Pakistan and Afghanistan hold talks in China to end 'worst conflict'Pakistan and Afghanistan are meeting in Urumqi, China. Senior officials from both nations are engaged in discussions. China is hosting and ...
02 Apr, 2026, 01.23 PM IST
Trump orders sweeping review of Green Cards after Afghan suspect shoots two National Guard members near White HouseUS Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Joseph Edlow has ordered a comprehensive review of green card holders from nations deemed ...
28 Nov, 2025, 03.21 AM IST
US trained Afghan special forces joining Russian establishment for Ukraine battleHuman Rights Watch has said more than 100 former Afghan soldiers, intelligence officers and police were killed or forcibly “disappeared” ju...
04 Nov, 2022, 08.17 AM IST
Last Afghan refugees leave New Jersey base after chaotic evacuationWith assistance from refugee resettlement organizations, Afghans evacuated after their country fell to the Taliban have been gradually leav...
20 Feb, 2022, 08.10 AM IST
Analysis: War is over but not Joe Biden's Afghanistan challengesTurning the page on Afghanistan is a crucial foreign policy objective for Biden, who repeatedly has made the case for redirecting American ...
31 Aug, 2021, 10.06 AM IST
Biden to address chaotic Kabul evacuation amid criticismWhile Biden has previously blamed Afghans for the US failure to get out more allies ahead of this month's sudden Taliban takeover, US offic...
20 Aug, 2021, 07.11 PM IST
United States to expand its security presence at Kabul airport to 6,000 troops“Afghans and international citizens who wish to depart must be allowed to do so; roads, airports and border crossing must remain open, and ...
16 Aug, 2021, 10.22 AM IST
Blood and billions of dollars: NATO's long war in AfghanistanThe foreign troops in the country are preparing to complete their withdrawal by the end of the month and have left local Afghan forces to f...
13 Aug, 2021, 10.20 PM IST
Pakistani army: Afghan soldiers flee attack, cross borderThe statement said 46 members of the Afghan forces, including five officers, crossed the border late Sunday near the Pakistani border town ...
27 Jul, 2021, 10.34 AM IST
Taliban wins close consulates; Tajikistan reinforces borderThe Afghan military exodus comes as Taliban overrun most districts in northeastern Badakhshan province. Many of the districts collapsed wit...
06 Jul, 2021, 11.19 AM IST
No hasty or disorderly withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan: US Defence SecretaryThe US and the Taliban reached an agreement in February 2020 that called for a permanent ceasefire, peace negotiations between the Taliban ...
20 Feb, 2021, 03.35 PM IST
Biden administration to review US-Taliban dealThe Trump administration had signed the peace deal with Taliban in February last in Doha. The accord drew up plans for withdrawal of US tro...
23 Jan, 2021, 10.32 AM IST
Obama praises troops as US marks end of war in AfghanistanBarack Obama, however, warned that Afghanistan remains a dangerous place, and the Afghan people continue to make tremendous sacrifices .
29 Dec, 2014, 02.08 PM IST
Signing bilateral security agreement a matter of weeks: USThe US has ramped up pressure on Hamid Karzai government to sign a key bilateral security agreement in "a matter of weeks" as it prepares f...
04 Feb, 2014, 12.47 PM IST
- US troop presence in Afghanistan would be modest: Pentagon
The presence of US troops in Afghanistan after the 2014 pullout would be "modest", Pentagon said today.
03 Feb, 2013, 10.01 PM IST
- Al-Qaeda, Taliban are plotting from Pak-Afghan border: Obama
With footprints of the recent terror plots in the US being traced to Pakistan, President Barack Obama has said that al-Qaeda and Taliban co...
13 May, 2010, 08.57 PM IST
- US to re-structure forces in Afghanistan to counter Taliban
Faced with the spiralling Taliban insurgency, the US will sanction a $20 billion plan to substantially expand the Afghan army and to restru...
08 Aug, 2008, 02.36 PM IST