The US Central Command announced that the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan has been completed, ending 20 years of Washington-led invasion of the war-torn nation."I'm here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from Afghanistan and the...

As the last of America's C-17s flew into the night from Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport just before the clock struck midnight in Afghanistan Monday, the costs of America's longest war began sinking in at home.Thirteen fallen US service members,...

US Republican Congressman Jim Banks has revealed that the Taliban now have more Black Hawk helicopters than 85 per cent of the countries in the world, the Daily Mail reported.Banks, who served in Afghanistan as an officer in charge of supplying weapons,...

Global media reports supported by security experts indicate that the Taliban 2.0 now ensconced in Afghanistan has come to control $85 billion military equipment, including 600,000 small arms, 200 planes/choppers, black hawks, night vision devices, body armours...

The supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, arrived in Kandahar province from an unknown place on Sunday.He has reportedly met with the tribal leaders of Kandahar province and the IEA is due to release a statement...

The withdrawal of US forces and return of the Taliban in Afghanistan has stoked much fear and dejection among research scientists who predict huge losses not only in terms of funding but also of science.During their reign from 1996-2001, the fundamentalist...

The US provided an estimated $83 billion worth of training and equipment to Afghan security forces since 2001. This year, alone, the US military aid to Afghan forces was $3 billion, Forbes reported.Putting price tags on American military equipment still...

The Taliban is cracking down on the Islamic State (Khorasan Province) following the deadly suicide attack on Kabul airport, in which eight US marines and over a dozen Taliban members were killed.Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov told Tass...

Abdul Baqi Haqqani, who has been appointed by the Taliban as the acting Minister for Afghanistan's Ministry of Higher Education, said classrooms for female students will be separate from those of males.Speaking with officials of public and private universities...

With the needs of Afghan children greater than ever before, the world "cannot abandon them now", a senior Unicef official appealed after concluding a visit to the war-torn nation.George Laryea-Adjei, Regional Director for Unicef South Asia, said on Sunday...

Rockets fired towards the Kabul international airport were reportedly intercepted by a US missile defence system on Monday, the BBC reported.The White House confirmed the attack, but said that its ongoing evacuations would "continue uninterrupted".The incident...

Twelve of the 13 US service members killed in the August 26 Kabul airport bombing were "9/11 babies", according to media reports.The Pentagon released their names and biographies on August 28. The victims, mostly aged from 20 to 25 years old, were born within...

Six Afghan civilians, including four children, were killed after a rocket was fired at the Kabul airport where the US-led evacuation flights were continuing but failed to hit the target, a local source confirmed."The rocket struck a house in Khwaja Bughra,...

Currently, Afghanistan has the attention of the world. The fall of Kabul was neither sudden, nor was it due to the rapid and unexpected surrender of the "3,00,000 strong Afghani forces". It was a long bloody battle which took place over the last six months with...

It may be tempting for some analysts to surmise that through the terror attack outside the Kabul airport that killed over 170 last Thursday, the Islamic State-Khorasan that has claimed credit was handing a bloody "parting gift" to the US and others scrambling...

The US and coalition forces have handed over the control of three gates, including the entrance to the military section, of the Kabul airport, to the Taliban, an official of the group told local media on Sunday."The US troops are in control of a small part...

Just days after the deadly bombings in Kabul that killed nearly 200 people, including 13 members of the American military, US President Joe Biden said his military commanders informed him that another attack in Afghanistan is "highly likely in the next 24-36...

The Taliban has called upon Kabul residents to hand over government vehicles, arms and ammunition if those assets have been left with them, according to the group's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.All those living in Kabul are informed "to return all government...

More than 250 Afghans belonging to a minority communities of Sikh and Hindu, who have connections in India, have been holed up in a Sikh shrine just seven km from the international airport in Kabul and are desperately awaiting their evacuation to a Western...

The horrific terrorist attacks outside Kabul airport will boost chaos sky high. It will take focus away from the only frame in which the epochal events of the past few days should be seen. Did the US withdrawal, however messy, bring an end to the 'forever...