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In first airlift since US withdrawal, 200 non-Afghans set to leave Taliban-controlled Kabul

About 200 non-Afghans are set to depart on charter flights from Kabul airport on Thursday, according to news agencies. Reports suggest that the foreigners allowed to leave Afghanistan include 30 Americans in the first airlift since the final US...

‘It looked apocalyptic…’: US Air Force members, last to leave Afghanistan, on scenes near Kabul airport

Pilots and crew members of the final five C-17 aircraft of the US Air Force to leave Afghanistan have described as “apocalyptic,” scenes near the Kabul airport as the United States finally ended its 20-year military presence in the...

Taliban say they feel betrayed because US disabled helicopters, planes: Report

As US forces left Afghanistan, the Taliban fighters erupted in joy. They marched on the tarmac of Kabul airport, the last stronghold of the western forces till August 31, even fired in the air expressing their happiness. But just days...

US warns of ‘specific’ threat, Biden says attack ‘highly likely’

The US state department has told Americans still in Afghanistan to immediately leave the area around the Kabul airport citing a “specific, credible threat” just after President Joe Biden said his military commanders had warned that an attack was...

One phone call: How a US veteran managed to get his visa-less wife out of Afghanistan

Whipped by the Taliban and shoved from behind by other desperate Afghans, marriage certificate in hand, Sharifa Afzali thrust her cell phone at the U.S. soldier barring the Kabul airport gate. On the other end was her husband, a...

Want to continue our political, trade ties with India: Taliban leader Stanekzai

Taliban leader Sher Mohammed Abbas Stanekzai has said the group wants to continue Afghanistan’s political, economic and cultural ties with India, the first time a member of the Taliban’s top hierarchy has spoken on the issue since the takeover...

Biden raises possibility of US staying beyond August end

US President Joe Biden on Sunday said discussions are under way on whether or not to extend the evacuation deadline beyond August 31, the last day he has committed himself to for Americans to leave Afghanistan. Biden also indicated that...

Afghans in danger ‘have no clear way out,’ warns UN refugee agency after Taliban takeover

Afghans who may be in danger after the Taliban's takeover “have no clear way out”, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. Shabia Mantoo, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a media briefing...

Taliban may not announce new government until August 31 as per ‘deal’ with US: Report

The Taliban might wait till August 31 when the United States is scheduled to complete the withdrawal of its forces from the country, an Afghan official with talks with the Taliban said to the Associated Press on the condition...

‘Horrifying indicator’: Taliban massacred nine Hazara men in Ghazni province, reveals new report

Taliban fighters massacred nine members of the ethnic Hazara community after taking control of Ghazni province in Afghanistan last month, Amnesty International said, highlighting the risk faced by thousands of Afghans even as the Islamist fundamentalists are pushing the...

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Kanpur crash: Driver Mohan claims he was behind wheel

The probe into Kanpur’s high-profile Lamborghini crash took a fresh turn on Wednesday after one Mohan, the alleged designated...