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KABUL: The government officials say they would arm and support those people who want to fight Taliban. Naqibullah Fayeq, the newly-appointed deputy interior minister, who is in Mazar-e-Sharif, a strategic city in the north to evaluate the security situation, said Wednesday that Kabul would support public mobilization against Taliban “in every province”. “Taliban will be […]

People arrive at the domestic terminal of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 8, 2018. (AFP Photo)  Turkey will not deploy additional forces in Afghanistan as part of its offer to secure Kabul’s airport once the U.S. and NATO withdraw from the country, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Wednesday. Turkey has […]

An airstrike hit a busy market in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray village of Togoga on Tuesday, according to health workers who said soldiers blocked medical teams from traveling to the scene. Dozens of people were killed, they and a former resident said, citing witnesses. Two doctors and a nurse in Tigray’s regional capital, Mekele, told The […]

Kenyan coastal fishermen based at Lamu near Somalia demand to be heard in the court dispute over Indian Ocean maritime boundary in March 2021. Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images) Kenya’s objections Kenya maintains that there is an existing maritime boundary established in 1979. Nairobi claims that boundary places the disputed 160 000 square kilometres within Kenyan […]

An Iranian inmate peers from behind a wall as a guard walks by at the female section of the infamous Evin jail, north of Tehran, 13 June 2006. (File photo: AFP) Iran executed at least 95 people, including six women, so far this year, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Tuesday. Last […]

Kim Yo Jong says US has ‘wrong’ expectations about talks as Washington’s envoy offers to meet ‘anytime, anywhere’. Kim Yo Jong attends wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam March 2, 2019 [Jorge Silva/Pool via Reuters] Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, has ridiculed the United States’s hopes […]

Turkey is in talks with three countries as it seeks help in developing a space port in Somalia and a rocket to carry out lunar landings, according to the head of its space agency. Serdar Huseyin Yildirim, head of the Turkish Space Agency, made his comments to the Sputnik news agency on the sidelines of the Global […]

Stockholm [Sweden], June 21 (ANI): Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven was ousted after he lost a no-confidence vote in the parliament on Monday, with a majority of parliament members backing his departure. The no-confidence motion against Lofven was approved by the parliament with 181 affirmative votes, more than the required 175 votes of the 349-seat […]

Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 25, 2015. (AP Photo)  Atechnical delegation from the U.S. Department of Defense is expected to arrive in Turkey on Thursday to discuss activities for keeping the Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan operational, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Thursday. The situation in Afghanistan gained importance after NATO […]

New book by Washington Post reporters claims Trump asked if detainment camp could be used to house infected. Former President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on January 20, 2021, after he left the White House [File: Carlos Barria/Reuters] Former President Donald Trump considered sending […]