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Kabul: Taliban insurgents entered the Afghanistan capital Kabul on Sunday, an interior ministry official said, as the United States evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter, the Reuters reported.The senior official told Reuters the Taliban were coming in "from...

Moscow: The number of people, who have died as a result of the earthquake in Haiti, has risen to 304, the Agence France-Presse reported, citing the country's civil protection agency.According to the authorities, the disaster also left more than...

Moscow: The Taliban Islamist movement (banned in Russia) controls 90 per cent of the Afghan territory, Iranian media reported.According to the IRIB broadcaster, the militants have entered the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, not far from the border with Uzbekistan.The...

Washington: Most of the US Embassy personnel will be evacuated from Kabul in the next 36 hours, as the Taliban (a terrorist group banned in Russia) advance toward the Afghan capital, making major territorial gains, the CBS News reported...

Washington/Kabul: United States President Joe Biden has authorised an additional 1,000 American troops for deployment to Afghanistan, taking to nearly 5,000 the number of US troops, to ensure an “orderly and safe drawdown” of US and allied personnel.In a...

Washington: The Taliban movement announced on Sunday the capture of Maidan Shahr, the capital of the central Afghan province of Wardak located 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Kabul.The Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, tweeted that the building of the...

Kabul: Aug 14 (UNI) President Ashraf Ghani in an address to his embattled country on Saturday said he will focus on preventing further instability, violence and displacement, and vowed to prevent further bloodshed, even as the Taliban inched closer...

Geneva: Switzerland has reduced the number of employees in Afghanistan by half to just three amid the escalation of violence in the country, and intends to evacuate them soon, Elisa Raggi, a spokeswoman for the Swiss Federal Department for...

Toronto: Canada will resettle up to 20,000 vulnerable Afghan nationals including female activists and journalists as the Taliban terror group (banned in Russia) advances in its bid to reclaim control of the war-torn country, Ottawa announced."Canada will build on...

Washington: The United States along with several other countries began fast-tracking evacuations of civilians from Afghanistan amid rapid gains by the Taliban (banned in Russia), while the UN urged the insurgents to halt their offensive with the country descending...