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12:07, august 12, 2021

Afghan president rallies troops in besieged Mazar as Taliban extends northern blitz

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani returned to the capital yesterday after a flying visit to the besieged northern city of Mazar-e Sharif to rally forces loyal to the government, with Taliban fighters

17:02, august 11, 2021

Hackers steal about 600 million USD in cryptocurrency from protocol known as PolyNetwork

Hackers perpetrated what is likely the biggest theft ever in the world of decentralized finance, stealing about $600 million in cryptocurrency from a protocol known as PolyNetwork that lets users

16:10, august 11, 2021

Afghan president arrives in besieged Mazar-e Sharif to rally forces loyal to the government

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani flew to the besieged northern city of Mazar-e Sharif Wednesday morning.

10:52, august 11, 2021

Taliban seize capital of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province

Afghan media reports say the Taliban yesterday seized Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan province in the northeast of Afghanistan, which has a long border with Tajikistan and was once considered an

16:18, august 10, 2021

Russia expected to increase agricultural imports from CIS nations

Vedomosti says President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Government to take measures to increase agricultural imports from the CIS member nations against the backdrop of measures to stabilize

15:16, august 9, 2021

Saudi authorities compensate families of COVID-19 health worker victims

Media reports said on August 8 that Saudi Arabia has begun compensating the families of health workers who died because of the coronavirus, after announcing last year that each will receive

14:58, august 9, 2021

Iran sees the highest daily number of coronavirus-linked deaths

Citing Iran’s Health Ministry, IRNA reports 542 more Iranians died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Sunday bringing the total deaths to 94,015.

14:33, august 9, 2021

Afghan diplomat accuses the Taliban of having links with ISL and Al Qaeda

Ambassador Ghulam M.

11:47, august 9, 2021

Taliban seize three provincial capitals in northern Afghanistan in a day

The Taliban captured three more provincial capitals on August 8 as they take their fight to the cities after seizing much of the countryside in recent months.

11:01, august 6, 2021

Russian official says Afghan Taliban offensive is running out of steam

The Taliban offensive in Afghanistan is "gradually running out of steam" as the group lacks resources to take over major cities, Izvestiya quoted Alexander Bikantov, the Deputy Director

11:27, august 4, 2021

Afghan army asks residents of Lashkargah to leave the city as it is planning major attack

Media reports say the Afghan army is planning a major counter-attack today to drive the Taliban out of Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province, warning residents they must immediately flee their

15:20, august 3, 2021

Saudi Arabia updates COVID-19 entry requirements

Authorities in Saudi Arabia amended entry requirements for tourists effective starting from August 1, 2021.

11:28, august 2, 2021

Ex-chief of CIA David Petraeus predicts violent civil war in Afghanistan

Critics have consistently voiced concerns that the hasty withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan could trigger a new civil war in the country.

11:02, july 29, 2021

Chinese foreign minister meets with Afghan Taliban's political chief

On Wednesday July 28, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday met in Tianjin, northern China with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, political chief of Afghanistan's Taliban.

13:37, july 28, 2021

SCO can play stabilizing role in Afghanistan, says Indian expert

An article by Huma Siddiqui posted on Financial Express website notes that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has all the regional powers that have security and financial stakes in

13:20, july 28, 2021

Afghanistan needs convergence of regional players after US pull-out, says Iranian expert

Citing Mohammad-Reza Manafi, IRNA says irresponsible withdrawal of the US and NATO military forces from Afghanistan has created an undeniable necessity for the regional and neighboring countries

10:40, july 27, 2021

Thousands of Afghan families flee fighting in Kandahar

Citing AFP , France 24 reported on July 25 that more than 22,000 Afghan families have fled from their homes to escape fighting in the former Taliban bastion of Kandahar.

14:41, july 26, 2021

The United State to provide $100 million to evacuate Afghans who assisted US military

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11:25, july 19, 2021

Russia offers the United States to use its bases in Central Asia for information gathering from Afghanistan

Russian President Vladimir Putin in June offered U.S.

11:08, july 19, 2021

Afghan media reports say the delegations of Afghan authorities and Taliban agree to expedite peace efforts

Afghan media reports say the delegation of the Afghan government and the Taliban have agreed to expedite peace efforts.

10:31, july 16, 2021

Afghan and Uzbek presidents advocated the resumption of the inclusive inter-Afghan negotiations

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday met in Tashkent with Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, who arrived in the Uzbek capital for participation in the International Conference entitled

09:54, july 16, 2021

At least 59 people dead, hundreds missing as floods sweep through Western Europe

Severe flooding caused by historic rainfall has led to dozens of deaths in Western Europe, and many other people remained missing as of Thursday.

16:52, july 12, 2021

Fighting the Taliban with little support ‘suicide’ and fleeing into Tajikistan the only chance to survive

An article by the senior correspondent with RFE/RL Golnaz Esfandiari and the correspondent for RFE/RL’s Tajik Service Mumin Ahmadi notes that some Afghan soldiers feel that fleeing to

16:00, july 9, 2021

Intra-Afghan delegations in Tehran agree on political settlement

Two Afghan delegations partaking in the Tehran peace talks stressed that war is not the solution to the Afghan misery and that all efforts should be done to reach a political solution, according to

15:36, july 8, 2021

US calls on Afghanistan’s neighbors to support Afghan peace

On Wednesday July 7, Ned Price, US State Department spokesman, held a press conference.

13:41, july 8, 2021

Video appears to show Taliban controlling Tajikistan trade

Eurasianet says a video circulating on messengers in Afghanistan shows what appears to be a member of the Taliban militant movement overseeing the passage of freight traffic through a recently

11:13, july 8, 2021

Explosion at Dubai’s Jebel Ali port rocks city

Media reports say a container ship anchored at one of the world’s largest ports in Dubai caught fire late on Wednesday, local authorities said, after an explosion shook the commercial hub of

11:33, july 7, 2021

New York governor declares ‘state emergency’ in New York due to gun violence

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared a "state emergency" stemming from gun violence in the state.

16:22, july 6, 2021

Russia's COVID-19 daily death toll climbs to new pandemic high

Russia registered a record number of daily COVID-19-related deaths on July 6 amid a surge in cases across the world's largest country that the authorities blame on the infectious Delta variant.

15:46, july 5, 2021

Afghan forces plan counteroffensive against Taliban in northern provinces

Afghanistan government forces plan a counteroffensive in the country's northern provinces after losing ground to the Taliban, Hamdullah Mohib, the Adviser to the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani for