Michael Hughes AOPNEWS October 7, 2021 On Sunday, October 7, 2001, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, George W. Bush in a nationally televised address told the American people the U.S. military had begun conducting airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to the 9/11 attacks. The moment marked the beginning of “Operation Enduring Freedom,” as well as
ABP: ABP News has a special conversation with Hasmat Ghani, the brother and politician of former President Ashraf Ghani, who was present in Afghanistan after the occupation of Taliban. Hashmat Ghani has said that now we have no other option but to accept the Talibani rule. He said that if Ashraf Ghani had not left
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 7, 2021 DUSHANBE — On the banks of a mountain river outside Tajikistan’s capital, in a resort area teeming with hotels and dachas, stands a modern, two-story building flanked by towering trees and lattice fence panels. The state-owned sanatorium near Dushanbe is usually reserved for high-ranking Tajik officials who flock
Tolo News: The deputy minister of information and culture, Zabiullah Mujahid, downplayed the threat of Daesh, saying that the group would soon be suppressed. “We don’t call Daesh a threat, but we call it a headache,” Mujahid said. “It creates headaches in some places but is immediately taken out in every incident; (they) have been
1945: The Taliban have long demanded that foreign forces leave Afghanistan. How hypocritical it is that they themselves depended upon foreigners to stage their fight. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: The Islamic State in Khorasan Province (IS-KP) suicide bomber, who blew himself up outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, was released from Bagram Air Base by the Taliban a few days before the suicide attack, according to multiple reports. The ISKP suicide attack on Kabul airport killed 13 US soldiers and more than 100 Afghan
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 7, 2021 Russia’s special envoy to Afghanistan said that Taliban representatives have been invited to Moscow for talks later this month on the country’s future. Zamir Kabulov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying that the talks were planned for October 20 but did not provide further details. Asked
By Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 7, 2021 On October 7, 2001, the United States began bombing Taliban-ruled Afghanistan in a retaliatory military campaign against Al-Qaeda for orchestrating the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. Twenty years later and nearly two months after Washington ended its war in Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda is down but
Margaret Besheer VOA News October 6, 2021 UNITED NATIONS — The head of the World Food Program in Afghanistan said Wednesday that the humanitarian crisis in that country is growing at “an incredible pace,” and it is now a “race against time” before winter sets in. “Winter is on our doorstep,” Mary-Ellen McGroarty, WFP’s country director
Gulamaiz Sharifi Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 6, 2021 Jamilah and her six children live out in the open, exposed to the elements, with little food or water. The 45-year-old was forced by armed Taliban militants to leave her mud-brick home in a remote village in central Afghanistan in late September. Her family