and an opium cultivation boom, in which Karzai praised Beijing’s relationship with Kabul and disparaged the “failure” of U.S. forces there.
