US President Joe Biden is set to announce that US troops will leave Afghanistan by September 11, officials say. This means they would miss a May deadline for a pull-out agreed with the Taliban by the Trump administration last year.…
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Biden to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan by September 11
The Biden administration will pull its remaining 2,500 troops out of Afghanistan by September 11 of this year, ending the United States’s longest-running war after 20 years. Biden’s fellow Democrats in Congress largely supported his move but Republicans said the…
Car bomb in Afghanistan’s Herat province kills several
On Friday, A powerful car bomb near a police station in Afghanistan’s western Herat province killed at least eight people and wounded more than 50, officials said. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned Friday’s attack and openly blamed the Taliban -…
Violence flares in southern Afghanistan as Taliban approaches Kandahar
The Taliban is intensifying its offensive in the southern province of Kandahar. Heavy fighting between government forces and the Taliban is now only eight kilometres (five miles) away from Kandahar City, putting tens of thousands of Afghan lives at risk.…
‘The Taliban tried to kill me for being a woman’ – BBC News
Saba Sahar is one of Afghanistan’s first female film directors, as well as being an actor and police officer – she survived an assassination attempt. There’s been a series of targeted killings of journalists, activists and people in government jobs…