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...Schools were scheduled to reopen in Afghanistan for the new academic year....
...Turkey’s military has begun withdrawing its troops from Kabul airport, the country’s defence ministry said on Wednesday, apparently scrapping its offer to secure Afghanistan’s main link with the outside...
...Go deeper A year after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan the FT has a new series on life under the Taliban....
...And so he’s also pondering the U-turn. There have been efforts at rapprochement with help from Russia, which is trying to push a Turkey-Syria rapprochement that includes Iran....
...Visa prices in Afghanistan have increased exponentially since the fall of Kabul....
...“Every single US service member is out of Afghanistan,” McKenzie said, adding that the last military plane had left Kabul airport with the US ambassador aboard....
...Soon enough I found myself with a commission and a visa from the Afghan consulate in London. With that in hand I booked my Azal ticket and set off for Kabul. Entirely independently. Entirely freelance....
...Turkey has offered to keep its 500-strong battalion in Afghanistan to secure Kabul international airport after the US withdrawal....
...“All Embassy personnel are located on the premises of Hamid Karzai International Airport, whose perimeter is secured by the U.S....
...As the Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after a dramatic military offensive, the leaders of neighbouring Pakistan did not hide their schadenfreude at the ignominious end to the 20-year US mission in Afghanistan...
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Two bombs exploded near Kabul airport yesterday just as western countries were scrambling to get people out of Afghanistan on the last evacuation flights....
...The Kurds survived after a US U-turn, but lost ground and people in the fighting with Turkish proxies. Daughters of Kobani is mainly about female empowerment....
...A suicide blast in a mainly Shi’ite area of Kabul killed at least 48 people on Wednesday, the latest in a wave of attacks that have killed hundreds of civilians, soldiers and policemen in Afghanistan over...
...after a terror attack in Kabul left a member of the US military dead....
...New Commander of Resolute Support forces and United States forces in Afghanistan, U.S....
...An Afghan policeman reacts at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan June on Tuesday....
...Another key AIE commission is due to go on show at the new US embassy in Kabul this year....
...The ISI, which helped arm and fund the Taliban after 2001, has now made a U-turn and is trying to persuade the Taliban to talk to Kabul....
...Gen Sharif has earned immense kudos for making a virtual U-turn on beginning a peace process in Afghanistan when Pakistan has for too long supported the Taliban....
...Nato intervened to overthrow the Taliban government in Kabul in late 2001 with the help of Afghan militias in the Northern Alliance, after it emerged that Afghanistan was the base for the al-Qaeda leaders...
...in Afghanistan....
...While the targets of drone strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan have often been foreign fighters, in Yemen they have been aimed at locals with families and tribes....
...The top US military commander in Afghanistan said on Thursday that fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan may have contributed to the recent outbreak of insider attacks on Nato troops by their Afghan...
...In Benghazi in Libya, thousands of people joined a pro-democracy protest against the Islamist militia which stormed the US consulate there, according to Reuters....
...General John Allen, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, said this week that by the end of September there would be 68,000 US and about 40,000 other coalition forces in Afghanistan, compared to...
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