President Joe Biden on Thursday said it is up to the Afghan people alone how they run their country, as he announced the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan will end on Aug. 31 despite new concerns about the possibility of a civil war. “We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build,” Biden said. “It’s the مزید پڑھیں

Twelve Indian ministers, including the health, the environment and education ministers, gave their resignations to the country’s president’s office as Prime Minister Narendra Modi gears up for a major reshuffle in the cabinet. The resignations form part of a major reshuffle by PM Narendra Modi following a catastrophic spike in COVID-19 cases and ahead of مزید پڑھیں

American troops pulled out of their main military base in Afghanistan on Friday, a US defence official said, under an agreement with the Taliban allowing for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from the country after a two-decade war. “All American soldiers and members of NATO forces have left the Bagram air base,” said the مزید پڑھیں

The complete withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan seems imminent, as all NATO and US troops left the largest air base in Afghanistan. Bagram Air Base served as the linchpin for US operations in the rugged country, where the long war against the Taliban and their Al-Qaeda allies was fought with air strikes and resupply مزید پڑھیں

Turkish and US military officials met in Ankara on Thursday to discuss plans for Turkish troops to continue securing Kabul’s airport after the withdrawal of US and other Nato troops from Afghanistan. Turkey, Nato’s only majority-Muslim member, has offered to protect and run the Hamid Karzai airport. the main gateway into Afghanistan after the alliance مزید پڑھیں

A 12-storey oceanfront apartment block in Florida partially collapsed on Thursday, killing an unspecified number of residents and leaving almost 100 unaccounted for as teams of rescuers combed the rubble for possible victims. Video footage posted online showed a large portion of the building in the town of Surfside — just north of Miami Beach مزید پڑھیں

The US military could slow down its withdrawal from Afghanistan due to the gains made by the Taliban, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Monday. Kirby stressed that President Joe Biden´s deadline of a full withdrawal by September remains in place, but added that the pace could be adjusted based on conditions. “The situation in Afghanistan مزید پڑھیں

Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday he will not allow nuclear negotiations for the sake of negotiations, in his first news conference since winning election last week. Raisi also ruled out meeting US President Joe Biden but said there were “no obstacles” to resuming diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia which have been severed for مزید پڑھیں

Belgium will ban entry to non-EU travellers from Britain in order to limit the spread of a Covid-19 variant that has forced London to delay the lifting of its pandemic curbs. Britain is on a list of 27 nations that will also face the order which will take effect by June 27 at the latest, مزید پڑھیں

The number of Covid-19 jabs administered in China has passed the one billion mark, health officials said Sunday, more than a third of the doses given worldwide. The announcement by the National Health Commission comes after the number of shots administered globally surpassed 2.5 billion on Friday, according to an AFP count from official sources. مزید پڑھیں