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Just like the movies: Filipino expat worker describes flight from tumult in Afghanistan DUBAI: Horrible. It was straight from the movie, what happened to me. Those words were the quick description of how overseas Filipino worker Joseph Glenn Gumpal managed to flee the chaos in Afghanistan, days after the ...

The US national security advisor has warned of a potential terrorist attack by ISIS-K in Afghanistan, saying American troops are “laser-focused” on the threat as they struggle to evacuate citizens after a Taliban takeover. Asked on Thursday whether the White House fears that US citizens stranded in Afghanistan could ...

By Alexandre Antonov, RT’s Moscow-based writer The West attempted to halt the Taliban’s march on Kabul with a threat of international isolation, but enforcing such a measure now that the city has fallen may be impossible, with Washington’s global hegemony in decline. As Taliban forces were on their final push ...

A U.S. peace envoy was back in the Middle East on Tuesday to warn the Taliban not to pursue a military victory on the ground and deliver a blunt message: A Taliban government that comes to power through force in Afghanistan will not be recognized. The U.S. State Department said ...

An article featured on the website of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry has accused Washington of weaponizing foreign aid in order to exert pressure and control over countries desperate for humanitarian assistance. The analysis, penned by Kang Hyon Chol as a senior researcher at the ministry-affiliated Association for the Promotion ...

NEW DELHI: Indian model Adline Castelino believes that coming third runner-up in the recent Miss Universe pageant in Florida will provide the springboard to follow her dream of becoming a peace envoy. The 22-year-old beauty queen recently told Arab News about her childhood years growing up in an Arab ...

Taliban warn Afghanistan’s neighbors against allowing US military presence on their soil KABUL: The Taliban on Wednesday urged Afghanistan’s neighbors not to make what would be an “historic mistake” by hosting US military bases. The militant group warned that such a move would provide America with the ability to launch ...

KARACHI / LAHORE / ISLAMABAD: Several members of the Pakistani police force interviewed by Arab News last week have said there is a growing sense of “betrayal” among their colleagues after the government negotiated with, and met the demands of, the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party (TLP) despite officers being “killed, tortured ...

ISLAMABAD: A day-long sea exercise conducted by Pakistan and Iran’s navies in the Arabian Gulf on Tuesday was unplanned and part of a “goodwill gesture,” a spokesman for the Pakistan navy has said, rejecting media reports that it was based on a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two countries. ...

NEW DELHI: Police detained at least 88 Rohingya asylum seekers who were protesting in front of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in New Delhi on Thursday. They protesters were seeking protection from arrest as Indian authorities have announced plans to deport them.More than 1 million Rohingya ...