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The US mission launched in 2001 with the aim of eradicating the Taliban* and al-Qaeda* in Afghanistan ended up with the Taliban's sweeping victory and takeover of Kabul. Could the Afghanistan War have been avoided and what lesson did Washington's policy-makers learn from the failed mission?On 30 August, the ...

Borrowing some analogy from the coronavirus pandemic, Taliban 2.0 is the advanced variant of the original 1990s avatar. It can spark a new wave of terror pandemics. (Reuters photo)‘Taliban fighters enter Kabul’ – As I typed these words on August 15 for a news alert, I had the most ...

US02:33 GMT 21.08.2021(updated 03:59 GMT 21.08.2021) Get short URLThe document, in which the former "Terrorist #1" described his plans, was first made public in 2012, but it has resurfaced recently in the wake of the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the full resurgence of the Taliban*, which now ...

Oh, how times have changed. Back in May 2011, Robert O’Neill was one of the Navy SEALs responsible for hunting down Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. O’Neill later claimed to be the man who actually killed the terrorist leader. But on Thursday, the former SEAL commented on the Biden administration’s ...

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand guard as people enter Pakistan through Chaman's border crossing point. Chaman, is a key border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, normally thousands of Afghans and Pakistanis cross daily and a steady stream of trucks passes through, taking goods to Afghanistan. (AP Photo)Taliban Afghanistan Crisis Latest ...

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government is not a spokesperson for the Taliban and Islamabad cannot be held responsible for the actions of the insurgent group in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of soldiers from the US and its allies, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said. In his comments to Afghan media ...

On his first visit to India, US secretary of stateAntony Blinkensat down for a conversation withIndrani Bagchion the Quad, the future of Afghanistan and the US-India priorities going forward. Excerpts from the interview:Where are we on the Quad? What have we accomplished with working groups? Well, first, we had ...

American troops pulled out of their main military base in Afghanistan on Friday (July 2), a United States defence official said, under an agreement with the Taliban allowing for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from the country, to end their longest war. The U.S. military has coordinated its ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), aggravated obscurantism, and unabashed bigotry since coming to power. Farahnaz Ispahani, in an article in The Diplomat said that Pakistan is already known for having little tolerance for its religious minorities. Khan and the PTI have ...