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Taliban control key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan

14 Jul 2021

Gulf Today Repot Taliban on Wednesday said they have gained control over an important trade route linking Pakistan with southern Afghanistan, continuing sweeping gains made since foreign forces stepped...

Afghan forces kill at least 55 militants in airstrikes

12 Jul 2021

At least 55 militants were killed in multiple airstrikes carried out by the Afghan Air Force, who repelled an assault by Taliban fighters on the provincial centre of a...

Freedom for Afghans is fast fleeting

04 Jul 2021

The death last week at 88 of former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld coincided with the cut-losses-and-run of US forces from Afghanistan, the country invaded and occupied by a US-led...

US begins shifting Afghan combat operations outside country

11 Jun 2021

The US military has already begun conducting combat operations and surveillance in Afghanistan from outside the country's borders, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told Congress on Thursday, as the troop...

Taliban captures another Afghan district for third straight day

09 Jun 2021

For a third consecutive day, Taliban insurgents have captured yet another district in Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said. Government forces abandoned the Dawlat Abad district centre in Faryab province...

Afghan war displaced settle in the ruins of a lost city

24 May 2021

Once the winter residence of sultans from illustrious Islamic dynasties, the ruins of a thousand-year-old royal city in southern Afghanistan have become home to hundreds of people who have...

Afghan cease-fire ends amid calls for fresh peace talks

16 May 2021

Gulf Today Report Fighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces resumed Sunday in the restive southern province of Helmand, officials said, ending a three-day ceasefire agreed by the...

Afghans begin burying dead from bloody school blasts

09 May 2021

Gulf Today Report Dozens of young girls were being buried Sunday at a desolate hilltop cemetery in Kabul, a day after a secondary school was targeted in the bloodiest...

At least 55 killed, 150 wounded in blast near Afghan girls’ school

08 May 2021

The death toll from bombs planted outside a girls' school in an area of the Afghan capital populated largely by Shiite Hazaras rose to 50 Sunday as the Taliban...

US formally withdrawing from its longest war in Afghanistan

01 May 2021

The United States formally begins withdrawing its last troops from Afghanistan Saturday, bringing its longest war nearer to an end but also heralding an uncertain future for a country...

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