Srinagar: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told a top aide in 2017 that he would use “a bullet” on Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist who was murdered last October, if the latter did not return to the Kingdom and end his criticism of the Saudi government, a New York Times report said. The conversation, […]
Srinagar: Two days of unprecedented talks with high-ranking Afghan politicians in Moscow were “very successful”, the Taliban said Wednesday, despite disagreements over women’s rights and demands for an Islamic constitution in the war-torn country, AFP reported. “It was very successful. We agreed on many points and I am hopeful that in future, we can succeed […]
Srinagar: The UN has released alarming details of casualties due to land mines in war-torn Afghanistan. Land mines and other explosives cause 150 casualties a month, according to Patrick Fruchet, UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) program manager for Afghanistan, reported Anadolu news agency. “In 2012, we were down to about 36 casualties per month in Afghanistan […]
Srinagar: The Taliban official who has led the group’s peace negotiations with the US has said the group does not want to seize “the whole country by [military] power”. “It will not bring peace to Afghanistan,” Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai told BBC. However, he said the group would not agree to a ceasefire until foreign forces were […]
Srinagar: At least 42 fighters including 20 security personnel were confirmed dead in northern Kunduz and neighboring Baghlan provinces on Tuesday as the Taliban militants stepped up offensives in the northern region, officials have confirmed. The armed outfit in efforts to tight the noose around Kunduz city, the capital of northern Kunduz province, launched offensives […]
Srinagar: US President Donald Trump has said he does not always agree with the conclusions of his intelligence chiefs and pointed out past intelligence failures as a reason to reject their assessments of the threats posed by Iran and North Korea. Trump rebuked his intelligence chiefs last week after his director of national intelligence and […]
Srinagar: The Taliban has said they would send a delegation to Russia for a rare meeting with Afghan opposition leaders, just days after peace talks with the United States that excluded the Kabul government. The two-day sit-down in Moscow, starting on Tuesday, will be attended by some of President Ashraf Ghani’s chief political rivals, but none […]
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Sunday said military intervention in Venezuela was “an option”, as Western countries are building pressure on socialist leader Nicolas Maduro to step down and hand over power to opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim President Juan Guaido. The US, which recognised Guaido as interim president on January 23, is leading a […]
Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has bid farewell to her 2.5 million Facebook followers after deciding to shut down her page on the social network. In a video statement shared on the page on Friday, Merkel attributed the decision to the fact that she was no longer leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, […]
Beijing: China called Saturday for Washington to negotiate with Russia instead of pulling out of a nuclear arms treaty the Trump administration sees as a restraint on its ability to compete with Beijing and Moscow. China’s foreign ministry ruled out negotiating a new multilateral pact to replace the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The US decision on […]
