Boston : Taliban websites that delivered the victorious insurgents” official messages to Afghans and the world at large in five languages went offline abruptly Friday, indicating an effort to try to squelch them. It is not immediately clear, though, why the sites in the Pashto, Urdu, Arabic, English and Dari languages went offline Friday. They … Read more
Washington : The strategic partnership between India and the United States is more critical than ever in containing the Taliban and preventing terrorism, an influential American lawmaker said Friday. “The US-India strategic partnership is now even more critical in containing the Taliban and preventing terrorism,” Indian American Congressman Ro Khanna said in a tweet. … Read more
New Delhi : A flight from India to Dubai, a nine-hour layover to take a flight to Barcelona, from there to Mexico and a two-day stay for an RT-PCR test, and then finally a plane to Vancouver – that”s what it took 19-year-old Lareina Kumar before she arrived at the university of her dreams in … Read more
Washington : The United States struggled Thursday to pick up the pace of American and Afghan evacuations at Kabul airport, constrained by obstacles ranging from armed Taliban checkpoints to paperwork problems. With an August 31 deadline looming, tens of thousands remained to be airlifted from the chaotic country. Taliban fighters and their checkpoints ringed the … Read more
Washington : A total of 7,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the start of evacuation operations on August 14 and over 5,200 US troops are in Kabul, the Pentagon said on Thursday. Cumulatively, the number of people moved out of Afghanistan is somewhere near 12,000. The Taliban took control of Afghanistan on … Read more