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Freed Taliban prisoner recounts SEAL rescue attempts

01 Dec 2019

An Australian teacher held captive with an American colleague by the Taliban for more than three years believes US Navy SEALs tried and failed six times to free them. Timothy...

Trump makes surprise Afghanistan trip, voices hope for ceasefire

29 Nov 2019

President Donald Trump made a surprise Thanksgiving visit to US troops in Afghanistan on Thursday and said he believed Taliban insurgents would agree to a ceasefire in America’s longest war....

Afghanistan to swap Taliban militants for American, Australian captives

12 Nov 2019

Afghanistan will release two senior Taliban commanders and a leader of the Haqqani militant group in exchange for an American and an Australian professor who were kidnapped in 2016, Afghan...

Afghan president, Chinese FM discuss dialogue with Taliban

05 Nov 2019

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi have discussed a planned meeting in Beijing that would include Afghan figures and Taliban representatives. That meeting - known as...

Taliban storm checkpoint kill 15 policemen Afghan official

22 Oct 2019

The Taliban stormed a checkpoint in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 15 policemen in the latest attack by insurgents, an Afghan provincial official said on Tuesday. The multi-pronged attack on...

Villagers search for bodies after Afghan mosque blast

20 Oct 2019

Villagers searched for the bodies of their loved ones on Saturday in the rubble of a mosque in eastern Afghanistan that collapsed in a blast during Friday prayers, killing 70...

UAE condemns terror attack on mosque in Afghanistan

19 Oct 2019

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has firmly condemned a terror attack targeting a mosque in Nangahar in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayer that resulted in the death and injury of...

Trump’s decisions are changing the political landscape

18 Oct 2019

Donald Trump’s presidency has been disastrous for this region. He has taken three ignorant, snap decisions which have had terrible short-term consequences and are in the process of changing the...

New Budapest mayor has shown how to defeat populists

15 Oct 2019

Umut Korkut, The Independent Budapest has a new mayor, an event which rarely troubles the international press. But this time around it has confirmed how Europe can reject...

Anger grows at civilian deaths by US, Afghan forces

06 Oct 2019

The workers were sleeping on the mountainside where they had spent a long day harvesting pine nuts in eastern Afghanistan. Some were in tents, others lay outside under the stars,...

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