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Moscow: The Australian government has rejected visa applications of more than 100 Afghans who helped guard the Australian Embassy in Kabul, ABC News reported on Sunday, citing the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade."Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs has...

Moscow: Kabul airport, the only way out of the Taliban-controlled (a terrorist group, banned in Russia) Afghanistan, will be closed for 48 hours to airlift those who have already entered the airport, the Afghan Khaama Press news agency reported...

Tehran: Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday denied that the country's military adviser was killed in Yemen.Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh dismissed the recent remarks by a member of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government as "false" concerning...

Forces holding out against the Taliban in northern Afghanistan say they have taken three districts close to the Panjshir valley where remnants of government forces and other militia groups have gathered, Reuters reported.Defence Minister General Bismillah Mohammadi, who...

Washington: Former US President Donald Trump told his supporters in Cullman, Alabama, that the recent developments in Afghanistan are a major failure of the current US administration's foreign policy and a great military defeat that demonstrates Washington's incompetence.Trump said...

Kabul: The Taliban said on Saturday that they are setting up a committee that will deal with the media.The trilateral committee will include a Taliban representative from the culture commission, a deputy head of the association on media protection...

Moscow: Russia introduced sanctions against Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba as well as National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksiy Danilov, according to the decree published on the Official Portal of Legal Information."The list of individuals against whom...

Washington: US President Joe Biden has described in a phone conversation with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani the evacuation of people from Afghanistan following the fall of Kabul as the “largest airlift of people in history,” the...

Washington/Kabul: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday praised Qatar for providing transit to US Air Force planes bringing US citizens and Afghan nationals from Kabul, even as the US military was forced to pause its evacuation flights...

Beijing: The Chinese People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) has successfully tested two new types of precision conventional missile warheads, the state-run CCTV broadcaster reported on Saturday.Both missiles, launched in the Northwest China desert region, penetrated multi-layer "enemy defences"...