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Hostage diplomacy: China's key tool to pressure rivals escalates war risk
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 15 (ANI): China has been exercising hostage diplomacy for a long time to pressure its rivals and superpowers in an attempt to get some leverages for Beijing's benefits but now these communist attempts escalate chances of war, a media report said on Saturday.
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Displaced Afghans 'lost everything' as Taliban escalates offences
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): As Taliban is capturing Afghanistan's territories, hundreds of war-affected people have been displaced due to the recent fights between the Afghan forces and the terrorist group in the northern region of the war-torn country.
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Biden must provide Afghans with air support beyond Aug 31: US Senate Minor
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], August 13 (ANI): US President Joe Biden should commit to providing more help to Afghan forces including air support beyond the original August 31 end date due to escalating violence and a swift Taliban advance in the country, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on
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UN chief concerned about escalation in fighting in Afghanistan: Spokespers
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], August 13 (ANI): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed deep concern about the ongoing developments in Afghanistan, including the latest fighting in Herat and Kandahar province.
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Iran temporarily shuts consulate general in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif a
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 12 (ANI): Iran on Thursday announced that it was temporarily closing its Consulate General in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Afghanistan's Balkh province and moving it to Kabul amid the escalating violence between government forces and insurgent Taliban, which has
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Afghan President offers Taliban power sharing deal to end violence
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] August 12 (ANI): The Ashraf Ghani-led Afghanistan government on Thursday has offered a "share of power" to the Taliban in a bid to stop the escalating violence in the war-torn country where the insurgent group has captured 10 provincial capitals so far, local media report
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Germany, Netherlands suspend deportation of refugees to Afghanistan as fig
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], August 11 (ANI): Germany and the Netherlands have suspended deportations of Afghanistan refugees amid the escalating violence between government forces and Taliban, in which the latter has captured nine provincial capitals in the war-torn country.
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Afghan army chief replaced amid Taliban offensive, say local media
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] August 11 (ANI): Afghanistan President on Wednesday replaced the country's Army chief General amid escalating offensive of Taliban, which has so far captured nine provincial capitals in the war-torn country amid the US and NATO troops finalising their pullout.
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Afghan President Ghani arrives in Balkh amid escalating violence in northe
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 11 (ANI): Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday arrived in Mazar-e-Sharif city in the northern Balkh province, amid escalating violence in the Northern Province.
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Amid escalating violence in Afghanistan, peace talks underway in Doha
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Doha [Qatar], August 11 (ANI): Amid unabated violence in Afghanistan, a three-day conference is underway in Doha, Qatar to discuss the peace process in the war-torn country, with attendance from the Taliban, the US, and a host of other countries.
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183 killed, 1,181 injured in Afghanistan since July 9, says UN body
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] August 10 (ANI): UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday informed that over 180 people have been killed while more than 1,180 have been wounded in four Afghan cities alone since July 9 as Taliban offensives have escalated.
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Qatar to host meeting with representatives of Troika Plus to discuss Afgha
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] August 10 (ANI): Amid escalations in Taliban offensives in Afghanistan, Qatar has planned to host a meeting on Wednesday with the representatives on Troika Plus.
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