US Defense chief orders new review of mistaken US drone strike over Kabul
World | September 21, 2021 7:46 ISTThe Pentagon retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan last month.
The Pentagon retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan last month.
Earlier, the Taliban changed the name of Hamid Karzai International Airport to its previous name-Kabul International Airport.
The incident took place in front of the education ministry when the man was tied to a traffic sign pole using a metal rod. The man in the video screams in pain as he is brutally thrashed by Taliban fighters in what they call as justice through sharia law.
According to ISIS-K propaganda, Logari, the terrorist who conducted the suicide attack at Kabul airport on August 26, was arrested in India five years ago, in 2016.
Gas prices have risen by 15 Afs per kilo and petrol prices have risen by four Afs in the last week, reports TOLO news.
"The victims and the injured were admitted at regional provincial hospital in Jalalabad city following explosions in the morning," the sources told local reporters.
Through messages, emails and phone conversations with loved ones and rescue groups, AP has pieced together what day-to-day life has been like for some of those left behind after US military’s chaotic withdrawal.
The drone strike followed a devastating suicide bombing by the Islamic State group — a rival of the Taliban — that killed 169 Afghans and 13 U.S. military personnel at one of the gates to the Kabul airport. For days, desperate Afghans had swarmed the checkpoints outside the airport, trying to leave the country amid the chaotic U.S. and NATO troops pullout, fearing for their future under the Taliban.
The explosions were targeted at vehicles carrying Taliban officials.
The Bactrian treasure is an important asset of Afghanistan that was brought to the Presidential Palace by the former government in February 2021.
McKenzie apologized for the error and said the United States is considering making reparation payments to the family of the victims.
US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad tweeted he was “grateful that more Americans were able to leave on a Qatar Airways flight.”
Taliban`s newly formed government has many challenges and one of them is acute food shortage. Watch how thousands of people are suffering from food crisis in Afghanistan
Besides this, the US stopped USD 9.4 bn in reserves to the country's central bank, The New York Post reported. Moreover, IMF, World Bank have also stoped loans, and Financial Action Task Force warned its 39 member nations to block Taliban assets.
Several rockets fell in one of the districts of the Afghan capital of Kabul, local media reported.
According to reports, Bansri Lal Arendeh was kidnapped at gunpoint on Tuesday in the Afghan capital city. Arendeh's family lives in Faridabad, and he has been engaged in business in Kabul for the last two decades.
Fasihuddin, in his address to a gathering in Kabul, said the members of the proposed army would be well-trained and disciplined to defend and protect Afghanistan, according to the radio service.
Recently, the European Union said that it will continue to coordinate with the UN and its agencies on the stabilisation of Afghanistan, ensure that humanitarian aid reaches vulnerable populations and for this purpose, will also step up financial support.
The Qatari Foreign Minister reecntly visited Afghanistan and held talks with Taliban leadership. Doha has become a key broker in Afghanistan following last month's withdrawal of US-led NATO forces.
Do you know that there is such a madrassa in Pakistan from where the top Taliban leaders have come out and one such Taliban leader is now also included in the cabinet of the new government formed in Afghanistan.
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