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U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday that any future troop drawdowns in Afghanistan were “not necessarily” linked to a deal with Taliban insurgents, suggesting some lowering of force levels may happen irrespective of the ongoing peace push. The remarks by Esper in an interview with Reuters came on …

Timothy Weeks, an Australian professor who was recently freed by the Taliban in a prisoner swap said that the “long and tortuous ordeal” had an intense effect on him. Speaking in a press conference in Sydney on Sunday, Weeks, 50, said that hope helped him survive the ordeal. Weeks and …

At least 73 people were killed and several others wounded after a train caught fire in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Thursday, Pakistani media reported. The train was travelling from Karachi to Rawalpindi when the incident happened. The fire has broken when a gas cylinder being carried by a passenger exploded …

Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group was killed in an operation by U.S. forces in Syria, U.S. media reported. A U.S. official told The Associated Press late Saturday that al-Baghdadi was targeted in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. The official said confirmation that the IS chief …

Justin Trudeau win a second term as Canada’s prime minister. However, Trudeau will have a Liberal minority government, which means he will have to work with other parties to form a government. “From coast to coast to coast, tonight Canadians rejected division and negativity. They rejected cuts and austerity, and …

A powerful earthquake rocked several parts of Pakistan on Tuesday, leaving at least 26 people dead, and more than 300 others wounded. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers with its epicenter lying 1km southeast of Mirpur, Pakistan-administrated …

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan met with the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad on Sunday and discussed the failure of U.S.-Taliban negotiations in Qatar. Khan met with the U.S. Envoy on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in the New York, …

The United States Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad on Thursday briefed the U.S. Congress behind the closed door about the failure of U.S.-Taliban negotiations in Qatar. “In the last few weeks, we have seen the Afghan reconciliation process go off the rails in spectacular fashion,” Eliot Engel, the …

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that Hamza bin Laden, the son of former al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, had been killed during a counter-terrorism operation in the region around the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, reports said on Saturday. According to the Independent, a statement issued by the White House said that …

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has called on the Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad to brief the lawmakers on details of the peace deal he negotiated with the Taliban in Doha, the capital of Qatar. The Committee’s Chairman Eliot Engel in a letter …

India and France, in a joint statement issued in Paris on 22 August 2019, called for the timely holding of presidential elections in Afghanistan, the Indian Embassy in Kabul said in an online statement on Wednesday. In addition, the two countries called for the cessation of terrorist violence, and end …

U.S. President Donald Trump held a meeting with his cabinet officials and other senior security advisers on Friday and discussed the status of negotiations with the Taliban over the troop pullout from Afghanistan and prospects for a political settlement to end the long-term war in the country. Trump held the …

The U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to meet with his top national security advisers on Friday to review a US-Taliban peace plan that could end America’s longest war in Afghanistan, CNN reported. According to two sources familiar with the planning, CNN reported that Trump is expected to meet at …

Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Asad Majeed Khan has said on Monday that his country might redeploy troops from the Afghanistan border to the Kashmir frontier, a shift that could complicate American peace talks with the Taliban, the New York Times reported. In an interview with the New York …

The U.S. is set to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan as part of an initial peace deal to end the long-term conflict in the war-weary country, the U.S. news agencies reported. According to the Washington Post, the Trump administration is preparing to reduce its troops in Afghanistan from nearly …

At least 17 people were killed after a small plane of Pakistan Army crashed in Rawalpindi in early on Tuesday morning, Pakistani the News International reported. According to the report, the plane has crashed at a residential area near the Rabi Center in Rawalpindi, as a result, 12 civilians and …

The Afghan government in a statement on Tuesday called for clarity on U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks who said he could win the war in Afghanistan in a matter of days but he does not want to kill 10 million people. In a joint press conference with Pakistan’s Prime Minister …

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that he could end the long-term war in Afghanistan in a week but that it would kill millions of people and wipe the country “off the face of the earth.” Trump met with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday and discussed Pakistan’s …

An American fashion model, Sarah Goolden, claims that son of a former Afghan defense minister stalked and raped her after she rejected him, the New York Post reported. According to the report, Sarah Goolden, a stunning blonde who’s modeled everything from lacy underwear to designer duds, accuses Hamed Wardak, son of …

A senior U.S. senator urged the Trump administration to not agree to “absurd” demands of the Taliban militant group for the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan within 18 months. “I hope the Trump Administration will not give into absurd Taliban demands for US withdrawal within 18 months, regardless of conditions on …