The Taliban have agreed to allow “safe passage” from Afghanistan for civilians hoping to join a US-directed airlift from the capital, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser said Tuesday, although a timetable for completing the evacuation of Americans, Afghan...
A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III safely evacuated some 640 Afghans from Kabul late Sunday, according to U.S. defense officials and photos obtained by Defense One.
That’s believed to be among the most people ever flown in the C-17,...
The latest from Afghanistan is that the Taliban are already in Kabul after capturing ten Afghan provincial capitals and that President Ashraf Ghani and his warlord allies have fled to Tajikistan. The Ghani government’s CEO Abdullah Abudulah is negotiating...
As the countdown begins for the end of the war in Afghanistan and the establishment of a Taliban government in Kabul in the next few months or even weeks, it is likely that the many international stakeholders in Afghanistan...
Last week’s relaxing of the ban on importing synthetic fertilizer will allow it to be brought into the country for specific types of cultivation. It will also pave the way for the import of organic nitrogen extracts to boost...
SINGAPORE - Flag carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA), its budget arm Scoot, and Changi Airport have been recognised for their efforts in facilitating safe international air travel amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
SIA and Scoot were awarded the highest five-star rating in...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday marked India’s stint as a rotating president of the UN Security Council for the month of August, as one of the 10 current non-permanent members, by presiding over an open debate on enhancing...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on countries to cancel Covid booster shots until at least the end of September in order to help ease the drastic inequity in dose distribution between rich and poor nations as well...
PM Narendra Modi will be the first Indian prime minister to preside over the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), said Syed Akbaruddin, India's former envoy to UN.
In a tweet, the former envoy to UN wrote, "A first in the...
Antibodies triggered by Sinovac Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine declined below a key threshold from around six months after a second dose for most recipients, but a third shot had a strong booster effect, a lab study showed.
Chinese researchers reported the...
Colombo, July 29: The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), which won the Maldivian Presidential election in September 2018 and swept the parliamentary elections in February 2019 winning 65 out of the 87 seats, is now on the verge of a...
As the date of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan approaches, Biden administration officials and top lawmakers are urgently working on resettling a particularly vulnerable group of Afghans, according to officials in Washington: people who worked as the CIA’s local...
