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'Not on the cards': UK Defence Secretary on whether British forces will re
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], August 16 (ANI): British Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace said on Monday that British forces will not be returning to Afghanistan after the Taliban seized the Afghan capital city of Kabul.
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Over 30,000 families displaced amid Taliban onslaught in Kandahar
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 11 (ANI): Over 30,000 people in the South of Afghanistan have been displaced due to violence in the region, particularly in the Kandahar province, which has witnessed heavy fighting in recent months as Taliban terrorists mount a blistering offensive, government of
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Amid withdrawal of foreign forces, human rights violations in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 30 (ANI): Human rights violations have been increasing in Afghanistan at a time when the withdrawal of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) forces from the war-torn country is about to be completed.
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Forces are leaving but US is not leaving Afghanistan, says envoy Zalmay Kh
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Tashkent [Uzbekistan], July 16 (ANI): The US and NATO forces are leaving Afghanistan but the US is not leaving the country and will remain engaged while supporting the peace process, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad said on Friday.
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Afghans living in US demand for a democratic Afghanistan, press Pakistan t
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): Dozens of Afghan Americans stood in front of the White House to welcome Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani who on Friday (local time) met US President Joe Biden for the first face-to-face interaction ahead of the remaining US and NATO forces' withdrawal fro
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China wary of security vacuum emerging in Afghanistan as US withdraws
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 24 (ANI): China is growing increasingly concerned over a security vacuum forming in Afghanistan as foreign forces withdraw from the war-torn country.
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Afghan govt mulls Turkey's proposal to guard Kabul airport
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 18 (ANI): Afghanistan's government said that it is pondering over Turkey's proposal to guard Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport after NATO forces withdraw and underlined that Afghan security forces are capable of protecting the airports.
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Ghani asks Pakistan to stay out of Afghanistan as NATO allies prepare to l
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] April 22 (ANI/Sputnik): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called on Pakistan on Thursday to stay out of his country and rein in the Taliban to ensure an orderly departure of NATO forces next month.
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Experts raise concern over Taliban emerging powerful after US withdrawal f
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], March 17 (ANI): Experts and diplomats have raised concerns over the Taliban becoming more powerful after the withdrawal of the United States and NATO forces from Afghanistan.
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Fifteen Taliban Members Killed, 6 Injured by NATO Forces in S. Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 27 (Sputnik/ANI): Fifteen members of the Taliban organisation were killed and six others were wounded in an attack by the NATO-led international forces in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, the provincial governor's press office said in a statement on Saturda
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More security operations in Kandahar planned to clear it of Taliban, says
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Kandahar (Afghanistan) Feb 2 (ANI): Afghan and NATO forces are planning to launch more operations in Kandahar to clear it of the Taliban, said Afghanistan's acting Defence Minister Assadullah Khalid after touring the province along with NATO forces commander General Scott Miller.
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Failure in Afghanistan will invite terror attacks on our homelands: Nichol
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): General John Nicholson, commander-in-chief of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan said that it is imperative for NATO to win the war against the insurgents in Afghanistan because failure in Afghanistan will embolden extremist groups in the West.
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