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After taking over the capital of Afghanistan, the Taliban has now unveiled their special force which is well equipped with modern gears.   The unit is reportedly named after the Battle of Badr that is written about in the Qur’an, ...

Two Nigerian women have been arrested in Bengaluru, a city in India, for their continued stay after the expiration of their visas. African women arrested by police during a raid against African nationals who stayed in the city after their ...

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a nationwide lockdown after the country confirmed one coronavirus case — the first locally transmitted Covid-19 case in the community since February.   Ardern told a press conference Tuesday authorities were assuming ...

The Taliban met with former Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday to discuss setting up a government.   Taliban commander Anas Haqqani, a senior leader of the Haqqani Network – a militant Taliban faction that overtook Kabul on Sunday – ...

    Romania’s foreign ministry says that a military aircraft has evacuated a single Romanian citizen from Kabul airport to Islamabad.   It said in a statement that “the particularly difficult security conditions in Kabul meant that the access of other groups ...

The Taliban are slowly spreading their reign of terror across Afghanistan, despite promising to change the way of governance from their rule 20 years ago. Reports have been emerging from Kabul and other cities about Taliban fighters beating up women ...

Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of the Taliban, and now the undisputed victor of the Afghanistan war, is back in the country after 20 years.   In 2001, he was ousted from Afghanistan and the Taliban leadership on Tuesday claimed ...

The Biden administration on Sunday froze Afghan government reserves held in U.S. bank accounts, blocking the Taliban from accessing billions of dollars held in U.S. institutions, according to two people familiar with the matter. The decision was made by Treasury ...

Uganda is to take in 2,000 refugees who have fled Afghanistan after Taliban militants took power on Sunday. The deal was agreed following a request from the US government, Refugee Minister Esther Anyakun told the BBC. The first group of ...

Three people were killed and more than a dozen injured after Taliban militants opened fire during protests against the group in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, two witnesses told Reuters. A Taliban source said one person had been ...

A seven-month-old infant has been found separated from parents during chaos at Kabul airport. The photograph, which was posted by the Aśvaka news agency on Twitter, shows an infant who was reportedly separated from parents. The child, who according to ...

Women’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai says millions of Afghan women and girls were educated in the last 20 years – but the future they were promised is “dangerously close to slipping away”. Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by ...

The Taliban “wants the world to trust us” and is not seeking revenge in Afghanistan after regaining control of the country, the group has said in a news conference. A spokesman for the militant group said Afghanistan has now been ...

Facebook has confirmed to Sky News that the Taliban will continue to be banned from operating Afghan government accounts on its platforms. The militant group is considered a Dangerous Organisation under Facebook’s policies. “The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist ...

A photo posted online on Sunday shows images of women at a Kabul beauty salon being painted over as the Taliban took over the city. The Taliban stormed Kabul on Sunday after taking over most of the rest of the ...

The Taliban has renamed Afghanistan the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ after its fighters swept into the capital, Kabul, a bustling metropolis of six million that has turned into a male-dominated city without police or traffic controls. Aljazeera reports that scores ...

  Afghanistan will no longer participate at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics after Taliban has taken over power. Before the development, Afghanistan was expected to be represented by two taekwondo players at the Paralympics. “Regrettably NPC Afghanistan will no longer participate ...

The Taliban today (Tuesday) declared a general amnesty for all government officials and urged them to return to work, two days after taking power following a lightning sweep through the country.   “A general amnesty has been declared for all… ...

  Jailed former South African President Jacob Zuma has undergone unspecified surgery and remains in hospital with more operations planned, prison authorities said.   Zuma, serving a 15-month sentence in Estcourt prison for contempt of court, was sent to a ...

A prominent Afghan filmmaker recorded her dramatic flight from Kabul as Taliban forces moved in on Sunday — and begged for help on social media, saying the militants were “coming to kill us.” “The Taliban entered Kabul, unfortunately, and we ...

The death toll from Saturday’s earthquake in Haiti soared to at least 1,297 on Sunday — as the struggling nation prepared to get hammered yet again by Mother Nature with Tropical Storm Grace. The country, still also reeling from the ...

Gunfire could be heard at Kabul International Airport on Monday morning as Afghan citizens flooded the tarmac, some clinging to the jet bridge of a plane, as they desperately tried to flee the country. The chaos followed a disastrous day ...

President Biden plans to send an additional 1,000 troops to Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul Sunday, according to reports. The move to return thousands of American troops to the country brings the total number of US forces there ...

  US President, Joe Biden has blamed his predecessor Donald Trump for the collapse of the Afghanistan government to Taliban militants. The Taliban has taken control of the government of the country after overpowering Afghan security forces in different parts ...

Prince Andrew could be ordered to pay £14million damages if he loses his US sex abuse case. Last night American lawyers also warned that due to “huge legal hur­­dles” facing accuser Virginia Giuffre, a hearing may be five years away. ...