Macron says France working with other Europeans to open mission in AfghanistanWestern countries have been grappling with how to engage with the Taliban after they took over Afghanistan in a lightning advance in August...
04 Dec, 2021, 01.35 PM IST
Qatar advises international community to nurture moderate Taliban voicesQatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, while briefing counter-terror experts who gathered for Global Security For...
15 Oct, 2021, 07.29 PM IST
Afghanistan on verge of socio-economic collapse, EU's top diplomat saysAfghanistan is facing a breakdown of its economic and social systems that risks turning into a humanitarian catastrophe, the European Union...
03 Oct, 2021, 04.49 PM IST
Stung by Afghan debacle, EU forges ahead with security plansMore than 100,000 people were evacuated in the frenzied final days of the US airlift after President Joe Biden said American troops would l...
15 Sep, 2021, 04.45 PM IST
European Union says has no option but to talk to Taliban"The Afghan crisis is not over," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
14 Sep, 2021, 07.09 PM IST
Germany wants to talk with Taliban about further evacuations from Afghanistan: Angela MerkelThe European Union's foreign policy chief has said the bloc is ready to engage with the new Taliban government in Kabul but the Islamist gr...
05 Sep, 2021, 09.14 PM IST
European Union foreign ministers discuss engagement with Taliban; differ on refugeesAt the meeting, German foreign minister Heiko Maas said, “It is important for Germany to set certain conditions, such as the formation of a...
04 Sep, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
European Union sets conditions for Taliban ties, eyes Kabul 'presence'"We have to engage with the new government in Afghanistan, which doesn't mean recognition, it's an operational engagement," EU foreign poli...
03 Sep, 2021, 05.12 PM IST
India favours an inclusive Afghanstan govt: foreign minister S JaishankarJaishankar’s views came hours before EU foreign ministers meet which, among other issues, will discuss Afghanistan, amid fears of refugee c...
03 Sep, 2021, 11.57 AM IST
Not rushing to formally recognise Taliban: EUGunnar Wiegand, the European Commission’s managing director for Asia and the Pacific, on Wednesday said that formal relations with the Tali...
03 Sep, 2021, 11.56 AM IST
Rockets fired at Kabul airport in waning hours of American pulloutWith the departure of the last of its troops, the U.S. is ending its 20-year war with the Taliban back in power. Many Afghans remain fearfu...
30 Aug, 2021, 10.42 PM IST
The Afghan minister who became a bicycle courier in Germany"I have nothing to feel guilty about," the 49-year-old British-Afghan dual citizen said, standing in his orange uniform next to his bike. H...
29 Aug, 2021, 02.56 PM IST
View: Taliban's charm offensive notwithstanding, world awaits inclusive govt in AfghanistanThe Taliban’s charm offensive is partly in recognition of the reality that their regime cannot survive without support from the internation...
23 Aug, 2021, 04.17 PM IST
Afghans face 'impossible' race against time to flee KabulFamilies hoping for a miracle crowded between the barbed-wire that surrounds an unofficial no man's land separating the Taliban from US tro...
22 Aug, 2021, 09.55 AM IST
Qatar urges Taliban to cease fire at meeting in DohaForeign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani met the head of the Taliban's political bureau, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, to follow up...
14 Aug, 2021, 07.55 PM IST
EU acknowledges India’s decisive role: Bilateral roadmap to prevent recreation of ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’Besides being invited to six-party talks on the future of Afghanistan and Heart of Asia meet, India is also working with regional parties I...
05 May, 2021, 12.33 PM IST
- Afghanistan orders UN, EU officials out
Afghanistan has ordered a top European Union official and a United Nations staffer to leave the country for threatening national security, ...
26 Dec, 2007, 06.38 AM IST