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Private firms remain committed to investing, underscoring potential room for further cooperation after situation stabilizes     Taliban militants are seen inside the Ghazni city, eastern Afghanistan, Aug. 12, 2021. Taliban militants Thursday overran Afghanistan’s eastern Ghazni province’s capital city Ghazni, 150 km from the national capital Kabul, provincial council member Hasan Reza Yusufi said. […]

A photo tweeted by the official Mecca government account showing a large fire on the Mecca-Jeddah highway after a petroleum truck was involved in a traffic accident. (Twitter) A large fire broke out on the Jeddah highway near Mecca in Saudi Arabia after a traffic accident involving a truck carrying petroleum, according to a tweet […]

The leader of the Taliban negotiating team, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, attends the final declaration of the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban presented in Qatar’s capital Doha, July 18, 2021. (AFP Photo)  CIA Director William Burns met with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul on Monday, The Washington Post reported […]

Ahmad Massoud, son of the slain hero of the anti-Soviet resistance, Ahmad Shah Massoud, speaks during an interview at his house in Bazarak, Panjshir province Afghanistan September 5, 2019. (File photo: Reuters)  Panjshir valley will not be handed over to the Taliban and resistance fighters will be ready to fight back if the extremist group […]

US President Joe Biden says Kabul evacuations will be “hard and painful”. © Brendan Smialowski, AFP  President Joe Biden said Sunday the U.S.-led evacuation of Americans, at-risk Afghans and others from the Kabul airport accelerated this weekend, although it remains vulnerable to threats posed by the Islamic State extremist group. One week after the Taliban completed […]

The foreign-led nation-building experiment in Somalia will collapse, just like in Afghanistan, unless a different approach is taken. Burundian African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeepers stand in formation during a ceremony as they prepare to leave the Jaale Siad Military academy after being replaced by the Somali military in Mogadishu on February 28, 2019 […]

Taliban fighters search a vehicle at a checkpoint on the road in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021. (AP Photo)  The Taliban have a “working relationship” with the U.S. regarding security arrangements at Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport, a member of the militant group’s cultural commission […]

Story Summary NASHVILLE, Tenn. – At least 22 people were dead and about 20 remained missing Sunday afternoon after record-shattering downpours triggered flooding across parts of the state. Among those killed were twin babies who were swept from their father’s arms, according to surviving relatives. Grey Collier, public information officer for the Humphreys County Emergency Management Agency, said hundreds of homes may be […]

Deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen Paul Lokech (left), at State House Entebbe during the retirement of Generals on July 29, 2019. PHOTO / ABUBAKER LUBOWA  The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen Paul Lokech, alias The Lion of Mogadishu, died at his home near Kitikifumba, Kira Municipality in Wakiso District on Saturday. […]

Afghan evacuees leave a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on August 20, 2021. © Taylor Slater, AFP  US officials said Sunday that American commercial airlines – including American Airlines, Delta and United – will be marshaled to help the evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghans and foreigners from Kabul following its fall […]