The Taliban government in Afghanistan officially announced the resumption of Air Arabia flights to Kabul’s international airport after a two-year hiatus. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation confirmed the landing of the first Air Arabia flight on Wednesday. The ministry said
Prince Harry has faced another big blow as his name was missed off a list of Sandhurst’s most notable alumni. The Duke of Sussex did not make it onto the academy’s definitive book of 200 people to serve there. Prince William however
The United States Treasury Department announced sanctions on people around the world, including officials in Afghanistan, China and Iran, who have committed or contributed to human rights abuses. In a statement, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Evacuating Americans from Gaza amid Israel and Hamas’ war has been more challenging than most recent civilian rescue missions, according to a special operations veteran helping stranded U.S. citizens leave the region. “Quite frankly, we had an easier time getting people out
Over a week ago, the Herat province of Afghanistan was struck by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake that caused a death toll of 2,000. More powerful earthquakes and aftershocks continued to rock the region and raise the country’s death toll. The United Nation’s World
President Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal was fundamentally flawed, but his handling of Ukraine so far has been “very impressive,” according to former CIA director and retired four-star Gen. David Petraeus. “I said that I feared that we would come to
Afghanistan has been hit by a huge magnitude 6.4 earthquake – it’s third in just a week. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said the earthquake wasat a depth of around 10km, reports Sky. It hit the region around Herat, which saw another
A suicide bomber blew himself up among worshippers attending Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan, killing at least seven people and wounding 15 others, a police spokesperson said. The attack happened in the city of Pol-e-Khomri, the capital of
On Saturday, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 struck the Herat province of Afghanistan and caused a death toll of at least 2,000 people. On Wednesday, another power earthquake, also with a magnitude of 6.3, struck the same region. The recent
The Taliban released four Britons who were detained in Afghanistan on allegations that they broke the laws of the country, the U.K. government said Tuesday. The Foreign Office said in a brief statement that it welcomed the release of the four Britons,