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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey has reached an agreement with the United States on the “scope” of how to secure Kabul airport under the control of Turkish forces. Erdogan said on Friday that providing the airport security that has become a main concern for the US, was discussed between …

The Taliban, which controls eighty-five percent of the territory in Afghanistan, say they captured the war-torn country’s main conduit for trade with Iran. The militant group said it will try to shortly put back into operation the Islam Qala border crossing in Herat province. An Afghan government official said efforts …

A Taliban delegation in Moscow said on Friday that the group controlled over 85% of the territory in Afghanistan and reassured Russia it would not allow the country to be used as a platform to attack others. Foreign forces, including the United States, are withdrawing after almost 20 years of …

The majority of the UK’s armed forces personnel assigned to NATO’s mission in Afghanistan have left that country and the rest are returning home, Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. The withdrawal comes 20 years after the US, with British support, launched the so-called “war on terror” against the Taliban in …

Most British soldiers have been pulled out of Afghanistan, ending Britain’s official role in a two-decades-long conflict even as the Taliban are gaining ground and amid fears, the departure of foreign soldiers could lead to civil war. Summary | Britain to leave behind only an embassy protection force PM Johnson …

Taliban insurgents on Wednesday reached the entry points to the capital of Afghanistan’s northwestern Badghis province, officials said, causing panic among local people and prompting prisoners to break out of the city’s prison. Provincial governor Husamuddin Shams told Reuters the Taliban had attacked the city of Qala-e-Naw from three directions …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that the situation in Afghanistan had a tendency to swiftly deteriorate and said Moscow was ready to defend its regional allies if necessary. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday told Emomali Rakhmon, the president of Tajikistan, that Moscow would help the impoverished …

The Biden administration is considering whether to continue to authorize the CIA and the Pentagon to carry out deadly drone strikes and commando raids in Afghanistan after the complete withdrawal of US forces from the country. CNN reported on Monday that as withdrawal from Afghanistan nears completion, the administration of …

Russian military helicopters based in Tajikistan fired air-to-surface missiles during a training exercise on Tuesday as Moscow said its forces in the Central Asian nation were fully equipped to help secure the border with Afghanistan. Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon on Monday ordered the mobilisation of 20,000 military reservists to bolster …

The Taliban plan to present a written peace proposal to the Afghan government side as soon as next month, a spokesman for the Islamist insurgents said even as they make major territorial gains in the breach left by departing foreign forces. Hundreds of Afghan security force members have fled into …

More than 1,000 Afghan security personnel fled across the border into Tajikistan on Sunday after Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik border guard service said, while dozens of others were captured by the insurgents. The crossings underscore a rapidly deteriorating situation in the country as foreign troops near a …

The Taliban have captured a key district in their former bastion of Kandahar after fierce night-time fighting with Afghan government forces, officials said Sunday, the latest area to be seized since US troops began their final withdrawal. The insurgents have pressed on with their campaign to capture territory across Afghanistan’s …

The Taliban say Afghanistan can get closer to peace and stability now that all US troops are leaving the country, as the foreign forces’ main base, Bagram, gets fully evacuated. “We consider this withdrawal a positive step,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters on Friday, hours after US military officials …

Donald Rumsfeld’s legacy is “death and destruction, and a militarized American public,” American journalist Don DeBar has said, commenting on the death of the former US defense secretary who was the main architect of the Iraq war. Rumsfeld died at the age of 88 in Taos, New Mexico, his family …

The Afghan Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday that government forces had liberated five cities from the Taliban in the past 24 hours. Government forces recaptured control of Khost in Baghlan, Shinwari in Parwan, Khan Chahar Bagh, and Pashtun Kot in Faryab, and Kaldar in Balkh, the Afghan Ministry of …

Fighting with government forces in central Afghan cities comes as foreign troops continue to withdrawal from the country. Taliban fighters have launched an attack on Ghazni, clashing with Afghan forces and using explosives in an attempt to seize the central Afghan city, local officials have said. Tuesday’s assault on Ghazni, …

About 5,000 families flee their homes from northern Kunduz city as Taliban fighters intensify attacks across the country.

A press videographer who was traveling with President Ashraf Ghani’s delegation tested positive for COVID-19, according to a notification released by Congress’s Office of Attending Physician on Friday.

Pakistan’s military said on Friday that suspected militants had ambushed and shot dead five soldiers in the province of Balochistan, where insurgents have stepped up attacks this year.

Poland will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan at the end of June, President Andrzej Duda said on Thursday, bringing its two-decade presence in the country to an end.