Kabul [Afghanistan], August 31 (ANI): Taliban has hailed the departure of US troops from Afghanistan, terming it a "historic moment" while declaring that the country is now a "free and sovereign nation".
Canberra [Australia], August 31 (ANI): US President Joe Biden has said that it is in the Taliban interest to keep Islamic State Khorasan out of Afghanistan. However, the connection between the two terror groups is deep as they share the same enemy --Washington, reported Australian ABC News.
New Delhi [India], August 31 (ANI): Afghanistan is one of the biggest dry fruit exporters in the world and has been driving the dry fruit business in Khari Baoli, the biggest wholesale dry fruit and spices markets in India, for centuries.
New Delhi [India], August 31 (ANI): During the last fortnight, Indian intelligence agencies have issued as many as 10 alerts regarding terrorists crossing the border and planning something "big" in the Kashmir valley.
New York [US], August 31 (ANI): Condemning in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks near the Kabul airport, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has demanded that the Afghan territory should not be used to threaten or attack any country or to shelter or train terrorists.
Islamabad [Pakistan] August 31 (ANI): After Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, former cricketer Shahid Afridi has also thrown his weight behind the Taliban and said the terror outfit has come with a "positive mind" to power.
New York [US], August 31 (ANI): There are nearly 10 million children in Afghanistan "in desperate need of humanitarian aid", said UNICEF Afghanistan Representative, Herve Ludovic De Lys, adding that these children are deprived of their right to a healthy and protected childhood.
Kabul [Afghanistan] August 31 (ANI): Taliban on Tuesday fired their guns in the air in celebration as the United States completed the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan, after 20 years of military presence.
Washington DC [US], August 31 (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Monday (local time) said that over 120,000 US and foreign citizens, Afghan nationals have been evacuated in the last 17 days as 20-year US military presence in Afghanistan has ended.
Kabul [Afghanistan] August 31 (ANI): The Pentagon on Monday announced that the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan has been completed, after 20 years of US military operations.
Geneva [Switzerland], August 31 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday said that a plane carrying health supplies and medicines arrived at Mazar-i-Sharif airport in Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban takeover.
New Delhi [India], August 31 (ANI): Amidst disrupted imports from Afghanistan in view of the Taliban seizing power in the country, the dry fruit prices witnessed a surge in Delhi leaving the traders of Khari Baoli market, a wholesale dry fruit market in Delhi, disappointed with the decreasin