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20 years, $2tr, a nation in ruins: How US ended its longest war in Afghanistan this day in 2021

20 years, $2tr, a nation in ruins: How US ended its longest war in Afghanistan this day in 2021

By Press TV Website Staff On this day four years ago, the last American soldier appeared visibly jaded in a night-vision photo as he took slow, measured steps to board the US military plane, drawing the curtains on 20 years of disastrous military...

Paradigm Shift In International Relations

Paradigm Shift In International Relations

International relations continue to revolve around the spectrum of cooperation, competition and conflict based on the national interests of nation-states. What has changed is the reordering of relations among nations, the shifting of their...

Quetta operation: FIA captures human trafficker, six Afghans

Quetta operation: FIA captures human trafficker, six Afghans

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has made a major breakthrough in Quetta, Balochistan, by arresting a key human trafficking agent. The FIA’s Anti-Human Trafficking Circle launched the operation in the city, which led to the arrest of...

Mullahs and Muslim politics

Mullahs and Muslim politics

Muslim politicians and mullahs are walking on a tight rope by trying to bargain with these parties Whether as a pressure group or active participants the political role of these mullahs had been very negligible until the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress...

Afghanistan Hosts 23,000 International Terrorists According to Russia

Afghanistan Hosts 23,000 International Terrorists According to Russia

Executive Summary This report analyses the implications and reasons of Russia’s statement regarding the presence of 23,000 international terrorists and militants in Afghanistan. Despite officially acknowledging the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan...

What's behind the baseless rumours that US President Donald Trump 'is dead'?

What's behind the baseless rumours that US President Donald Trump 'is dead'?

THE INTERNET IS abuzz with chat on one topic and one topic only this morning: whether the 47th President of the United States, Donald J Trump, has died. He hasn’t. The speculation seems to be based on three main factors: He hasn’t been out and...

Report: U.S. Commanders Rejected Last-Minute Offers to Secure Kabul, Paving Way for Taliban Takeover

Report: U.S. Commanders Rejected Last-Minute Offers to Secure Kabul, Paving Way for Taliban Takeover

Newly surfaced accounts reveal that American generals turned down proposals that could have kept Kabul out of Taliban hands, leading to deadly consequences during the chaotic 2021 evacuation. By yourNEWS Media Newsroom Two pivotal U.S. commanders...

President Trump's Critics Freak Out Over Simple Fitness Challenge

President Trump's Critics Freak Out Over Simple Fitness Challenge

NEW YORK, NY - Trump Derangement Syndrome has reached epic proportions for The New York Times, with a columnist, Calum Marsh, taking the position that too much exercise is bad for you. The Times, which would criticize members of the Trump...

Soccer-We're still here: Afghan women refugees find freedom, voice through football

Soccer-We're still here: Afghan women refugees find freedom, voice through football

BURTON UPON TRENT, England (Reuters) -Elaha Safdari was 17 and had just earned her maiden call-up as a goalkeeper for Afghanistan's women's football team when she was forced to flee Kabul during the Taliban takeover in 2021. Safdari was given...

Pro-TTP elements present in Afghan govt: DPM Dar

Pro-TTP elements present in Afghan govt: DPM Dar

Pakistan, China share security concerns over TTP: Dar He says there's no resistance from Kabul on against group. Do not doubt Afghan side's intention, remarks DPM Dar. ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar said that the Afghan government has...

Sharjah Tri-Series: Pakistan Thrash Afghanistan In First Match  Khaleej Times

Sharjah Tri-Series: Pakistan Thrash Afghanistan In First Match Khaleej Times

(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Pakistan produced a superlative all-round performance to beat Afghanistan by 39 runs in the first match of the tri-series at a packed Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Friday. Having made 182 for seven after electing to bat,...

UN Envoy Urges Pakistan to Halt Deportation of Afghan Refugees

UN Envoy Urges Pakistan to Halt Deportation of Afghan Refugees

UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett urged Pakistan to stop deporting Afghan refugees, warning expulsions violate international commitments and could trigger a humanitarian crisis, stressing safer resettlement pathways are needed. United Nations...

Afghans in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa asked to obtain passports, valid visas for stay

Afghans in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa asked to obtain passports, valid visas for stay

The Khyber district administration on Thursday directed all Afghan nationals to immediately acquire their national passports and conduct their businesses in accordance with the law, Dawn reported. The assistant commissioner of Landi Kotal,...

Cash-strapped Taliban eye Afghan airspace fees as new lifeline; airlines must pay US$700 to fly overhead

Cash-strapped Taliban eye Afghan airspace fees as new lifeline; airlines must pay US$700 to fly overhead

KABUL, Aug 30 — Far above Kabul, the cash-strapped Taliban government has located a potentially lucrative revenue stream: Afghanistan’s airspace. As Israel and Iran’s exchange of missiles threw flight paths into disarray this year, the skies above...

Meet the women who never gave up on football, now hoping to secure their place on an Afghan squad

Meet the women who never gave up on football, now hoping to secure their place on an Afghan squad

30 August 2025, 03:08 | Updated: 30 August 2025, 06:29 Far from home - at the St George's Park home of the Lionesses - female footballers from Afghanistan have been reunited. Your browser doesn't recognise available video formats. Finally, they...

Feature: Afghanistan's vocational institute nurtures dreams for visually impaired

KABUL, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Amid a country often defined by conflict and hardship, an unassuming school in Kabul is quietly reshaping the future for Afghanistan's blind community. The Visually Impaired Vocational Institute, one of the oldest...

Kabul has pro-TTP elements in its govt: Dar

Kabul has pro-TTP elements in its govt: Dar

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China have shared their security concerns in recent meetings with Afghanistan, stated Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar at a press conference at the Foreign Office on Friday. “Pakistan and China both have...

Meet the women hoping to secure their place on an Afghan football squad

Meet the women hoping to secure their place on an Afghan football squad

Far from home - at the St George's Park home of the Lionesses - female footballers from Afghanistan have been reunited. Finally, they are playing together again. Here on a mission to win places on the Afghan refugee team, uniquely established by...

Pentagon Backs General Tata Amid Legal Battle with Astrologer

Pentagon Backs General Tata Amid Legal Battle with Astrologer

Washington, D.C. — The Pentagon is publicly supporting Under Secretary of Defense Anthony Tata as he faces allegations in a lawsuit linked to an astrologer. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed that Tata retains the full confidence of...

Afghanistan Summons Pakistani Envoy Over Military Strikes In Nangarhar, Khost

Afghanistan Summons Pakistani Envoy Over Military Strikes In Nangarhar, Khost

(MENAFN- IANS) Kabul, Aug 29 (IANS) Afghanistan's foreign ministry summoned Pakistan's ambassador in Kabul to lodge a formal protest against what Taliban authorities said were Pakistani military strikes in Nangarhar and Khost provinces, the local...

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