A video published by Afghan media on Monday appears to show Taliban jihadists shooting at the remains of the Bamiyan Buddha statues, once the world’s tallest but bombed into oblivion by the Taliban during its previous rule in 2001.
Indian official Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister for the state of Uttar Pradesh, warned on Monday that India would launch airstrikes against the Taliban if it makes a move against Indian territory.
There was a feeling of danger at the Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 26 when 16 hours prior, the U.S. Embassy warned American citizens to avoid the area, ABC News reported Sunday.
Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, nominal Supreme Leader of the Taliban and its “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” regime, made his first public appearance since the fall of Kabul on Sunday.
Senior Taliban officials denied links this weekend to self-proclaimed Taliban jihadists who killed three and injured as many as ten people at a wedding in Afghanistan for playing music.
The Taliban hears the U.N.’s call for “global climate action” now being aired at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland, with the terrorist organization offering to tackle Afghanistan’s “fragile environment” alongside foreign agencies and, just as importantly, their funding.
A spokesman for the Taliban terror group, which seized control of Afghanistan in August, said Friday the organization is “interested” in receiving Chinese coronavirus vaccines from Russia to administer to Afghan citizens, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported.
The top federal agency in charge of oversight of American involvement in Afghanistan published a report on Friday stating the U.S. government spent nearly $89 billion on “training and equipping” the Afghan military in the past two decades.
A spokesman for the “finance ministry” of the Taliban told Reuters in remarks published Friday that the terrorist group needs “fresh funds” to maintain its control of the country.
The U.S State Department announced that they had discovered another 76 American citizens stuck in Afghanistan in the past week.
Chinese and Iranian diplomats both referred to the Taliban terrorist organization on Wednesday as a “government” – modifying the term with terms like “interim” or “caretaker” – suggesting both rogue regimes have accepted the group’s legitimacy as a state entity.
Lawmakers in Tajikistan announced on Wednesday that China would build a new military base on the nation’s border with Afghanistan worth $10 million.
Women in Kabul, Afghanistan, organized yet another protest on Tuesday demanding the Taliban terrorist organization, which currently runs the country, allow them to return to work and re-open schools for girls.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the U.S. is “relying upon the Taliban to help us prevent an attack by ISIS on the United States.” Because of the inability to conduct
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) predicted the Taliban will “extort us. They’re going to use all these Americans to extort us and the international community to get assistance to the Taliban.”
ISIS-K, the Afghanistan affiliate of the terrorist group ISIS, could generate the capability to attack the United States in as early as six months, the top Pentagon policy official told senators on Tuesday.
Taliban jihadists in Kabul, Afghanistan, staged a “graduation” of sorts for drug addicts forced into a brutal withdrawal program allegedly meant to rehabilitate them, the Afghan Bakhtar News Agency reported on Monday.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with a Taliban delegation on Monday at a summit that resulted in several promises to expand trade with the terrorist group – now the de facto government of Afghanistan – and support the Taliban as it allegedly pursues “openness and tolerance.”
Russia announced Monday it would soon launch a “humanitarian operation” in Afghanistan, funding efforts to benefit the “Afghan people.” The announcement notably omitted to specify if the humanitarian aid would go to the Taliban, the de facto government of the country.
In a viral clip published this week, documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz approached students at the University of California, Berkeley.
Members of Afghanistan’s Taliban terror group allegedly beheaded a female member of the Kabul Municipality Volleyball Club in recent weeks according to a claim made Tuesday by a coach for the Afghan women’s national volleyball team, the New York Post reported Thursday.
At least 363 Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan — far above the administration’s initial estimate — weeks after the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from the jihadist-controlled country, according to the State Department.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) on Thursday released a letter to President Biden penned by an American citizen from San Diego, California, who is still trapped in Afghanistan alongside his wife.
Nine countries led by Russia – including powerhouse neighbors China, Russia, and Iran – published a statement Wednesday effectively recognizing the Taliban terrorist group as the government of Afghanistan.
Taliban jihadists assaulted journalists and participants at a women’s protest in front of the Ministry of Education in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, demanding the terrorist organization allow girls to return to school.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov demanded “effective financial humanitarian support” from the international community for the brutal Taliban regime in remarks on Wednesday.
Taliban “Interior Minister” Sirajuddin Haqqani, a U.S. “specially designated global terrorist,” handed out land and cash rewards to the families of jihadist suicide bombers in an event in Kabul on Tuesday, declaring them the “heroes of Islam.”
What some U.S. forces thought would be 96 hours on the ground in Afghanistan evacuating U.S. embassy staff turned into 16 days.
Pope Francis decried recent lethal attacks Sunday, urging people to “abandon the path of violence” in favor of a peaceful resolution of conflicts.
Multiple suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province during Friday prayer services. Local health officials said at least 33 people were killed and 73 wounded in the incident with casualty rates expected to rise further.
Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban deputy minister of Information and Culture, boasted in an interview with Voice of America News (VOA) on Thursday that China is ready to pour billions of dollars into Afghanistan, even as the rest of the world attempts to isolate the extremist regime.
An overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the U.S. giving aid to the Taliban-controlled government in Afghanistan, a Trafalgar Group survey released Wednesday found.
Taliban Education Minister Mullah Noorullah Munir declared last week his country’s aim to replace all educational content which “contradicts” radical Islamic sharia law or Afghan traditions, noting that music would no longer be “compatible” with it.
The Group of 20 (G20) held a video conference on Tuesday at which they agreed the Taliban must be actively involved in distributing humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan. The group insisted this concession should not be construed as formal recognition of the Taliban’s legitimacy.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Tuesday reported the Taliban has quietly permitted teenage girls to return to school in four of Afghanistan’s northern provinces, ostensibly because Taliban 2.0 is willing to “shape policy around cultural differences across Afghanistan, unlike in the 1990s, when they imposed harsh social rules on everyone under their rule.”
MADRID (AP) – Spain’s defence ministry has completed the evacuation of another 160 Afghans who had initially been left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
(AFP) — Afghanistan’s new Taliban government has warned U.S. and European envoys that continued attempts to pressure them through sanctions will undermine security and could trigger a wave of economic migrants.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) predicted that the Biden administration “will and has always intended to provide humanitarian assistance to the Taliban.” And said America’s counterterrorism strategy in the country “is
The Biden administration said on Sunday its first face-to-face meeting with Taliban officials since the brutal extremists reconquered Afghanistan was “candid and professional.” Judging by their comments, the Taliban disregarded everything the Biden team said except its promise of humanitarian aid.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) said there isn’t “any significant impression that the U.S. has influence” with the Taliban, and, given the demonstrated problems with an over-the-horizon counterterrorism capability in
